Take Charge of Your Aviation Career – Things You Must Do Before An Interview

If you are out of work and you are in the interview process, know that you have much to be thankful for. There are many people that are still trying to get an interview for a job. If you are one who is still trying to get an interview may I suggest looking over your resume’? Your resume is likely the issue why you are not getting calls. Perhaps there is a formatting issue or typos on your resume’. Take some time, sit down, be very patient and look over your resume’ line by line. If you find mistakes or typos, correct them and start sending it out again. If your like me, you have posted it on any number of websites and saved your log in information. I suggest you go back and re post the now corrected resume. If there are no typos and you still not getting calls for interviews, I strongly suggest that you have it professionally done again, and re post. I recommend www.Monster.com for your new resume’. You cannot go wrong.

If your resume’ has done its job, you did get a call and now your are getting prepared for your interview. In my book: “Take Charge of Your Aviation Career,” I list 17 things you must do before going to the interview. I will list some of them here:

1) Research the company you will interviewing for. I cannot tell you how many people fail to do this. This is the reason why you should because if you walk in to the interview prepared you will already stand out above the number of people who did not. It will also give you a chance to truly impress your interviewer(s).

2) Review your resume’ If yo got the interview which is an indication that your resume’ should already be good. Look it over to refresh yourself that you may have intelligent answers if asked about something on your resume.

3) Anticipate the hard questions concerning your resume’ This would include gaps in your employment etc., details about specialized training, jobs that you left or reasons you were fired. Whatever you do, keep those answers short and succinct.

4) Work out the answer to the question: “Why do you want to work for this company?” It would be safe to say that an intelligent answer to this question is best. Be sure to mix in the information that your gathered in your research into your answer. Ex. “I see that your company obtain the XYZ contract and I would be interested to bring some of my experience to that project.”

You will find these and the remaining 13 things in Chapter 9 of my book “Take Charge of Your Aviation Career”. Now offered in digital download, paperback and Kindle. Buy your copy today!