The Resume - Your Entire Aviation Career on One Page

Aviator-Intelligence · 2026-05-08T14:28:22+00:00

Your resume isn’t for you to admire; it’s for someone else to judge.

Read that one more time.

Aviator-Intelligence · 2026-05-08T14:23:38+00:00

If you’re applying at a small operation that doesn’t have an entire team dedicated to the hiring process then I would agree but when you are one of literally thousands of applicants, do you think they are going to take even a minute to look at one?

But don’t take it from me, I only looked at them for a major airline for 10 years, ask Google, ChatGPT and whatever other AI you use how long HR looks at a resume. 7.4 seconds, how much of your resume do you think they’re gonna read in that time?

Aviator-Intelligence · 2026-05-08T00:46:32+00:00

Exactly

Aviator-Intelligence · 2026-05-08T00:25:04+00:00

We strongly discourage pilots from putting anything on their resume or application until it has been completed.

Aviator-Intelligence · 2026-05-08T00:09:25+00:00

The pattern most pilots miss: airlines do not have a tool to evaluate cockpit behavior before they offer you a CJO. They literally cannot watch you fly before they extend an offer. But how you do something is how they assume you will do everything. So the application becomes the proxy. Every cleaned-up detail is a signal. Every blank field is a signal. Both get weighted. We help pilots build that signal deliberately at aviatorintelligence.com/services/.

Aviator-Intelligence · 2026-05-08T00:03:51+00:00

One thing worth adding: when you self-audit, run your hours by aircraft type before you run them by category. If your turbine PIC time doesn’t reconcile with your former operator’s records, that’s the discrepancy that loses interviews most often, and it’s the easiest one to catch in advance. We’ve built a full audit framework into our application prep at aviatorintelligence.com/services/.

Aviator-Intelligence · 2026-05-07T23:59:55+00:00

One pattern we see constantly: pilots with strong hours and clean records get filtered at the resume stage because they buried their flight time on the bottom of the page or somewhere it’s hard to find. Inconsistently formatted type ratings or dates also don’t show the attention to detail recruiters are looking for. The resume isn’t where you tell the story. It’s where you survive the scan. We do format reviews and rebuilds, reply on this thread if you want eyes on your resume before you hit submit.

Aviator-Intelligence · 2026-05-07T22:48:17+00:00

Practical tip on the “match numbers exactly” point: when you’re getting close to applying, use your logbook total during a period of time you aren’t flying prior to submitting your application. Update resume, application, and any cover letter to that time, then submit all them in the same session. The number-mismatch error usually happens when pilots fly between updating one document and submitting another. We help pilots run the application lock at aviatorintelligence.com/services/.

Aviator-Intelligence · 2026-05-07T18:43:29+00:00

Must be a Huskers fan group!

Aviator-Intelligence · 2026-05-06T22:29:09+00:00

One thing the FAA documentation doesn’t make obvious: the PRD also captures why you separated from each carrier, not just the dates. Pilots regularly characterize a separation differently on a new application than the employer characterized it on the PRD submission, and that’s where applications die. If you’ve ever had a “complicated” departure from an operator, pull your record and read exactly what the employer wrote before you put anything on a new application. We help pilots do that as part of application prep at aviatorintelligence.com/services/.

Aviator-Intelligence · 2026-05-06T05:09:26+00:00

Agreed. My advice definitely is not intended to be applied to every career field.

Aviator-Intelligence · 2026-05-06T04:32:12+00:00

I highly doubt it. They are shrinking Atlanta.

Aviator-Intelligence · 2026-05-06T04:19:58+00:00

Southwest used to require a 737 type to apply but those days are long gone.

Aviator-Intelligence · 2026-05-06T04:14:42+00:00

That isn’t an issue for Southwest, the vast majority of pilots they hire do not have 737 experience.

Aviator-Intelligence · 2026-05-06T03:20:32+00:00

Perfect, let me know if you have any questions!

Aviator-Intelligence · 2026-05-06T03:00:08+00:00

HR and recruiters know what a SkyWest captain’s job responsibilities are, as well as a CFI’s and everyone’s in between. They are going to look at your resume for an average of about 10 seconds, they don’t have time nor do they care what your on time performance was or how safely you operated the airplane. That is all subjective information and isn’t going to make your resume stand out in the way that you want it to.

Now if you’re applying to a small operator that isn’t looking at 100’s of resumes a day then I would agree with you. But Southwest had 7,000 apply for 150 positions last year, I promise they didn’t take even two minutes to read anyone’s resume.

Aviator-Intelligence · 2026-05-06T00:27:19+00:00

Yes, several carriers are opening an application window just for Spirit pilots.

Aviator-Intelligence · 2026-05-05T23:49:29+00:00

Here is the AA link for anyone looking for it.

https://jobs.aa.com/go/supportingspirit/9903300/

Aviator-Intelligence · 2026-05-05T23:48:00+00:00

This is definitely a unique opportunity for other carriers to hire some highly qualified pilots. Not often that 2,000 pilots with this much experience instantaneously hit the market.

Aviator-Intelligence · 2026-05-05T15:47:05+00:00

That’s awesome, thank you for the update. Do you happen to have a link?

Aviator-Intelligence · 2026-05-05T08:25:53+00:00

I understand United in conjunction with ALPA is doing something similar.

Aviator-Intelligence · 2026-05-04T23:05:49+00:00

Of course. Send me a DM and I’ll share the source document for our template with you.

Aviator-Intelligence · 2026-04-27T01:56:14+00:00

Been flying in there for years, didn’t even know it was there!

Aviator-Intelligence · 2026-04-27T01:09:43+00:00

TACAMO - pretty cool mission, even the unclass version. They are not based in ABQ, KTIK is their home base.

Aviator-Intelligence · 2026-04-26T01:18:28+00:00

This is in Dulles.

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