Checklist for Success: A Pilot's Guide to the Successful Airline Interview

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Even with a wealth of technical experience, many pilots find the pilot selection process frustrating. Today’s airline pilot must also demonstrate highly developed leadership, decision-making, and communication skills. Discussing one’s abilities in these introspective areas requires a different kind of preparation than most pilots have experienced.

Enter Checklist for Success. Written by Cheryl Cage, whose name has become synonymous with exceptional career guidance, Checklist takes you from application through to the interview. In this eighth edition, Cheryl updated her advice to reflect today’s airline hiring trends and procedures, featuring current resume examples in addition to guidance on twenty-first century applications and new hire paperwork. Cheryl offers a step-by-step interview preparation program, often reflecting on her own experiences in counseling aspiring pilots, furloughed pilots, and career changers to clearly illustrate her points. The program Cheryl provides in Checklist will help lower your stress level and shorten the time it takes to reach your highest career goals.

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Cheryl Cage began Cage Consulting, Inc., in 1988 (which became Cage Marshall Consulting in 2010). Hundreds-of-thousands of pilots have used the interview preparation and career planning products and services of Cage Marshall Consulting. Cheryl is the author of five aviation career books including the best-selling Checklist for Success: A Pilot’s Guide to the Successful Airline Interview (over 150,000 copies sold). In addition to her work with individual clients, Cheryl served as an independent consultant for many corporate clients such as Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Northwest Airlines, and unions including the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA).