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Sky is the Limit-after Graduation

Graduating from college? The sky is the 9 to 5, you typically get more time off
limit than at a typical job, and you very
Attention college seniors: I am the voice rarely see any kind of a supervisor or
of your not-so-distant future. I was once boss. Plus, working holidays may mean
where you are now, sweating and worrying having a hotel room in Times Square on
about my future, forced to answer the New Year's Eve!
never-ending question from family and Landing A Flight Attendant Job Is
friends: "What are you going to do when Difficult
you graduate?" Landing a job at one of the major
The Onset of Panic airlines is very tricky since the number
I can relate. But you do not want of applicants far outweighs the number of
sympathy; you want advice. The best positions. There is good news though:
advice I can give you is to relax. You do most airlines are growing and hiring more
not have to figure out the rest of your flight attendants than ever. And a
life in the next six months. You have a college degree does carry weight. While
lifetime to sketch out those dreaded no carrier I know of requires an
career goals. In the meantime, take a job applicant to have a degree, many of the
you can enjoy: teach in an under-served flight attendants I know have
school system, try your luck in undergraduate degrees. A few have even
Hollywood, work your way across the pursued advanced degrees while continuing
world, or do as I did, and take to the to fly.
skies -- become a flight attendant. Some airlines actually recruit on campus,
Peace Corps Volunteer or Flight though many conduct open interview
Attendant? sessions around the country. Consider
I joined the "real world" just over a applying if you've harbored that steward
year ago, after four unfocused years of ess dream since your first plane ride, or
college. The flexibility of my psychology if the job sounds fun and you do not know
major allowed me to explore my many what else you'd like to do. If you are
interests, from Latin-American music to headed to grad school but want a break or
the social constructions of health. I need to save some money, think about
studied abroad for a year, wrote for the deferring. Airlines do not require
college newspaper and conducted HIV minimum commitments; you can fly for a
education programs. By senior year, I was month, a year, or 30 years. If you only
confused. I did not know what to do want to fly temporarily or decide it is
following graduation -- which of those not for you, no problem. You are not
diverse paths to pursue. My senior year I locked in. JFK-based JetBlue even
took the minimum course load (12 hours in designed a limited one-year program with
the Fall and an awesome 8 hours in the recent grads in mind.
Spring) in order to devote most of my As I mentioned earlier, competition for
time and energy to the job search. I these jobs is intense, and I recommend
spent most of those days in the library, checking out AirlineCareer.com's online
glued to a computer screen, combing resource (forgive me for sounding like an
through every imaginable online job advertisement). This will give you the
listing. There were jobs I wanted that I best opportunity to get hired. Of course,
never could have gotten and jobs I could you could just wing it, but I can almost
have gotten but never wanted. Graduation guarantee you won't get hired without
day loomed, and I was freaking out. some assistance.
All was not lost, though. I had two very Why It's All Worth It
real possibilities. The Peace Corps was a The benefits that come with an airline
definite interest. I could experience job cannot be beat, especially for those
some far-away place and contribute to the of us just starting to make our way in
betterment of the world. The other idea the world. Considering the work involved,
emerged from my closet obsession with air the pay is decent. But it is the free
travel, which I finally managed to do travel that lures many into the industry.
something about. Along with the Peace No matter how long you've worked for an
Corps, I applied for a flight attendant airline, it is undeniably cool to be able
position. I know…it seems strange to to hop on a plane and go anywhere on a
mention being a Peace Corps volunteer and day off. This past year alone, I spent
a flight attendant in the same breath. Thanksgiving in London and New Year's in
But both captured my overwhelming love of Frankfurt. For fun, I vacationed in
travel. It was not an easy decision, but Thailand. "What are you going to do when
in the end, I decided to put the Peace you graduate?"
Corps on hold and take the job as a Thousands of Cabin Crew around the world
flight attendant. It was time to have enjoy having an exciting and varied
some fun and fulfill an old dream. career which gives them the chance to
Is It Right For Me? travel, meet people and use interpersonal
You would not be reading this article if skills every working day of their lives.
you weren't at least mildly interested in This is the reason why we receive
an airline career. But how do you know if hundreds of calls and emails from people
it is right for you? I have friends who asking for assistance in achieving their
often get frustrated with their 9 to 5 dream job as Cabin Crew.
office jobs and toss around the idea of The job entails performing safety and
joining me. After we get past the service duties which ensure that air
benefits (which are fantastic) and get travellers are flying in a safe
into the actual work, their interest environment, whilst receiving excellent
sometimes waivers. It is a demanding job, standards of friendly service.
and it takes more than a "people person" With the continued expansion in the air
to solve crises - both large and small - transport industry airlines are seeking
in such tight quarters and with very thousands of applications from good
limited resources. You must possess good quality people with the right knowledge
self-esteem and the sense not to take and character for the job of Cabin Crew.
everything to heart cranky passengers and Finding good quality applicants, who
crewmembers throw at you. You have to be adapt well to airline training courses
able to work strange hours, including and the demands of the job is certainly
nights, weekends and holidays. But of becoming harder. Airlines receive
course, there are many advantages: you do hundreds of applications and normally few
not have to go to work every weekday from are successful.




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