You need to be ready to interview the moment you put your application forward.

Most pilots don't understand what career opportunities are available in the world of aviation.

They're making career decisions based on advice from friends or posts on internet forums,

meaning they are taking huge risks with

their livelihood without having all the details. This podcast was created to help you understand

the aviation industry so you can find your dream job. Let's get ready for pushback. Here's your

host and my dad, Nick Fialca. Hey, pilot, good day to you. How's it going? Are you flying? Are you

moving forward? Do you have your inertia helping you today to move one step forward? I know you are because

you're listening to the podcast. And that's why I do this is to help keep you motivated,

keep you moving down the path, answer your questions and get to where you want to be because

we are all searching for something. We are all trying to better ourselves every single day.

And hopefully this podcast helps you do that.

One of the biggest questions that I get, I get emails, I get phone calls, people come up to me at

conventions or expos, and a lot of them say the same thing. They ask the same question. And the question is this,

when should I start getting ready for my interview? And that to me is a funny question, but I get it.

Because when I did my interviews, when I was preparing, I had no idea, what's the window?

What do you try to figure out to go and make it just right? Because you don't want to go too early

and not be good enough. You don't want to go too late and not be prepared. What is the right answer?

Another part of it is how much money do I have? What's my budget? Where can I do? All those things.

And I think about that a lot. And here's what I tell people, if you are ready to apply for a job

anywhere, if you want to apply for a job at Kentucky Fried Chicken,

or you want to apply for a job at Goldman Sachs, or you want to apply for a job at Southwest Airlines,

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