So, you have decided you want to be a flight attendant and you even have the educational, not to mention the personal, leanings towards the career. But the big question, just as with any job, is how do you find airlines hiring flight attendants? It’s a big world out there and the job is a fairly competitive one, so how do you start to look for the job you have been dreaming of?
Newspaper
Of course one of the traditional ways to find airlines hiring flight attendants is through your newspaper. Some airlines will publicly announce that they are looking for flight attendants in order to quickly secure possible employees and get brand new blood in the system.
Online
The world of the internet brings all kinds of information to our fingertips and that includes job searches. However, you cannot simply plug in ‘Airlines Hiring’ or you’ll either get too much information or information that isn’t much use to you. Instead of trying to throw out a massive net and hope for the best, start looking at individual airlines. Most of them will post job openings under Careers or Jobs with Us or something along those lines. Doing a search this way not only allows you to pinpoint exactly which airlines are hiring, but you can also see things like where it is, contact information and even do an online resume or online application for the job.
If you do decide to go job hunting and applying online, still be sure to keep up a physical/telephone presence. The internet is useful for job hunting and a quick way to apply for jobs (especially if the airlines in question aren’t where you live!) but keeping up a physical presence can be a tipping point between landing a job and being turned down. Airlines hiring flight attendants are going to look for people who are social and outgoing in their lives since that’s what they will be doing on the job and if you’re too timid to give the HR a phone call, that makes you look a bit poorly.
Word of Mouth
And of course, there is always the famous ‘word of mouth’-someone tells someone else who tells your aunt who tells you. This method has become even more pervasive thanks to social networking where one of your friends can easily message you about job opportunities that they have heard of in their home. Word of mouth is as old as time for a reason: it works. Connections are one of the best ways to land a good job and hearing about a job opening from a friend before it really hits the public can help you get ahead of the pack which in turn makes it more likely that you will land that job.
Finding airlines hiring flight attendants can be a stressful and exasperating experience that tests your patience, but it is also a chance to meet new people, make new connections and of course it’s all worth it when you hear thosfantastic two words: “You’re hired!”