Sudden Dearth: Six Steps to Solving the Staffing Shortage

Six Steps to Solving the Staffing Shortage

BY ELAINE LAPOTOSKY Jet Professionals / elaine.lapotosky@jet-professionals.com

The shortage of business aviation pilots with an impressive logbook of flight hours is creating an entirely new dynamic for recruiters and hiring managers hoping to put experience at your control. Today’s current crisis in hiring pilots, flight crews, and technicians has been a problem brewing for years. As recently as just two years ago, good candidates might be open to just about any opportunity. But now they may be afraid to interview, for fear of being found out – that is, losing their current good position for a possible better opportunity. Those who are willing to sit for an interview come with a defined list of expectations and are well versed in you and your company, their prospective employer.