{"id":428476,"date":"2021-08-02T08:35:31","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T03:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=428476"},"modified":"2021-08-02T08:57:41","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T03:27:41","slug":"worlds-grounded-pilots-swamp-recruiters-in-desperate-effort-to-get-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/worlds-grounded-pilots-swamp-recruiters-in-desperate-effort-to-get-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"World&#8217;s grounded pilots swamp recruiters in desperate effort to get jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When UK-based Goose Recruitment kicked off a recent campaign to find 30 Boeing Co. 737 cargo pilots for a client in Europe, 400 resumes poured in within 48 hours. Most of the applicants used to fly commercial passenger jets.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Pre-Covid, most airline pilots would look down their noses at flying cargo,&#8221; Goose\u2019s Chief Executive Officer Mark Charman said in an interview from his office in Southampton on England\u2019s south coast. &#8220;Now they\u2019re like, \u2018Pick me!\u2019&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This clamor for work is being reflected around the world, as desperate pilots who\u2019ve been grounded by the pandemic for more than a year mob recruiters for the few new flying jobs on the market in a last-ditch effort to save their aviation careers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When UK-based Goose Recruitment kicked off a recent campaign to find 30 Boeing Co. 737 cargo pilots for a client in Europe, 400 resumes poured in within 48 hours. Most of the applicants used to fly commercial passenger jets. &#8220;Pre-Covid, most airline pilots would look down their noses at flying cargo,&#8221; Goose\u2019s Chief Executive Officer Mark Charman said in an interview from his office in Southampton on England\u2019s south coast. &#8220;Now they\u2019re like, \u2018Pick me!\u2019&#8221; This clamor for work is being reflected around the world, as desperate pilots who\u2019ve been grounded by the pandemic for more than a year mob [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,167,130],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-428476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-civil-aviation-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=428476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/428476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=428476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=428476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=428476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}