this is one of

[AJV]

the best ads I have ever seen!!!

Position: Citation 550 First Officer
Company Name: Algonquin Airlink
Contact Person: Shane Murphy, Ops Manager
Street Address: 2845 Bristol Circle
City: Oakville
Province/Territory or State: Ontario
Country:Canada
Web address: http://www.algonquinairlink.com
Email address: info@algonquinairlink.com
Phone number: NO phone calls or drop-ins please.
Apply via: Email or snailmail only.
Aircraft Types: C550 Citation II

Hmm, the airlines are hiring again. That means it looks like we may need to refresh our resume pile for a Citation 550 pilot, specifically an F/o position.

Are you smart? Are you polite when appropriate? Are you willing to live within an hour of CYYZ Toronto Pearson Airport? Are you okay with an F/o position on a light corporate jet? Do you use soap? Do you promise to read the parts below about the extra office duties and especially the part about not offering to pay for your training? Could you stand to work a bunch of long days in a row with a sarcastic bald guy? If your answers are 'Yeah', 'Sure' and 'Yup' so far, then please read on!

Absolute Minimum requirement: Functioning cerebral cortex (preferably with 'sense of humor' addon), current CPL / Multi-IFR with the right to live and work in Canada. Also, a working knowledge of MS Office. As the plane is a 2-crew turbojet, you'll need an ATPL if you ever want to log PIC (we'll discuss that after a year or two). Current C550 PPC/Type Rating an asset, but we will train the right candidate.

About us:

We are a corporate flight department for a publicly-traded renewable energy corporation, based at Pearson Airport in Toronto. We fly 90% corporate, 10% charter. The successful applicant can expect to fly 200-250 hours per year, plus or minus. Please do NOT offer to pay for your training. We will pay all your training costs at Flightsafety and you, being an honorable person, agree to stay for 2 years. We don't pay per diems, we pay all your meals and hotel bills when on the road, and we stay at decent hotels and have the option to eat at restaurants with actual utensils. We will provide you with a nice laptop, a generous mobile phone allowance and a full benefit plan, 'cause that's how we roll. Heck, we'll even pay for your pilot medicals.

Normal work-week schedule is Monday to Friday, with the occasional weekend trip. Realistically we fly once or twice a week. Most flights are booked well in advance - in the past 6 years we have had a total of 2 same-day trip requests. We mostly fly throughout Eastern Canada and the US, and sometimes down to the Caribbean - 90% of our trips are within a thousand miles of YYZ, with the other 10% of trips being company runs to Arizona.

There's more, and this is important - we are a small flight department (2 Citation 550's) and everyone here pulls their weight on the operational side as well as the flight line.

This means flight planning trips, organizing customs / airport slots, arranging hotels / ground transportation, helping with audit preparation, billing, picking up commissary and the thousand other tiny jobs that make up a corporate flight department. For example: I'm not gonna ask you to wash the boss's car, but I may ask you to help with an Ops Manual update, or to assume some Quality Assurance roles within the flight department. This means less spare time when we're not flying, but on the upside it will certainly keep you mentally active.

Pop quiz: Did you really read the part about not offering to pay for your training and about the extra flight-department-related duties involved in this position? How about the part where you need to have a current CPL / Multi-IFR? And especially the part about no phone calls or unscheduled visits to my office or home? Cool, then let's continue...

We have high standards, and that's a good thing. Our planes are maintained by an Air Canada connector, we don't cut corners, and we expect you to bring your 'A' game. In return, you'll get a good F/o job working with good people on a good-natured corporate jet. For real: You will get treated like a capable human being, with all the respect and expectation that brings. You in?

If so, please send your resume in .pdf or MS Word format to info@Algonquinairlink.com, care of Shane Murphy, Ops Manager, or mail it to Shane Murphy, 2845 Bristol Circle, Oakville Ontario L6H 7H7.

Again, NO phone calls please, and no drop-ins (this is to see if you can follow instructions).

In return, I will do my absolute damnedest to reply to all applicants within a month.

Salary:$ 50k/year + expenses + full benefits
Closing Date: June 20th 2011. Possibly hiring for early July.

[kevind]

WOW...That is great...honest...funny and upfront +1 for this company

[fish4life]

Sounds like a great operation for a younger guy to get some good experience and still have some fun yet working hard. Best part is the sarcastic bald guy comment, he must be the one writing the ad

[Changes in Latitudes]

Send your resume wrapped in Bacon.

[crooked timber]

and follow up with a four-pack of redbull

[AOW]

Sounds like a great operation for a younger guy to get some good experience and still have some fun yet working hard. Best part is the sarcastic bald guy comment, he must be the one writing the ad

I thought he should have included a picture to go along with this part.

[Krashman]

Well there won't be any excuses for not knowing what your getting yourself into

[CAL]

home most of the time...everything paid for....50K with the chance of a promo in a couple years.....sulako maybe you should look at setting up in GCM:)

[co-joe]

...but is it ok if I offer to pay for my own training?

[toelessjoe]

Mr. Murphy:



Attached is a current copy of my current CV for you perusal. I am 21 years old, willing to work for free, and my Dad says he’ll co-sign whatever training bond you have in place. I phoned your office, however I couldn’t seem to be able to get through. Fortunately my new ipad 2 (a present from my parents for celebrating my recent graduation from A Very Big Named Flight School) I was able to track down your home address and I will be there shortly to drop it off in person. You’ll be able to recognize me by my oversized ray bans and gianormous aviator watch. I will also be driving a Toyota Camry with plates that read “PILOT1”.

Of course, Shane, (We’re on a first name basis now, right?) since you’ll be getting me and my 300 hours of flying experience flying everything from 172’s up to and including a Seneca V, let’s talk upgrade time. I’m assuming that since it’s clear you need me in your organization upgrade time will be happening forthwith? I’m willing to do the right seat thing until mid August. Oh, and I’ll be needing the second week of July off. It’s my birthday and me and my friends are going to Vegas to get our liquor on. (Mom & Dad’s way of congratulating me for getting the job).

Sincerely,

Doc.

[toelessjoe]

Mr. Murphy responded almost immediately after I sent this. If he's half the person he comes across as in his email I could definately see me packing a bag and seeing how the other half lives.

You hearing me Shane? You out there buddy? Yoohoo, it's me, Toeless! I've got you a new diet Doctor Pepper!


- Toeless.

[Doc]

Since I do know of Mr. Murphy, and Toelessjoe is a personal friend of mine, I can offer my full and heartfelt recommendations to Mr. Murphy on Toelessjoe's behalf. Now, since nobody I have ever recommended for any job, has ever even got an interview, your ship is, shall we say, sunk.
Now, go start a fire somewhere so you'll have something useful to do.

The "Doctor" of everything even remotely aviation oriented.

Doc

[Nordo]

In return, I will do my absolute damnedest to reply to all applicants within a month

That is one of the best parts of this add for me. Pretty rare that a CP responds to anyone who dose not get a phone call.