HOW TO BECOME A FLIGHT ATTENDANT | Best Airline to Work For, Resume Tips, How to Apply

Hello baby, hello everyone, welcome back to my channel and welcome to the first video in my series on how to

become

a

flight

attendant

. I've been talking about this series for so long and how I wanted to do it. I mean, this has been like that. It's coming up a year or so, it's been a while. Sorry if you're new here. My name is Jenny Ernst. I am a reserve fund tenant for a major commercial

airline

in the United States. I blog about my life as a

flight

attendant

. If you're wondering what it's like to be a flight attendant, go watch some vlogs that usually last about a week so it'll give you a good idea of ​​what everyday life as a flight attendant is like, this whole series will be.

Approximately four videos long, the first video, which is this video, will be about the research process and how to

apply

to be a flight attendant, so you'll research which

airline

s you want to

apply

to and then how to actually apply. The second video will be interview

tips

, face to face interview, web interview, some airlines still do phone interviews so let's go over everything you need to know for that, in addition to the

tips

, the third video will be how to prepare and survive as a flight attendant. training and the fourth video will be simply how to adapt to your new life.

She's a flight attendant because it's not a complete lifestyle change. It's not like a normal job where the only thing that changes in your life is your entire job. Life changes when you

become

a flight attendant, so the fourth and final video will be just helpful tips, tricks and advice on how to make the transition to the 5:10 of life as smooth as possible for all of you, which first thing I would do. What I recommend doing is making a list of all the airlines, so if you're in the US and don't mind moving to another country, it will take you a lot longer to get started if you really don't want to. moving to a different country, then just make a list of all the airlines that are based in your country and then what I would recommend doing is thinking about where you want to fly, where you want to get paid to fly, where you want to fly. stopover if you live in the US and want to be able to stopover in Europe, South America or Africa or otherwise you'll want to cross out all the airlines that don't fly to those places, else you want to look at the difference between airlines regional and main.

A regional airline is exactly what it sounds like. It won't fly all over the country, it will only fly in a region like near where it is based there will be smaller planes. you might be the only question on that plane, if that scares you to death, cross out regional airlines, don't do it, make sure when you apply for an airline, it's the mainline, you're actually playing American or Delta, not West Jet nor Piedmont nor any of those airlines, because they are regional airlines, if you don't know what they are, Google Google will give you your answer very quickly.

Another thing to think about in your search for an airline is if you only want to go with an airline that will pay you to go to training, then you will want to cross out all the airlines that have unpaid training. My training was unpaid, so I saved some money to be able to afford to go. five weeks without getting paid more than that, actually because you don't even get your first paycheck until about a month after you get back online, for example, take note of which airlines will have paid training and which ones won't. You accept a position at an airline that has unpaid training, then you need to start saving now to be able to survive the training financially.

Another thing you'll definitely want to investigate is how satisfied the five current and former tenants are with the airline they currently

work

or have

work

ed for because if the airline you end up working for doesn't treat their employees very well or doesn't take care of their employees very well. assistants, your quality of life will be seriously affected. A website I definitely recommend for that, first of all. A quick Google search will give you almost everything you need to know, but a website called glassdoor.com is absolutely phenomenal in terms of employee satisfaction; You can even narrow it down specifically to only see what other flight attendants have said about your company. and about your salary and your benefits and all these other things, I'll link to that website below again.

It's called Glassdoor communication. Most airlines will be there with plenty of information from current and former employees. Something else to investigate, as I mentioned. Before, if you're trying to travel if you live in the United States and you're trying to get a layover in Europe, they need to make sure that you're applying for airlines that fly to Europe, so you want to see the general destinations if you want to be able to see a lot of it. from the United States, then you should make sure to look for larger airlines that fly to many places throughout the country, airlines like Frontier, Virgin or Alaska.

I mean, yes, there are great airlines, but they don't find as many places as, say, American, Delta, or United. Something else to consider is that you first need to decide if you are 100% okay with moving to the base wherever you are or if you are okay with commuting. Commuting is when you live in a city and fly to base four when you have to work, if you don't want to move at all then where the airlines are based isn't a big deal for you if you're going to go for sure. to move to wherever you are then you obviously want to apply for an airline that is based in cities you are actually interested in living in if you are trying to live in Detroit the only air base there is Delta and maybe regional but that is all so your options are pretty limited or look at it the other way around so let's say you're thinking about working for Delta go ahead and look at the Delta base if you don't want to live in any of those cities then.

You probably shouldn't apply to Delta unless of course you agree with the community and in which case, like I said, do it in terms of previous experience and beef up that

resume

. Airlines are really looking for people who have experience in customer service and who have extensive experience in customer service or just experience working with the general public because that is allowing us flight attendants to work with the general public we ensure their safety and we make sure they feel comfortable on their flight, for example, my personal previous experience included a couple different retail restaurants and I worked at Walt Disney World and this was for eight years, so I had eight years of prior customer service experience before applying to be a flight attendant.

He also had travel experience. I had already studied abroad and my degree was in tourism and none of that experience matters unless you know how to translate it into a killer

resume

, so make sure you can translate your skills, your great customer service skills, you need to be able to translate that. and prove it. On your resume think about the duties of a flight attendant and then think about the skills you already have from past experiences and figure out how to express these skills in a way that mimics the duties of a flight attendant as much as those of airlines. .

Focused on people with prior customer service experience, they are also interested in people who prioritize security because we are security professionals. Some keywords I would try to include on your resume include time management, customer service, obviously, multitasking confidence, and teamwork as you are capable of. work as a team or on a team, you don't necessarily need it, okay, and you don't even need a degree in hospitality, tourism, travel or aviation. I have many friends who have nursing, accounting, or business degrees. or something like that and then they decided, "Hey, if I don't want to do this, I want to be a flight attendant." Many flight attendants are nurses, so again they work with the general public. little drops and just building your overall interaction with people, one of the questions I get asked all the time is how to pay for flight attendant training at something called a travel academy or something similar, don't do it, don't waste your money on something like that doesn't waste your money, don't pay a company to teach you all the things an airline will want you to do their way, once you get the job as a flight attendant you will have to go to training for flight attendants. with that specific airline because each airline has their own policies and procedures so don't pay for flight attendant training because the airline you are hired with may be unpaid training but it can be paid so don't waste your money in any of that is not necessary last but not least, while you are in the process of researching for airlines, start saving money because in your first year as a flight attendant you are not going to make a lot of money in your first five years of being flooded.

You're not going to make a lot of money in it, you might make good money, you might feel comfortable, but if you're single and don't have any other source of income, you'll want to have a backup, especially if you'll have to make do with the payments, yes. , you'll want to start saving money as soon as you start considering being a flight attendant because your flight attendant training might be unpaid, so you'll already have 5 to 8 weeks to live off your savings. and then you probably won't get your first paycheck until about a month, month and a half after you finish your training, so it's really like you have to pay rent and food and all that, it's all going to come out of your savings, assuming your training is unpaid.

I would just approach this assuming that your training will be unpaid because then you won't be surprised and even if your training is paid then you have a pretty good savings that you are pretty sure of. I've covered everything in terms of researching airlines and which ones you want to apply to, so once you figure all that out, it's time to apply to most airlines, you'll simply apply on their website, go to their website, scroll through all the way to the end and find some kind of link that says career or work for us or something like that click where you can apply from there if they don't accept flight attendants or if they aren't looking for flight attendants at that time , keep checking once a week, sometimes airlines close their hiring process just for a month at a time just to do some interviews and then they open it again and it may only be for a short period of time, if an airline are hiring for fun, great trend, click apply.

Follow the entire application process. It will complete everything. You may have the option to upload a cover letter. Do it if you don't know. how to write a cover letter google cover letter template write it a lot, very fast shipping, there is an option to send your resume, send that will have exactly what you already wrote, but still send it, remember when I sent by putting keywords on your resume yeah keywords on the application you want to make sure you have these skills that flight attendants need make sure you fill out your application with those words so you're multitasking time management customer service friendly outgoing safety oriented um everything that we need.

Doing that is part of our daily work. It would include saying something about how you even work well without supervision because you're on a plane, your supervisor isn't there, your manager isn't there breathing down your neck, so the airline wants to know that they're hiring people who will do their job and do it well. , even without there being anyone sitting there making sure they're doing their job and doing it well, does that make sense? Yeah, okay, quick little recap, make a list. Of all the airlines you are considering working for, look at where they fly, think about where you want to fly, look at where they are based, think about where you are willing or not willing to live, look at how satisfied their employees are, what their quality is. of life is like company reviews and all that jazz Glassdoor communication will be your

best

friend Google will be your

best

friend start saving money now I promise you won't regret it and apply on the website that easy if you are currently I'm not hiring, check back once a week until they are.

I think that's all. If I left out something, let it occur to you. If you are currently a flight attendant and I left something that comes to mind, then leave a comment. below and I'll try to pin it to the top or something so other people can see it if you're thinking about becoming a flight attendant. I hope this video has helped you, good luck in your search and see you soon. hopefully soon in the friendly skies thank you all so much for watching don't forget to like the video and subscribe if you haven't already also hit the notification bell because youtube is justamazing, even if they are subscribed. sometimes it still doesn't notify you and I put up a new video, it's just great, it's really great.

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