{"id":9975,"date":"2015-09-06T17:04:23","date_gmt":"2015-09-06T21:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/flightsafetynet.com\/?p=9975"},"modified":"2017-09-21T10:48:23","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T14:48:23","slug":"ways-wannabe-nurses-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flightsafetynet.com\/ways-wannabe-nurses-fail\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Surprising Ways Wannabe Flight Nurses Fail"},"content":{"rendered":"

And How To\u00a0Make Sure This Never Happens To You.<\/span><\/h2>\n

Have you ever met someone with advanced degrees, oodles of education, boatloads of credentials…<\/p>\n

And the almost uncanny ability to make poor decisions?<\/p>\n

Some folks call this “book smart” but “common-sense short.”<\/p>\n

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I don’t agree with the stereotype.<\/p>\n

But I do see this happen with some really smart Flight Safety Network coaching students.<\/p>\n

And every time it happens, it’s heartbreaking to watch.<\/p>\n

The person is obviously very intelligent. They worked hard to get qualified and earn their credentials, and they want to fly more than anything.<\/p>\n

So it\u2019s difficult to watch as they mess up their chances of flying –over what seems like obvious mistakes.<\/p>\n

The more this happened, the more it\u00a0bothered me. Finally, I realized “obvious” is too subjective. What’s obvious to you, may or may not make sense to me, and visa-versa.<\/p>\n

So it made sense to start identifying and tracking mistakes to teach new students ways to avoid them. Here are three common mistakes to avoid in the “Get a Flight Job” process.<\/p>\n

Three Mistakes To Avoid<\/span><\/h3>\n

Here are three mistakes to avoid when trying to land a flight nurse job:<\/p>\n

1.) Following the Pack<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

I see this mistake with resumes all the time. It\u2019s almost like there\u2019s one flight nurse resume template out there that every wannabe flight nurse copies. On one level, copying\u00a0is perfectly fine. Employers expect resumes to follow a certain format and structure. The structure is what makes it a resume. It\u2019s okay and even encouraged to copy the structure of past successful resumes.<\/p>\n

What\u2019s not okay is copying the content of a resume.<\/p>\n

Even if you attended the same schools and have the same credentials, your resume is yours alone. It must be unique to you.<\/p>\n

A mistake I see all the time is wannabe flight nurses making their resume look exactly like\u00a0other wannabe flight nurse resumes. This does not work. It\u00a0hurts your chances of getting hired. And could possibly bring your integrity into question. Don’t do it.<\/p>\n

The takeaway<\/em>:<\/p>\n

It\u2019s okay to copy the structure and format of sample resumes. It\u2019s not okay to copy the content.<\/p>\n

2.) Tunnel Vision<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Tunnel vision is a second mistake wannabe flight crews make. It\u2019s easy to understand why this happens. Nurses work hard to earn flight positions. Their only focus, only goal (for years), is a flight nurse job. Every waking moment for sometimes long periods of time is focused on a flying job.<\/p>\n

Focus is great. And and in almost all cases, earning a flight job requires intense focus. But every so often you need to step back and see the bigger picture.<\/p>\n

One of the sharpest flight nurses I ever coached learned this the hard way. He found out his dream flight program took possession of two brand new H-145 helicopters the same week of his flight interview. All good, except he found out during<\/span>\u00a0his interview. His lack of knowledge about the biggest event in the flight program’s history –was obvious and awkward. He believes this was the reason he was not hired by this flight program.<\/p>\n

For your reference, a simple Google search of the flight program name a day or two before your interview will keep this from happening to you. And of course search is just one way to stay on top of current events and see the big picture.<\/p>\n

The takeaway<\/em>:<\/p>\n

Remember to step back and see the big picture. Focus is great, but the 30,000 foot overview matters too.<\/p>\n

3.)\u00a0Brain Dumps<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

People make mistakes.<\/p>\n

Sometimes, people make a lot of mistakes.<\/p>\n

The statistics on this are pretty depressing. The average person can barely go 10 minutes without making a mistake of some kind. And In this regard, I consider myself an \u201cover achiever\u201d as I seem to make mistakes even more frequently.<\/p>\n

The good news is your interviewer is human too. He or she is no stranger to making their own mistakes. Being human means making and (hopefully) learning from mistakes. All good.<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s not the kind of “brain dump” mistakes I\u2019m warning wannabe flight crews to avoid. I’m talking about the worst kind of mistakes. The mistakes you must<\/span> avoid to get a flight nurse job.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m talking game-changing mistakes. Mistakes that eliminate your chances of getting hired. Mistakes professionals simply cannot afford to make during the flight interview phase or any other part of the \u201cget a flight job\u201d process.<\/p>\n

Everybody looks nervous, says the wrong things, and sometimes just plain messes things up. That\u2019s being human.<\/p>\n

Making clearly avoidable mistakes is a problem. What qualifies as avoidable? Simple. Mistakes clearly within your control. Mistakes that happen because you\u2019re not prepared<\/span>. Mistakes you simply fail to manage properly.<\/p>\n

In no particular order, here are a few examples<\/span><\/strong>:<\/p>\n