Aviation Personnel International (API)—helmed by Sheryl A. Barden—will have a good time its fiftieth anniversary at the NBAA Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition.
— Sheryl A. Barden, President & CEO, Aviation Personnel International
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, UNITED STATES, October 17, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ — In July 1971, Janice Ok. Barden, an expert aviation psychologist with a expertise for assessing pilot candidates for employment, grew to become the primary lady in business aviation to discovered a recruitment firm: Aviation Personnel International (apiaviation.com). Flash ahead 50 years and the API group—now helmed by Janice’s daughter, Sheryl A. Barden—will have a good time its fiftieth anniversary at this 12 months’s NBAA Business Aviation Convention & Exhibition in Orlando.
Over that half-century, API’s motto has turn into ‘It’s all about individuals.’ The mission of the aviation recruiting agency is to match high-quality candidates with top-tier aviation employers—all whereas constructing a way of group and serving to high-caliber aviation professionals see their full potential. Echoing that mission, Sheryl A. Barden, API’s President and CEO stated, “The most important investment in business aviation is your people. And at API, we’re here to help our clients hire and develop the best of the best.”
One business aviation chief not too long ago stated of API, “The company comprises a well-rounded team of professionals working very hard to match the needs of each customer’s department with outstanding individuals in our industry. This business is all about fit. API gets that and strives to find the right fit for every company and individual they represent.”
The API group has witnessed vital modifications in business aviation in the previous 10 years. Due to the trade’s speedy development, these modifications require consideration to make sure progress. Among them:
The want for range, fairness, and inclusion (DE&I):
The API group acknowledges that range and inclusion is a looming situation that calls for better focus. After all, the aviation trade as an entire hasn’t saved up with different STEM industries (engineering, and so forth.) in recruiting ladies and folks of coloration. It’s clear that business aviation continues to be closely weighted by its employment of white males.
API’s Vice President, Jennifer Pickerel, has emphasised the purpose on quite a few events, saying, “We cannot achieve diversity without practicing inclusion. And the more our departments learn how to be inclusive, the faster we can reach a point of true diversity in our industry ranks.”
Changes in position descriptions and expectations:
• The position of aviation director has advanced, as they’re now tasked with main a strategic business unit, as a substitute of managing what a few years in the past was known as a ‘royal barge.’
Barden famous: “Fifty years ago, flying privately was considered an executive ‘perk,’ and a corporate flight department was an island unto itself, with its own checkbook. Today, aviation directors are responsible for reporting on the aircraft usage, and that includes documenting its usage in annual reports and on personal use taxes.”
• Maintenance is turning into extra of an IT/engineering area, as a substitute of that of a hands-on laborer. Pickerel: “I think this shift in perception matters to parents who are helping their high schoolers choose a lucrative career. Today’s maintenance professional is a mix of fixing and maintaining, plus the important component of understanding avionics, technology, and communications.”
• The place of cabin security attendant has modified dramatically. Barden: “Once primarily known for food service, a cabin safety professional now must be a tech guru, responsible for all of the communications and cabin entertainment systems, on top of being responsible for the safety of the passengers.”
• The position of the scheduler has advanced as their duties far outstrip these of previous a long time. Thanks in half to the pandemic, schedulers have additionally confirmed that they will efficiently work a versatile schedule, typically in distant areas.
(*50*) distinctions:
Especially relating to the will for work/life stability, Pickerel emphasizes that Gen X, Millennial and Gen Z workforces have utterly completely different wants and expectations than these of child boomers and traditionalists. She famous: “Work/life balance and professional development has become much more a critical component of hiring and retention efforts.”
The expertise scarcity:
Barden has been an outspoken advocate relating to the necessity to refocus and rebuild the character of bizav’s expertise recruitment, improvement, and retention. “We especially need to attract, train and retain pilots and maintenance professionals,” she stated. “Unfortunately, we don’t have young people going into aircraft maintenance. And when someone earns their A&P license, they’re often lured to join competitive industries, including auto racing, alternative energy, UAM, rockets, and mass transit.” Barden additionally believes we aren’t coaching sufficient pilots. “In another 10 years, I don’t think we’ll have many 40-year-old pilots in business aviation. Our traditional pipeline ‘feeders’—the military and regional airlines—are all bypassing business aviation for the airline pay and schedule. That’s a major shift that affects supply and demand, as well as compensation.”
To fight the bizav pilot scarcity, Barden stated: “Our focus should be on recruiting younger pilots from the airlines before they reach captain status. Before they get to the second half of their career, we need to recruit them one-by-one, and ask ‘Are you dissatisfied? Are you willing to take the leap and come to business aviation for a different lifestyle and community environment? And we must compensate them competitively with the airlines.’”
To be taught extra about API’s recruitment course of and compensation consulting, please name 1-(415) 751-3250, or go to apiaviation.com. Or, to schedule an interview throughout NBAA2022, full this type at apiaviation.com/contact-us.
About API
Founded in 1971, Aviation Personnel International (apiaviation.com) is the longest-running business aviation recruiting agency serving the hiring wants of business aviation and personal aviation. An authorized Women-Owned Small Business and Women’s Business Enterprise, API affords its purchasers the broadest portfolio of absolutely vetted candidates, together with senior aviation leaders, pilots, upkeep, cabin security crew, schedulers and dispatchers. Headquartered in San Francisco with distant places of work nationwide, API’s group members mix their intensive aviation data with their experience in human assets to supply retained recruitment, compensation consulting and outplacement providers.
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