High-flying recruiters wanted for pilot school

6-Aug-2008

Wanted: recruiters who have made shedloads of money and want to become pilots.

Ireland's Chase Resourcing has bought a 25% stake in a Canadian flying school and is targeting recruiters as potential students.

The firm, which also has a UK office, is expanding its services to include aviation recruitment.

The flying school involved is the Ontario-based Canadian Aviation Academy, which trains recruits to fly their choice of aeroplanes or helicopters.

Once the newly-qualified pilots have graduated from the course, Chase will work to place them with commercial air operations around the world, said Fred McDonogh, director, Chase Resourcing. "There's definitely an open market out there," McDonogh told Recruiter. Airlines based in Asia and the Middle East are especially in need of new pilots, said the former Computer Futures recruiter.

Four former recruiters from the UK and Ireland are currently enrolled at the school, located at Jack Garland Airport, half-way between Ottawa and Ontario. Eddie Russell, a partner in the academy, said he expected about 60 pilot trainees to complete their course by the end of the year.

The course at the Canadian academy will cost about half that of similar courses in Europe, Russell said.

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