Is there a shortage of instructors?

[aykay 0]

Im coming over to live and work in the US next month. I sent resumes all over the country and was surprised when pretty much all of them replied saying there was work available. I thought it would be more difficult seeing as though there are plenty of people out there with more experience then me.

Are a lot of DZ's struggling to find staff?

[hookitt 0]

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Im coming over to live and work in the US next month. I sent resumes all over the country and was surprised when pretty much all of them replied saying there was work available. I thought it would be more difficult seeing as though there are plenty of people out there with more experience then me.

Are a lot of DZ's struggling to find staff?

Shortage. That depends on location. Also it depends on who is willing to work full time or on an every weekend basis.

I work some weekends but not all so if someone wants my job, they'll get it.

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[Feeblemind 1]

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Im coming over to live and work in the US next month. I sent resumes all over the country and was surprised when pretty much all of them replied saying there was work available. I thought it would be more difficult seeing as though there are plenty of people out there with more experience then me.

Are a lot of DZ's struggling to find staff?

IMHO work depends on the end user. If I was a DESPERATE DZO I might define work as five or six AFF/Tandem a week as work available, not a lot of work yet work the same.

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[PhreeZone 15]

Exactly.. many a DZO's would love to have staff standing around to help anyone that walks in the door at the drop of a dime, the issue is that with that many staff no one is really getting all that many work jumps and if you don't have other work then you are too broke to even go to another DZ for another job.

The better DZ's have staffing at just a bit over their student numbers so everyone can put food on their table and not have full timers hating the part timers for taking all the work jumps if there are so few work jumps to go around at overstaffed numbers.

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[JohnMitchell 14]

Shortage on sunny days, too many on rainy days.
Really, our business is so variable this year. Swamped on Saturday, stagnant on Sunday.

[riggerrob 561]

We used to have a surplus of amateur part-time staff and no full-time staff, then - a decade ago - the boss started recruiting ex-pat Canadian instructors who had been working in the USA.

For the last two years we have struggled with one full-time instructor/rigger/fuel truck driver/etc. (me) and only handful of amateur part-time staff.
Hopefully the new full-time instructor will prove to be professional.

Whistler and Victoria are also trying to recruit instructors.
The bottom line is, there is plenty of work for professional skydiving instructors. Amateurs need not apply.

[grimmie 177]

Rob,Is Gary Butchart still runnning Victoria?

[riggerrob 561]

Gary Butchart retired two or three years ago.
Now Phil Stoker owns the Victoria, BC DZ.

[regulator 0]

Have you tried applying at any DZ's in Texas?

[diablopilot 2]

There is not. One mights say there is a shortage of "Professional instructors" however.

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[airathanas 0]

Well summer is coming, so DZ are hiring more instructors to meet the increase in demand. If you were applying for work in the winter, good luck with that.

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[aykay 0]

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Have you tried applying at any DZ's in Texas?

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