Thanks for the tips Trojan/Techgirl. I was interested to see what you wrote about the 'Thank you' note after the interview. Now I had never heard of this, but it came in very useful for me. I should explain, that I was employed by TWA in the UK, and wasn't in the first wave of people taken on by AA. This meant that we weren't able to apply for internal positions, and had to apply for all positions along with the public.

Of course, many people we in the same position as us, and one of my friends in Boston, had gone for 75 jobs at AA, all over their system without any response! She had sent a note to everyone of her interviewers, so I decided to give that a try. I had been for 10 jobs at that point, and had heard back from only 1. I sent notes to each of the interviewers I had not heard back from, and got replies one way or the other from every single one. Some even called to talk to me, and thank me for my thank you note, as they had never had anyone do this before.

Now as Techgirl mentioned, sometimes the delay in reply, is in fact due to your resume being passed round. This is exactly what happened to me here in AA. I got a phonecall from a guy, whose name I won't mention, who told me to pop by his office in Terminal 3 at Heathrow, "sometime on Friday". Now I was still employed by TWA at this time, but we were all wrapping things up, and delaying so we all had jobs. I went to the terminal on the Friday, and met with this guy in his office, and we chatted about all sorts, some work related, some not. He told me that a couple of the people that had interviewed me, had asked around other area managers, and had been trying to bend job descriptions around my resume! To say I was stunned would be understatement. At the end of this meeting, I had a date for a second interview with this guy, and two others in his department, one of whom had to come from Dallas.

The interview was unlike anything I had ever faced before, as it was all laid back, and we all sat at a round table. The one thing I have found with panel interviews, is that usually, I would be sitting in front of a long table, with people sitting at either end and in the middle, so that my head is bouncing from side to side to try and keep eye contact. It is almost like trying to watch a game at Wimbledon! The interview was kept really short, as many had studied previous interview notes, and at the end of it, I was offered the position.

The important thing was that I had to just keep plugging. Now I know I was lucky in as much as I had a job, so the money was still coming in. I have been unemployed before, and it was hard, as unemployment benefit in the UK never used to start for six weeks, but there are jobs out there, and I am sure you will all find them.

Good luck in your respective searches.