"Best Person for the Job" Is More Complicated Than Flight Depts Think w/ Jennifer Pickerel

Flight Department Show · May 21, 2026 · 51m

For years, business aviation has relied on familiar hiring patterns: the known network, the same backgrounds, the same assumptions about who is "qualified," and the same narrow definitions of merit.

But in an industry facing real talent pressure, that approach is becoming harder to defend.

The conversation around diversity often becomes politicized before the real business issue gets addressed. Jennifer Pickerel of Aviation Personnel International brings the discussion back to where it belongs: culture, fit, readiness, and varied perspectives.

Jennifer was the right person to write one of the…