On October 6, VOL announced that AvPosts is partnering with the Canadian Business Aviation Association (CBAA). VOL's post makes the case for a job board built for this industry. Ours covers what we built for the partnership and what isn't finished yet.
ForIT writes and runs AvPosts. VOL owns the product. We covered how the two companies work together in an earlier post, so this one sticks to the CBAA work.
Searching by licence, type and hours
A charter operator hiring a captain needs someone type-rated on its aircraft, near its base, with the total time its insurer asks for. A job title carries none of that, and a general job board's search box only has the title to work with.
AvPosts understands aviation terms. Type "CRJ captain 3000 hrs Ontario" and it reads a role, a type rating, a minimum total time and a province. "AME M2 Calgary" works the same way for maintenance.
As of October 7, the board has 252 live postings from 25 operators.
What the CBAA brings
The CBAA is the exclusive agent for AvPosts and the partner named on every page of avposts.ca. Two parts of the product come straight out of that relationship.
The first is the CBAA's weekly bulletin. Employers on Employer Plus get a spot in it for the positions they're filling, which puts a posting in front of the association's readers as well as the people already searching the board.
The second is the compensation benchmark. Employer Pro includes CompBI, built from six editions of the Canadian business aviation compensation survey, 2013 to 2025, covering 64 positions. The CBAA sponsored the editions from 2017 on, and Sunwest Aviation and Skyservice Business Aviation sponsored the 2013 one. Every figure is an aggregate of five or more records, so no single operator's pay shows through.
Getting six reports into one dataset was the hard part, because the editions don't lay positions out the same way. The 2013 report splits airline and charter and prints a position's code and title only on its first row. From 2017 on, airline and charter are merged. Our importer reads each layout on its own terms, so one edition's quirks don't leak into another.
The roles on the board
VOL's post groups the work into four kinds of role. Here is how the live board breaks down as of October 7:
- Aircraft maintenance engineers (AMEs): 102
- Pilots: 51
- Corporate roles (sales, admin, finance, HR): 32
- Flight operations, including dispatch and coordination: 25
- Cabin crew: 2
- Medical crew: 1
- Other: 39
Who does what
VOL decides who the board serves, what employers pay and how the CBAA relationship works. Shaan Bhanji leads that side.
We build and run the software: the connectors that read operators' careers pages, the search, the employer portal, the application flow and support. We write it with Claude Code, and a ForIT engineer reviews and tests each change before it ships. The first commit was on August 31, about five weeks before VOL's announcement.
What isn't finished yet
Most operators on the board haven't claimed their profiles. Their jobs come from their public careers pages, and a company appearing on AvPosts doesn't mean it has joined or endorsed it. Candidates can still apply. We save those applications privately and invite the company to claim its profile, which is free.
Automated LinkedIn posting is waiting on LinkedIn's approval, so for now we handle LinkedIn distribution requests by hand. Indeed takes no new job-board partners, so Indeed postings go up through the employer's own Indeed account.
Some categories are still thin. Two cabin crew postings isn't a market yet.
For employers and candidates
Employers can claim a profile, post jobs and review applicants for free. Employer Plus adds distribution requests (LinkedIn, Indeed, AvCanada, Pilot Career Centre and AeroCareer), promotion, a careers-page embed and the CBAA bulletin spot. Employer Pro adds the compensation benchmark. Pricing is on avposts.ca.
Candidates pay nothing: searching, saved searches, daily email alerts, a profile and applying are all free. Neither you nor your employer needs to be a CBAA member.
Questions we get
What is AvPosts? A Canadian business aviation job board from VOL and ForIT, in partnership with the CBAA. It collects postings from operators' own careers pages and from employers who post directly, and candidates apply on the board.
Is AvPosts only for CBAA members? No. Any employer can post, and any candidate can search and apply.
What does the CBAA do in the partnership? The CBAA is the exclusive agent for AvPosts. Its weekly bulletin carries positions from Employer Plus subscribers, and its compensation surveys are the basis of the Employer Pro benchmark.
Where do the listings come from? Employers' public careers pages, re-checked on a schedule (every 15 minutes for most), plus jobs employers post on AvPosts. A job that leaves the careers page closes on AvPosts.
Who do I contact? For the site or your account, use the AvPosts contact page. For the partnership, contact the CBAA or VOL.
Who it's for
AvPosts isn't for every hire. If any industry could fill the role, a general job board will reach more people.
If the role needs a licence, a type rating or a base, and the right person already works in Canadian business aviation, the board is built for that. Browse the jobs, or see how it works for employers.
Benjamin Thomas
ForIT Team
