Carole Rickard Hedden retired in 2022 as Executive Editor for custom content and Program Excellence for the Aviation Week Network, providing custom content and research to industry executives. She also was Managing Editor of Aviation Week’s Advanced Air Mobility Report. She joined Aviation Week in 1996 as a financial/business editor and has led special projects for more than two decades.
Prior to joining Aviation Week, Hedden worked for over 20 years in the news media and as a corporate communications leader at Fortune 100 companies.
A career fair at the Paris air show? It hasn't been done before, but Airbus is marshalling its forces to convince engineers throughout the world to join the consolidated company. With 4,600 positions opening in the next year--including more than 1,500 in engineering--the company intends to sell its excellence as an employer along with its excellence as an aircraft company during the show.
As a software engineer, Amanda VandePol is a much-needed commodity in today's economy. She ended up in aerospace as a result of a student internship at Smiths Industries, where she learned there's more to the aerospace technical challenge than merely making software work.
