When undertaking Helicopter training to commercial pilot level, you should treat your entire training as a job interview. For many it will be your first contact in the industry so you should make every effort to make the best impression possible. The first phone call potential employers will make will be to your flight school.
Yours flying skills are not the most important thing an employer is interested in, most new CPL pilots have a similar number of hours and have passed the same flight test standards. Most chief pilots are more interested in the attitude of perspective employees rather than how many hours they took to go solo.
Turning up presentable and appropriately dressed for each flight and making sure you are as prepared as you can be before you get in the air each time will make things easier for you when your instructor starts firing questions at you.
Show an interest in the day to day operation of the company (without annoying anybody), if you have in house engineers offer to help out, sweep the hanger, wash and vacuum the helicopters you use regularly.
Even though you are paying thousands for the privilege of learning to fly you are being assessed on different things such as punctuality, communication skills, decision making, organisational skills and relationship building as a junior pilot you will be expected to clean machines, answer phones, deal with the public and even make coffee’s so your flying skills aren’t the be all and end all. Flying can’t be taught and a commercial licence is often referred to as a licence to learn.
As much as possible try and keep continuity in your training, there is far more benefit in Training for your license from start to finish continuously rather than stopping and starting by doing an hour here and an hour there. It is very tempting to spend your money as you get it but you will end up spending more in the long run as you will need more hours to complete your license, each time you do more training after a break a portion of that time will always be spent catching up on what you did in your last lesson.