A great very professional experience through and through

rstharold, November 21, 2019, CJO Offered, Delta Ride Reports, Delta Ride Reports, 0

Which Airline did you interview with?	Delta
How many days between invite, interview, and listed availability?	60 Days
Did you include volunteer work in your application?	Yes
Did you receive a job offer?	Yes
If you did not receive the CJO why do you think you weren’t chosen to continue in the process?	N/A
What is your experience?	121
Total Flight Time	5,000-8,000
Total Turbine PIC Time	TPIC 121 hours >2000 TPIC Military hours 0 TPIC 91/135 0
General Overview of Experience	A great very professional experience through and through. They do their absolute best to make you feel very at ease throughout the process, but with that said it is a stressful few days. I had the opportunity between my technical and HR portions of the interview to walk around the museum and get lunch which helped me to feel a bit more at ease and take a bit of a mental break. The entire experience was very impressive and very much makes you want it!
How long did you have your application in before you received an invite?	12 months +
Did you attend a job fair?	Yes
Did you do anything special that triggered the interview invitation?	4 Internals LORS that I have had on file for 12+ months
How many internal recs did you have?	3-4
How long was it from the time of your invite to the actual interview?	6 weeks
Did you have any issues with logbooks, application or paperwork?	No issues at all. Having interviewed at a few other carriers I was surprised at the relatively small amount of paper work that was required to be presented on interview day.
Technical Test Questions	Mostly Aerodynamics, Engineering, and FARS, I got 3 Math problems, one to do with a lead in radial, one to calculate holding fuel and one time zone conversion question that was almost identical to a question I had seen on RST.
What was the hardest technical question or content you experienced during the job knowledge test?	The Holding fuel question was somewhat confusing as they gave you a ton of information that was hard to decipher if it was relevant or how exact I needed to be with my answer. I eventually came to the conclusion that with the information given the only way to calculate the min fuel required to depart the hold was simply to take PPH and subtract from fuel on board and that gave me an available answer without over complicating it.
HR Questions	A very relaxed and conversational experience, this was by far my favorite part of the day and the part of the day I really felt I could shine and show the skills that I am proud of. Take advantage of your opportunity in HR to be yourself and shine! Tell us about yourself in 2-3 minutes (I think I might have talked for a bit longer than that and nothing was said, I even commented that I think I’m rambling on now and everyone laughed) Checkride Failure and FAA action question. Questions about my transcripts and what sort of student I was, and reviewed some of my struggles in college and how I overcame them. You are a captain at the end of the runway with T-storms inside of the ring which the company prohibits departure but other carriers are taking off. WWYD? TMAAT you had to make a very difficult go/no go decision? TMAAT you disagreed with a policy or procedure at your company and what did you do help change it
Cog Test	Much easier than the brain games on RST. I didn’t spend much time focusing on the COG but the few others that I did spend were well worth it.
How long prior to the interview did you prepare for the HR portion of the interview?	5 weeks
Which HR Prep service did you use and did it help?	ECIC was very helpful in organizing my thoughts and giving me some confidence in the stories. I felt very strongly though that I wanted to be myself and not come off too polished in the interview so I could leave it knowing I succeeded or failed on my own true merits and personality and Im very happy that I was able to come across this way in the interview.
Any additional information you would like to add.	RST was extremely helpful, I did the 15 day course, and the ground schools and supplemented it with some reading in the ANA, a technical airline interview study guide and doing a good amount of company focused studying to know their core values, leadership styles and business objectives. For the JKT know the concepts as well as you can and get yourself to where you are getting 85-95 on the tests and I think you will be in great shape! Its a lot to absorb at first but focused study over a few weeks will make it manageable. I went through the math test twice and knew I was going to be in trouble if I got a lot of math questions as that has always been a week point for me, but Im happy I only got 3 questions. I heard one person in my group got 6-8 which is the most Ive heard.
Is there anything you wish you could have done different to prepare you for this process?	I thought I would have wanted more time to prepare but the 5 weeks I really focused on it were enough for me. I was fortunate to have a manageable flight schedule over those 5 weeks to allow me roughly four hours a day to focus on it.

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