All of the Delta staff were friendly and professional

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Which Airline did you interview with? Delta Air Lines
How many days between invite, interview, and listed availability? Two months between invite and interview
Did you include volunteer work in your application?
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, 91
Total Flight Time 3,000-4,000
Total Turbine PIC Time
TPIC 121 hours 500-1000
TPIC Military hours 0
TPIC 91/135 0
General Overview of Experience This was my second interview after invite to come back in 6 months. (The first time I did not pass the JKT).
Both times the interview process was well-run and as expected based off the ride reports. All of the Delta staff were friendly and professional and did everything in their power to make you feel relaxed. I mentioned this in my first ride report, but I will mention again that I think the Delta Museum was a big asset to “setting the mood” the day prior to get in the right mindset, relax from studying a little, and mentally energize for the following day.
How long did you have your application in before you received an invite? 12 months +
Did you attend a job fair? No
Did you do anything special that triggered the interview invitation? Endeavor Air SSP
How many internal recs did you have? 0
How long was it from the time of your invite to the actual interview? 8 weeks
Did you have any issues with logbooks, application or paperwork? No. I used Logbook Pro printouts bound at FedEx Office.
How did you prepare for the JKT/COG portion of the interview? I used RST (www.readysettakeoff.com + RST Delta fb page) for Cog prep and Knowledge test. The first time I interviewed, I pretty much only used RST for Cog prep, and hardly at all for knowledge test. BIG mistake! The second time I ditched my study binder compiled of friends’ hand-me-down study guides and relied solely on RST. I truly believe EVERYTHING you need for BOTH tests is on the RST website. If it’s not, then you don’t need to know it in my opinion. I used everything on the website– from PDFs of Delta documents to YouTube video links– but looking back what I feel helped the most was *topical flash cards and practice quizzes* *Math formulas document* *Cog webinar video file.. a MUST!* *Cog practice tests* *& if they have a special trick to remembering something, learn it*
Technical Test Questions Honestly, it’s a blur. Both times in interviewed. But I didn’t take advantage of RST for knowledge test on first attempt, and the second time it made the difference. *Use ALL of RST!* I had a mix of the topic areas. The areas that stick out the most from my first experience are tuning/ tracking radials with distances and wind corrections, regulatory questions particularly involving instrument appch/ go-around procedures, and jet engine systems particularly electrical/ battery questions. The second time I had more weather, still lots of vague reg questions, and aero performance
What was the hardest technical question or content you experienced during the job knowledge test? Electrical systems questions
Cog Test EASIER than the RST practice tests if you have prepared, which is great! The “localizer” is the only one that’s a different feel/ touchiest than practice.
Cog Math Questions
HR Questions •Interview panel introduces themselves. Usually three, but I had four as one new pilot interviewer was training. One retired Captain, one current captain (two in my case) and one HR rep. My panel was extremely conversational and relaxed. Many times the interviewers made comments agreeing with something I had said, complimenting something, or nicely joking and laughing making it a very enjoyable experience.
•Give you five minutes to introduce yourself. (Adam Hughes Prep was great for ALL areas of HR, can’t stress that enough!)
•Reviewed my background from Airline Apps:
(School)
-How did you choose that university?
-What was one thing you didn’t like or would change about their program looking back?
-How did you maintain your GPA while studying/ working/ leadership positions/ etc?
(Flying)
-Tell me about your first solo?
-Tell me about your multi-engine stage check failure (I’m fortunate I only have the one, but just be prepared to comfortably discuss any/ all failures etc…It was a very non-threatening discussion to simply verify the narrative I provided on my app.)
(Work)
-Surprisingly one interviewer really enjoyed asking about my most insignificant odd jobs over the years i.e. bartending, dog daycare supervisor, etc. and what I had enjoyed about those positions.
-Current leadership roles within my airline. Mostly just a general review of the app.
-Why Delta?
-What would you miss most about your current job?
•Situational/ TMAAT
-From the retired CA: “Captain, I have two beautiful grandchildren… tell me why I want to entrust them on your aircraft?”
-What do you think is the most important leadership quality based on your time as CA?
-TMAAT your decision as a Captain was disliked by another crewmember.
-You hear a loud bang from the engine in cruise. You have determined it was a compressor stall. All abnormal checklists have been completed and MX/DX wants you to land. What do you do from there…
-Just after door close, but prior to pushback, the FA calls to tell you there is an unruly/ presumed drunk passenger, and the FA wants the pax removed. What do you do?
-You walk down to the airplane and you see your CA and one FA arguing. What do you do?
How long prior to the interview did you prepare for the HR portion of the interview? One month.
Which HR Prep service did you use and did it help? Adam Hughes Consulting. I had a fear of interviews prior to working with Adam. I cannot say enough great things about the coaching he uses to prepare you to be confident in the interview. Both times I interviewed I received a fantastic response from the panel. The second time one of them even came out after and told me what a nice job I had done, and I give Adam Hughes all the credit because before my nerves would have hindered me from doing well.
Any additional information you would like to add. My first time, the interview leader called out the names of CJO’s first in a group and took to one room, the names of 6-month invites in second group and took to another room, and whoever was left was a no/ reapply in a year.
The second time I interviewed, they called us out individually with several minutes between each and took us to a room by ourselves. And then finally brought all of us who received the CJO in together to share in the celebrating! The last two of us called received CJOs. You then take your photo for company ID and fingerprint before flying home.
Is there anything you wish you could have done different to prepare you for this process? No. I feel RST for Cog/JKT and Adam Hughes for HR prep was the recipe for success!
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