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Which Airline did you interview with? Delta
How many days between invite, interview, and listed availability? 2 weeks availability. 2 months invite to interview
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? Military
Total Flight Time 2,000-3,000
Total Turbine PIC Time
TPIC 121 hours 0
TPIC Military hours 1000-2000
TPIC 91/135 0
General Overview of Experience Delta puts together a great experience. When you get the invite, they do want you to succeed. They have to get to know you and that requires some in depth questioning, but it is all done professionally.
We walked from the Hilton to the guard shack, showed ID to guard and he gave us a sticker badge with our name on it. Walked into the building and stayed in the lobby area. Laura came out of the Pilot Selection office at 0730 and grabbed 4 of us at a time to grab our stacks of paperwork. She then gave us visitor badges and took us to the waiting room inside the office to wait for the rest of the group. Capt Barry Holmes then gathered us in the conference room and put us at ease with jokes about the gouge on the internet, to be ourselves, relax, and they all want us to be there at the end of the day.
They then split our group of 12 into two different groups, those to test first, and those that interview first. There were three different interview teams that interviewed simultaneously, so there were 4 groups total for the day. I interviewed first in the first group. The HR representative walks into the waiting room and says the name of the individual they are looking for. He lead me back to a small room with four individuals around a small round table. They have tablets in front of each of them, along with your documents you turned in, and some water for you. We exchanged name introductions and shook hands, they offered to take my coat, I took them on the offer. We then sat down and they did slightly more in-depth interviews for each one of them. I had one HR individual, one Captain in training for the process, a retired Captain, and an active Captain. Questions below.
The interview team then stood, thanked me for my time after I thanked them for theirs, they helped with my coat, and I returned to the waiting room. Through most of the answers they were all wearing poker faces. Pretty sure it’s part of the process to provide little to no feedback for the candidates. Other than that, the attitude was extremely welcoming. While waiting for lunch, a couple of us walked over to the museum, then returned to wait for our group and we went to lunch together. Following lunch, the groups switched, mine took the computer testing. COG, Psychological, following by the Job Knowledge Training.
Once each candidate was complete, Capt Holmes came out and said congratulations and gathered us in the conference room again. We went over required paperwork for us to fill out that night and they sent us on our way.
How long did you have your application in before you received an invite? 6-12 months
Did you attend a job fair? Yes
Did you do anything special that triggered the interview invitation? Two internal emails sent to HR department.
How many internal recs did you have? 3-4
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? Two signatures on one Eval had different dates. Didn’t end up being a big deal, but they only had the paperwork for an hour and found the discrepancy, they’ve got eagle eyes.
How did you prepare for the JKT/COG portion of the interview? COG. As advertised. I did the RST COG 3 times completely through and one RST practice session before it went down. Didn’t look at any of the new material. That was plenty of preparation. I did the 15-day Getting started checklist first, in about 25 days. Then went through the ground school. Took every test there was. I felt confident prior to the test. I personally felt I over-studied for the JKT, but better than not being prepared. I finished the actual JKT and had time to go back through every question again. Psych test is 230-ish questions I think. Answer from strongly agree to strongly disagree. These are never fun, but they aren’t horrible. Don’t overthink it, because then you will just talk yourself into a funky answer. Took me about 2.5 hours to do all three, but the time flew by. I took a five minute break in-between each test.
Technical Test Questions Job Knowledge Test was what was expected. Heavy on Aerodynamics and Engines. Four different navigation questions including pattern for holding entry, how to correct for crosswind while inbound to navaid, getting back on arc after being cleared for approach and having just passed arc DME. One navigation question I didn’t know at the time:
What does the ‘PDC’ in the communication section of the displayed approach plate mean? A: Pre-Departure Clearance. I’ve never used ACARS, so I had no idea. An easy one for you seasoned civilian pilots.
What was the hardest technical question or content you experienced during the job knowledge test? Nothing unexpected.
Cog Test As it’s been said before with the Localizer, you can only tap the arrow keys. It will not recognize inputs if you hold the keys down. It states this in the instructions, but it was getting away from me and my reaction was to hold the key down, it goes off scale that way. Read the instructions and partake in the practice sessions until you are comfortable. Math questions were doable, I had 5 total, three were reverse percentages.
Cog Math Questions The only problem I remember (those were not the dollar amounts, I couldn’t remember the exact prices) :
Billy paid 80% of the full price for his produce. Item 1 was 3 for $2.40 and Item 2 was 4 for $2.50. Billy bought a dozen of each, what was the full price of his cart?
HR Questions The HR representative walks into the waiting room and says the name of the individual they are looking for. He lead me back to a small room with four individuals around a small round table. They have tablets in front of each of them, along with your documents you turned in, and some water for you. We exchanged name introductions and shook hands, they offered to take my coat, I took them on the offer. We then sat down and they did slightly more in-depth interviews for each one of them. I had one HR individual, one Captain in training for the process, a retired Captain, and an active Captain. The retired Captain let me know he was prior Navy, and the active Captain was retired Air Force after doing research later on.
Questions:
Tell me about yourself from High School until now in two minutes. I had practiced my spiel for five minutes. I took five minutes most likely and they didn’t stop me.
HR Representative began the questioning.
Why Delta?
You went to this University, they have a great flight program, why did you not utilize it?
Why did you graduate in August instead of June?
Why did you take these two classes that were not related to your major or aviation?
Retired Captain took over questioning.
You didn’t have any check ride failures, is that correct? How do you suppose you were able to do that?
What challenges do you see making the switch from military training to civilian training?
Can you tell me about the dates of the signatures on your Eval? They are almost a year apart.
Active Captain took over questioning.
Was there a time you took action to prevent your squadron from an embarrassing event that would have put a discriminatory mark on their reputation?
Was there a policy you didn’t agree with in one of your past squadrons? What did you do about it?
When would you take controls from a Captain?
The retired Captain took over again.
Last question, you are departing the shuttle in the company parking lot, run into one of your friends boarding the bus to begin a trip, you smell booze on his breath. WWYD?
Any questions for us?
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? Didn’t use a prep service. I had my spouse do three different mock interviews with me using the RST question generator. I recalled about 8 different stories that could fit the mold for a number of different questions to have them ready to use.
Any additional information you would like to add. Day two.
Walked from the hotel to the guard shack, same procedures. They retrieved us in the lobby at 0630 and took us to the waiting room where they collected our paperwork from the evening prior. We all went into a different computer testing room. This psych test was 570-ish questions, with only True or False as the answers. There are some double negatives, odd questions. I had to reread a few to understand what they were saying. Took half the group just under an hour to complete, everyone was complete after an hour and half. We then go provide a sample for the drug test. There were two different psychologists that called folks back one at a time.
Very relaxed atmosphere.
Tell me about your childhood.
Tell me about your career.
Tell me about a stressful time in your personal life. How did you handle it?
Tell me about a stressful time in your flying career. How did you handle it?
Why did you like instructing?
Following that, ID picture and finger printing, then turn in your badge and they prefer you to move along and not wait for the rest of the group, as they have new candidates coming in. The first people in our group were complete by 0930 with everyone done by 1200.
Every person I met was incredibly friendly and genuinely happy we were there. Great experience and a great company.
Is there anything you wish you could have done different to prepare you for this process? I felt prepared going in and received the outcome I wanted. I wouldn’t do anything different.
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