Did you receive a job offer? – Yes

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Which Airline did you interview with? UPS
How many days between invite, interview, and listed availability? 5 weeks, my first availability to interview.
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 3,000-4,000
Total Turbine PIC Time >2,000
General Overview of Experience Nothing new. Here’s my experience.
Frist off. If you stay in the holiday Inn recommended by UPS invite letter, there are a TON of places to eat within walking distance. A Dunkin Donuts and Waffle house are also close if you want to get up too early and get decent coffee. The hotel has breakfast first at 0600, which is too late. You don’t need a car, just take the shuttle from the airport to the hotel, and then UPS will take care of the cab from UPS to the Terminal.
If you take the Holiday Inn shuttle, I recommend you do, make sure to sign up at the Hotel front desk the night prior to make sure they know about you. It takes no more than 5 minutes to get to UPS training center.
Day started at 0600. First they collect your paperwork. You bring what they ask and that’s all they need.
Next is the Sim. I got the 757. I got to choose right or left seat, chose right, as I am used to throttles on the left.
I have zero experience with a large jet, no sim prep, so I thought it was tough. You get time to study pitch and power, use that time wisely. Then you get a few minutes to get a feel for her, then it’s the sim profile. Takeoff, climb to 5,000 feet. Turns 30 degrees, steep turns 45 degree. Turn to downwind then a math question. 30K on aircraft, buning 8K per hour (total) and Cincinnati is 30 min away, must land with 6K. How long can you hold. (2+30) ILS, I was high so I went around. RESET to final, another ILS, missed approach. Fire in the cargo compartment. Land at Louisville! Weather is at Mins 200 feet. Be sure to talk to your other crew member (she was NO help surprise, surprise) so just make the call and then it’s over. Land VFR at night, for fun, not graded.
How long did you have your application in before you received an invite? 1-6 months
Did you attend a job fair? No
Did you do anything special that triggered the interview invitation? One internal Recommendation. I followed up with UPS HR via Email, found out it wasn’t matched to my app, got the interview call a week after that follow up call.
How many internal recs did you have? 1-2
How long was it from the time of your invite to the actual interview? 4 weeks
Did you have any issues with logbooks, application or paperwork? None. Used my HARM printout, they only kept the total page, and had a spreadsheet with all my totals, they kept that too. But they review everything.
How did you prepare for the JKT/COG portion of the interview? NA
Technical Test Questions NA
What was the hardest technical question or content you experienced during the job knowledge test? NA
Cog Test NA
Cog Math Questions NA
HR Questions Resume run through, and questions. Just answered what they asked honestly.
Tell me about your professional career to this point, follow on to above question.
TMATT you made a bad decision. I used an a time I was an Instructor and had a student with issues.
What are three attributes that make you a good fit for UPS. I referenced the ones in “Big Brown” and likened them to my personal strengths.
Tell me about UPS Supply Chain Solutions. Luckily I had read up on it, so I could talk intelligently for a while on this.
TMATT you struggled professionally. I used a time I was a FAIP and had a tough time with the more senior combat experience Instructor pilots.
What’s a good leader, what’s our leadership style?
Tell me about the history of UPS. Time to show your Big Brown and recent UPS website post knowledge.
Which domicile would you like and why?
Some family questions, nothing to study for.
Any other apps in? I said Yes, all Majors, but UPS was given first application and availability.
How long prior to the interview did you prepare for the HR portion of the interview? 3 months off and on. Just one webinar and one top off. UPS is laid back and friendly. Prep is only necessary to focus your thoughts. Dont’ be canned or over practice.
Which HR Prep service did you use and did it help? ECIC, yes. As a Mil guy, this was my first (and looks like last) civil interview.
Any additional information you would like to add. All the previous gouge is spot on!
Is their anything you wish you could have done different to prepare you for this process? No.
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