Everyone at Delta, as expected, was a class act from start to finish

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Which Airline did you interview with? Delta
How many days between invite, interview, and listed availability? 2 months
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, 91
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 Everyone at Delta, as expected, was a class act from start to finish. From the get go, everyone I ran into was friendly, professional, and wants to see you succeed. They know how stressful the day can be, and go out of their way to try and put you at ease. A couple things to keep in mind. It’s a marathon, so do your best to keep from dwelling on anything that you think went well or poorly. Be yourself, but keep in mind that you and your professionalism are being watched from the moment you step on property, so act accordingly. The process itself went pretty much as advertised in previous ride reports. In the morning we had our paperwork collected, and were given a welcome brief. Shortly after, we were split into two groups, one doing their HR interviews in the morning, and the others doing their testing. There was an hour for lunch in the middle of the day, and then we swapped with the other group. Overall, if you have made it into the interview, you already meet the criteria that they need in order to hire you, so they are really just looking to ensure that you are who you say on paper, and most importantly, that you truly are a good fit for the company.
How long did you have your application in before you received an invite? <60 days
Did you attend a job fair? No
Did you do anything special that triggered the interview invitation? I did the CTP portion of my ATP-CTP at the Delta Aircrew Training Center.
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? They want work history for basically any job that you have a W-2 from, not just the last 10 years. I had gone as far back as my last job prior to the military that overlapped with the 10 year requirement, and was missing some part time stuff from high school. They had me fill out a form there with as much detail as I could remember so that they could add it to my application paperwork.
Technical Test Questions Tough to remember specifics at this point, but I’ll say that they all mostly still fell within the general themes of the RST prep stuff. I’ll re-iterate the same thing that other folks have mentioned. Don’t treat the flash cards, gold standard powerpoint, or practice tests as a giant question bank. If you go through those and don’t understand why something is the right answer, dig through the reference material to ensure you know the concepts behind it. There were questions that were similar on the JKT, but just different enough that you needed to be able to conceptually apply them. I felt decently prepared/confident going into it, but at the end of the test, there were still at least 15 questions that I wasn’t sure about, and had to go back and review again.
What was the hardest technical question or content you experienced during the job knowledge test? Nothing specific sticks out that I can recall. The majority you’re able to whittle down to two choices, and you’ll have to pick the best one from there. Some of them are worded strangely, so you’ll have to do your best to just think through them a bit.
HR Questions -Tell us about yourself in 3-4 minutes. (Not timing you, but just want you to loosen up a bit by talking about yourself)
-Went through my app and picked out questions based on my work history, or about some failures I had during military pilot training.
-They gave a few open ended questions (i.e. not a specific TMAAT, but still geared towards my past experiences from my app)
-Why Delta
-WWYD: Enroute to Tokyo and can’t land due to major earthquake.
-WWYD: Aft lavs are full, and it’ll be a 45min wait to get them fixed.
For both of the situations, after explaining my thought process and running through our options/making a decision, they had a couple follow-on “what-if” changes to each scenario to see how it would affect my decisions. I had to give a mock PA announcement for both, so make sure to practice your best future Captain voice, haha.
Cog Test Overall the concepts/process was pretty close to what’s in the jet brain games portion of RST. The explanation video that Tito put at the bottom of the page was tremendously helpful in just de-mystifying the process, which was a big help. Biggest advice is to practice so that you’re comfortable, but realize it’s just a part of the interview, so don’t let your other areas suffer by stressing over it.
How long prior to the interview did you prepare for the HR portion of the interview? 2 months-ish.
Which HR Prep service did you use and did it help? Emerald Coast. They helped quite a bit with the overall polish. I’m not the best story teller in the world, so at least having a framework to use and getting the feedback from them on delivery, pacing, details etc were definitely helpful. The hot seat webinar, and phone topoff were the best though, since it’s tough to really simulate being in the hot seat while practicing on your own. Remember to be yourself though!
Any additional information you would like to add. I’ll just echo some advice I was given during my application/prep process:
DO NOT search to the end of the internet for each and every possible technical question/TMAAT/scenario idea you can find. It’s helpful to review the ones that you come across in your prep, but don’t spin your wheels trying to have an exact answer for each individual one. You are going to be graded on your communication ability, so focus on YOU and your experiences that apply to several broad categories of questions. For the WWYDs, you need to be able to demonstrate your thought process, communication, teamwork, problem solving abilites, etc, so DON’T just give a canned answer that you found on some random website; guarantee you they’ve heard it before and will be able to sniff it out.
Is there anything you wish you could have done different to prepare you for this process? Not really. Just be consistent with your prep. Work on a few things every day, and try to find the balance between making progress/reviewing vs. trying to cram at the last minute.
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