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Which Airline did you interview with? United
How many days between invite, interview, and listed availability? Invited in January, Interviewed in April, Availability with 2 weeks notice
Did you include volunteer work in your application? Yes
Did you receive a job offer? Waiting to hear back
If you did not receive the CJO why do you think you weren’t chosen to continue in the process? Still hoping I get the CJO
What is your experience? Military, 121
Total Flight Time 2,000-3,000
Total Turbine PIC Time
TPIC 121 hours 0
TPIC Military hours 500-1000
TPIC 91/135 0
General Overview of Experience Fantastic place. Everyone is excited you are there. I will reiterate the fact that you are there and they want to hire you. The construction should be finished in June of 2018 and the interviews will then be conducted in the new HR offices instead of the temporary trailers. I stayed at the Doubletree across the street from the training center. My interview was at 0830, and I took the 0730 bus since they have a shuttle that leaves every 30 minutes. Checking into security doesn’t take long, but definitely make sure you are at the HR office NLT 30 minutes prior to your interview start time. I interviewed on a Tuesday and was told I will hear back the next week with a phone call on either Wednesday or Thursday, or an email on Friday. The calls are good…the email is bad.
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? I had a meet and greet with a chief pilot, flight standards and training. All came from opportunities that were presented at job fairs. I don’t think they go to WAI, OBAP or NGPA anymore though. I do not think I would have been competitive enough without the recommendations from leaders amongst the organization as they are projecting only 600 hires in 2018. Tough to say though.
How many internal recs did you have? 5+
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? I was 1 of 3 that interviewed in the morning. All 3 of us were missing volunteer work on the application they printed out. They told us to bracket the volunteer section and can talk about it in the interview. No questions came up. Other than that, there were no issues. I printed off my app prior to going in there for reference.
How did you prepare for the JKT/COG portion of the interview? N/A
Technical Test Questions If vectored off SID, what altitude are you to maintain? (ATC must . clarify)
If vectored back on to SID, but told climb and maintain a certain altitude, do you have to abide by altitude restrictions? (No)
What is bottom of STAR? (Look at Jepp chart and find bottom alt)
What was the hardest technical question or content you experienced during the job knowledge test? Vectored off SID, then back on and told climb via SID. Then told climb and maintain X altitude. Do you have to maintain SID crossing altitudes? I got confused due to the climb via instruction and said yes. He clarified that after being cleared to climb via, ATC says climb and maintain. I changed my answer and it did not seem to be an issue.
Cog Test N/A
Cog Math Questions N/A
HR Questions Tell us about yourself and how you got into flying
TMAAT you had a stressful situation in flight and how you handled it
TMAAT you had to correct a new co-worker on a rule or SOP
TMAAT you saw a difficult customer service situation developing and what you did
Tell me about a captain you have flown with that you admired and why
TMAAT you have had to deal with adversity
How long prior to the interview did you prepare for the HR portion of the interview? Almost 2 years.
Which HR Prep service did you use and did it help? Emerald Coast and Checked and Set for app review. Checked and Set was fantastic as they consistently reached out to me to review my app at least every 4 months or so to make sure the changes (if any) were good,
Emerald Coast is a great company. I have used them for Delta, American and United now. I received CJOs from all 3 and I think this is a result from ECIC, paired with RST. Definitely sign up for the United Tech Prep webinar as it answers a lot of questions about the TSA portion of the interview.
Any additional information you would like to add. The tell me about yourself and why United questions will be asked 100% of the time. Know your callouts for the TSA portion cold. The Captain doing the TSA portion did not seem to care if the callouts were word for word from the sheet, but that the information was correct. (Ie I just had to say, advance the throttles to X and do X, vs “The pilot flying will manually advance the throttles to X and…)
During the HR portion, they write almost the entire time you are talking. Just follow the STARR method of answering and they will ask follow up questions if needed. I printed off my resume and letters of rec and had them bound. I brought 5 copies as there can be up to 4 people in the room during your interview. I only had 2 for my panel portion. There was an observer for my technical portion however.
Is there anything you wish you could have done different to prepare you for this process?
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