Great overall experience! SW really does want to hire you and helps to put you at ease

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Which Airline did you interview with? Southwest
How many days between invite, interview, and listed availability? ( days from app to invite and 3 weeks from invite to interview
Did you receive a job offer? 12 months call back
If you did not receive the CJO why do you think you weren’t chosen to continue in the process? With no feed back it’s hard to say for sure, probably the HR portion. Was a little nervous and may have fumbled my tmat stories.
What is your experience? 121 and 135
Total Flight Time Greater
Total Turbine PIC Time >2,000
General Overview of Experience Great overall experience! SW really does want to hire you and helps to put you at ease. Everyone there is super cool. The interview consists of three parts, HR, logbook review, and LOI. I thought it was all pretty straightforward. On the LOI make sure and do a control transfer and utilize CRM, get everyone involved in your decision making process.
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? Had a friend currently at SW fill out the refer a friend page when the window opened.
How many internal recs did you have? 1-2
How long was it from the time of your invite to the actual interview? 3 weeks
Did you have any issues with logbooks, application or paperwork? None. I rebooted all my logbooks into electronic format, printed, and put it in a nice binder. Tabbed what SW asked for, plus tabbed all my checkrides. The reviewer like my presentation. They’ll want to see totals for each of the last five years and cumulative totals for each year over the last five years.
How did you prepare for the JKT/COG portion of the interview? N/A
Technical Test Questions N/A
What was the hardest technical question or content you experienced during the job knowledge test? N/A
Cog Test N/A
Cog Math Questions N/A
HR Questions Tell us about your aviation journey, tell us about a time with a difficult crewmember, what will be your biggest challenges when starting at SW, How will you like being a first officer after being a captain for so long?
How long prior to the interview did you prepare for the HR portion of the interview? 3-5 weeks.
Which HR Prep service did you use and did it help? One of the major prep services to look over paperwork and critique TMAT stories. It helped with understanding the answer format: situation, action, and response.
Any additional information you would like to add. Just relax and be yourself. Don’t forget, the interview starts when you step out your front door and ends when you walk back into your home.
Read the book NUTS! and The Southwest Way.
Is their anything you wish you could have done different to prepare you for this process? Could have spent a little time recording myself giving answers to HR style questions for self-evaluation.
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