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Which Airline did you interview with? Delta
How many days between invite, interview, and listed availability? Within 2 months of availability. 40 days invite to interview
Did you include volunteer work in your application?
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 4,000-5,000
Total Turbine PIC Time
TPIC 121 hours 0
TPIC Military hours >2000
TPIC 91/135 0
General Overview of Experience The entire Delta campus and everyone who works there is extremely professional and genuinely act like they are happy that you are there. They do everything they can to put you at ease. Honestly the worst part of the whole 2 days is the sitting around and waiting. I interviewed first and then had 2.5 hours until testing. Go across the street, get some coffee, food, etc. Then after testing, you will wait some more. Ideally, I felt as though the day could be completed in half of the time, the other half will be downright awful.
How long did you have your application in before you received an invite? 6-12 months
Did you attend a job fair? No
Did you do anything special that triggered the interview invitation? 2 internal recs submitted, spaced 3 months apart.
How many internal recs did you have? 1-2
How long was it from the time of your invite to the actual interview? 6 weeks
Did you have any issues with logbooks, application or paperwork? I stressed out a lot about my logbooks as I had 200+ hours civilian and the rest military. People told me to create an excel sheet with everything broken down. I decided that logbooks were not the thing to focus on so I simply turned in my old, crusty, civilian logbook as it was and made a copy of my military flight records with no special tabs or any breakdown. I was asked nothing about my logbooks and flight hours. I honestly believe that you do not need to bring anything fancy or extra, just follow the directions of what they ask for.
How did you prepare for the JKT/COG portion of the interview? RST, went through the 15 day program (each day prescribed 3-5 hours of time). I usually spent way more than that each day. Did all of the trainers, flashcards, ground schools. I was spent after the 15 days to be honest and had a hard time reading and studying much more after that.
I honestly left the JKT not feeling very confident. There were maybe only 3-4 questions that were remotely close to the prep on RST. However, you can easily eliminate 2 answers and guess from the remaining two.
Technical Test Questions Tons of aerodynamics, and systems questions on mine.
What was the hardest technical question or content you experienced during the job knowledge test? The question gave me two different lat/longs with minutes and told me to calculate the distance between the two. I literally had no idea how to do this, nor had I ever heard or saw how to calculate this.
Cog Test I used RST. The COG trainer is very good, however be prepared for the real COG test to be very archaic. If you grew up in the 90s you will do fine with graphics. The localizer test is extremely sensitive on the real test which made it a little challenging, just don’t let it stray to far from the center or your focus will go straight to that task and you will forget about the previous number task on the same screen.
Cog Math Questions Only had 3-4 and they were very basic, not difficult.
HR Questions For the first 25 minutes we discussed various things on my application. I was more than happy to talk about myself rather than WWYD or TMAAT questions. Tell us about yourself in 3 minutes. I only had one WWYD, and two TMAAT questions and then it was over. WWYD if the captain didn’t want to wait for the 2 minute warmup on the engine before takeoff. TMAAT you had a conflict in the cockpit and TMAAT customer service story. The whole thing was very conversational and I left feeling pretty good about how it went. My interview panel was very professional, laughed at some of my jokes, and made me feel at ease during the 45-50 minutes.
How long prior to the interview did you prepare for the HR portion of the interview? 6-12 months
Which HR Prep service did you use and did it help? Emerald Coast is totally worth it, did two seminars. They really helped me develop my stories as they related to my various traits. I over-stressed myself a little by looking at trip reports in the endless task of trying to see every interview question. I recommend unfollowing the trip reports a few weeks prior because they will mess with your head. Trust in the prep that you have done with Emerald Coast as their prep will allow you to answer almost any question using their methods.
Any additional information you would like to add. As Barry Holmes will tell you it is not very often that someone doesn’t pass the JKT/COG test and i truly believed this after taking the JKT. The last week or two before the interview you should really be focusing on the HR portion because that is most likely the make or break part of the interview.
Is there anything you wish you could have done different to prepare you for this process? I wish that I would have read Everything for the Professional Pilot and Aerodynamics for Naval Aviators a lot earlier in my prep. Do not wait to start reading these during the 15 day prep as it was a little overwhelming.
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