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Which Airline did you interview with? Delta
How many days between invite, interview, and listed availability? 3.5 months
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? Awaiting PARB results
What is your experience? 121
Total Flight Time 3,000-4,000
Total Turbine PIC Time
TPIC 121 hours 500-1000
TPIC Military hours 0
TPIC 91/135 0
General Overview of Experience Delta truly exhibits the brand from the moment you are greeted and walk through the door into the pilot selection room. Be personable with your group and mingle. It gets especially hard at the end to carry conversation when people are getting hacked away one by one, but that is when it is also most necessary to crack a laugh. When it comes to the panel you can throw away anything about good cop bad cop out the door, it is all just a bunch of pilots and one HR who are genuinely interested in putting a face to the application. You dictate the environment of the room. Delta wants to know that they are bringing to the front lines people who combine professional with a personal appeal. Emphasize the brand and the rules of the road in your day to day operation. If you have consistently been operating in your current career with an attitude that exemplifies the Delta difference, then you will not have trouble showing your commitment to furthering it in the interview.
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? Potentially an internal recommendation to trigger the app for scoring but it could have also been from the career fair back in October
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? Although I had my electronic version, I had misplaced my paper logbook detailing my flight time from flight student through flight instructor. In my efforts to organize an airman supplement of 8710’s, training records, and even a digital logbook export from the flight department online program, I discovered that I had 3 flight training failures in my course to become a flight instructor with my school that I had not listed in my app. Immediately after I recognized this, I called the number from the invite letter and was prompted to send an email to Delta Pilot Selection and inform them of this mishap. I received an email immediately from Captain Holmes that evening saying thank you for the information and they looked forward to meeting me for my interview.
At the document packet drop off point I had prepared and presented my airman record supplement detailing all evidence to support my flight time and evidence of my training failures. I was not asked about any of these outside of typical why did you fail these questions. I am not even sure if they looked at the supplement.
I also had amended my app; a lot of my employment dates to be more specific. This was something I noticed after they pulled my app that they were very generic dates(Top/bottom of the month). I had prepared for many weeks to prepare myself to answer questions for all of these application amendments; I was ready to tell the panel that it was integrity with signing my name at the end of the application that I wanted to make sure everything was correct to the best of my ability. I was never asked about these changes in my app.
How did you prepare for the JKT/COG portion of the interview? RST 15 day prep and COG training is all you need. Make sure you watch the COG video too. It was my saving grace for the symbols and numbers association section.
For the JKT: after going through the 15 day prep I finished off with just taking all the tests and ground school courses for the remainder of my time. The math training is plenty of prep for the (minimal) math questions you will get on the JKT
Technical Test Questions Basic descent questions. I had none of the speed with bearing change and distance from the VOR questions.
What was the hardest technical question or content you experienced during the job knowledge test? All expected with the RST prep
Cog Test I had the benefit of taking the exact COG test a month prior with another airline interview. I only took in total maybe 5-8 practice runs at the COG. Make sure to the watch the video, especially for the symbol-number section. Once I found out they are letters my mind was blown, and it improved my performance exponentially.
Cog Math Questions Much easier than the PDF file on facebook, but it is good practice.
HR Questions Again, they just want to get to know you and put a face to the name. the 45 min – 1 hr will fly by for sure. The day before your interview don’t do anything except read the rules of the road. Immerse yourself in the brand. Find the trigger words and make sure that you mention them as much as possible in your answers. In your 5 min story mention them to show how you emulate the Delta brand in your professional work leading up to the interview. It’s much easier to prove to them that you embrace and will further their brand if you perform it on a day to day basis.
It is for this reason that I believe they only asked me one WWYD question, simply because they derived from all of my other stories including TMAAT’s that I try my best to emulate the Delta difference because it is a work ethic that brings pride to our role as airline pilots.
Some of the questions outside of the traditional app questions:
How does a pilot affect Delta’s PR on a day to day basis?
How do you embrace leadership as a FO?
How do you resist complacency as a CA, as an FO?
You mentioned servant leadership in your 5 min story, what does that mean to you?
TMAAT you had a conflict with a co worker?
Have you ever received letters or accolades from your company publicly? Does that affect your efforts on a day to day basis?
WWYD with a loud bang in the back and irregular indications on one engine above 50%? Would you let the FO make the landing?
How long prior to the interview did you prepare for the HR portion of the interview? I had two interviews to prepare for in the time frame for my interview with Delta. I had spent the past month focused solely on Delta and 3 months total reflecting on my personal stories for TMMAT and WWYD scenarios.
Which HR Prep service did you use and did it help? Cage Consulting and Aerocrew Solutions. It for sure helped; they were very good at identifying the systematic foundation to answer the WWYD scenarios without canned answers. In fact, for my one WWYD question, the foundation of situation, action, resolution allowed for me to truly combine a methodological approach with personal uniqueness. And remember, ALL of the resources are at your disposal; think outside the box.
I have to say that talking to my friends that have gone to the process especially recently will help you out as well. One of the most valuable pieces of information I received was that in operational situations, Delta is very adamant on taking controls from the CA ONLY when it jeopardizes the safety of flight to the extent of bending metal or loss of life. Otherwise it is the responsibility of the FO to advise the CA of the procedure deviation, and if the CA persists to continue to advise and report the deviation to the company. So for all the questions that involve procedural issues, look to avenues that will allow you to remedy the situation without control intervention, unless safety of the flight to the highest extent is jeopardized. This was intel I did not receive in any interview prep.
Any additional information you would like to add. For anyone that gets sent to the PARB: First, you are not alone. There is a great RST PARB group that has people who are more than willing to provide any information you need, or even just an outlet if you need to vent. In the couple days that I have been in limbo waiting for the answer email/phone call I have received countless messages from people I don’t even know who are offering perspective and words of encouragement. Apparently (and not confirmed by any means) if there are more than 5 people admitted to the PARB they will scheduled a meeting, and considering that there are on average 6 interview groups every two weeks they usually will meet every other Monday. If you get put in the PARB pool do not ride in the dark alone. Search up the group; you will be very glad you did.
Is there anything you wish you could have done different to prepare you for this process? None.
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