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Which Airline did you interview with? FedEx Express
How many days between invite, interview, and listed availability? 30 days
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? 121 only
Total Flight Time Greater
Total Turbine PIC Time >2,000
General Overview of Experience If you use RST you will pass day one, period. Cog: when you practice the cog material on RST. Where numbers flash, then disappear, is exactly the same. The only difference is the actual test is shorter in duration. For example, on RST you may be practicing a module for 3, 4, or 5 minutes, but the real test is 1, 2 minutes. It’s over faster than you think. (stomp foot here big time on this next point) This is a must to pass and I was given a heads up before I took it – The recall of the symbols UXLT-0 on the real test are the same symbols as the RST, but, here’s the catch – during the real test you are given these in a practice round, and your key will never change, so during the practice round you will see the key on the screen, and you are practicing, and practicing, thinking something is wrong….eventually the key disappears and you have to “recall” what was there seemingly forever, and then you move on to the next test. YOU MUST REMEMBER THE KEY FOR AT LEAST 30 MORE MINUTES. Why? Because you will see it again and must recall it one more time. If you don’t do this chances are you will fail day one. Everyone who did not remember this key failed. Everyone who remembered the key passed. When you see the recall scenario 30 minutes later you have 2 minutes to put in the 6 symbols/letters in order, so don’t waste too much time. Just put it in, review for 30 seconds and hit “done” or whatever you hit to move on and record your results.
General knowledge test: 60 questions, 60 minutes. I only had a few math problems so if you study RST math section I think you will do just fine. Lead in radials, distance to vor, the same math you see on RST is adequate to prepare. I had at least 2, maybe 3 questions on reading an RMI (I didn’t study this enough and kind of educatingly guessed), so look at NDB’s and RMIs and just be more comfortable on interpreting them. Otherwise, I had plenty of time to finish the test. One guy got done in 20 minutes, but I took my time and went through everything again. (yes, he passed as well). I studied RST, of course, but I also printed out all of the questions that RST directed you to when it came to the military manuals. Each manual has questions at the end. I simply printed them out and the answers and studied those as supplemental. From my recollection there was not much that surprised me, so if you are getting most of the answers right in your studying you will pass.
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? No. I was living overseas so they used to not interview anyone who had foreign addresses. They just changed that rule.
How many internal recs did you have? 3-4
How long was it from the time of your invite to the actual interview? 4 weeks
Did you have any issues with logbooks, application or paperwork? No issues
How did you prepare for the JKT/COG portion of the interview? RST only and it was more than adequate. The actual cog test was much easier than RST. The actual test was shorter in duration than RST as well, which surprised me, but it made the cog test go by much faster.
Technical Test Questions 60 questions in 60 minutes, the only ones I struggled with were reading RMI and how they asked the questions.
What was the hardest technical question or content you experienced during the job knowledge test? Reading RMI, otherwise the topics covered by RST are adequate to prepare you for the general knowledge test.
Cog Test see above
Cog Math Questions had just a few, but if you study RST math section you will be adequately prepared. You can not bring in a cell phone or a calculator, so everything is done by pencil/paper/brain power.
HR Questions Super laid back. Didn’t even ask me why do I want to work at FedEx. Just tell me about yourself, what if a captain tells you to shut down engine 1 on taxi, a slope is coming up, based on your experience you know you need 2 engines to taxi up the hill otherwise you’ll violate 40%N1 taxi limitation. I said I’d advise captain of those stated facts. Interviewer said okay, he says thanks, now shut it down as I said! I said I wouldn’t argue, but as long as we’re safe, not violating any local rules and he can manage than I would discuss at the gate, once we’re secure, chalks in. I said if it looks like we’re getting out of control than I would recommend stopping in place and re-igniting shut down engine. I have an incident on my record so we talked about that and what I learned. Tell me about a time you exhibited leadership outside of flying: I said I led an audit team at the state and found that when you lead people want to know what’s their task, how do you measure results, and a time frame/deadline, then keep following up on progress. With that they shut their books and said okay, I’m done, and we chatted for a few minutes. They said do you have anything for us? Since they were retired I asked if you could give yourself advice, knowing what you know now, what would you tell yourself just entering this company? I also wore a purple tie that was dead on the FedEx purple, and a purple tipped handkerchief out of my suit pocket. I noticed they looked at it. My thing is wear the team colors!! It’s not cheesy, it can only help.
How long prior to the interview did you prepare for the HR portion of the interview? 2 weeks with emerald coast. Their SBI instruction was critical in my success. the SBI went very smooth; simply follow emerald coast’s format
Which HR Prep service did you use and did it help? Emerald Coast – invaluable in focusing your answers, collecting thoughts, SBI prep, etc. Interviewing is a game, and like any game you want to prepare, plan, than execute. And just like a real sports game no matter how much you prepare they will ask you something that you didn’t prepare for, and Emerald Coast will help you come up with a solid foundation so you can call an audible on the fly. You want to win this game so prepare. (gauge error on the 757 is 2,000 pounds on the screen above your head when you do the SBI; I chose to bug out and go to a nice clean alternate and the burn from present position to alternate was 6,000 pounds and the gauge was at 8.8, so we could land at 2.8, or 40% above gauge error of 2.0. A friend of mine landed below gauge error on his scenario and he failed day 2. Not sure if this is why he failed, but I’d recommend don’t go somewhere if you are below gauge error. Dead sticking is not something we train for)
Any additional information you would like to add. I was lucky. In my current job I’m on reserve and from the time I got the interview notice I started preparing with RST, than two weeks out I did emerald coast. I was able to practice hours and hours per day for 30 days straight. For me this time was invaluable. My only suggestion is practice practice practice until you have the info down pat. Also, know the history of the company, Fred Smith’s story, etc.
Is their anything you wish you could have done different to prepare you for this process? no, my prep was adequate.
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