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Which Airline did you interview with? Delta
How many days between invite, interview, and listed availability? 6 weeks invite-interview. 8weeks invite-availability
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? NA
What is your experience? Military
Total Flight Time 3,000-4,000
Total Turbine PIC Time >2,000
General Overview of Experience Just as others have said, they know you’re extremely nervous and spend first 30mins just talking to try to put you at ease. Of course it doesn’t do any good. For me, it took well into day 2 before body finally calmed down. I hardly slept night before the flight there, even less night before interview, not at all after day 1. One person in the geoup took a Tylenol PM; I’d do the same if had to redo.
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? I don’t think so. I did not have any internal LORs, so my app didn’t get the “guarenteed look” an internal rec gets. For those who don’t know, Delta hand looks at all apps. Your app goes to 2 Captains who rank them Tier 1/2/3. Tier 1s definitely get an interview. Tier 2, maybe (depending on the hiring environment). Tier 3 = no. You don’t know when your app is looked at, so best to just keep updating it regularly. This was put out by Delta at the WAIC I attended, so not inside info.
How many internal recs did you have? 1-2
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? Be honest and ensure you carefully read every question on that app! I didn’t read a question right (probably cz the other main site says “in the past 10yrs”) so I felt like an idiot hand writing in stuff on the app with the HR interviewer at very start of the HR. Again, be honest! They don’t care how many tickets you had or what you failed in the past. They just don’t want stuff to pop up in the background check after giving you the CJO. Obviously you learned from your mistakes or you wouldn’t be here for interview!
Logbook: those not military or who don’t fly with 3 pilots move on to next part. Looking back I think they were just testing me, wanting to see if I stayed positive and didn’t flip out. The pilot asked me to explain why my total flt time on my app was higher than what logbooks showed? I explained how I included PIC time when I wasn’t at the controls (In 3+ pilots I included FP, CP, & SpC time in total time only on those flights I signed for the jet). Follow up question was how much flying was I not doing during this time? I said I was in seat during critical phases & sat most the time on flt deck when not in seat.
Both these hiccups came up at very beginning of HR, so I thought for sure I was toast! They liked something about me so again keep smiling, stay positive, and try to remain confident!
How did you prepare for the JKT/COG portion of the interview? Studied RST mostly with a couple other question banks and gouge. But like 98% RST.
Technical Test Questions Had some volcano questions I didn’t read up on. Also some questions about the pack as related to performance. Just as most TR say, STUDY THE MATERIAL! I heard Delta & FedEx have like 5000+ ? bank. No way to study all that. If you can, do a 20 day study plan vice 15. Those extra 5 days will let you explore all the other guides on RST.
What was the hardest technical question or content you experienced during the job knowledge test? From reading other TR and talking to other members of my group, I think Ihad luck of the draw. Almost all my questions I could pick the right answer easily. Even the material I didn’t study, I think I picked good answers on most either because of past experience or the material studied gave a good foundation where I felt confident in the answers.
Cog Test Do RST as outlined and you will be good!
Cog Math Questions Easier than RST COG and a COG study guide I had.
HR Questions See above and past TR cover most.
They spend first 20mins doing app, logbook, and want to get to know you. Last 20 mins are wwyd, tmaat. Have some “so there I was” stories ready that cover multiple situations (emergency, good crm, crew confrontation) and you’ll be good. If you are like me and you don’t have much community service stuff handy, think outside the box: do you help out with kid’s school/sports, plan squadron’s officer functions, ect.
How long prior to the interview did you prepare for the HR portion of the interview? 6 months
Which HR Prep service did you use and did it help? Watched the Emerald Coast videos and did 1 webinar months ago. Got some good flash card tips from them. Didn’t do anymore webinars because I didn’t want to sound like a coached robot.
I would have done HR service again because I haven’t interviewed in 20+ yrs, but if I came from regionals or corporate world, probably would of skipped it.
Any additional information you would like to add. There’s no spot for the psych tests & interview, so here you go.
I tried to answer the same on 2nd day as I did the first so my personality matched. I didn’t have to take the 2nd day test over again as did 4 others, so I am guessing I put enough yes’s to the negative questions that are “sometimes”. I mean we all hate a coworker sometimes.
Psychiatrists: for the stressful times in my life Intalked about good stress that had positive outcome: birth of kid, flight that accomplished a lot. Rest was just like first part of the HR interview.
Is their anything you wish you could have done different to prepare you for this process? Done an internal LOR, even though I didn’t fly with any friends who work at Delta.
Given myself a 20 day study plan where I take 40 days to do it. After day 7 of Aero, skip and do days 14-15, because I’m not a 121 guy I felt less confident with the nav stuff. Also, in getting the 60-1, math formulas ahead of time I could do like 1-5 math questions a day like studying COG instead of feeling like I crammed for the math & nav all at the very end.
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