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Which Airline did you interview with? Delta
How many days between invite, interview, and listed availability? Initial availability: early May, E-mail invite: late July, Interview early Sep
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 1,000-2,000
Total Turbine PIC Time 1,000-2,000
General Overview of Experience Pretty much as advertised, although you can read hundreds of trip reports and not really understand what they’re getting at until you get there and see it for yourself. By the way, everybody’s interview experience (HR panel, testing times etc.) is unique so take everything you read with a grain of salt.
How long did you have your application in before you received an invite? 6-12 months
Did you attend a job fair? Yes
Did you do anything special that triggered the interview invitation? Got the invite before attending job fair. Had internal rec sent in January. Facebook messaged Delta Pilot Recruiting in June asking about how many internal recs you can get a year. They specifically answered “Your app will only get scored once a year from internal recs.” Had another internal rec sent in anyways in July, got the invite a week later. Not sure if correlation or not. Otherwise just updated my app every week or two.
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. Just turned in physical log books with no summary sheet.
How did you prepare for the JKT/COG portion of the interview? RST. COG maybe a half dozen times then once a week after that to remain proficient. Make sure to watch the COG webinar. RST site is a literal goldmine of information, however the formatting and general layout of where to find things can be a bit unintuitive. I would recommend clicking all the links you can find throughout the site to get your bearing of what is located where, and then make a study plan from there.
Technical Test Questions No weather for me. One other guy had a couple volcanic ash questions. I would guess 1/3 aero, 1/4 FAR/AIM, 1/4 descent/holding etc., 1/6 engines. But each person has a different test. I studied a couple hours a day for a month, and felt like the test was very tough with tricky wording and multiple partially correct answers. Had 12 questions marked out of 60 after 40 minutes. Was able to go through entire test again changing 3 or 4 answers and finished with 90 seconds remaining. Not one person seemed to think the test was easy.
What was the hardest technical question or content you experienced during the job knowledge test? EOSID, and whether ATC knew what it was or not, if it was a company procedure, or a local procedure. I had never even heard of an EOSID before so I gave it my best WAG.
Cog Test RST is great prep. Slight differences covered in COG webinar.
Cog Math Questions NSTR
HR Questions My interview panel was very professional. Not exactly friendly, but nowhere near confrontational either. Just business like, but they did chuckle once or twice. Once it gets to TMAAT/WWYD questions they read them randomly but directly out of a binder.
5 min intro from high school. 20 mins about questions from my app. Sign availability date. Q’s- TMAY scholarship/speeding tickets/withdrawal from a class/ATP checkride experience (I passed), career change etc.
I had absolutely zero specific TMAAT questions. Here is what I remember them asking:
– How do you regain someone’s respect after you’ve made a mistake and lost it (non-specific)?
– Captain orders you to make mx delay PA and claim it’s due to wx
– 30 mins from Tokyo and natural disaster on ground have to divert
– FA tells you 5 men seem to be suspiciously gathering in the back of the plane near the lav off and on
– You make (non specific again) mistake and FO blames it all on you and states he will never fly with you again
I was word vomiting in circles once, and they kind of asked a pointed question to get me in the right direction. Other than that they were pretty straight-faced unless you asked them for clarification or a question. Plenty of water to drink and time between questions to regroup as they are writing notes etc.
How long prior to the interview did you prepare for the HR portion of the interview? One month in spring time, one month before interview.
Which HR Prep service did you use and did it help? ECIC. Yes, just as a framework of what type of questions would be asked and as an introduction to the 121 world terminology. I did not do a phone top-off because I was confident in my question answering strategy by that point and I wanted it to be sincere and my own.
Any additional information you would like to add. Echoing others… the dinner before with RST members is great. You will be bery nervous unless you are a robot or have other good CJOs awaiting. Prepare for a lot of sitting around and waiting between your testing events. They want to hire you. I don’t have any advice for the personality/psych tests… but they suck because there is no real good way to study or prepare for them (that I know of anyhow).
Is their anything you wish you could have done different to prepare you for this process? JKT was a beast. But I think I could have studied another month and maybe only got another 2-3 questions right. There is such an enormous amount of info to cover and the questions are anything but straightforward. Personally, I could have spent more time on FAR/AIM/121 type questions.
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