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Which Airline did you interview with? Delta
How many days between invite, interview, and listed availability? Apps went live early June. Got the interview invite end of June. Was called back mid-Sep to schedule an interview due to the summer slowdown. Scheduled an early Nov interview.
Did you include volunteer work in your application? Yes
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
TPIC 121 hours 0
TPIC Military hours 1000-2000
TPIC 91/135 0
General Overview of Experience Roughly 100 hours of GA time, the rest is all military single-seat time.
How long did you have your application in before you received an invite? <60 days
Did you attend a job fair? No
Did you do anything special that triggered the interview invitation? Attended Delta ATP-CTP in 2017.
How many internal recs did you have? 5+
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? None. I brought in my GA logbook and my green military log book binder with the standard military hours summary sheet. In addition to that, I included a summary of my total hours, along with the assumptions I used to convert military primary time to civilian PIC time (Ex: I only logged the hours I flew solo during UPT at PIC time). They asked zero questions about my logbooks or hours.
Technical Test Questions RST was razor sharp in helping me prepare. I focused for a month on working through the 15-day program, all flashcards, and all the quizzes/tests. I worked through all the flashcards and quizzes/tests a second time the week prior to the interview. I walked away from the test confident that I got 50 of the 60 questions correct. 4 were straight guesses. 6 were “educated guesses”. As everyone says, it was very heavy on Aero and Engines. I got zero weather questions, 3 tricky questions about NDBs, and 3 math questions (descent gradients/rates, fuel flow questions) which were not very hard after I read the question. My best advice: RTFQ, then read it again, and it should be clear that two answers are right out, and then if you focus on the concepts taught in RST you’ll be able to determine that “most correct” answer from the remaining two questions. You only get 60 minutes so if you find yourself bogging on a certain question, guess and move on! I had 12 minutes remaining to go back and work through any skipped questions.
What was the hardest technical question or content you experienced during the job knowledge test? For me, it was definitely the NDB questions because I have never flown with that equipment and didn’t study up on it.
HR Questions They went out of their way to reinforce that this was just a chance for them to get to know you, and to try and be comfortable and relaxed. I took off my jacket, brought in a bottle of water, and did my best to relax.
-Went over app, initialed various items; sortie failures, speeding tickets, updated hours, etc. No surprises here.
-Quick introduction of who was on the panel (1x current CA, 1x retired CA, and HR rep)
-In 3-5 mins, tell us about yourself
-Why did you choose your college?
-I see you run a part-time business, tell us about that and how you got interested in it?
-I see you’ve been Officer of the Quarter many times, and Officer of the Year a few times as well, tell us about how that happened? Did you nominate yourself?
-They asked 3 or 4 questions about the various volunteer work that I have done.
-I had no failed checkrides, but they asked about my two busted UPT normal training sorties, and why I failed one of my IPUG sorties more recently.
-They asked me who I admire most (previous supervisor or flight lead, etc) and what qualities in them I thought would translate to making a good CA?
-WWYD: 3rd day of trip, CA is flying high and fast on the approach.
-WWYD: You are CA, FA alerts you that a group of middle-eastern men are congregating near the aft lav, speaking in foreign language, FA feels uncomfortable.
-WWYD: You are CA, there is a line of thunderstorms ahead, there is a gap that you could go through, others ahead of you have made it through but with moderate turbulence; or you could deviate around it but at the expense of a 20-min delay and put you closer to critical fuel, all alternates are in good shape. I decided the safest and best thing for passengers was to go around it. Follow-up question: your decision sounds good, but let’s say you decide to go through it instead, what are you thinking about now?
-WWYD: You are CA and you catch FO walking through terminal without his hat on.
Cog Test I watched the Cog tips video on RST which was very helpful and practiced with pebl. Like everyone says, you have ample time to practice before you take the individual portions of the cog test. READ THE INSTRUCTIONS closely, read them again, practice..practice again if you need to, and you’ll breeze right through it.
How long prior to the interview did you prepare for the HR portion of the interview? 1.5 months
Which HR Prep service did you use and did it help? ECIC. To be honest, it wasn’t until after one in-person seminar and then 3 follow-on webinars that I started to understand how valuable the ECIC prep is. You definitely have to put the time in, but it is well well worth your while.
Any additional information you would like to add.
Is there anything you wish you could have done different to prepare you for this process? I wish I would have scheduled out all the ECIC webinars in advance (with a couple weeks separation between each).
What can we do to improve our services? Include a one-page overview of all the items on the 15-day checklist to help you keep track of what you have accomplished.
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