The entire experience was awesome

Jet Brain, February 12, 2017, CJO Offered, SWA Ride Reports, 0

Which Airline did you interview with?	Southwest
How many days between invite, interview, and listed availability?	Invite early Jan; interview mid-Jan; available July.
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?
What is your experience?	Military
Total Flight Time	2,000-3,000
Total Turbine PIC Time	1,000-2,000
General Overview of Experience	The entire experience was awesome. Rocky and the team go out of their way to make you feel relaxed and welcome. For the morning session, after taking care of some paperwork admin at in the People Department, you walk down to a room and get a big picture brief of SWA. After that, you walk to another building and wait to conduct the three interview portions. HR Panel – had 1 HR person and 1 Capt in a small room. TMA Yourself. What do you do outside of work? Have you interviewed with anyone else? What will be your biggest challenge as a new hire? TMAAT you failed. Logbook – brought AF big green HARM folder. Had a separate sheet broken down by aircraft with hours/sorties totals showing – PIC, SIC, Instructor. Previous 5 years hours/sorties, broken down into yearly chunks. Used 0.3 sortie conversion. LOI – could get any number of scenarios, so just relax (as much as you can) and talk through what you would do with your decision making process (being sure to utilize assets in your aircraft and outside agencies). Was asked, “Why us?” in each separate interview portion.
How long did you have your application in before you received an invite?	1-6 months
Did you attend a job fair?	No
Did you do anything special that triggered the interview invitation?	Had pilot credentials updated once a month, but submitted onto the SWA HR site the last week of Dec 2016.
How many internal recs did you have?	3-4
How long was it from the time of your invite to the actual interview?	2 weeks
Did you have any issues with logbooks, application or paperwork?	None.
How did you prepare for the JKT/COG portion of the interview?	N/A
Technical Test Questions	N/A
What was the hardest technical question or content you experienced during the job knowledge test?	N/A
Cog Test	N/A
Cog Math Questions	N/A
HR Questions	If you could give the CEO advice, what would it be? What’s a problem that we have here at SWA?
How long prior to the interview did you prepare for the HR portion of the interview?	6-12 months.
Which HR Prep service did you use and did it help?	ECIC. Outstanding! I’ve been recommending them to everyone. I know there’s a lot of talk about how SWA doesn’t want you to use an interview prep company – you can read the blogs on The Pilot Network. Regardless, as a military guy, I felt that ECIC helped me formulate my thoughts and stories, which was priceless. ECIC doesn’t change you, that’s not their point or objective. They help bring out the best of you for the interview.
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Is their anything you wish you could have done different to prepare you for this process?

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