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Which Airline did you interview with? UPS
How many days between invite, interview, and listed availability? Available with 2 weeks, about 3 weeks from invite to interview
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 1,000-2,000
General Overview of Experience The sim was standard, climb straight out to 5,000 and maintain 250, 30d turns level at 250, steep turns level at 250, 30d turn at 1000 fpm descent at 250 to 3,000, vectors for an ILS to a missed, fuel burn question about how long you can hold (30k, need 6k, 30 mins to CVG, burning 8k/hr, how long can you hold), then cargo smoke detected what are you going to do (fly to CVG or return to SDF), then a visual to land at SDF and you’re done.
For the HR, I had one pilot and one HR lady. They gave me their UPS history, then asked me to tell them about myself. Gave them my life story then she asked why UPS? She wants more than just awesome pay and benefits, talk about the culture and reasons why you’d fit in and what you like about the company. What do you know about UPS? He then jumped in and asked about a time I had a CA out of SOP. How did I handle it? When have I violated an SOP? What do you do if there’s one you disagree with? He gave me the scenario of straight off IOE, flying with a senior CA, we’re a little high and 40kts fast, 10 miles out, what do I do? (I make the calls to point it out) Then he says “no worries I’m correcting.” It’s clear, you get to 1,000 feet and he’s still a little high, 20kts fast, what do you do? Call for a GA. CA says, “no need I’ve got this.” What do you do? I said I’d call for it again and push the radio button and declare we’re going around forcing his hand, and tell him we can discuss it on the ground. Then explain to him no accident investigation has ever faulted a crew for going around when they shouldn’t, the same can’t be said in reverse. She asked what they should expect of me as a company? She then built the scenario that I’m with a CA that says “they’ve got 5 minutes to finish loading and then the CBA says I can leave and go back to the hotel. At 5 mins he grabs his stuff and walks out. You’re still legal to fly and not forbidden in your CBA, what do you do? I call CS and see if they can make it work so we can still serve our customers. I’m not going to hurt our customers as a tool for negotiations. She asked if there was anything that gets on my nerves? What would I say is my biggest fault? If they brought her in, what would my wife say? Then she said, “OK, so I have a giant stack of resumes of qualified pilots on my desk, why should I choose you?” Lastly, she asked what base and aircraft I would prefer, and followed up with what if you get ANC 747 or ONT? I just said “bases aren’t tattoos. I’ll deal with it and look forward to when my seniority can hold what I’d prefer.”
How long did you have your application in before you received an invite? 1-6 months
Did you attend a job fair? Yes
Did you do anything special that triggered the interview invitation? I attended the WAI job fair and then followed up with pilots with whom I’ve flown and got 3 internal recs. Received the call about a month later.
How many internal recs did you have? 3-4
How long was it from the time of your invite to the actual interview? 3 weeks
Did you have any issues with logbooks, application or paperwork? No problems.
How did you prepare for the JKT/COG portion of the interview? Used RST for the Hogan prep. Best money I’ve ever spent!
Technical Test Questions None.
What was the hardest technical question or content you experienced during the job knowledge test? There are no technical questions at the UPS interview, except the standard holding time computation during the sim.
Cog Test
Cog Math Questions
HR Questions
How long prior to the interview did you prepare for the HR portion of the interview? 3 weeks
Which HR Prep service did you use and did it help? No service, just studied the gouges online, read Big Brown, and studied UPS’s website.
Any additional information you would like to add. Be sure you’ve studied up on UPS’s history and that you know about their operations aside from package delivery. Be able to talk about supply chain logistics. Study their website and be well versed in what they’re doing and recent news.
Is their anything you wish you could have done different to prepare you for this process? I wish I had done a sim prep. I just couldn’t fit it into my schedule and wasn’t happy with my sim performance. I got the offer. But a couple of hours in a 757/767 sim would have been invaluable.
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