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Which Airline did you interview with? Delta
How many days between invite, interview, and listed availability? 2 Months
Did you include volunteer work in your application? No
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, 135, 91
Total Flight Time 5,000-8,000
Total Turbine PIC Time
TPIC 121 hours 1000-2000
TPIC Military hours 0
TPIC 91/135 1000-2000
General Overview of Experience As the previous reports have stated Deltas interview process is a class act, very friendly and welcoming. I Highly recommend getting a group chat going with the fellow candidates in your interview group. We all met up for dinner the night before and I believe it goes a long way to meet each other ahead of time and if anything it calms the nerves a bit. The morning of showed up at the 1020 building at 0715 sharp. Around 0730 they start taking you back in small groups to collect paperwork. Around 0745 Barry Holmes comes in and brings everyone to the conference room. He really does a great job of setting your mind at ease and takes the time to let you know they are happy you came and they are all rooting for you to succeed! After that we were taken to the waiting room where there was coffee and snacks and a chart with our names on it with our schedule for the days events. The first half of the alphabet did their HR stuff first where the last half did the testing portion first. There was then a break for lunch and then we all switched for the second half of the day. You are gonna be keyed up and nervous but try and exude confidence and keep a smile with you at all times. The most nerve inducing portion of the day is the last hour to hour and a half when everyone is done and they begin to ask people to go home one by one. There is no way around this part so the only thing I can say is be confident in your own performance and try not to stress too much about it. Finally about 20 minutes after the last person was called they came out with the folders and CJO’s welcoming us to Delta. There is then paperwork to fill out for the second day and we were out the door by about 430PM. Day 2 is a 630am start which began with the collecting of the paperwork and lead right into the MMPI followed by a meeting with the psychologist. Be prepared for another interview with mainly TMAAT questions. After that it was drug test, finger printing, and badge picture, and done by about 11am. At the end of day 2 myself and 2 others got referred to the PARB. If this happens to you once again try not to stress about it, ends up that over 90 percent of everyone that gets sent to the PARB gets cleared. It took about a week and a half but all 3 of us got cleared through the PARB for employment.
How long did you have your application in before you received an invite? 12 months +
Did you attend a job fair? No
Did you do anything special that triggered the interview invitation? I believe it just came down to my application qualifications, almost 7000 total with 2400TPIC, no accidents or incidents or violations and just kept my app updated every 2 weeks. This is all I can think of as I had no Check Airman letter, no internal recommendations, no community service listed, and had not attended any job fairs or career expos (not for lack of trying).
How many internal recs did you have? 0
How long was it from the time of your invite to the actual interview? 8 weeks
Did you have any issues with logbooks, application or paperwork? None what so ever, I had only paper logbooks and had them numbered and tabbed but was not asked a single thing about them. After the initial interview invite I went through my application with a fine toothed comb and did discover some errors, which I corrected immediately. when the invite is sent they said they don’t want to see any major changes so this stressed me out a bit. I took the time to type out a little memo detailing the changes I had made, sort of trying to be as honest about them upfront as I could. I included this memo with my initial paperwork. In the panel interview they didn’t ask me a single thing about the changes I had made. Just be prepared to talk about them with complete transparency and you will be fine.
How did you prepare for the JKT/COG portion of the interview? RST! I ran through the 15 day checklist, read all the publications, took practice tests, looked at ride reports, and went through the math trainer. As they say try to learn the concepts over trying to memorize the practice test answers, there are very few similar questions on the actual test.
Technical Test Questions Honestly it was a blur, very few questions matched RST exactly. A few holding questions. One question of you are on the 090 at 20nm what heading to fly to intercept the 190 at 60nm. one question in regard to the effective range of a VASI. They give you a scratch sheet of paper to work with and by the end of the test I had about 10 questions written down I wanted to review. For the most part trust your gut and go with your first choice. Most questions can easily be eliminated down to 2 answers. RST does a great job preparing you on the knowledge base.
What was the hardest technical question or content you experienced during the job knowledge test? don’t honestly remember, I think one of the harder things about the questions in general is the way they are worded.
Cog Test RST blew this one out of the park, very easy. Flag man was a good 10 seconds max. The localizer was slightly more sensitive but as long as u had a good back and forth rhythm it wasn’t an issue. The stylus made things quite easy.
Cog Math Questions Relatively simple and straight forward, probably got through about 9 of them, only one reverse percentage question.
HR Questions This is the portion I prepared for the most as it is without a doubt the most common reason people get sent home. I went in fully prepared to defend everything I had ever done. This was not warranted however, extremely friendly and welcoming panel. You sit around a round table, they have your application waiting for you when you come in and have you sign and initial in a few places. After that they put you at ease and give you an idea how things are gonna go in the interview, the HR representative was even nice enough to say if I needed to pause while I collected my thoughts to just grab a water bottle and take a swig. They went around the room and introduced themselves one by one and at the end opened up the floor for me to introduce myself. They did not specify where to start or how many minutes I should take so I just ran with it, starting with where I was born and grew up, working my way up through my career to present day. I imagine I took up 4-5 minutes to get from start to finish. Then after that they asked questions 100 percent tailored to your own application. I was not asked about grades in college, They did ask why i thought I was so successful, given that I had no check ride busts. This accounted for about half the interview time. After that they got into the interview type questions themselves
WWYD:
-777 captain on the way to Narita and a natural disaster strikes the airport?
-You meet the captain at the bar for happy hour, then leave for dinner, you come back after dinner to discover that he is still there, how would you handle that? escalated all the way to pro standards.
-You are in line for de-ice, truck breaks down, will be 30 mins till they get the next truck. FA calls and says a passenger wants to get off, how would you handle that?
-When you realize that something is going wrong, or not as planned, whats the first thing you think of?
Why do you think you would be a good fit for delta?
Tell me about your best customer service story
Have you ever had to return to the gate?
What do you think your coworkers would say about you?
Throughout the whole process it was very warm and cordial, no bad cop, just seemed like a laid back conversation with pilots. At the end of the process they asked if you had any questions and returned your logbooks shook your hand and sent you on your way. GREAT EXPERIENCE!
How long prior to the interview did you prepare for the HR portion of the interview? 2 Months
Which HR Prep service did you use and did it help? Emerald Coast. They do a great job giving you the structure you need to effectively answer the interview questions without turning you into a canned robot. It requires a big time commitment on your part though and practicing your answers and introductions out loud is key! Don’t skimp on this part of the preparation!
Any additional information you would like to add. Try not to stress, go in there and be yourself and have fun with it, If you receive the invite it means you have been hand picked to come interview, they want to hire you! At this point it is your job to lose.
Is there anything you wish you could have done different to prepare you for this process? I believe by the time I stepped foot on property I had done everything I could to prepare myself to be successful. Between RST and ECIC I don’t believe there is anything I would have done differently.
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