Originally Posted by
papa_petje
Dear fellow aviators,
I have got a question for you. What are the recruiters from KURA looking for in a candidate?? Because I certainly do not know anymore what recruiters are looking for!!! I have prepared myself by asking a NetJets pilot what is NetJets looking for in a pilot. I asked him a bunch of relevant questions to get inside info! How they operate, their business model, schedule .... every conceivable question possible. I read the NetJets website very carefully, made a lot of notes as to know it by heart! During the interview with the KURA guy I managed to answer all his questions. I even practiced the so called competency based questions by using my experience flying in South Sudan (being flexible, pro-active, decisive, autonomous) but yet today I receive a negative result! So it makes me wonder where did it go wrong? I mean I knew from the NetJets pilot that they want their pilots to be! So basically this demonstrates that in the end it does not matter wether you prepare or not! Can someone enlighten me?
I ofcourse don't know your situation, but have you thought about that you might be trying too much to be someone they want in stead of being yourself? If during the interview you only try to answer how you think they want you to answer it might sound disingenuous and they might feel like they didn't get to see the real you hence why they decided not to go further with your application? That's the only thing I can think of why you would fail after such a good preparation.
Do they not provide you with feedback as to why you didn't pass?