Originally Posted by
atcisthedream
I have my stage 3 assessment centre tomorrow! I am so nervous and have been prepping for months.
Has anybody who has successfully completed this stage have any advice? How the test/ interview went, also how does the group discussion work; what did you discuss?
Hoping someone is on here before tomorrow, wish me luck!!!
I haven't gone through it yet but this reddit thread has a super helpful answer. I'll post the whole comment here since I can't share the linkSo the day is pretty chill in my opinion. Lots of breaks and a long lunch break, and everything is explained well before starting. All the candidates are split into 2 groups so you'll either do interviews & group challenge in the morning, and tests in the afternoon, or the other way round.
Knowledge test - pretty chilled, maybe 15 questions. I know I got one wrong but pretty content with all the others, well worth revising though. Multiple choice with 4 possible answers. About half were pretty obvious like "What route would an E145 do: London to Amsterdam, London to South Africa, London to Buenos Aires?" A couple were a bit trickier, but still nothing a few hours with the revision guide won't fix, such as trans-atlantic report timings (10 minutes).
Aptitude tests - 4 tests from Stage-1 including remembering the dot sequence while doing maths, the aircraft direction vs. the direction beacon, assessing which words are most similar, and I can't remember the last one TBH. Like Stage-1 it's over pretty quick, but no harder than when you did them before.
Group exercise - we had to assess some investment opportunities (30 mins personal time first) then tell the interviewer which idea we were going for, then 20 mins chat with the group about which option to choose. The interviewer then changes the dynamic and you have more discussion time and have to choose again. Our group was all pretty chill and we got in fine.
Personal interview - started with discussing results from stage 1 tests then stage 2 tests, asking what you thought the stage 2 tests said about your personality (don't lie). Then about 60 mins of interview questions that I didn't enjoy. The questions are nothing about your interests or reasons for joining, literally just trying to identify experiences that demonstrate certain qualities such as taking criticism well, dealing with setbacks, something you've failed at and how you dealt with it. They will keep barraging you with questions until they get the information they want, and I assume they have strict parameters they have to meet, but the main thing they're getting at is "during training there might be bits you will struggle with; how will you get over it and continue?"
Make sure you sign on a few mins early and do a sound check; one guy couldn't get his mic to work so he got kicked off.
Hope that helps and best of luck!