Aptitude & Interview coaching

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1. What do you like doing outside of flying?
2. Any check and training experience?
3. Why should we hire you over someone else?
4. Do you know anyone from X? Do you want to go to QF?
5. Tell us about your flying career so far.
6. What do you know about COMPANY X?
7. Tell us about a time when you had a conflict, how you dealt with it.
8. What do you think about seniority?
9. What do you think about unions?.
10. Do you think COMPANY X management like unions?
11. Is a FA part of the team?
12. How would you approach a FA who you think has done something wrong?
13. How do you feel about male FAs?
14. How many AC do we have?
15. Where do you see yourself going in your flying career?
16. When have you made a difference in the companies you have worked for?
17. Why not work for QF, JQ, VB, Rex Qantaslink?
18. How about being an FO for a while?
19. How do you feel about living in CITY X?
20. What are your strengths?
21. What are your weaknesses?
22. Describe yourself in one word.
23. Have you had interviews with anyone else?
24. Have you ever had to deal with icing?
25. How would you approach a Cpt who you think has done something wrong?
26. What is our most southerly port?
27. Where did you go to school?
28. What would your best friend say about you?
29. What do you think of our interview process?
30. Would you change anything?
31. What is the role of a FA?
32. What do you think about promptness?
33. Seeing as we will be investing so much money in you why should we hire you?
34. As an FO the pay is not that great ($X training wage, $X when checked to line.) will this worry you?
35. Have you done much instructing or training? Did you like it?
36. What car do you drive?
37. Tell us about your time at COMPANY X?
38. Why do you want to work for us?
39. What if Cathay offered you a job?
40. What don’t you like about your current job?
41. What do you like about your current job?
42. Where do you see yourself at 60?
43. What are your interests out of work?
44. Explain a time that you resolved a conflict you had with a superior?
45. What additional qualifications do you have?
46. Are you interested in managerial roles?
47. Are you interested in a check and training role?
48. Criminal Convictions?
49. Any accidents/incident?

• What about if Virgin offer you a job after you start at COMPANY X? (Try to be honest!)
• Strengths, weaknesses?
• Hobbies?
• What would your best mate say about you?
• What would your wife say about you?
• Where do you see yourself in 3 years?
• What car do you drive, do you service it yourself?
• What would you do if your captain is drunk at the start of duty?

OTHER AIRLIE INTERVIEW QUESTIONS

1. Why did you become a pilot?
2. What would your present company say about you?
3. If you don’t get hired what will you do?
4. Where do you see yourself in 15 years?
5. Who do you know at COMPANY X? Which one do you know best? What would they say about you?
6. Why did you join old COMPANY X?
7. Why do you want to quit old COMPANY X?
8. Who do you know that has been to final interviews? Can you see the difference between those who have been hired and those who were not?
9. Of your immediate superiors, whom do you admire most (someone you would use as a role model)? What do you admire most about them? What sort of reference would he give you?
10. What do you think about being a copilot for 5 years?
11. How did your mother and father influence your life?
12. What would your partner say is your biggest fault?
13. When do you think you can leave your present job?
14. Do you have any questions?
15. What do you think about your present boss? Does he have any faults?
16. How did you prepare for this interview?
17. What don’t you like about your current flying career?
18. Describe your family and childhood.
19. What do your parents expect of you?
20. What does your family think of you coming here?
21. What do you do in your spare time?
22. What do you think makes the difference between and average Captain and a good Captain?
23. Have you ever had a close call in an aeroplane?
24. What kind of person are you?
25. Describe the CRM training that you have had.
26. How would a copilot annoy you?
27. What other companies have you applied to? Why?
28. Outline your present duties.
29. How would you handle a problem with a crew member?
30. What would your crew say about you?
31. Is the financial benefit the most important reason to come to COMPANY X? What is the biggest mistake you have every made?
32. If you aren’t hired, what do you think would be the most likely reason?
33. What has been your most rewarding job
34. What was your most difficult decision as an aircraft captain?
35. Tell us about a time when you had to deal with a frustrating passenger.
36. Tell us about a time when you helped out a passenger.
37. Tell us about a stressful situation and what you did about it.
38. What is your leadership style?
39. Tell us about a time when you used it effectively.
40. Can you give us an example of when it didn’t work.
41. You have obviously worked with people from different backgrounds. How have you handled that?
42. Most companies like to praise its employees for a job well done. Tell us about an example when your current employer has praised you.
44. Tell us about a time when the company should have praised you and they didn’t.
45. How did you feel about that.
46. Tell us about a time when you found that your technical knowledge was inadequate, and what did you do about it?
47. Tell us about how your current job has adversely affected your private life, and what sacrifices you have had to make.
48. Tell me about a time when you…..
Ø Worked effectively under pressure
Ø Handled a difficult situation with a co-worker
Ø Were creative in solving a problem
Ø Missed an obvious solution to a problem –
Ø Persuaded team members to do things your way
Ø Anticipated potential problems and developed preventative
Ø Had to make an important decision with limited facts
Ø Were forced to make an unpopular decision
Ø Had to adapt to a difficult
Ø Were tolerant of an opinion that was different to yours
Ø Were disappointed in your behaviour
Ø Had to deal with an irate customer
Ø Surmounted a major obstacle
Ø Made a bad decision.
Ø Turned down a good job
49. Tell us about …………….
Ø A time when you acted a certain way towards a coworker and regretted it.
50. A time when you’ve made an unpopular decision unrelated to flying
51. A time when you’ve made an unpopular decision with the crew.
52. A mistake you’ve made
53. A policy you changed.
54. Your most challenging flight in the last 6 months
55. A time a flight departed and then did not go as planned.
56. A time when another crew member broke company policy.
57. A time you helped a fellow worker, unrelated to flying, in the past 6 months.
58. A problem you caused in the aircraft.
59. A problem in which you were the first to recognize in the past 6 months.
60. A time when your performance was below standards.
61. A time when your crew’s performance was below standards recently.
62. A check ride where your performance wasn’t up to your own standards.
63. Does your company know you are here?
64. Can we contact them for a reference?
65. Tell us what your biggest argument was with a workmate.
66. Tell us what your biggest argument was with a boss.
67. Have you ever yelled or spoke down to one of your workmates?
68. Tell us a time when you were faced with a situation that required you to break the rules or SOP’s didn’t cover it.
69. Flying at FL250 and is ISA +3 how cold is it?
70. Are winds on ATIS true or magnetic
71. What area does an ATIS cover?
72. Do you think we have met the real you today?
Anything else you’d like to add or say?