Changes in CX's Cadet Screening?

[Ricky Wong]

I have reveived an email today from CX, and they seems to have added an extra part (interview) to the selection.
You will be required to complete the following selection tests :
- English Test (Listening & Grammar)
- Reasoning Test
- Aptitude Test (Eye-hand co-ordination)
- English Oral Presentation (Maximum 5 minutes)
- Interview (30-45 minutes)

Please prepare your oral presentation on "What do you know about the training aspect of the Cadet Pilot Programme at Cathay Pacific?".
Anyone have a clude of what the interview will be about?
technical question? or just HR stuff?

[avistudent]

nothing has changed, its the typical itenery for overseas applicants

[Ricky Wong]

nothing has changed, its the typical itenery for overseas applicants


So the interview included in the screening will replace the 1st interview?

[avistudent]

you are confusing yourselve and others. This IS your 1st interview along with all the testings and the presentation. The presentation will be held when you have your interview with an HR and a CX pilot.

Provided that you have passed all these, they will call you for your next stage, which is a week or 2 later, depending on their schedules. The next stage will have the 2nd interview and the group exeercise and the math test.

Please go ahead and correct if i am wrong.

Thanks

Tom

[ngkaka]

Nothing has changed. This is exactly as avistudent mentioned. I joined the CX CPP last year, and this is exactly what I have done in stage I (even the same presentation topics)

The interview is usually not very technical (as they don't assume you have any flying experiences). But certainly this would be a great chance for you to show your real interests in aviation. (or for them to distinguish who is really interested and determined to take this as career and who is not) They will ask different questions depending on background of different people.

[KKM83]

Hi ngkaka, my boyfriend got the email for initial tests too. But they don't include the 30-40min of interview..........that's very strange........

[avistudent]

Did your boyfriend applied in HK as a local applicant? This itineray only applies to overseas applicants.

[ngkaka]

hi KKM83 and avistudent

For overseas candidates, since their time staying in HK is often restricted, CX will combine the 4 tests and the 1st interview in the 1st stage to be the same day for them.

For local applicants, they will do the 4 tests in one day first. Then, CX will invite them to do the 1st interview in another day (about a week later)

I'm not sure whether 1st interview is a must, i heard from some local people that they even don't have chance for the interview. Maybe during the english test and presentation, CX already judges whether the candidate is suitable for English interview or not; for overseas candidates, chance for 1st interview is guaranteed

[avistudent]

yes, i can second that for the overseas testings and interview because I went through the same thing last year.

[Ricky Wong]

I have heard from an other forum that for the first interview with the flight crews will be an easy one as long as I don't guess for the answers that I don't know.


So if i dont know the answers
should I just tell them that I dont know or I'm not sure
and then try to offer them something that I thought it might be correct?

[C172Driver]

Ricky, just be yourself and be honest. If you don't know the answer, tell them you don't know. They may ask for an educated guess anyway.

[K3nnyboy]

I'm gonna have my Stage 1 interivew with CX in April, my 1st stage only includes a presentation and the interview, the email i got didn't mention anything about doing any english tests, so I suppose being an oversea applicant like myself, the selection process is diff. compare to the locals.