DHL Assessment

[Nice24]

Am about to go on a DHL assessment day, has anybody been on one recently. It sounds quite spicy.

A battery of aptitude tests.
Work Profiling
Group exercises
A ten minute presentation on one of two subjects
Interview's

Certainly can't complain have been waiting for an interview for soooooooooo long.

Any help on what to expect would be extremely useful.

[Callsign Kilo]

Sorry I can't help you with the actual DHL profile, but I can recommend buying a bit of literature prior to your assessment. One book which is quite good (well I found it to be anyway) was "How to win at Aptitude Tests"
I bought it in a Waterstones, so I believe you could probably get it in most good booksellers.

Best of luck with it all

[ICING AOA]

can anybody tell me about their roster, bases, salary, routes, and time to get the command !
cheers!

[neil armstrong]

no fixed roster ,base is EMA but people live all over Europe, Saleries


F/O year one £43,828

Top Scale F/O
£62,007 (Year 20)

Salary Notes
Non type rated experienced pilots start on £37,690 and join the normal payscale after year 1. Non type rated experienced pilots start on (base) £29,562 Year 1 £34,840 Year 2 £40,119 Year 3 Join the normal pay scale in year

routes all over Europe

time to command ,who knows at the moment arround 2 year min. i think

[ICING AOA]

Thank you Neil, it doesnt look too bad at all actually :D ...

[Shanwick Shanwick]

Did the assessment a couple of years ago. Consisted of a sim ride on a BA 757 and a 20 minute chat at EMA a week later.

Nothing spicy back then but things might've changed.

[Daysleeper]

The "Assessment day" sounds like what our "low experience" pilots went through about 4 years ago as opposed to the more normal interview and sim ride that pilots with previous arline time do.
Which doesn't help nice24 best I can do is point this thread out to one of the ex-cadets and hope they reply to you.

oh and neil ment to say it was non-typed, low experience pilots who start on £29K, though that may have changed.

[Nice24]

Thank you all for replying seems like not many people go through the low hour’s assessment day.

Thanks for the comments on pay scale but to be honest I don't mind if I only get paid pennies if it means I am actually flying and logging some hours.

If anyone does happen to have any other information on the actual assessment I would still love to hear from them.

Many Thanks Again

[underread east]

As Daysleeper says it sounds like what I was put through about 4 years ago...
Nothing too onerous in Aptitude test, as I remember them:

Initial Assesment:
English Comprehension
General Knowledge/Mental Maths (mostly aviation based probs)
Psychometrics
Group exercises - problem solving. Find solution to a couple of problems, but they're more interested in your interaction than actually solving the prob.

Recall for:
Interview. Pleasant chat, a few not very technical qus. not 757 specific (then!). Usual thing, know something about DHL, and have a few qus of your own for them.
10 min presentation. Topic given in advance. Allowed to use OHP.

Recall for:
757 Sim. Some sent to BA Cranebank, some to LTN at Flight Safety Boeing.
SID, STAR, ILS. Simple SOPs all hand flown, no flight directors. SOPs, Plates and Pitch/Thrust setting sent in advance.

Telephone call next day, and still there!

Outsourced JOT Course on 757 at Cranebank followed by type rating at BA Flight Training.

Salaries as described. 3 year 'low time' pay scale starting at £29k-ish increasing by about 5k yr on yr to normal f/o scale in yr4.

Roster pretty good.
At present 2 choices. Variable trip lengths/days off, or 9 on 5 off depending on which suits your own lifestyle. Relatively easy to commute from any where in EU. Just about only short haul job you can do this with.
Rostering dept best in business, and have already had Nov roster for several days - something the rest of the business will have to wait until the middle of next month to receive. They tend not to mess with start and finish days, although whats published for each trip may not happen, but that doesnt really matter as once you're away, where you sleep is largely irrelevant. Hotels are mostly very good.

As a low time pilot this is NOT a job in which to build hours (av 300pa) although normally do 3-4 sectors a night so relative experience grows rapidly. Night hours not an issue, as all flying is done in the the dark!

Good luck and hope all this helps.

PS Low timers have included CAP509ers, Mod Coursed, those with 1000hrs+ FI, and some with SSTRs

[bedbad]

I would like to ask from you , about the DHL assessment
you said that was the
Initial Assesment:
English Comprehension
General Knowledge/Mental Maths (mostly aviation based probs)
Psychometrics
Group exercises - problem solving. Find solution to a couple of problems, but they're more interested in your interaction than actually solving the prob.

what is including in the psychometrics test , is it like attitude holding with joystick and this kind of staff or something else