scotty.d
12th Oct 1999, 16:39
As we have all heard the final board for BA has changed recently. I was down at it 2 weeks ago and hears what I had to do:
There are 3 parts: Written excercise, interview, group excercise.
You arrive in the morning with cabin crew and flight crew all mixed
together and you'll get maybe half an hour sitting about chatting before everything starts.
Then your group of six will get split into three's and one set will
start on the written excercise and one on the interviews. Then you'll swap.
Then you'll break for lunch at which point you will get a chance
to chat to 2 of the senior pilots and ask them questions about the job. (Who actually later help judge in the group excercise.)
Then the 2 groups rejoin and it is straight into the group excercise and you'll more than
likely find you'll be finished by 3:30 pm at the latest.
Ok, lets talk about the individual tasks; first the written excercise.
Basically you are given (can't remember exact time) about 50 minutes
to prepare a presentation (talk) for secondary school kids on the life
of a pilot with British Airways.The thing to concentrate on here
is not too much on the content but more one the layout and your method
in organising on paper; they are looking at your management and
organistational qualities more than anything else here as far as
I can see. So be very methodical and very organised in your scribbles.
Ok, onto the interview; it focuses mainly on you and your experiences more than BA.
On the BA side of things they are likely to ask you about how you
feel the company is doing and maybe current share price. In that
you would want to include the current falling share prices but comment
on how this is probably due to the recent restructuring of the airline
and that in the long term you hope to see an overall rise in share prices.
On the personal side you never know what they will hit you with.
They will turn your application form inside out and probe deep into
your feelings and how you have dealt with certain situations. Be
preapared with lots of answers and reasons about all the questions
on your application form and try to have a couple of additional
examples of the stuff on your application form.
Ok; now the group excercise. Basically you are going to be given
a map and each given different bits of information ; by adding all
of this information together you will be able to build onto the
map to give you all the info needed to be able to decide on a route for your stricken aircraft to make it from position A to the airport round all the obstacles.
Nominate a time keeper straight away as this is the mistake we made.
Then Get right in there; don't be to bossy and take it very seriously;
try and get involved but really get on with everyone well. You basically
have 30 minutes which will whizz by and from what I have heard this is what most poeple fail on.
Just talk lots but only constructively and go for it.
I hope this helps you all out.
Cheers for now
Scotty D
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Money don't mean a thing if your not happy; so fly cause you want; not cause you need.
There are 3 parts: Written excercise, interview, group excercise.
You arrive in the morning with cabin crew and flight crew all mixed
together and you'll get maybe half an hour sitting about chatting before everything starts.
Then your group of six will get split into three's and one set will
start on the written excercise and one on the interviews. Then you'll swap.
Then you'll break for lunch at which point you will get a chance
to chat to 2 of the senior pilots and ask them questions about the job. (Who actually later help judge in the group excercise.)
Then the 2 groups rejoin and it is straight into the group excercise and you'll more than
likely find you'll be finished by 3:30 pm at the latest.
Ok, lets talk about the individual tasks; first the written excercise.
Basically you are given (can't remember exact time) about 50 minutes
to prepare a presentation (talk) for secondary school kids on the life
of a pilot with British Airways.The thing to concentrate on here
is not too much on the content but more one the layout and your method
in organising on paper; they are looking at your management and
organistational qualities more than anything else here as far as
I can see. So be very methodical and very organised in your scribbles.
Ok, onto the interview; it focuses mainly on you and your experiences more than BA.
On the BA side of things they are likely to ask you about how you
feel the company is doing and maybe current share price. In that
you would want to include the current falling share prices but comment
on how this is probably due to the recent restructuring of the airline
and that in the long term you hope to see an overall rise in share prices.
On the personal side you never know what they will hit you with.
They will turn your application form inside out and probe deep into
your feelings and how you have dealt with certain situations. Be
preapared with lots of answers and reasons about all the questions
on your application form and try to have a couple of additional
examples of the stuff on your application form.
Ok; now the group excercise. Basically you are going to be given
a map and each given different bits of information ; by adding all
of this information together you will be able to build onto the
map to give you all the info needed to be able to decide on a route for your stricken aircraft to make it from position A to the airport round all the obstacles.
Nominate a time keeper straight away as this is the mistake we made.
Then Get right in there; don't be to bossy and take it very seriously;
try and get involved but really get on with everyone well. You basically
have 30 minutes which will whizz by and from what I have heard this is what most poeple fail on.
Just talk lots but only constructively and go for it.
I hope this helps you all out.
Cheers for now
Scotty D
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Money don't mean a thing if your not happy; so fly cause you want; not cause you need.