Emirates - Wannabes & Recruitment VI

[marcorix]

OD and AD

Hiiiiii my friends....

I passed the OD, the day after I had an AD...
I passed all the steps but i fell in the latest before the FI...
ooohh noooo......
and now???
A long six months period to try again......
anyway, thank you very much Emirates for the dream that seemed not far and I hope to dress the your uniform one day and good luck to all my firends with their final interview...

[fly_ATW]

HELP: Logic Test

Hello everyone. I have had my FI last week and after the interview, I was asked to do the logic test.

1. Why was I asked to take the test?
2. Are the chances of being hired high or low?

and my last question is

3. What is an EK portal? Where do you see this status : "you will be contacted soon"?

Thank you so much and Good luck to all of us!

[zerozol]

Open Day in Ljubljana, Slovenia, 27 March

Hi everyone!
Congrats to the successful ones here!

I attended the open day in Ljubljana, along with 62 other, wich is a quite low number, huh?

I failed at the 1st elimination.

It started at 9 a.m., Sonia from Ireland and Damien from Australia were the 2 recruiters. Sonia lost her baggage so there wasn't video presentation, but they spoke about everything, life in Dubai, the company's vision and ethics etc.

We dropped off our CVs during this speech, with a very small chit-chat like "how are you today". The 1st impression!!! Very important: try to be not too timid, but not too forward as well! Very hard... i think i was too mousy here.
My CV was quite strong, i work in the customer service area (travel agency), speaking 3 foreign languages, have lived in a foreign country for 1 year, etc. I'm 28, by the way.

Then, at around 11.30 a.m., they divided the people into 2 parts: the first one, including me, went for a short break, the other one had to leave and come back at 1 p.m.

After the break the 1st task was: listening and comprehension.
"Tell to the person on your right what would you do with 1 million $!"

That was not difficult, so after getting and giving the information, we just spoke about everything. During this task, everybody had to go one by one to a recruiter (ours was Sonia), touch a sign at 212 cms, and then sit down with the recruiter and answering a question: "why did you came up today?"

An other impression for the recruiter: very important! Here too, try to be very balanced in your style of speaking, and try not to be very general like "my dream is flying".

Then everyone stood up one by one and had to tell to the group what she/he heard from the person in left. You have to look at your mates, the recruiters said! So speak to them, not to the recruiters! Clearly, not too loudly, but not too undertoned.

The 2nd task was: group discussion. " Give a definition to 'success'! "
You have to act in a group, that's clear for everybody here, i suppose. There's no place for dominating or submissive behaviour there!
We started very good, but 1 girl was very upset about this task and said: success is different for each and every person. Okey, we said, but here and now we must to find out something.
She eventually take the words over, and then she stood up as spokeswomen: "we didn't find a group decision, but success is this and that etc.", she said.

Epic fail!!! Never say "there's no decision"!

Before that, i felt that maybe it would be better to have an other spokeswomen/-man, but didn't want to take it over, remember, dominance is not okey! Or yes?... Sometimes yes, can be!
You have to feel the power of the particular situation during your Open Day/Assessment Day! Difficult, but try to find the balance between the 2 sides of dominancy!

That was it, after this all of our small group had the "sorry"-paper when going out from the room...

In other groups, if i remember well, 2-3 was successful out of the 6-8 persons, and had to come back at 2.10 p.m. There were very sympathetic and good looking girls failing in the same time as me, they was in a successful group, they behaved in a very good way, but still, they failed...

Another thing: you should wear business attire!!! Black/dark brown/dark blue suites, costumes! No jeans, no t-shirts...

I wish a very successful ( ) recruitment for all of you, girls and boys!

Cheers!

[Mari]

to simo

Not really. You have to go through the whole assessment (as I understand) which starts on 11th.

[Mari]

to zerozol

Dear Zoli,

I'm so sorry about this experience.

Well, you definately didn't have luck with the group and with this girl.

You are right, you shouldn't be agressive, what they are looking for is ASSERTIVENESS. In this particular case: yes, someone (anyone!) should have taken over the leader's position and make the group work together to achieve the common goal. You need to speak up if the situation is critical.

This group discussion is really similar to that other girl's experience during the EasyJet assessment, remember? All four of them had to leave after the exercise as the group simply was not able to function and the members didn't work together.

I'm really sad for you but I hope you will be more confident and luckier next time.

Thanks for sharing your experience on pprune!

[simogagarine]

to mari

as it was an open day on 27th the recruitment took one day for selecting candidates by the agency which is appointed by emirates, and on 11 it will be an assessment day held by EK RO then on 12 will be the FI. I dont know what should i do regarding this issue as i cant get there on time.

[Mari]

to simo

So, I understood correctly.

You need to go through the Assessment Day first. You cannot jump to the final interview stage just like that and they won't make a mini-assessment only for you on 12th. Obviously.

The AD is on 11th. Therefor you need to be there on 11th.

If you cannot make it this time:
You need to go for an Emirates OD wherever or whenever is appropriate for you. If you apply for another AD, you need to go through the initial screening by the agency AGAIN.

[primv]

Hiii guys!

Ive been so worried today, Ive just found out that the statement you will be contacted by your recruitment cordinator at the earliest does not mean you made it, as one guy received the unsuccesfull e-mail while his profile was with this statement! so now...Im not sure about anything!!

[Jagged_J]

primv

Really?? Did he receive the rejection e-mail immediately after his status was changed?
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[lola81]

hi guys. AD trinidad

i got there early just after 8:00 in my orange suit. haha.

there were about 53 of us for today an another group set for tomorrow. we were in two groups and in each group was asked to speak to the person to our left ( some got those instructions wrong and took the information of the person to their Right). we were asked to find out something about them and if they were invisible for one day what would they do?

while we did that we were also taking part in the height test.it seemed to be higher this year!

then it was time to stand one by one and speak to your group. most did well but some seemingly thought this was an invitation to practice their whispering or find a way to talk about themselves.

i referred to the person to my left as "my new friend". also when i spoke i did so to as many smiling faces as i could ( not to the recruiters) with a big smile.

we then had another group discussion. this one they did not observe they simply came back from deliberating the last test to get the end result. one person from each of the two groups had to sum up the task - we had to plan a day for our recruiters here in Trinidad from morning to night.

unfortunately the two persons whom stood up for their group were sent home ! but they were not alone they left with about a quarter of the room.

i made it through to the next stage! next we had the group scenario test. this was the assessment that i most dreaded and with good reason!!!!

i tried my best to watch everyone that spoke while smiling and occupationally nodding. i put forward two main suggestions to our discussion - if we were the last people on the earth what mammal, bird, plant and an invention would we save. the girl whom was shooting down my answers did it in a not so nice way 'what does that have to do with the survival of the human race' .

i just smiled and when someone made another suggestion i said that's a good idea too. they sent us out of the room while the other smaller groups took their turn. i still had hope at this point because at least i said something and i was kind.

they then called us back in and gave us our letter. well that was it guys i got the congratulations! i couldn't believe it. i looked around and i was just in time to catch the girl that shot down all my ideas walking out. my advise is never openly put down anybodies ideas even if you disagree you can express it in a friendly and better way. and if you get criticized take it with the best possible attitude. don't get too caught up with your idea getting dismissed. that's not important. its the way you work with others.

mari- thanks for the advise, but the orange wasn't that bright or anything and my skin is dark so you are right it did look good with it.

i have my FI on Wednesday. i am so excited. I'll keep you guys updated. good luck to all of you. Day three here i come.

[Mari]

to primy

Very interesting! Actually, that might be a mistake... somewhere...

I read it here (in this topic) that someone who got the rejection letter was contacted 3 weeks later that "congratulations, you got the job". Too many applicants, mistakes might happen. Let us know if he gets the Golden Call after all...

[lola81]

kandy_girl

hi,
for me the recruiters were different this year. also 2005 was a ways away, i'm sure you have grown and developed since then so dont let that keep you back. even if it were the same recruiters the six months has long past so you are welcome by Emirates to reapply. smile be friendly and neat and you should do fine. think positively and be confident. good luck

[fly_ATW]

HELP: Logic Test

Hello everyone. I have had my FI last week and after the interview, I was asked to do the logic test.

1. Why was I asked to take the test?
2. Are the chances of being hired high or low?

and my last question is

3. What is an EK portal? Where do you see this status : "you will be contacted soon"?

Thank you so much and Good luck to all of us!

[Mari]

to kandy - recruitmant process

Kandy,

there are ONLY assessment days in London. (As far as I know.) Are there open days (walk-in event, invitation is NOT requried), as well?

You went through an agency, right?

(This first round is like the cv drop-off on an Open Day. If you went through, you were part of the "screening process". You are registered somewhere which might come out later. If they find it out, you will be rejected. Read back: it happened to a girl who made it to the Final Interview!!! Meaning: they might/might not check it at the final stage of the recruitment process.)

Did you go through the initial selection? Did you go for the assessment with the Emirates recruitment team?

Are you applying through the same agency this time?

If yes, they keep the records for sure. Meaning: you need to wait 6 months between the two selections. (You can apply earlier but 6 months gap needs to be between the two events.)

If you did NOT make it through the cv-selection by the agency the first time, you should apply again. There is no harm.

There are recruiters who request Londons as they want to see their families and friends. There is a chance that you come across the same people.

You went for the AD (I think it was not an OD) on 5th January 2010, right?!

(Kind request: Would you mind using capital letters, too, and break the text you are writing by using punctuatial marks - .,?:! -, please. It's hard to understand what you write. Thanks.)

[Mickeysden]

Height

I'm not tall enough for Emirates!! Only few cm's less!! Do I still have a chance..

[Sophie13]

3weeks ...

after 3weeks of waiting still no call but there has been a SLIGHT change to my emirates account ... my status now says APPROVAL IN PROGRESS ... really hoping that will change to a 'you will be contacted by ...' soon ...


good luck every one!

[fly_ATW]

HELP: please answer

Hello everyone. I have had my FI last week and after the interview, I was asked to do the logic test.

1. Why was I asked to take the test?
2. Are the chances of being hired high or low?

and my last question is

3. What is an EK portal? Where do you see this status : "you will be contacted soon"?

Thank you so much and Good luck to all of us!

[Ekhopeful]

I agree with Mari. There must be a mistake somewhere. I have not heard of that one and I'm sure he'll get a call. It must have been an HR mistake. Its either they made a mistake with updating his status instead of writing not successful or vice versa

[D-Rock]

medical and security approval

I wonder how many days the approval of medical and security documents takes if all of them are OK?

[tweezers]

Can't access Candidate Portal

I had received the golden call on friday, and the email that contains my password and username(for the candidate portal access) arrived on sunday (march, 18th) and since then whenever I try to log on with the username and the password they sent me, it says "invalid username/password" and I called the number that called me for the golden call yesterday, noone picked up so I left a message to the answering machine, and I also sent an email about the case and still no reply... i called that number thousands of times today and still noone picks up...

Is there anyone on the same boat with me? And more importantly can you tell me a way to actually reach an EK HR representative???? Please help, I just can't proceed with my medicals just because of that=(