BA CityFlyer Assessment (Merged)
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BA CityFlyer Assessment (Merged)
Hi,
Invited for the assessment at BA CityFlyer in a few days, I would appreciate any pointers and advices.
I know more or less the program : Group exercise, verbal and numerical reasoning tests, HR interview.
But nothing in detail so if someone just went through it, your help would be greatly valuable !
Kind regards.
Sky&Ocean
Invited for the assessment at BA CityFlyer in a few days, I would appreciate any pointers and advices.
I know more or less the program : Group exercise, verbal and numerical reasoning tests, HR interview.
But nothing in detail so if someone just went through it, your help would be greatly valuable !
Kind regards.
Sky&Ocean
Group exercise was easy. Together you had to organise a journey from A to B using a basic map, with x amount of days to do the trip. A few members of the group were injured, and various obstacles on the way. You had to pick what you thought was the best route, along with 10 or so survival items in a box of around 40. No right answers, they just want to see how you work in a team.
Math test simply pulling numbers out of tables. Barely any math, just data manipulation if I remember.
Verbal - I'm english and always find these hard. Standard verbal test, short paragraph and 3 or 4 various statements, where you have to decide if the statement is true/false or unable to tell PURELY from the paragraph and not based on what you may or may not know.
I think there is negative marking on both math and verbal tests to stop people guessing. Not that it helped me- found myself guessing a few in the verbal.
HR interview to me seemed extremely unprofessional. Two lads interviewed me, one spotty kid out of school working in ops doing his ATPL theory in his spare time asking me on CRM (joke!), and another lad of the same experience as myself asking similar style questions. Neither had any decent length of experience (no chief pilot, or even a Captain), I got the impression who ever was on standby that day was the pilot asked to do interviews that day, and the least busy person in the office asked to be the HR rep. If you hear people joking about BA main reading their HR questions from a laminated card, then BACF REALLY do this. The guys stumbled over it a few times, and had to start over and re read it. Actually the only part of the day that BACF didn't give me a great impression of their company.
They gave me feedback, which I'll pass on to you. The math and verbal while important are not the be all and end all to getting a call. I was told I did fine in the group exercise, my math was strong and verbal was acceptable. What let me down they said was I could/should have used a few more examples in the interview. So my advice, concentrate on group/math and verbal tests, but between now and the interview really study hard on the interview style questions. You'll be asked nothing more then give examples of this and that....and I think it's also good to come up with some non aviation related answers. If you go onto the BA main thread here on prune, there's lots of questions there which are pretty much the exact same as BACF. Come up with a good aviation and non aviation related one for each of these and keep going over and over your answers.
Finally, try not to get too distracted by what is an incredibly good looking lady that invigilates the math and verbal tests. It's hard to concentrate with someone so attractive sitting there, but unfortunately she sat there texting and clicking on her phone the whole time when I was doing mine, so was doubly distracted.
Good luck, I'm sure it's great to work for them.
VJW
Math test simply pulling numbers out of tables. Barely any math, just data manipulation if I remember.
Verbal - I'm english and always find these hard. Standard verbal test, short paragraph and 3 or 4 various statements, where you have to decide if the statement is true/false or unable to tell PURELY from the paragraph and not based on what you may or may not know.
I think there is negative marking on both math and verbal tests to stop people guessing. Not that it helped me- found myself guessing a few in the verbal.
HR interview to me seemed extremely unprofessional. Two lads interviewed me, one spotty kid out of school working in ops doing his ATPL theory in his spare time asking me on CRM (joke!), and another lad of the same experience as myself asking similar style questions. Neither had any decent length of experience (no chief pilot, or even a Captain), I got the impression who ever was on standby that day was the pilot asked to do interviews that day, and the least busy person in the office asked to be the HR rep. If you hear people joking about BA main reading their HR questions from a laminated card, then BACF REALLY do this. The guys stumbled over it a few times, and had to start over and re read it. Actually the only part of the day that BACF didn't give me a great impression of their company.
They gave me feedback, which I'll pass on to you. The math and verbal while important are not the be all and end all to getting a call. I was told I did fine in the group exercise, my math was strong and verbal was acceptable. What let me down they said was I could/should have used a few more examples in the interview. So my advice, concentrate on group/math and verbal tests, but between now and the interview really study hard on the interview style questions. You'll be asked nothing more then give examples of this and that....and I think it's also good to come up with some non aviation related answers. If you go onto the BA main thread here on prune, there's lots of questions there which are pretty much the exact same as BACF. Come up with a good aviation and non aviation related one for each of these and keep going over and over your answers.
Finally, try not to get too distracted by what is an incredibly good looking lady that invigilates the math and verbal tests. It's hard to concentrate with someone so attractive sitting there, but unfortunately she sat there texting and clicking on her phone the whole time when I was doing mine, so was doubly distracted.
Good luck, I'm sure it's great to work for them.
VJW
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Hey VJW,
Thanks for your input.
The assessment day was exactly as you described it and went fine ! I personally found the numerical reasoning test pretty hard considering the timeframe but not the verbal reasoning test ! And I am French !! haha
The interview went also good and I have passed this assessment and am invited to the Sim assessment later in Cranebank.
So if you do have some infos about that, that would also be great !
Thanks again.
Thanks for your input.
The assessment day was exactly as you described it and went fine ! I personally found the numerical reasoning test pretty hard considering the timeframe but not the verbal reasoning test ! And I am French !! haha
The interview went also good and I have passed this assessment and am invited to the Sim assessment later in Cranebank.
So if you do have some infos about that, that would also be great !
Thanks again.
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BA CityFlyer Sim Assessment at Cranebank
Hi,
After passing my assessment at BA CityFlyer/Manchester, I am invited for the Sim Assessment at Cranebank.
Would appreciate any informations concerning this in order to prepare as much as possible.
Thanks a million.
Sky&Ocean
After passing my assessment at BA CityFlyer/Manchester, I am invited for the Sim Assessment at Cranebank.
Would appreciate any informations concerning this in order to prepare as much as possible.
Thanks a million.
Sky&Ocean
Last edited by sky&ocean; 10th Jun 2011 at 11:49.
