I actally asked to see my records in my last interview. I had never seen them before and was wondering what they looked like. No part 61 or 141 records at all. No records of any GA activity whatever. A failed 121 checkride was on the record... The records were exactly what I received from PRIA, which also contains nothing at all about 61 or 141 checkrides.

In all the interveiws that I have done I have been asked about failed checkrides. In all of them I answered honestly and openly (except one). From an HR standpoint they can tell a lot about you from the way you explain your failings. To think that you have never failed a check is just plain foolish... But, watching you confidently explain your mistakes allows them to see so very much about how you deal with problems, challenges, and personal growth. Those things are directly transferable to how you are going to act in the crew environment.

I've been offered every job I applied for but the first one... the one in which I wasn't prepared for the interview and squirmed like a dead fish about my failed checkrides. When I realized that it wasn't really the checkride performance they were asking about, but instead how I dealt with failure and challenges it was never an issue again.

IMO that thing on the front page of APC about failed checkrides is a load of crap... I've failed my fair share. I'm no super-pilot. Wouldn't want to be.