youcanever

I am 24 year old. I am working full time as a mechanical engineer and also studying on my masters degree on automotive engineering.

I've applied my national airline to become a pilot. I've had my first test last tuesday. It was a full day test where they test your physics, maths, english knowledge also they test your skills on concentration, memory etc.

If I pass this test, I will be invited for second interview which is I will sit with 3 psychologist and talk about myself. As I hear from others, one of these psychologist asks questions and other two just watches the person and takes notes.

I wonder what kind of personality are they looking for? I am not going to fake anything, and I believe I can't because they are professionals but I am hoping to work on myself till I get the interview date, which I believe it will be in 4-5 weeks.

I appreciate any comment on this question.

rickair7777

Hard to say without having some experience with the airline in question.

Safe to say that all airlines want to weed-out extreme outliers...excessively aggressive or very passive. Not mention anyone with a true psych disorder.

Other than that they may be looking for relatively confident, pro-active folks with a lot of initiative and good teamwork skills. There's some suspicion that some airlines look for folks who will be happy with what they're given, ie won't be aggressive union activists or agitators.

But don't try to game the interview...the questions are designed to detect people who try to do that and you'll probably be rejected for attempted "cheating".

OnCenterline

Honesty is probably the most important trait, followed by friendly. They want to know if spending 4 or more days in a room the size of a broom closet with you is going to be fun or intolerable.