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02-04-2006, 04:08 PM

TankerToad

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FedEx interview test?

Greetings...this is my first post...been reading for a while.

I was just reading through some prior FedEx interview gouge and found a brainbuster of a test...Is this test key to being hired? Apparently it's given at the end of the second day of the interview.

If so, I need to head back to college for a year or two to refresh physics, calculus, and logic.

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Toad

02-04-2006, 04:46 PM

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Everyone is amazed they get hired at all after taking that test. So, the conventional wisdom is that the test is just an objective tool the company can use to justify not hiring you in case you screw up one of the subjective portions of the interview process.

Another explanation I heard is that the company wants pilots who fall within the academic bell curve. Someone who completely tubes the test, or aces it is a person who lies on the fringes of the bell curve and those kind of people are undesireable. In my opinion, probably because those who tube it are stupid and those who ace it are geeks none of is could ever relate to nor would want to fly with on a 12-day trip.

I'm not in personnel or management so I really don't know the answer.

02-04-2006, 05:12 PM

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A lot of it has to do with how well you follow directions. If it says answer only the ones you know - do only that. If it says do you best - Answer all. People have literally answered 4 or 50 questions but they knew the 4 were right. They were hired.

There's a lot to study and if you passed the military entrance test you can do pretty well on the FedEx test.

02-04-2006, 06:12 PM

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Thanks for the info...just trying to prioritize stuff right now...I'm seperating from the AF this summer.

The military officer entrance stuff was bacically a follow the directions kind of process...with a moderate emphasis on prior academic exposure to math and sciences...some reading comp and a "do you like to hurt small animals" psych test...makes you wonder if some people say "yes" to that one.

most of this interview prep stuff is cosmic right now...can be a little intimidating...planning to meet up with the emerald coast interview prep team soon...anybody got any good feedback about them?

Thanks again

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Toad

02-04-2006, 09:57 PM

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Originally Posted by TankerToad

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Toad

Emerald Coast is well worth the money. They will not steer you wrong, no matter what company you want to interview with. They're not magic workers and they won't guarantee you'll get hired, but they'll take what you have and help you put it forward in the best light. I highly recommend them. Aside from them, I also highly recommend you contact everyone you know who flys for Fedex. Three of them, at a minimum.

02-05-2006, 01:38 PM

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Thanks Deuce...I've heard from some buds at FedEx that ECI is good people...We'll see.

Toad

11-09-2006, 07:19 AM

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Exactly what kinds of questions are these? do you need to know all of those good old physics and calculus formulas to answer these questions?

11-09-2006, 08:04 AM

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FDX gives the mind boggling academic tests all morning followed by the psych/personality test around and through the lunch hour. My opinion has always been that the point of the morning tests is to wear the test taker down so that FDX gets more honest and less thought out answers on the psych/personality tests.