Best way to prep for interview?
 

Hi everyone, has anyone gone through the interview process recently? I’ve purchased emerald coast and centerline to prep for my delta interview, but have heard good things about RST. What company y’all use to prep for the interview? I feel honored to have gotten a chance to interview. Working here has always been my dream and delta is where I plan on working for the rest of my flying career. I really don’t want to screw this up. My interview is about two months away, I’ve pretty much read through all the threads on this forum and would like some recent reviews of some that have gone through the interview. I barely meet Their turbine requirements which is adding a bit of pressure/stress and I want to make sure I am as best prepared as I can be when the time arrives. I’d appreciate any sort of feedback, advice, words of wisdom, or anything that may be useful in being successful in the process. Thanks

I’ve used Emerald Coast. Not familiar with centerline. RST more useful for the online assessment than the interview.

I only had less than a month to prepare, so only did one webinar, one rapid fire and a top off. That was enough to get confident.

Most of the work you have to do on your own. Mainly involves dusting off old stories from flying and trying to fit them into the different categories of questions. Look through your logbook to jog your memory. There are interesting flights that I completely forgot about.

Spend some time on your introduction. Make it clear and concise and interesting. Tendency will be to make it to long. You’ll end up cutting a lot of it out. Run it by your spouse a few times and get feedback.

The Delta Air Lines interview was a very enjoyable experience for me. The panel was friendly, interested in my story and non-conformational. It was more a natural conversation with colleagues, than an interview.

My impression was that they want to hire you once you step in the door. It’s yours to lose.

I’ve heard that they don’t like over-prepped candidates who sound like they’re reading from a script. They don’t like overly nervous candidates. Just natural confident but down to earth. Someone you’d want to spend 17 hours on a plane with flying to JNB. [emoji3]

What he said. Same experience I had. Though I had just prepped for Alaska using Rainier Flying a short time prior so I just used those techniques. Smile and make sure every story has a beginning, middle, end, and a lesson. Don't be afraid of a little humor, if appropriate. I had them laughing at one point. They told me when I walked in for the panel that canned answers are a red flag and they don't want canned speeches either for the 'very very short under 2 minute self intro'. They want to know in that speech what makes you unique. They want the natural you to shine through.
Aviationinterviews.com had all the scenarios used, but I only get 3 of them.
My logbooks were printed and tabbed, but no idea if they even looked at them. One thing I've seen from those that bombed: they missed a detail. Attention to every listed detail on the app and interview invite is key. Best of luck!

I’’m 99% sure interview prep as been talked about numerous times in the New Hiring process thread. :https://www.airlinepilotforums.com/d...w-process.html

yes there is! But a lot of it was outdated, just wanted to see what those that went through it recently had to say!

If you've never had a major/legacy airline interview before, consider Emerald Coast. They will teach you how to deliver a proper introduction, help you find flying stories from your logbooks, and help you organize those thoughts into the STAR format (Situation, Task, Action Result), which is required.

I didn't prep for this interview, because I've been interviewing lately, and felt fine (I got a CJO). I've also done some interviewing in the past. I think the interviewers at any airline can tell where you prepped, and how much, and they dislike both unprepared and over prepared candidates. An underprepared candidate will be overly anxious, and tend to ramble, or be unable to answer situational questions. And over prepared candidate will seem insincere and robotic, which leads the interviewers to think they aren't interested or are insincere/hiding something. So you want that "just right" level of prep. The best advice I'd give is work on the basics I mentioned above, but don't overdo it. Definitely don't memorize any answers or scripts. Go in there, be yourself, and show them what kind of person, pilot, decision maker, and leader you are. Don't tell them what you think they want to hear. They definitely want to see the real you. If you get a hard question about your application (missed something?) or something in your past, don't go down a rabbit hole. Just deal with it calmly and factually, and move on. This goes for any airline, not just Delta.

There are others too, scour these threads for data points. Some info might be dated as far as the precise details after they tweaked the process post-Covid. But a lot of it still applies.

One thing I’ll emphasize though, not everyone gets the “friendly” interview. Some folks get what I believe to be an intentional “bad cop” or two just to see how you’ll react. If that happens to you, stay calm and don’t get rattled. Good luck.

That is a fact: I definitely got the bad cop experience, but being patient, not getting flustered, and above all else not getting defensive seems to be the key.

I’m pretty sure they find a problem with every single person’s employment history or flight records.

Be prepped for an aggressive interview and then be pleasantly surprised when it isn’t.

How is the Day 1 stuff at home being done now and what does it entail? I have a buddy that just got the email So trying to help him out if I can.

It's all one day. JKT has been eliminated. Now it's an assessment at home and if you pass it's a 1 day interview with personality test, HR panel and interview with a psychologist.