New ExpressJet Interview Process
07-12-2014 | 07:37 AM
#21
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Why are some of you lambasting this guy for asking a simple question about an interview at OUR company? It's as if this guy is interviewing at G7 or PSA, or better yet getting on here and shaming us for voting a contract down...I don't get it sometimes.
Is XJT's future murky and uncertain?...yes...but don't **** in the guy's Cherrios for simply wondering what it takes to get hired here.
To the OP: There are much worse places to work, and while movement is slow at the moment and things are not crystal clear as we'd like them to be, it still isn't an awful company or contract to work under and we have a lot of potential to only go up...I hope.
Is XJT's future murky and uncertain?...yes...but don't **** in the guy's Cherrios for simply wondering what it takes to get hired here.
To the OP: There are much worse places to work, and while movement is slow at the moment and things are not crystal clear as we'd like them to be, it still isn't an awful company or contract to work under and we have a lot of potential to only go up...I hope.
07-12-2014 | 12:00 PM
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From: EMB 145 CPT
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Originally Posted by SMACFUM
Guys, please, stop. Really, why does every thread end up going down this road?
I have my reasons for going to interview with XJET, none of them I fell the need to justify with anybody. But please be assured, I have done my research, and am well aware of the current situation there.
That being said, I have heard they have very recently changed their interview profile and I would really like some up-to-date info so I can go in as prepared as possible, and not look like an idiot for not being prepared.
Thanks.
What "research" have you done? There probably isn't much information out there that points to XJT as a desirable destination right now.
If XJT has a base where you live just say that.
Otherwise, why not listen to people who work there when they say that XJT is probably not in your best interest?
No one is looking for you to "justify" why you are choosing XJT. Maybe they are trying to help you.
Originally Posted by SMACFUM
Guys, please, stop. Really, why does every thread end up going down this road?
I have my reasons for going to interview with XJET, none of them I fell the need to justify with anybody. But please be assured, I have done my research, and am well aware of the current situation there.
That being said, I have heard they have very recently changed their interview profile and I would really like some up-to-date info so I can go in as prepared as possible, and not look like an idiot for not being prepared.
Thanks.
What "research" have you done? There probably isn't much information out there that points to XJT as a desirable destination right now.
If XJT has a base where you live just say that.
Otherwise, why not listen to people who work there when they say that XJT is probably not in your best interest?
No one is looking for you to "justify" why you are choosing XJT. Maybe they are trying to help you.
All the other crap is so insignificant in comparison, it's laughable that we even pay any attention to it rather than 110% focus on the real problem.
07-12-2014 | 12:18 PM
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The worst thing about XJT is management and their relentlessness for pitting their own employees against each other rather than just embracing a working together, team concept of everyone pushing in the same direction in one common goal and thus creating a culture of mutual care.
07-12-2014 | 01:01 PM
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Originally Posted by Nevets
The worst thing about XJT is management and their relentlessness for pitting their own employees against each other rather than just embracing a working together, team concept of everyone pushing in the same direction in one common goal and thus creating a culture of mutual care.
You mean the way we have been working together on the PBS issue for the past 4 years? I hate to break it to you Nevets, but much of the division isn't coming from management, rather it is coming from two very different cultures and two very different pilot groups.
Originally Posted by Nevets
The worst thing about XJT is management and their relentlessness for pitting their own employees against each other rather than just embracing a working together, team concept of everyone pushing in the same direction in one common goal and thus creating a culture of mutual care.
You mean the way we have been working together on the PBS issue for the past 4 years? I hate to break it to you Nevets, but much of the division isn't coming from management, rather it is coming from two very different cultures and two very different pilot groups.
07-13-2014 | 06:39 PM
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No more hiring on the ERJ side. For the foreseeable future. They will probably furlough and downgrade this Fall.
The CRJ side is hiring and building a pool for next spring. CRJ bases are ATL (200, 700/900), DTW (700), DFW (200), IAD (200). It's a crap shoot what base you may get out of newhire training, and the ASA side doesn't run base bids very often. We have a decent contract relative to most other regionals, but these days, that isn't worth much if they're parking all of our airplanes to punish us for it. If we don't get this failed merger completed in the next year or so, this company will not exist by 2021. Half our current airplanes are gone by 2019 (5 years from now). Upgrade is 8 years and rising.
The CRJ side is hiring and building a pool for next spring. CRJ bases are ATL (200, 700/900), DTW (700), DFW (200), IAD (200). It's a crap shoot what base you may get out of newhire training, and the ASA side doesn't run base bids very often. We have a decent contract relative to most other regionals, but these days, that isn't worth much if they're parking all of our airplanes to punish us for it. If we don't get this failed merger completed in the next year or so, this company will not exist by 2021. Half our current airplanes are gone by 2019 (5 years from now). Upgrade is 8 years and rising.
07-14-2014 | 04:53 PM
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From: A319/320/321 FO
Interview XJT CRJ
I was in the May 2014 class. My interview consisted of the Delta 3 part test. Cognitive, Personality and ATP. Then if you passed the test you continued on to 1 on 1 interviews. Very professional. Depending on your experience and how you did on tests depends on how much they ask you. I did not take a simulator evaluation however another person with low time did have to.
Pilot recruitment came into our class and updated us that hiring on the ERJ side was on hold and the CRJ is projected for 2 classes per month of Approximately 10 people per class through August.
The class before me and out class all got CRJ200 Atlanta based.
Training took 68 days from start of ground school through completion of IOE.
Hope this helps. Good luck in you career wherever you land.
Pilot recruitment came into our class and updated us that hiring on the ERJ side was on hold and the CRJ is projected for 2 classes per month of Approximately 10 people per class through August.
The class before me and out class all got CRJ200 Atlanta based.
Training took 68 days from start of ground school through completion of IOE.
Hope this helps. Good luck in you career wherever you land.
07-14-2014 | 05:12 PM
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I was in the May 2014 class. My interview consisted of the Delta 3 part test. Cognitive, Personality and ATP. Then if you passed the test you continued on to 1 on 1 interviews. Very professional. Depending on your experience and how you did on tests depends on how much they ask you. I did not take a simulator evaluation however another person with low time did have to.
Pilot recruitment came into our class and updated us that hiring on the ERJ side was on hold and the CRJ is projected for 2 classes per month of Approximately 10 people per class through August.
The class before me and out class all got CRJ200 Atlanta based.
Training took 68 days from start of ground school through completion of IOE.
Hope this helps. Good luck in you career wherever you land.
Pilot recruitment came into our class and updated us that hiring on the ERJ side was on hold and the CRJ is projected for 2 classes per month of Approximately 10 people per class through August.
The class before me and out class all got CRJ200 Atlanta based.
Training took 68 days from start of ground school through completion of IOE.
Hope this helps. Good luck in you career wherever you land.
Sounds like you barely missed the bidding window for August (July 10-14)? Did scheduling build you a line for July...or were you given reserve? I'm just asking because there seems to be some inconsistencies with how scheduling handles pilots who are released from IOE after the 10th of the month.
Don't let RSV life get you down, I know it sucks, and it will wear on you if you let it...but just know, when your SkedPlus is green, they can do whatever they want with you, when it is orange they cannot touch you whatsoever. Welcome aboard!
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