No need to mention us at all. We are all here to help pilots with their career goals. Aaron, if you are ever in Atlanta give me a call and dinner and drinks are on me.

Duece, I am glad that both of our companies were able to help you out. There is no better feeling to get a call from a client you helped be successful.

 

Have posted this before. But will keep posting it to save somebody somewhere. Got my ass handed to me at first major interview. As stressful a week as i can remember. Wasn't sure i really needed any interview prep for a lot of bad reasons. Used a different prep then EC, will leave it at that, but can say if you think it is about just letting them see the real you, think of Crusher Lane's prediction to Rocky, "PAIN!" Let them see the real you after they hire you, this isn't EHarmony.com! SWA and United use rotating pilots on their interview boards, but the HR folks do it a lot. Who do you think drives the interview? Not the pilots. Only Fedex uses the same small pool of pilot interviewers, and they are retired Captains. All companies use a canned list of questions. They are looking for whether you fit in, not whether you stand out.

Did EC seminar with idea that i was still months from another interview. Two weeks after getting back got call for interview with company 2 the following week. Trying to jam interview and sim prep in quickly is a recipe for disaster. Being ahead allowed time to get to town early to work on sim a bit extra, which was needed and available. Night before slept pretty well and despite a huge delay before sim ride kept it calm. Went much better and got an offer.

Before i got a class date, a few months later got another short lead call for interview with company 3. No time to attend another seminar, but redid the audio files and reviewed my notes. Emailed AH for some updated intell and potential problem areas. Updated and adjusted my 3 minute intro. Did sim prep elsewhere out of necessity but now would have done it out in Denver.Winner. It was like i knew what was coming before they asked. Had to fight temptation to go have a few beers night before. Prior Preparation Prevents **** Poor Performance. Working here now. Jason Bourne does the commercials.

BTW company 1 just asked me back. Politely declined. Very confident this would have been fun and easy.

It can be easier for anybody. As Albie says do the prep somewhere. My advice is do it with Albie.

Just Do It.

 

I'm heeding the warnings...signed up with EC and getting my ducks in a row now.

 

 

If you have an app in with a major, and you haven't done interview prep already, you are behind the curve.

Typing this from my phone on the road, it bears repeating Albies "square corners" thread if someone will repost it.

 

I thought it might be a little premature, but signed up with ECIC the other day, then wondered why I hadn't heard anything until seeing this thread. Looks like things are picking up. Glad I did!

 

Did Emerald Coast prep back in May, nearly nine months before military retirement & planned to attend a follow up course at the beginning of October. Problem was I interviewed the day of the refresher prep. Point being, don't assume you have time after you hit submit on your app.

Definitely do professional prep, but make sure you live practice with someone before your interview to refresh what you learned. I worked with a buddy to rehearse, but also contacted a local public employment resource office (Phoenix Workforce Connections) & ran through two hours of sample questions with a stranger.

Good luck to all!

 

6 of 8 in my Delta interview class were hired.

One of the guys who wasn't hired had never heard of Emerald Coast and after a couple minutes of conversation I realized that he had no idea of what the SARR or STAR story format was. He was told that he failed the panel interview.

The other guy also failed the panel interview. When we asked him what he thought was the problem, he replied that he had a failed a few flights and had a rough time in UPT. Also, that really didn't want to talk about it with the interviewers. He mentioned that he was expecting them to ask him questions about himself. Not trying to twist the knife, but that is a terrible perspective to have during an interview. You have to be willing to talk openly about your weaknesses/failures. I was surprised to hear that he HAD done the EC prep because during my EC prep, AH made it very clear that it is ok to have hooked a few flights along the way and all they are looking for is that you recognized your weaknesses, learned from your mistakes and became better because of it.

Do the prep. It helped me tremendously.

 

Hey guys, just throwing this out there, especially for those of you interviewing with SWA. I know Emerald Coast has a great and well deserved reputation as do a lot of the other interview prep companies but I'd like to mention a lesser known individual who's been an outstanding resource to me. Her name is Rebekah Krone. She is based in Dallas and used to be in HR at SWA so she speaks with very recent first hand experience. She's also very knowledgable on the other airlines hiring processes as well. She can be contacted through her website at careertakeoff.com. Best of luck to all of you.

 

I will be using aero crew solutions when my time comes. I have heard of ECC but was unfamiliar with Aero Crew. I talked to aero crew the other day and he was extremely helpful and answered all my questions with great expertise.