American Eagle interview tips
06-25-2013, 09:37 AM
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American Eagle interview tips
I have an interview scheduled for a few weeks from now and I am looking for advice on how to best prepare. Does anyone have any advice? I am a soon to be retired military pilot with 5300+ TT and 3500+ PIC. Also, what is the best way to answer the "why American eagle" question? Thank you!
06-25-2013, 10:03 AM
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Originally Posted by rmr1992
I have an interview scheduled for a few weeks from now and I am looking for advice on how to best prepare. Does anyone have any advice? I am a soon to be retired military pilot with 5300+ TT and 3500+ PIC. Also, what is the best way to answer the "why American eagle" question? Thank you!
06-25-2013, 10:32 AM
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Originally Posted by rmr1992
I have an interview scheduled for a few weeks from now and I am looking for advice on how to best prepare. Does anyone have any advice? I am a soon to be retired military pilot with 5300+ TT and 3500+ PIC. Also, what is the best way to answer the "why American eagle" question? Thank you!
Also, there are loads of sharks online that will get your driving record for a small fortune. Ignore those guys and go directly to the state government site. Should only be around $12, or less depending on the state.
As far as the interview goes, I can't help you there because I didn't go, but I have heard stories of people being asked to leave because their paperwork wasn't in order.
Good luck.
06-25-2013, 11:14 AM
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First of all, Thanks for your service (former USMC myself), Second, Congrats on the interview invite.
When I interviewed 3 1/2 years ago, it was 70% paperwork accuracy, and 30% actual interview. And from what I understand, it still is. Make sure EVERYTHING in your logbooks matches 100% to what is on your airlineapps as of the date of submittal. Make sure all previous employer contacts are up to date and that they can actually get ahold of them. If offered the job, you will have to contact all of them, and have them fax back replies to the AE hiring / HR department. The sooner the replies come back, the better, so contact them ahead of time to give them a heads up. I'm not sure how this will work for military though, maybe contact squadron personnel? While not a complete game changer, Disclose ALL and ANY prior violations and / or failed checkrides, training events, DUI's, arrests, ect. They will find out (through PRIA), and will ask you to leave if it's not disclosed. They will email you a mile of paperwork to print and fill out and bring with you to the interview. Make sure it's all complete and accurate. Medical up to date, Current (IFR and otherwise).
As for hiring, it's a 3 part process. Interview, Medical, and Review board. Then offered a class date. The interview is a 3 part process. Sim, Technical, and HR, not in any particular order, but everyone will do them at different times, and in different order. The sim is easy, it's a FTD set up like a Barron, with Garmin G1000. Takeoff briefing, Takeoff, fly a departure (usually and assigned heading and altitude), level off, turn direct to a VOR, Hold instructions at VOR (give the non-flying pilot, who will be the sim evaluator, the aircraft while you brief the hold), enter the hold, and then given vectors to intercept an ILS approach course. Give controls to the non-flying pilot again to brief the approach. One ILS using FD to a missed, then a second ILS, raw data to a landing. That's all my sim was. They will give you all of the DP's and approach charts to review while you sit in the waiting room, waiting your turn for the sim. The HR portion was very straight forward (TMAAT questions). Be honest, and ask them questions too. It'll show your interest in the company. The tech portion was not hard either, it is done in a scenario based fashion. They will start with preflight stuff, airport diagram, takeoff mins, finger taxi to runway using airport diagram, takeoff brief, finger fly the DP, some questions about enroute charts, finger fly the STAR, finger fly the approach. Then a canned scenario question about would you, or would you not go if.... ie, "Last flight of the sequence, everyone in the crew is ready to go home, pax are loaded, and the FA states that an overhead bin will not close, what do you do?" or "Captain flies an unstabilized approach, you tell him to go around, twice, but he does not respond. What do you do?"
There are plenty of gouges out there with the HR and tech questions, as well as sim profiles. The main thing is that they want honest, trainable pilots that they themselves will enjoy working with for weeks on end. They don't expect John Glenn's, or anyone that can do everything by themselves, but confident pilots that work well as a crew. They are also looking for people that are not a training risk.
If you flew single seat in the military, try to get some time in a multi-crew environment, or take a CRM class before going.
The people in the hiring dept. are GREAT, and was one of the better interview experiences that I have went through. It was very professional. They genuinely want everyone to succeed. Some will be asked to leave, periodically throughout the process, either for lack of accuracy or incomplete paperwork, or failed performance on one of the interview events.
I have been here for almost 3 years, and enjoy the day to day job, as well as the crews I fly with. Although the usual airline politics has made it's round to Eagle, I think this place will continue to be a good place to work. PM me if you have any questions.
When I interviewed 3 1/2 years ago, it was 70% paperwork accuracy, and 30% actual interview. And from what I understand, it still is. Make sure EVERYTHING in your logbooks matches 100% to what is on your airlineapps as of the date of submittal. Make sure all previous employer contacts are up to date and that they can actually get ahold of them. If offered the job, you will have to contact all of them, and have them fax back replies to the AE hiring / HR department. The sooner the replies come back, the better, so contact them ahead of time to give them a heads up. I'm not sure how this will work for military though, maybe contact squadron personnel? While not a complete game changer, Disclose ALL and ANY prior violations and / or failed checkrides, training events, DUI's, arrests, ect. They will find out (through PRIA), and will ask you to leave if it's not disclosed. They will email you a mile of paperwork to print and fill out and bring with you to the interview. Make sure it's all complete and accurate. Medical up to date, Current (IFR and otherwise).
As for hiring, it's a 3 part process. Interview, Medical, and Review board. Then offered a class date. The interview is a 3 part process. Sim, Technical, and HR, not in any particular order, but everyone will do them at different times, and in different order. The sim is easy, it's a FTD set up like a Barron, with Garmin G1000. Takeoff briefing, Takeoff, fly a departure (usually and assigned heading and altitude), level off, turn direct to a VOR, Hold instructions at VOR (give the non-flying pilot, who will be the sim evaluator, the aircraft while you brief the hold), enter the hold, and then given vectors to intercept an ILS approach course. Give controls to the non-flying pilot again to brief the approach. One ILS using FD to a missed, then a second ILS, raw data to a landing. That's all my sim was. They will give you all of the DP's and approach charts to review while you sit in the waiting room, waiting your turn for the sim. The HR portion was very straight forward (TMAAT questions). Be honest, and ask them questions too. It'll show your interest in the company. The tech portion was not hard either, it is done in a scenario based fashion. They will start with preflight stuff, airport diagram, takeoff mins, finger taxi to runway using airport diagram, takeoff brief, finger fly the DP, some questions about enroute charts, finger fly the STAR, finger fly the approach. Then a canned scenario question about would you, or would you not go if.... ie, "Last flight of the sequence, everyone in the crew is ready to go home, pax are loaded, and the FA states that an overhead bin will not close, what do you do?" or "Captain flies an unstabilized approach, you tell him to go around, twice, but he does not respond. What do you do?"
There are plenty of gouges out there with the HR and tech questions, as well as sim profiles. The main thing is that they want honest, trainable pilots that they themselves will enjoy working with for weeks on end. They don't expect John Glenn's, or anyone that can do everything by themselves, but confident pilots that work well as a crew. They are also looking for people that are not a training risk.
If you flew single seat in the military, try to get some time in a multi-crew environment, or take a CRM class before going.
The people in the hiring dept. are GREAT, and was one of the better interview experiences that I have went through. It was very professional. They genuinely want everyone to succeed. Some will be asked to leave, periodically throughout the process, either for lack of accuracy or incomplete paperwork, or failed performance on one of the interview events.
I have been here for almost 3 years, and enjoy the day to day job, as well as the crews I fly with. Although the usual airline politics has made it's round to Eagle, I think this place will continue to be a good place to work. PM me if you have any questions.
06-25-2013, 12:04 PM
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Originally Posted by griff312
First of all, Thanks for your service (former USMC myself), Second, Congrats on the interview invite.
When I interviewed 3 1/2 years ago, it was 70% paperwork accuracy, and 30% actual interview. And from what I understand, it still is. Make sure EVERYTHING in your logbooks matches 100% to what is on your airlineapps as of the date of submittal. Make sure all previous employer contacts are up to date and that they can actually get ahold of them. If offered the job, you will have to contact all of them, and have them fax back replies to the AE hiring / HR department. The sooner the replies come back, the better, so contact them ahead of time to give them a heads up. I'm not sure how this will work for military though, maybe contact squadron personnel? While not a complete game changer, Disclose ALL and ANY prior violations and / or failed checkrides, training events, DUI's, arrests, ect. They will find out (through PRIA), and will ask you to leave if it's not disclosed. They will email you a mile of paperwork to print and fill out and bring with you to the interview. Make sure it's all complete and accurate. Medical up to date, Current (IFR and otherwise).
As for hiring, it's a 3 part process. Interview, Medical, and Review board. Then offered a class date. The interview is a 3 part process. Sim, Technical, and HR, not in any particular order, but everyone will do them at different times, and in different order. The sim is easy, it's a FTD set up like a Barron, with Garmin G1000. Takeoff briefing, Takeoff, fly a departure (usually and assigned heading and altitude), level off, turn direct to a VOR, Hold instructions at VOR (give the non-flying pilot, who will be the sim evaluator, the aircraft while you brief the hold), enter the hold, and then given vectors to intercept an ILS approach course. Give controls to the non-flying pilot again to brief the approach. One ILS using FD to a missed, then a second ILS, raw data to a landing. That's all my sim was. They will give you all of the DP's and approach charts to review while you sit in the waiting room, waiting your turn for the sim. The HR portion was very straight forward (TMAAT questions). Be honest, and ask them questions too. It'll show your interest in the company. The tech portion was not hard either, it is done in a scenario based fashion. They will start with preflight stuff, airport diagram, takeoff mins, finger taxi to runway using airport diagram, takeoff brief, finger fly the DP, some questions about enroute charts, finger fly the STAR, finger fly the approach. Then a canned scenario question about would you, or would you not go if.... ie, "Last flight of the sequence, everyone in the crew is ready to go home, pax are loaded, and the FA states that an overhead bin will not close, what do you do?" or "Captain flies an unstabilized approach, you tell him to go around, twice, but he does not respond. What do you do?"
There are plenty of gouges out there with the HR and tech questions, as well as sim profiles. The main thing is that they want honest, trainable pilots that they themselves will enjoy working with for weeks on end. They don't expect John Glenn's, or anyone that can do everything by themselves, but confident pilots that work well as a crew. They are also looking for people that are not a training risk.
If you flew single seat in the military, try to get some time in a multi-crew environment, or take a CRM class before going.
The people in the hiring dept. are GREAT, and was one of the better interview experiences that I have went through. It was very professional. They genuinely want everyone to succeed. Some will be asked to leave, periodically throughout the process, either for lack of accuracy or incomplete paperwork, or failed performance on one of the interview events.
I have been here for almost 3 years, and enjoy the day to day job, as well as the crews I fly with. Although the usual airline politics has made it's round to Eagle, I think this place will continue to be a good place to work. PM me if you have any questions.
When I interviewed 3 1/2 years ago, it was 70% paperwork accuracy, and 30% actual interview. And from what I understand, it still is. Make sure EVERYTHING in your logbooks matches 100% to what is on your airlineapps as of the date of submittal. Make sure all previous employer contacts are up to date and that they can actually get ahold of them. If offered the job, you will have to contact all of them, and have them fax back replies to the AE hiring / HR department. The sooner the replies come back, the better, so contact them ahead of time to give them a heads up. I'm not sure how this will work for military though, maybe contact squadron personnel? While not a complete game changer, Disclose ALL and ANY prior violations and / or failed checkrides, training events, DUI's, arrests, ect. They will find out (through PRIA), and will ask you to leave if it's not disclosed. They will email you a mile of paperwork to print and fill out and bring with you to the interview. Make sure it's all complete and accurate. Medical up to date, Current (IFR and otherwise).
As for hiring, it's a 3 part process. Interview, Medical, and Review board. Then offered a class date. The interview is a 3 part process. Sim, Technical, and HR, not in any particular order, but everyone will do them at different times, and in different order. The sim is easy, it's a FTD set up like a Barron, with Garmin G1000. Takeoff briefing, Takeoff, fly a departure (usually and assigned heading and altitude), level off, turn direct to a VOR, Hold instructions at VOR (give the non-flying pilot, who will be the sim evaluator, the aircraft while you brief the hold), enter the hold, and then given vectors to intercept an ILS approach course. Give controls to the non-flying pilot again to brief the approach. One ILS using FD to a missed, then a second ILS, raw data to a landing. That's all my sim was. They will give you all of the DP's and approach charts to review while you sit in the waiting room, waiting your turn for the sim. The HR portion was very straight forward (TMAAT questions). Be honest, and ask them questions too. It'll show your interest in the company. The tech portion was not hard either, it is done in a scenario based fashion. They will start with preflight stuff, airport diagram, takeoff mins, finger taxi to runway using airport diagram, takeoff brief, finger fly the DP, some questions about enroute charts, finger fly the STAR, finger fly the approach. Then a canned scenario question about would you, or would you not go if.... ie, "Last flight of the sequence, everyone in the crew is ready to go home, pax are loaded, and the FA states that an overhead bin will not close, what do you do?" or "Captain flies an unstabilized approach, you tell him to go around, twice, but he does not respond. What do you do?"
There are plenty of gouges out there with the HR and tech questions, as well as sim profiles. The main thing is that they want honest, trainable pilots that they themselves will enjoy working with for weeks on end. They don't expect John Glenn's, or anyone that can do everything by themselves, but confident pilots that work well as a crew. They are also looking for people that are not a training risk.
If you flew single seat in the military, try to get some time in a multi-crew environment, or take a CRM class before going.
The people in the hiring dept. are GREAT, and was one of the better interview experiences that I have went through. It was very professional. They genuinely want everyone to succeed. Some will be asked to leave, periodically throughout the process, either for lack of accuracy or incomplete paperwork, or failed performance on one of the interview events.
I have been here for almost 3 years, and enjoy the day to day job, as well as the crews I fly with. Although the usual airline politics has made it's round to Eagle, I think this place will continue to be a good place to work. PM me if you have any questions.
The interview process is very simple...the sim is cake as long as you have a basic understanding of crew principles, callouts and the like. Easy to trim and fly the FD, you can ask for Nav mode in addition to the callouts they send you a couple days prior. MEMORIZE the 13 page pamphlet they send ahead of time...mostly ops limits and one boldface. The most "difficult" part was the throttle as the throttles are mostly an inch from idle unless you are in takeoff mode or missed app. There is a go around button for the FD. The holding is VOR holding, direct to the navaid and then you brief the pattern and your entry...if briefed correctly, they start to vector you to the FD ILS and is just like the previous individual described.
The HR/tech portion is also cake, about 30% is off the pamphlet the rest is WX and Jepps. I missed a couple of the Jepps questions, as I have never used them. The gouge is pretty easy to find...you really, REALLY need to get good with them, regardless of where you apply.
06-25-2013, 12:10 PM
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As to the Why Eagle...you can give the standard "you've been around for a long time, stable presence, etc" or you can tell them why it matters to you specifically. I was quite upfront about what I saw about their longevity and how it could impact me...given the turnover that is expected at American, one would be remiss not to consider the benefits of already being "at American" and being a part of their new future.
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