How did you present your paperwork?
 

Interviewing soon and I'm not sure how I should present the paperwork. The instructions spell out what should be in each stack, but I don't just want to walk in there with loose papers in different piles.
Recommendations? Would anyone be so kind as to post a picture of what type of organizer they used?

Thanks for the help.

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I brought them in folders and one of the first things they did the morning of the interview was collect them. They took my folders, removed the papers and handed me back the empty folders. Just bring them in something that will keep them from getting damaged and be ready to hand them over as papers only.

I bought a couple/(3?) red folders. Used a black sharpie to write stack 1/2 on the front and stuffed everything in them.

Yup. Read the instructions, when you’re done, read them again. Then go through the instructions step by step as you prepare your material. I found mistakes/omissions after reading the instructions over.

They did not ask me for a single thing, it was all there. My logbooks were clean, noted with stickie notes where requested and easy to examine. The logbook guy did his paper work and checked some boxes (5 min) then we BS’d about flying for 20 minutes. You don’t want to spend 30 min piecing your logbook times together so they make sense. Make that easy and apparent.

Things that happen behind the scenes
- A credit report will be run on you
- A beckground check will be run (Don’t lie, even if it’s not on the state/county record anymore, theses background companies do mass data pulls all the time, and save the info). WestLaw and PeopleMap are a few.

Can you expand on what they are looking for on the logbook review?

Shoot me a PM. I’m drinking right meow but that’ll remind me when I get back tomorrow.

They are looking for all events (type ratings/atp/1000 tpic...)that they ask you tab in your logbooks. They also ask you for your time in the last 5 years. I broke it down by type/PIC-SIC every 12 months to include each type for 5 years (60 months).

The pilot conducting the logbook review will ask you all sorts of questions about how much time in the last 90 days, 6 months, 12 months, all the way to 5 years I think. HERE IS THE KEY. I built a table with all of the times broken down and put a southwest logo on it and pulled it out when he started asking about the times. He said, "Whatcha got there?" so I explained and so he said, "Hand it over" and he filled his form out off of my tables. He chuckled and joked about being super prepared.

The rest of the time was Why Southwest? Tell me about a time when you failed as a leader. More relaxed than the other two parts but you can still blow it on this portion.

I did the same thing then we spent the rest of the time talking about beer.
Knew I was at the right place

This.
I used excel to build a logbook table, then just added the respective years up in my logbook and put those totals in the respective rows for each year. Think of the bottom totals page of your logbook. Make one of those for each of the last five years, then add the five years up in the final row.

I went through my logbooks, and used a pink highlighter to highlight the lines for the events/times requested. Then put a sticky note on that page with the event/time, like a bookmark so one could just read the sticky note and turn to that page and easily see the highlighted entry.

They need to verify you have the required minimums they have set. That is what is going on. The interviewer has a sheet of paper with the requirements and checks a box for each one as they verify.

So, make this easy for them/you. They will give you time to explain and figure your times and find the events, but don’t put yourself in that situation.

Interviews are more then just a verbal event. The totality of the interview is can you follow instructions, are you composed enough to prepare for the event.