Interview in a few weeks.

14k+ total
8500+ TPIC
E145, B747, CRJ550, E175

Just happy to have the opportunity. Hope to spend my 20ish remaining years at SWA. Hopefully, most of them in BNA.

Good luck all!

 

Excited for ya! Very happy to see experienced guys at the front door, again. The strange days of fogging a mirror gets you in are hopefully gone forever.

 

eh, those days weren’t all that bad. I’d take those days over displacements and delayed upgrades.

 

Hopefully, we can enjoy the best of both worlds soon. Just with less Ops Days and emails attempting to split hairs between mentoring vs instruction.

 

The best of luck to you! Can you tell us how it went? Have an interview mid-October.

TIA

 

Send me a PM!

As far as we were "told", its your job to lose. They want experienced guys going forward!

 

also, I have an interview mid October. Looking for the latest information on it. Working with an interview prep team at ECIC but want as much information as possible.

 

ECIC is apparently on SWA's sh!tlist. The big thing you should get out of them is HOW to present yourself and the format to actually answer the questions asked. I think they got a bum rap as people were. for some odd reason, using canned answers which I don't recall ECIC ever promoting.

In essence, be yourself. ECIC should show you how to present yourself and apply your career story into what you're being asked. If the interview team gets the whiff of you coming across as non-genuine and canned or even worse lying, that's probably the fastest way to get a TBNT. They really want to get to know you. If you deny them that, well... that's on you. The job is really yours to lose. We don't have quotas of say how many they have to interview. They'll make it very clear that they can hire every last one that day, or they can hire no one, but the job is indeed yours to lose.

Good luck!

 

I used EC and did fine. I think the main issue they had with them was their method for solving the old LOI portion, which I don't think is a thing anymore?

Prep was 100 percent necessary for me as I hadn't had a job interview in 25 years. Glad I did it. Would do it again. Just be honest if/when asked and be yourself.

 

https://www.aviationinterviews.com/

If folks are posting their current experiences at the above website still, you can get a good feeling of what’s being asked and relevant times for those being offered interviews.

I’ve used this method a couple times:
Go to your company of choice and Highlight/Copy the last couple years of write ups of people’s interviews.
Then paste that on a word doc.
Then cull out extraneous content like Flight Times, Current Position etc.
Further cull out repetitive questions posted by several people.
As you review the multiple write ups you’ll see common occurrences / questions and know, for the most part, what to expect.
When I did this I had a really good prep for the overall flow of the day, TMAAT questions I could prep for, and all the other things interviewers would ask.
When I went through an interview here the big thing was that one of the 3 parts (logbook, HR, LOI) of the process would be semi confrontational. When it happened, I knew it and wasn’t thrown. I just acted like I would on the flight deck.
I also used Professional Interview Prep. I needed it. It worked and I’m happy and better for it.