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Originally Posted by Sunvox
(Post 2490959)
I didn't prepare until the day before and I got 3 offers in '96 :D If you fill'd the squares and you're an "honest Joe" I think you'll be fine with or without "prep", but just one dude's opinion.
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Originally Posted by scudrunner13
(Post 2490830)
Hello,
I have an interview with UA next month. Has anyone recently been through the interview process that could pass along info about it? HR, Tech questions, Sim ride, etc? Using Cage to prepare. Thank you These folks do a great job - if you haven't seen yourself on video answering questions and relating observations/scenarios this will be priceless prep. HR does run the show, and you need to be able to translate your experience, enthusiasm, leadership examples, and schema into a language they understand. THIS is why interview prep is worth the $$$ - they speak an entirely different language. Good luck however you decide to prepare for your UAL interview, see you on the line!!! |
Originally Posted by ecam
(Post 2491370)
Things must be pretty awesome at United if this kind of crap is the best you guys can come up with to measure johnsons over.
But back to the topic, there's no way UAL is making a move into ATL. ULCCs have barely nosed under the tent and DAL has been swatting them like flies. Plus SWA has a large presence there. It would make no sense for UAL to try and establish a hub in such a crowded fortress market. Somewhere underutilized like RDU would make way more sense. As many others have said, this is just Mesa trying to poach pilots away from Expressjet, and a weak attempt at it. They would have to be pretty hard up to make that move, and it would be just like Mesa to immediately close the base as soon as they have all the pilots they want. This dovetails nicely with the rumor Expressjet management is spreading about a UAL buyout and seniority numbers for the pilots. Which of course is never going to happen, but it will probably keep many around to see if it actually happens. What we are watching is the slow, painful death of the regional jet industry. Finally. |
Originally Posted by Fresh
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I think you meant to post this in the other thread. :confused:
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Originally Posted by Half wing
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A month is enough time. Not advisable to schedule an interview much farther out than that anyway. He’s probably been going over tmaat questions in the STAR format in his head for years. I did Cage and Emerald coast. Both were great but Cage was a bit better. Maybe CV is still on here and gives his own interview prep?
I do know one of the staff at Cage used to be on the interview board at UAL back then. Sat across from Dee Dee as the HR rep when I interviewed. The prep services today are probably way better than back in my time. I personally would be using either Cage or Emerald if I was in the process today. My 2 cents. Lee |
Originally Posted by Davedave
(Post 2491199)
Was it you that also said, “Back before climate change, I walked to school in the snow uphill, both ways.”
I should have elaborated. I didn't mean not to prepare rather I was offering a sentiment that excessive preparation is unnecessary. No one should go into any interview cold, but neither should preparation take weeks to do. Read online. Go out a day or two early. Pay for the prep, and call it a day. The airlines are going to hire thousands upon thousands in the next 5 years. If you don't get a job offer it won't be because of a lack of prep, it will be because of a "skeleton" in your closet, or a personality quirk that you can't hide, or something else most likely outside your control. |
Originally Posted by Sunvox
(Post 2490959)
I didn't prepare until the day before and I got 3 offers in '96 :D If you fill'd the squares and you're an "honest Joe" I think you'll be fine with or without "prep", but just one dude's opinion.
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Telling a story can go off the rails very easily when you are thinking about it as a pilot but relaying it to an HR person. The $400 is cheap insurance to not make their ears bleed and it will give you confidence in your answers. They want to know the true you and they can't do that if you are cringing from your answer to the first question that you bombed because of your nerves. Your competition is prepping for this interview.
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Originally Posted by sourdough44
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Good luck. I’d have to recommend some ‘prep’ service too.
Don’t be talking about any ‘scud running’ either. They don’t want to hear that version of ‘hero piloting’. When I interviewed four years ago, they were still doing the sim interview. After the HR interview I had about 30 minutes before the sim interview, so I sat in the seating area next to Doris' desk to study. There were other appies there doing the same, except one. He was probably mid-late 50s, wore an MIB suit that looked like he had slept in for the previous three nights, and I swear his nose was a different color than the rest of his face. Ex-USAF tanker pilot, flew 74s for Evergreen (captain, before being displaced to f/o, before bankruptcy). Talked pretty loudly. He decided to strike up a conversation. I (and I dare say the other appies around) wish he hadn't. Never mind that we're all focusing on whatever interview we have coming, it was the topics he decided to touch on and our collective desire to not be associated with these. Ferrying a 74 illegally on three engines & other shady stuff at Evergreen. "Yeah, I've got interviews at Spirit & Southwest, so if this doesn't work out it's not a big deal...how about you guys?" Bragging about not really preparing. You get the idea... I tried to send the non-verbal hints that I needed to study, but he never caught on. I can only imagine what his interview was like. I thought after the fact that maybe he was a plant, someone to evaluate our group reaction to a rogue in the operation, but he was so far from the median that I doubt he would have gotten anyone to respond. Besides that, never heard of any stories of a plant in the interview process. I never saw him again, so I assume he moved on to Spirit. Don't be that guy... |
Originally Posted by Sunvox
(Post 2490959)
I didn't prepare until the day before and I got 3 offers in '96 :D If you fill'd the squares and you're an "honest Joe" I think you'll be fine with or without "prep", but just one dude's opinion.
I think Emerald Coast is probably the gold standard for most airline prep. I didn't know anything about Cage until after I interviewed but sounds like they are close to United. Heck do them both. ECC refunds you in you're unsuccessful. You have nothing to lose. The interviewers don't expect or appreciate overly rehearsed answers but they do expect polished delivery. |
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