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GoJets interview Thursday, so grateful and very excited.. I searched our forum and got some info, mostly related to the crews. Written test and interview. Any comments, advice, horse laughs...
 
Aeroscout840 said:
GoJets interview Thursday, so grateful and very excited.. I searched our forum and got some info, mostly related to the crews. Written test and interview. Any comments, advice, horse laughs...
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I know very little about GoJets but I would try researching the company some before the interview - always helps if you can ask some knowledgeable questions about the company when you're in there. Also, Kev had some good advice on interviewing for dispatch jobs that I will quote below:

Don't give anyone a reason to think that you aren't humbly grateful and gracious for the mere opportunity for an interview. Show your inherent enthusiasm for the field of aviation and your excitement to get started. If you know you're the right guy for the gig then relax, make eye contact frequently with every single person in that room, smile and joke a little. Have many questions ready to ask them, especially a few very technical ones for the dispatch manager. Be proactive if you think the interview went well and you are still interested in the company. Say just that at the end, or find a better way to express it. Assume you'll never talk to them again (because if you call them or send e-mails you may very well not), so seal the deal there and tell them how well it went for you and how interested you are in the company, and how you look forward to speaking with them again soon. Write a hand-written thank you card that very night and mail it to them. Once you have a face-to-face interview the onus is all on you to make it happen and show them that you're the right person for the job, and in a lot of ways it comes right down to your personality, how you conduct yourself, and the touch you have to maintain a proactive stance to scream "hire me!" without being too loud. They're trying to get a good read on you; are you a good person? Are you enthusiastic? Are you going to whine at work? Are you professional? How will you work with others? How excited are you to learn? etc.

I would also say - be yourself at the interview. It's natural to be nervous but if you're trying to act outgoing when you're not it makes it worse. As I recall you have a sales background so I'm sure you know how to present yourself well - just think of the interview as selling yourself and I'm sure you'll do fine.
 
Aeroscout840 - Good luck on the interview! Let us know how it goes.

P.S. I followed your journey through Sheffield, prepped early, and worked with your flashcards. We've had daily simulated tests daily (with questions from the chapters we've covered so far) and I haven't gone below 82%. I'M LOVING THIS STUFF! I'll be taking my written next Wednesday. I can't WAIT to be done with the written!! :drool:
 
Aeroscout840 said:
GoJets interview Thursday, so grateful and very excited.. I searched our forum and got some info, mostly related to the crews. Written test and interview. Any comments, advice, horse laughs...
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Don't be surprised if you get ugly looks from pilots when you tell them you work for Gojet if you get the job. I worked for them long ago. Great training and If you want some advice on the interview PM me. I'll give you the low down On how to get the job and then why you should wait for a better airline lol.
 
Interview went well. Guys from GoJet were really cool. Thanks to all the help and PM's I received here. Stuck in Dulles for 5 hours feh...
 
Is there any advantage to your first dispatch job being with props or jets, both 121?

PS promise to pay forward all the free help received here:o
 
Let us know if you get the job :)

Also, prop or jet wouldn't matter. What matters more is the experience you get from the job. (At least that's what I think).
 
Aeroscout840 said:
Is there any advantage to your first dispatch job being with props or jets, both 121?
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At one time, it was considered an advantage to have jet dispatch on your resume, but that was back when few regionals flew jets. At this point I don't think it matters a whole bunch - although if you do go to a place with both props and jets, it's good experience because you see the differences in how they perform while flight planning them, plus you get to do more jumpseating since 5 hours/type is required per year. But overall I would say it doesn't matter too much - most important is just to get a job and get experience, then you can go to a larger carrier and get heavy jet long haul experience, and so forth.
 
izanti said:
We are only required 1 type and 121.463 states just 5 hours total/year.
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Only required 1 type what?


121.463 sections (a) and (c) state -

(a) No certificate holder conducting domestic or flag operations may use any person, nor may any person serve, as an aircraft dispatcher for a particular airplane group unless that person has, with respect to an airplane of that group, satisfactorily completed the following:

(c) No certificate holder conducting domestic or flag operations may use any person, nor may any person serve, as an aircraft dispatcher unless within the preceding 12 calendar months the aircraft dispatcher has satisfactorily completed operating familiarization consisting of at least 5 hours observing operations under this part, in one of the types of airplanes in each group to be dispatched. This observation shall be made from the flight deck or, for airplanes without an observer seat on the flight deck, from a forward passenger seat with headset or speaker. The requirement of paragraph (a) of this section may be reduced to a minimum of 21/2hours by the substitution of one additional takeoff and landing for an hour of flight. The requirement of this paragraph may be satisfied by observation of 5 hours of simulator training for each airplane group in one of the simulators approved under §121.407 for the group. However, if the requirement of paragraph (a) is met by the use of a simulator, no reduction in hours is permitted
 
Just got the call for an interview with GoJet tomorrow, if anyone could share some information and knowledge with me it would be greatly appreciated. Very excited for the opportunity right now.
 
So by "group" they mean what? Turbo prop / Turbo Jet, heavy A/c and non heavy? It definitly isnt by type. My airline flies 3 different types of aircraft, all heavy and jet. I am only required to fly in one of them for my fam ride.....

Can Anyone clarify?
 
izanti said:
So by "group" they mean what? Turbo prop / Turbo Jet, heavy A/c and non heavy? It definitly isnt by type. My airline flies 3 different types of aircraft, all heavy and jet. I am only required to fly in one of them for my fam ride.....

Can Anyone clarify?
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Group 1=props.
Group 2=jets.
Group 3=Chicks.
Group 4=steaks and beers.

any questions?
 
Deviation in the thread, I know, but I need someone to celebrate with me. 85% on the written. What a relief! Next challenge, the practical. :o
 
Thanks, AEROSCOUT840. DEFINITELY a relief. Your input on this site steered me in the right direction, so thanks go out to you. Looking forward to the practical stuff!
 
ljg said:
Group 1=props.
Group 2=jets.
Group 3=Chicks.
Group 4=steaks and beers.

any questions?
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Yeah... I messed up and went out of order. Does that mean I dequal?

Then again, it's possible to get qualified in all four groups in the same day. :beer:
 
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