Before pilot hiring gets hot in a few weeks: Letters of Recommendation

I see prep both ways.

If you have trouble articulating an answer, they can be good to help you think linearly.

If you’re just looking for a ‘sneak peek’ at what they may ask and what they want to hear, well, you’re going to have a bad time.
 
I mean our President said they're eating the dogs and cats in Springfield, OH and he got the job.... just be yourself they said... Wife recently had a candidate give an interview presentation on the option of cremated remains being made into a reef, complete with pricing info! What a topic! I mean I thought about being launched into deep space, but hanging out in the ocean being picked at by shrimps sounds pretty neat! Airline interviews seem pretty boring and stale compared to some others.

Want to see some wild stuff? Take a look at AI interviews, I'd love to see the airlines adopt this! /s
 
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Anyway, when is this hiring get hot? I was just looking at some "We'll be in touch shortly to schedule an interview..." emails from more than a year ago.
 
derg said:
I see prep both ways.

If you have trouble articulating an answer, they can be good to help you think linearly.

If you’re just looking for a ‘sneak peek’ at what they may ask and what they want to hear, well, you’re going to have a bad time.
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I honestly got more value listening to others when I did my prep than talking in the classes. It helped me realize that a situation can apply to multiple TMAATs and think of new stories I had forgotten about.
 
One of the biggest lightbulb moments for me while doing interview prep with one of the big name companies was how to answer the more vague or generic questions. They're just a trampoline to launch into a STAR type scenario without specifically asking you "tell me about a time...". Before prep, I would answer questions like "how do you deal with failure?" or "what does customer service mean to you" either with a one sentence answer or rambling in a circular pattern for way to long. Instead, they showed me how to keep my one sentence answer and follow with "like that one time..." launching into a story. I also learned that you only need a handful of TMAAT stories, covering a series of generic topics. It's impossible to have one for every possible question, but the trick is recognizing what topic that question is trying to probe, and give the story on that topic, even if in your head you would have worded the question differently. For me the prep was worth its weight in gold. It allowed me to settle my thoughts and go in with much more confidence than if I'd just tried to wing it.
 
luke3 said:
One of the biggest lightbulb moments for me while doing interview prep with one of the big name companies was how to answer the more vague or generic questions. They're just a trampoline to launch into a STAR type scenario without specifically asking you "tell me about a time...". Before prep, I would answer questions like "how do you deal with failure?" or "what does customer service mean to you" either with a one sentence answer or rambling in a circular pattern for way to long. Instead, they showed me how to keep my one sentence answer and follow with "like that one time..." launching into a story. I also learned that you only need a handful of TMAAT stories, covering a series of generic topics. It's impossible to have one for every possible question, but the trick is recognizing what topic that question is trying to probe, and give the story on that topic, even if in your head you would have worded the question differently. For me the prep was worth its weight in gold. It allowed me to settle my thoughts and go in with much more confidence than if I'd just tried to wing it.
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Yeah STAR is a good framework to keep people from going down some 20 min rabbit hole. But so is having social awareness. And god, pilots are bad at that, i think kinda universally.
 
Well it’s really about thinking “out loud” and seeing where someone’s thought process is.

Everyone can say “I’d go around” but what are the marbles in your head doing as you say that?
 
///AMG said:
Yeah STAR is a good framework to keep people from going down some 20 min rabbit hole. But so is having social awareness. And god, pilots are bad at that, i think kinda universally.
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Here’s a question. I know some legacies are hiring dummies like me with no degree
( but a good amount of A320 PIC ) but does Delta? My guess is no
 
derg said:
I see prep both ways.

If you have trouble articulating an answer, they can be good to help you think linearly.

If you’re just looking for a ‘sneak peek’ at what they may ask and what they want to hear, well, you’re going to have a bad time.
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I found prep to be useful for helping me pull out stories and associate them with certain interview questions that I otherwise might not have.

I used Emerald Coast and I found pretty much everything other than the 1 on 1 to be completely useless
 
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