NYer914
New Member
Interview Date: March 9 2006
Everyone at ExpressJet was really nice…very relaxed atmosphere…they made you feel very comfortable. Arrived at about 9:15am with about 10 others whose flights arrived somewhere around 8:30-45, there was a group of about 30 in the morning and I’d say probably half got hired. One person was sent home for not having all the required paperwork about 10 minutes after they got there…it is very important that you have everything in order they way they want it, and have all the things that they ask you to bring. The gouges below mine are very good, it is was the majority of my studying. Find yourself some Mexican approach plates from Jepp, someone you know must have them, they are mostly the same, some feeder routes to a DME arc to the final approach course so if you just find one or two VOR DME approaches you should be good. Also study the introduction to the jepp charts, it explains everything you need to know about the plates and enroute charts….very valuable….Well, my experience….I wasn’t called in to the first room until the early afternoon, I was asked about any emergencies that I had, type of engines on the Seminole, what does a prop gov do? What would I do if we were at an out station (no maintenance) and I noticed a nav light out on my walkaround, holding speeds, what would I do if weather went below mins before FAF? After FAF?... that was it for the first room….The second room was all jepps…. I was handed a Manzanillo VOR DME approach, asked to finger fly the approach and the missed, what hold entry…calculate VDP and give reason for using a VDP, asked what MSA was and what it gave you…what the bold arrow was…then she pulled out a low enroute chart, asked what MEA and MOCA was and their differences, loc symbols, the ever famed Grid Mora, where I could find the distance between two VORs…Green vs Blue airports…. Restricted Areas – where I can find more info about them on the chart. I knew them all thanks to studying the Jepp Approach plate intro. Also asked to read a basic metar, but brush up on the remark stuff AO2 TSE45RAE45SNBG45 P00006 T01160102 amongst other remarks stuff you can study in the AIM. Then it was the HR room, DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE HR ROOM…because I did….I thought it was just going to be me talking about how great I am and selling myself, but as a low time applicant they were a little hard on me…There was one man in there who I think was Director of IOE and an HR woman. He was saying to me that he didn’t think that I had enough time to work here…they are looking for the strong confident person at this point….do not back down…tell him or her why exactly they should hire you and be very confident about your answer. I was talking to some higher time guys who only got asked a few easy questions. I was asked since I was a CFI then my students are flying the airplane and I’m just sitting there, do not say “yeah I guess you’re right” tell them why you are PIC of the airplane when you are instructing….just be confident is all I can say. After that I was told to stand in the hall under the ever famed picture of the ERJ. I actually was giving myself only a 30% chance of getting hired since he kept stressing that I did not have enough time…once again if you are low time don’t let that bother you, they want to see how strong of a person you are. Anyway, the HR person came out of the room 5 min later (felt like 5 days) and told me that they would like to offer me a position…needless to say I accepted and did about an hour of paperwork, then off to Continental Clinic for Drug test and back Home. Good luck to everyone….
Everyone at ExpressJet was really nice…very relaxed atmosphere…they made you feel very comfortable. Arrived at about 9:15am with about 10 others whose flights arrived somewhere around 8:30-45, there was a group of about 30 in the morning and I’d say probably half got hired. One person was sent home for not having all the required paperwork about 10 minutes after they got there…it is very important that you have everything in order they way they want it, and have all the things that they ask you to bring. The gouges below mine are very good, it is was the majority of my studying. Find yourself some Mexican approach plates from Jepp, someone you know must have them, they are mostly the same, some feeder routes to a DME arc to the final approach course so if you just find one or two VOR DME approaches you should be good. Also study the introduction to the jepp charts, it explains everything you need to know about the plates and enroute charts….very valuable….Well, my experience….I wasn’t called in to the first room until the early afternoon, I was asked about any emergencies that I had, type of engines on the Seminole, what does a prop gov do? What would I do if we were at an out station (no maintenance) and I noticed a nav light out on my walkaround, holding speeds, what would I do if weather went below mins before FAF? After FAF?... that was it for the first room….The second room was all jepps…. I was handed a Manzanillo VOR DME approach, asked to finger fly the approach and the missed, what hold entry…calculate VDP and give reason for using a VDP, asked what MSA was and what it gave you…what the bold arrow was…then she pulled out a low enroute chart, asked what MEA and MOCA was and their differences, loc symbols, the ever famed Grid Mora, where I could find the distance between two VORs…Green vs Blue airports…. Restricted Areas – where I can find more info about them on the chart. I knew them all thanks to studying the Jepp Approach plate intro. Also asked to read a basic metar, but brush up on the remark stuff AO2 TSE45RAE45SNBG45 P00006 T01160102 amongst other remarks stuff you can study in the AIM. Then it was the HR room, DO NOT UNDERESTIMATE THE HR ROOM…because I did….I thought it was just going to be me talking about how great I am and selling myself, but as a low time applicant they were a little hard on me…There was one man in there who I think was Director of IOE and an HR woman. He was saying to me that he didn’t think that I had enough time to work here…they are looking for the strong confident person at this point….do not back down…tell him or her why exactly they should hire you and be very confident about your answer. I was talking to some higher time guys who only got asked a few easy questions. I was asked since I was a CFI then my students are flying the airplane and I’m just sitting there, do not say “yeah I guess you’re right” tell them why you are PIC of the airplane when you are instructing….just be confident is all I can say. After that I was told to stand in the hall under the ever famed picture of the ERJ. I actually was giving myself only a 30% chance of getting hired since he kept stressing that I did not have enough time…once again if you are low time don’t let that bother you, they want to see how strong of a person you are. Anyway, the HR person came out of the room 5 min later (felt like 5 days) and told me that they would like to offer me a position…needless to say I accepted and did about an hour of paperwork, then off to Continental Clinic for Drug test and back Home. Good luck to everyone….
