| I was recently hired by Aloha Island Air and the
interview process was
pretty fair in my
opinion. They start you off with a short written test
(multiple guess). Then, depending on how soon you get
done and if they
are still interviewing
another candidate, they will either have you wait
or go into the interview room. There I was greeted by
3 pilots and
someone from the HR
department. They went right down my resume and
asked me questions about the things I've done and
such. They also asked
some "situational questions" like "you're flying along on the approach
and the captain wants to go below the DH.
What do you do?" One of the
other
questions was about the captain showing up with alcohol on his
breath. They ask you about your definition of Vmc, of
a First Officer,
of a leader, "who is the
customer". They didn't ask any trick questions
or try to make it hard in any way. They have a few
things they want to
find out technically
in the interview, but they also want to hire
someone that they wont mind sitting in the plane
with. They wont hire
anyone that has
attitude or they feel will develop one. This airline
has a very personal relationship with its customers, more
so than just
about any other airlines I am
sure. So they want someone that is
personable. They also give you a psychological
test on a computer. It consists of
several
parts. One part you have numbers momentarily flashed on a grid
of 9 squares. You then have to know what
numbers came up where and put
them in
their proper boxes. Another part they flash numbers from a
range of numbers like 3-8 but one will be
missing. You have to enter in
the
number that was missing. Then they combine the two and you have to
first put in which one was missing and then put
the numbers that flashed
back in
order. Then there were some pattern tests (11,22,33,4?) and
then there was a test that they diplayed the
names of 5 colors in
columns on the
screen. The color of the text is different than the name
of the color (the word "red" would be written in blue
text). Then you
have to go through
hit the color of the text on the "F-keys" (they time
this one for what reason I dont know). All in all it
was a fairly easy
test. Provided you're not psychotic (either before or
because of the test),
you go take a
physical at a private medical facility. After that, you
have an interview with another HR person and they just ask
you the
questions of "how would you
describe yourself", "how would your friends
describe you", stuff like that. Fairly short. They will send you your congrats letter at least 2
weeks prior to the
start of ground
school. They usually have it set up so that they can
start the ground school as soon as possible and still let
you have 2
weeks to give notice to your
employer. It is a small company but a very
good company. They treat their
employees
well, and anyone here would go out of their way to help their
fellow employee (management or otherwise). Between
the ground school,
flight training, IOE
and such, the management has been very accomodating
to people that need to get to the mainland to move their
stuff over.
I think they do a pretty good job
in the interview process. They dont
have anyone that
is hard to get along with. All a good bunch of
people. A very family type atmosphere within the
company and with the
customers.
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