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Interview Profile

• Phone interview
  • Conversation style
  • Questions to determine interest level

Day one

• Panel interview
  • 1 Pilot
  • 2 HR representatives
  • Located at base closest to you
  • If successful, invited to simulator

Day two

• Simulator
  • Dash-8
• Medical evaluation

Interview Question Bank

Phone Interview

• What do you know about Jazz?
• When can you interview?
• When can you start?
• Why do you want to work here?
• Are you willing to relocate?

Human Resource Questions

• Tell us about yourself?
• Tell us about your aviation career up until now?
• How did you get into aviation / how did you become a pilot?
• Are you willing to relocate?
• What do you know about Jazz?
• Why do you want to work for Jazz?
• Why should we hire you?
• Why would you be good at Jazz?
• What do you think the toughest part of the transition to Jazz will be?
• Do you think you have the skills to fly a jet?
• Does anyone from your company know that you are here?
• Why do you want to leave your present job?
• What will you miss about the job you are in?
• Describe your daily life at your present job.
• What do you do to prepare for a flight?
• What is your goal before a flight?
• What is the most important part of your job at wherever you work?
• What is the most difficult part of your current job?
• What do you like / dislike about your present job?
• Have you ever failed a checkride?
• Does your boss know you are here?
• Describe a time when you had to sell an idea to a team.
• Tell us a time when you made a mistake and what did you learn from it.
• Do you have any incidents or accidents?
• What will the biggest challenge be for you seating in the right seat?
• How do you feel about seating in the right seat for 10 years?
• How will you survive on our starting salary in Toronto?
• Tell us about you're career to date and the positions you held.
• Tell us a time when outside factors influenced you at work.
• Tell us an example of a time you were satisfied or dissatisfied with a work experience.
• Have you ever failed a medical?
• Have you ever had to take control of an aircraft from a First Officer?
• Have you ever attempted to train anyone that was "un-trainable"?
• Describe a time when you went above and beyond you're job description.
• Have you ever had a conflict with a fellow pilot? How did you resolve that situation?
• Describe a time when you would have liked to see more out of the managers in you're company.
• Have you ever been unprepared for a flight?
• What was the most fun job you ever had?
• What was the best job you ever had?
• Have you ever had a personality conflict with somebody you worked with?
• Name a time when you and an F/O butted heads.
• Name a time when there was tension in the cockpit.
• Name a time when you were at fault and took the blame for it.
• Name a time when you made a mistake
• Have you ever had to take control from somebody?
• Has anyone ever had to take control from you?
• Name a time when you had to discipline somebody
• Name a time when you had to turn down a flight
• Name a time when you rushed into something?
• Name a time when you had to confront somebody for breaking the law or a regulation or a procedure.
• Name a time when your piloting skills came into play.
• Tell me a time when you had to get a group of people to do something they refused to do.
• Have you ever had to force and issue?
• Have you ever had to motivate or diffuse a group in order to achieve a goal
• Tell me a time when you had to persuade a group to do something they didn't want to do
• Have you ever let the pressure get to you?
• Name a time when you worked as a team and didn't accomplish your goal.
• What do you know about Jazz?
• Are you interested in other companies?
  • Why not WestJet?
  • What would you do if Westjet or Mainline called after you were hired?

Simulator

• Steep turns
• ILS

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