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• Hogan Assessment
  
  
  
  • Personality Test
  
  
  • Online
  
  
  • 206 true/false questions
  
  
  • 20-30 minutes to complete
  
  
  
  


• Phone Interview


• Interview
  
  
  
  • Interview Captain
  
  
  • HR representative
  
  
  
  

Interview Question Bank

Human Resource Questions

• Talk us through your career up to now


• What would you consider to be the high point of your career?


• Are you looking at anybody else?


• What other airlines have you applied to?


• Have you heard from anyone else?


• What would you do if they called in six months?


• How did you prepare for this interview?


• Have you ever failed a checkride


• Have you had any accidents, incidents, letters of warning


• TMAAT You didn't get along with someone you flew with


• TMAAT You had a problem with a subordinate


• TMAAT You had a problem with a Captain


• TMAAT You needed help form someone to solve a problem


• TMAAT You had to insist that a Captain follow SOP


• TMAAT You avoided a conflict


• TMAAT You were involved in a conflict


• TMAAT You had a situation where a checklist did not apply


• TMAAT you had to make a quick decision in the cockpit


• TMAAT You followed a policy you disagreed with


• TMAAT You were prevented form doing your best


• TMAAT you failed as a leader


• TMMAT you succeeded as a leader


• What was your worst emergency, what would have done differently?


• Tell us about a time you saw somebody violating a policy or procedure and what you did about it.


• Tell us about a time you were pressured to break a rule.


• Have you ever violated a FAR?


• TMAAT you used judgment to go against company policy.


• TMAAT you had to deal with an unfair company policy.


• TMAAT you were pressured to break a rule.


• What if you didn't get that base


• Where else have you applied


• Would you leave in six months if UPS called

Technical Questions

• What is the light gun signal for cleared to land


• What are the requirements for a takeoff alternate


• What are the requirements for a landing alternate


• When would you want two alternates


• What are the IFR fuel requirements


• What are the lost comm. procedures


• Which runways can you cross when cleared to taxi to a runway?


• When do you have to stop at an ILS hold line


• Why is localizer more sensitive on a back-course?o On a back course approach, why do we put in the front course


• Read METAR, including remarks


• Based on METAR, what is the ceiling


• Read TAF


• Define MEA, MOCA,


• From approach plate, what is the number inside the "()" brackets beside DA


• From approach plate, What are the approach minimums for this approach


• No published hold on the missed, what entry, speed, leg length would you use


• Explain how a pitot static system works


• When should you start down from FL350 to cross fix at 12,000ft


• How long to travel 90nm, with 190TAS and 60kts headwind


• Dumping fuel at 1500pounds/hour, how long to dump 16500 pounds


• What is the reciprocal of 266

Hogan Assessment Questions

• True/False


• I sleep well at night


• I feel uncomfortable in large crowds


• I am usually firm in pursuing my goals


• When I was a child, people thought I was really cute


• I usually seek the other's help in working out a solution.


• I take a different way home from work every night

Comments

• As a 13 year employee and someone formerly involved in pilot hiring and training I cannot recommend UAL to anyone in good conscience.  The changes you are currently seeing implemented in the flight management structure and how the pilot managers are used makes it obvious that senior management is planning for limited operations in the event of a pilot strike.  I think there is about a 90% probability of a pilot strike, but management will use every bit of time under this contract as they are able simply because this contract is so lucrative to them.  Thus expect a strike in 2011 or later.  The current executive team is obedient to Tilton (as is the BOD) so I doubt you'll see any changes.  The opportunity to sell UAL to CAL was mishandled by Tilton and thus I think he's changed his target.  Since he can't make his mark by creating the largest airline, I think he'll attempt to break ALPA instead.  As for the "pilot" management.  Since there are no UAL pilots worthy of working at the senior level we now have 2 former DAL and 1 ALPA Natl/NWA.  Of the three (Koshak, Attarian and Quiello) Kolshak is the most dangerous.  Attarian is essentially powerless and Quiello I have no knowledge of.  Kolshak's style is to blow up stuff and see what holds together & what falls apart.  If it holds together he may leave it alone.  If it falls apart he uses that as rationale for "change."  He's masterminded much of the negative you now see in the Ops grp that has resulted in additional furloughs and changes in operating procedures, some of which look like they will negatively impact safety.
  If you want to fly for the airlines, fly cargo, SWA, or Intl.  But have a really solid backup plan and never live on more than 1/2 your salary.


• Having worked at UAL since 1985 I couldnt recommend this company as an employer to anyone.
  Dont waste your time here .Im not a so called "disgruntled employee" I base my judgement on having flown for 2 other Intl airlines in my career and having many friends and relatives who fly for other carriers..
  The managers here and the BOD are inept and have zero ability nor desire to run this company.Since 1979 the pilots and other labor unions have subsidised the airline via pay cuts,etc,etc except for approx 3 years,UAL doesnt know how nor care to learn how to run even a 7-11 store.
  Their sole goal is to simply dress it up in a short skirt and stroll the boulevarde til someone propositions them then they will be gone with their parachutes like the pimps they are..
  All the cash the employees have given,UAL pi$$ed it away...


• No other airline fares better it's just the nature of the business... most people like it enough to stay. (06/20/10)


• It's better than scrubbing the toilets...which is where I started at United.  They gave me a shot at flying for them, and have been doing so for over 18 years.  There are much worse places to fly...It's all a matter of perspective.  Stop whining, guys. (08/23/10)


• The above is a total "CROCK" of BS.  There will be NO strike at United Airlines...PERIOD ! ! !  ALPA made sure of that when it broke the laws of the RLA in 2008.  UAL sued ALPA and four named individuals and won BIG.  ALPA appealed and basically the appelate court judge could not believe that the initial injunction wan't more severe against the failed union.  He promptly upheld the lower courts injunction.  ALPA is a criminal organization that is bent on destroying Tilton at the expense of every pilot on the property at United. (10/28/10)


• Flown for UAL for 13+yrs now. Started out great. Pretty much since 9/11, however, our management has beaten down this employee group predominately through paycuts and outsourcing. As far as the post CO merger - \"new United\" - We\'re ptimistic. Unfortunately, not much has changed to date. Bottom line...If you are lucky enough to not be furloughed - it beats any regional airline/commuter job. The next year or so will be pivotal for this group. If we can win our battle over SCOPE and other issues this place will have serious potential again. Most of the above \"whiners\"  are a little out of touch with what else is out there. True - Southwest, Fedex - better deal (today anyway). But then in 1969 - TWA & Pan Am were the place to be. Will we strike? Maybe, maybe not. Will it get better? Can\'t get too much worse. (04/02/2011)


• UAL is a joke so don\'t even consider working here.  IF you look at just the male pilots flying at UAL they are the largest collection of little girls I have ever met - you get my meaning, so never a strike.  When a for LEC officer makes a statement "I voted for the TA hoping the pilots would vote it down" and a former MEC officer stated he would never be willing to put pilots jobs on the line via a strike, then you understand the spineless individuals running the show.  As for the continental merger it will be BOHICA.  If you can remember the Pan Am/National hatred among the pilots aka the "blue vs orange balls" then that is what will be at united for decades to come.  For both sides be it a united or continental pilot, when you have been flying for major airlines for 10-20 years and suddenly you have some 35 year old snot flying senior to you then stand by for decades of pilots hating each other.