Interview Profile

• Phase I (day one)
  

  • Fill out a report based on a mock problem while waiting for the intervivew
  • Interview with 2 Captains, 1 HR rep, 1 Flight Attendant, and 1 Dispatcher
  • All HR and TMAAT questions, no technical
  • Simulator Evaluation
    • Computer based MD-80 simulator
    • Given a plate and brief the approach, mine was an ILS into LAX
    • Take off from LAX heading west, climb to 5000' at 250kts
    • 2 steep turns, 180 degree heading change each
    • Fly to SMO VOR and hold.  I briefed a direct entry and then they started vectoring me.
    • Vectors to the ILS back into LAX and land

• Phase II (day two)
  

  • MMPI style psychological testing in the morning
  • Meet with the rest of the interview group after lunch
  • Introduce the person sitting next to you
  • Pick an object and describe what you like about it
  • Another interview with Chief Pilots

Interview Question Bank

updated 07/08/10

• Tell us about your flying career
• What do you know about Hawaiian?
• Why are you applying to Hawaiian?
• Will you move to Hawaii if hired?
• Have you applied to Hawaii in the past?
• Who else have you applied to besides Hawaiian?
• If you are offered a job by Hawaiian and another company, which would you take?  Why?
• How would you describe yourself?
• Why should we pick you instead of one of the other 2000 applicants?
• Have you ever done more than the minimum required?
• Have you ever had a flight that you would do something different than what you did?
• What aircraft would you pick?
• If you had a student who was having difficulty grasping a subject in the airplane, how would you handle the situation?
  
  

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