When you go for anything new or to get into something, you must have some knowledge about the scenario, possibilities, and history of that thing. The same is the case, when you go for an interview you must have an idea about the nature of the job, job descriptions, and complexity of the job. You must have clear goals and objectives which you have set to boost your career.
If we talk about aviation jobs, there are many domains in it. Firstly you go for an aviation job as per your studies and previous job experience. Secondly, you must have knowledge about questions that will be possibly asked from you.
Sometimes people go for interviews with zero preparation and get surprised by some technical and open-ended questions. Sometimes you are not in a position to handle deep questions and get collapsed during an interview by confusion.
So everyone must prepare itself before going for interviews.
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Things To Keep In Mind While Going For Interview:
In any interviews not only knowledge matters but physical appearance, your body language also play a vital role in getting you in.
While going for one, dress up properly. Wear clean, pressed clothes and be in formal dress. Avoid wearing fashionable and informal dresses.
Take your resume with you while going for it and take multiple copies of the resume so that you can provide it to interviewers if more than one. Sometimes interviewer didn’t have a copy of your resume so it will impart a positive attitude towards professionalism.
Bring all your documents related to interview with you. The interviewer can demand any document at any stage of the interview. Keep all documents (Degrees, license, experience certificates, etc.) aligned and be sure all documents are complete.
Past experience certificates with all relevant documents related to job descriptions must be in hand while going for an interview.
Be sure that all your social media and professional profiles are up to date and clearly reflect your previous aviation job and experience. You should built a LinkedIn profile mentioning your job status, professional experience, certification, and licenses.
Types of questions that might be asked during interview are
- Learning from past experience
- Time setting questions
- Scenario-based questions
- Open-ended questions
- Knowledge about the post
The reason behind you have been interviewed before starting a new job is to check previous knowledge, your caliper, skills, and your adaptability to adopt a new culture and adjust in the new organization.
When you go for any new job you have been interviewed to check either you carry these abilities or not:
- Comfortability to work in group projects
- Capability to handle pressure
- Guiding and Advising ability
- Basic skills to manage and evaluate staff
- Post related knowledge
- Skills to manage things independently
- Basic knowledge about computer usage
Some of the important questions that might be asked by the interviewer are:
Open Ended Questions
- Tell us something about yourself
Answer to this question is not too simple and not too complicated. If you have ever think about who you are, what you have done in the past, and what is your level of competence. You can easily answer these types of questions.
- What are your weaknesses?
If you have ever evaluated yourself, you can easily detect your weakness. And there is not any shame to share your weakness with the interviewer. An experienced interviewer can easily judge you. So it’s better to talk clearly without lying.
- What are your strengths?
Be clear and be realistic when you are answering g this question. Don’t make the list too much long about strengths. Just be straight forward and answer with 100% responsibility.
- What are you objectives and where you see yourself after 5 years?
This is a common question interviewers ask about your objectives and your targets. Everyone must set his objectives for future goals. A person without any objective and goal is an aimless person running, running and running without any direction.
- What are your achievements in previous job?
Every word highlighted in a paragraph can be seen easily by everyone. The same is the case with achievements in career. Achievements boosts your career and show your capabilities to the employer. Highlight and briefly describe your achievements of previous job and your whole career.
- Why should we hire you?
This is a very common question and the best answer to this question is enlisting your capabilities and the core experience of your field. In short, you have to answer this question shortly and precisely.
- What do you know about this position?
When you are going for an interview, you must know about the position. You should have an idea about the roles and responsibilities of the said position. Going totally blank for an interview doesn’t leave a good impression on the interviewer.
- Can you work under pressure?
There are chances that this question would be asked about working under pressure. So the answer will be according to your capabilities and previous experiences. A competitive person never says he can’t work under pressure. He is always open to new challenges and stresses.
- What you know about our company?
Before going for an interview deeply study the history of the company where you are going. This question would be asked about company knowledge and if you are blank about this, it would impart a very bad impact on your selection process.
Information about the company is a very important part of your interview and it will reflect your seriousness about the job opportunity.
These are all general questions which everyone ask from you during any interview.
Commonly Asked Question in Aviation Job Interviews:
- Why are you joining aviation industry and which thing appeals you to join it?
When an interviewer asks this question he/she wants to know your intentions and goals. They are trying to check whether you stay at this job for a long time or just switch after a short time period. They are trying to verify that you are on the same level as company expectations related to this job.
- Why you wants to be a pilot, air-hostess or any other role in aviation industry?
Before you go for an interview, enlist all the points which you think make you able for being selected as a pilot, air hostess, or any other role for which you are going for an interview in the aviation industry. You can make a long list for these reasons but during the interview focus mainly on 4-5 main points which you think are your strength and on these points, you can satisfy the interviewer.
- What are the reasons on which you are trying to change your job?
The purpose of asking this question is to know whether you have made critical analysis or stronger thinking before taking this decision or it’s just your emotional decision regardless of your career interests. So be ready for this question and make a prompt response to this question which makes the interviewer feel comfortable hiring you.
- Please share you knowledge about our airline
This is the most common question asked during every aviation interview. In this question, the interviewer wants to know you’re serious about the organization and your job. They want to know how keenly you study and searched about the organization and its existence on the globe. Your answer helps them to analyze your interest and your engagement with the process to search for the organization.
- Are you willing and comfortable to work with large group of people?
In the aviation industry, you have to work with a large number of people from different departments in order to enhance working efficiency and working relationship. This question is asked to check whether you are willing to adjust to group work or not. Your answer will make the interview to judge easily about your level of comfort in group working.
- How you hiring will help us?
Every aviation industry asks you this question. Infect every industry asks you how your hiring will help them or what you can bring to their industry. The best answer to this question will make the process of your hiring easier. Your answer should not be along dramatic story. Be clear and be focused during answering to this question. Make factual arguments with the interviewer and never let him feel exhausted with your answers.
- What will you do in you first 60 days?
The aviation industry is open to new technologies and changes to compete with the upcoming modern challenge. With this question, the interviewer wants to know about your action plan and your strategy for their industry. For this purpose, you must have a good command of the knowledge from your previous job as well your awareness with the new technologies and trends.
- If any question you can ask
When the interviewer asks this question he is verifying that you are clear about the job role and each and everything about the job. You question at this time should be anything about the job that you think missed during the interview. Do not try to ask a question about whom answer you can easily get from job roles and descriptions. Don’t try to be over smart with non-professional questions. Do not start discussing about your salary. It can be discussed later.
Pilots Assessment or Interview
Pilots have to manage multidisciplinary situations (weather, passengers, technical faults, etc.) that’s why a pilot’s interview is much critical and toughest. A strong CV is not enough, you have to be strong and sharp to be a good pilot. Every pilot is expected to have skills like leadership, problem-solving, decision making, prioritization, and many more.
What would be included in a pilot’s interview?
A pilot interview is divided into two parts, which are
- Performance Assessment and Competency Level
- Technical Skills
What you think a professional pilots looks like?
This question about pilots is asked to check your professionalism. Your answer must be accordingly. Key attributes of professional pilots are
- Powerful leadership
- Willingness to train the staff
- Good Communication
- Follow up of SOPs
Importance of different languages for a pilot?
Pilots have to fly to different destinations and they have to contact different persons with different languages, so a pilot who knows different languages would be a plus point for the airline.
What a good pilots do in emergency?
Answer to this question is just to tell your mental calmness during an emergency and tell them, that you can handle the situation with confidence and assign tasks to crew members and deal with the emergency conditions.
Cabin Crew Assessment or Interview
During an interview after general questions cabin crew and pilots have to pass through assessment for being shortlisted for the next phase.
Cabin crew assessment is too critical step because there is too much talent and they have to shortlist only a few. So it’s a tough competition for candidates. Airlines made this assessment for their ease to shortlist candidates from thousands to just a few numbers.
Assessment Parameters for Cabin Crew:
- Medical examination (Height, Reach, Eyesight etc.)
- Tattoo and other marks on body
- Different tasks about role play and groups
- Elimination Stage
- Next Interview
Other assessment day parameters includes:
- Psychometric Evaluation
- Verbal Presentation
- Analytical Reasoning and Numerical Testing
Engineering Staff Assessment or Interview
Hiring engineers for aviation job is a two-step process. Which are
- General questions
- Technical, skill based questions
Technical questions include analytical reasoning, numerical questions related to engineering, and your previous job experiences. The purpose of this assessment is to select the perfect candidate for this role. It’s a technical work and all the performance of aircraft is based on the engineering work.
So selecting engineers for the aviation sector is quite a difficult job and its challenging part of the recruiting process.
So as mentioned above in the aviation industry, your interview is based on two things. Your previous experience and your professionalism. The first appearance is long-lasting. This phrase better explain all the situation. So be prepared for the interview before going for it.
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