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    SkyTest® Airline Interview - The Exercise Book: Interview questions and tasks from real life selection procedures for pilots and ATCOs
    SkyTest® Airline Interview - The Exercise Book: Interview questions and tasks from real life selection procedures for pilots and ATCOs
    SkyTest® Airline Interview - The Exercise Book: Interview questions and tasks from real life selection procedures for pilots and ATCOs
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    SkyTest® Airline Interview - The Exercise Book: Interview questions and tasks from real life selection procedures for pilots and ATCOs

    By Dennis Dahlenburg and Andreas Gall

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    About this ebook

    Recruiting pilots has developed into a process with a scientific methodology. Airlines base the selection of their pilots on both the aviation and social qualifications of the individual applicants, and ensure their decision using the tools of suitability diagnostics.

    Cognitive and operational performance tests are the start of most selection processes. These are used to test the basic psychomotor skills a pilot requires in their everyday work. The performance tests include an in-depth psychological screening of the applicant, the focus of which is an extensive interview.

    Airlines (and passengers) expect absolute reliability and professionalism from pilots. The interview is therefore in place to determine a pilot's motivation and to make predictions about his or her probable behaviour after being hired. Leadership skills in teams, communication skills and decision-making skills are just three of the characteristics that airlines value highly and which are examined at interview.

    In SkyTest® Airline Interview (ISBN: 9783744822510) we have presented the theoretical basis of the interviews for pilots and air traffic controllers. We have created SkyTest® Airline Interview - The Exercise Book for practice-oriented and tailored preparation for an interview with an airline or air traffic control centre.

    SkyTest® Airline Interview - The Exercise Book chronologically takes you through typical sections of a selection interview with an airline. The book gives you deeper insight into common interview questions. A variety of examples and exercises will help you to respond spontaneously and confidently in future interviews.

    Both authors of SkyTest® Airline Interview and SkyTest® Airline Interview - The Exercise Book added years of industry experience and expertise to the books.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBooks on Demand
    Release dateJun 12, 2017
    ISBN9783744860222
    SkyTest® Airline Interview - The Exercise Book: Interview questions and tasks from real life selection procedures for pilots and ATCOs

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      Very useful for any pilot who wants to become an ATP pilot.
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      It covers almost everything needed to know for the interview.

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    SkyTest® Airline Interview - The Exercise Book - Dennis Dahlenburg

    Foreword

    Dear reader,

    We are very pleased that you have chosen to use SkyTest® Airline Interview – The Exercise Book to prepare for your airline selection test. The psychological interview towards the end of a selection process ultimately decides whether a candidate will be hired as a pilot. In other words, a successful application stands and falls with the interview.

    We presented the theory of interview-based suitability diagnostics for commercial pilots and air traffic controllers in our book SkyTest® Airline Interview. The handbook gives applicants an introduction to this interesting topic and helps them to better understand the meaning and purpose of the interview.

    SkyTest® Airline Interview – The Exercise Book looks at the final part of the selection process from a practical perspective. In this book you will find the tools for targeted preparation for your upcoming interview. To succeed, you must not only avoid pitfalls, but also pick up on the intentions behind the questions and tasks posed with your responses. SkyTest® Airline Interview – The Exercise Book chronologically takes you through typical sections of a selection interview with an airline. The book gives you deeper insight into common interview questions. Examples and exercises will help you to respond spontaneously and confidently in future interviews.

    Almost all those applying for a pilot position must discuss their qualifications and motivation at interview. This book is therefore aimed at pilots with professional experience, those who have just graduated from flight school and applicants who are still at the very start of their flight training. As the selection procedures are very similar, this book is also suitable for air traffic controllers to use in preparing for interviews.

    In buying SkyTest® Airline Interview – The Exercise Book, you have chosen a product from the SkyTest® series. SkyTest® has been providing user-oriented training software and specialist books to help people prepare for selection tests in commercial air travel since 2003. All SkyTest® products are compiled with great care to see you on your way to the cockpit. We wish you every success in your recruitment test.

    Erlangen, May 2017

    Dennis Dahlenburg, Andreas Gall

    Contents

    Introduction

    Before the interview

    2.1 Application letter and CV

    2.2 Example: Covering letter for a pilot position

    2.3 Preliminary telephone conversation

    The interview

    3.1 Reason for motivation

    3.1.1 Shall we start by you telling me a bit about yourself?

    3.1.2 What made you apply to our airline?

    3.1.3 Why should we hire you?

    3.1.4 Follow-up questions

    3.2 Behavioural prediction

    3.2.1 Decision-making and planning

    3.2.2 Communication and conflict behaviour

    3.2.3 Behaviour under stress and ability to handle monotony

    3.2.4 Teamwork and leadership behaviour

    3.2.5 Handling situational questions

    3.2.6 Handling scenario-based questions

    3.3 Technical questions

    3.4 Asking the airline questions

    3.5 Frequently Asked (Interview) Questions

    Group exercises, discussions and debates

    After the interview

    1 Introduction

    Airlines have high standards when it comes to selecting their pilots. The often multi-stage tests usually begin with a computer-based cognitive and operational performance test.

    The following chart shows the characteristics often sought by airlines in their pilot selection tests:

    Table 1: Basic aptitude evaluation

    Applicants who have demonstrated their

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