F/A Interview w CO
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jimntx
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Here are the suggestions I gave someone else for a CO interview. If you are interviewing in Houston instead of Newark, just change EWR to wherever in Houston.
Interview Suggestions
Interview Suggestions
I know Continental uses the "Targeted Selection" interview process for many of their Technical Ops positions. I'm not sure about in-flight. Even if they don't specifically use that technique, it is good to be prepared to answer questions that that process would ask of you. Here is a link to some good things to help you prepare.
Click here.
Good luck, let us know how it went.
Regards,
Tech2101
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I am too nervous to sleep! I have to be at IAH tomorrow at 930. I live on the SW side of town, so I will leave at 630am (no joke - ill be there by 830am even w a coffee stop!)...
What will they ask me?
When will I know if I did/did not get the job???
What will they ask me?
When will I know if I did/did not get the job???
jimntx
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You will be asked the usual...
1. Why do you want to be a flight attendant?
2. Are you willing to relocate? (Bear in mind that IAH is their senior base, just as DFW is American's senior base. There is a good chance that you would be assigned to Newark or Cleveland after training.)
3. Give an example of a time you provided good customer service.
If they still do it the way they used to do it, there is a 3-step interview process. If you pass the first interview, you will go on to a second interview--possibly the same day at the same location, just in a different room. Then, you will have a final interview with the Mgr. of Flight Attendant Recruitment (there may be other people in this interview. This might very well be on a different day at the headquarters downtown Houston (at least, mine was and it was almost 9 months after the first two interviews). After that you will get a letter from them telling you that you have been accepted or rejected.
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Ok wow ( I should be asleep... but o well...) ... So this can take months? I applied online in March, and finally got the email from them 2 months later for the group interviews. They are holding group interviews through July and they told me that training begins in October. They also said I am interviewing for a "Houston-based" position.
What kind of routes do new f/as fly?
What kind of routes do new f/as fly?
jenny@nw
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Hope your interview went... ok. If you are IAH based you are lucky. My girlfriend got sick of being 50+ yrs old and going to South America from there. She said her bones were too tierd for that. I think she only did INTL from there....
jimntx
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If you get to be Houston-based, you are lucky because the cost of living is so much lower there; but, then you already know that since you live there.
Be aware, CO does straight reserve for new hires. That means that you will be on call 24 hours/day, for so many days each month. You will be on reserve until you have the seniority to be off reserve and be a line holder or block holder or whatever they call it at CO.
A friend of mine who started at CO in Nov. 2000, 2 months after I started at AA has never been furloughed as I was, but he was on straight reserve for about 5 years until he became a lineholder.
As a reserve, you will fly when and where they tell you to fly. I rather enjoy reserve months because I get to fly trips that I won't live long enough to hold on seniority alone.
You may be flying turns to SAT one day, and flying to Europe the next. You just never know.Good luck on your interview.
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All new f/a's were assigned to EWR.
I did not get the position, however.
I live in IAH and am kind of glad (the cost of living in EWR almost makes it "not worth it.")
I do, however, have an interview with ExpressJet next month for in-flight.
On a side note, WN is currently not hiring F/As, but are looking very hard for F/Os.
I did not get the position, however.
I live in IAH and am kind of glad (the cost of living in EWR almost makes it "not worth it.")
I do, however, have an interview with ExpressJet next month for in-flight.
On a side note, WN is currently not hiring F/As, but are looking very hard for F/Os.
