Southwest Interview DONT'S

[737ski]

Until my IOE, I'm trying to protect the culture... Thanks for bangin' me in line... 1500+ 737 PIC time. Luv to see you on the line....

 

[scoreboard]

Welcome aboard!

 

[hawk16e]

If you've been a freight dog, when they ask what your schedule is like, don't tell them "I'm on a pager until I go on days off." I think they don't understand that is the way life is for some people. I did that in '01 and am still plying the skies on a tramp steamer. Best of luck.

 

[Ex737Driver]

Hmm, must be what CAL is looking for?......

Now see, that's funny.

 

[Tejas-Jet]

Some of the PD girls (and 1 or 2 or the lady pilots) who do interviews are pretty cute.

Don't stare at their t**s

What ?!?!?! This is a great opportunity to score some positive points....take the time to compliment them on their "physicality"

Tejas

 

[Mookie]

Don't try to make "sexy time" with the flight attendant when you are trying to get to dallas.

Why havn't they called me???

Mookie

 

[737ski]

Now see, that's funny.

Funny how?

 

[SkiFishFly]

Don't scratch your crotch while staring at the HR girls T#ts...

 

[propjob27]

Don't tell them the things you like most about your current/previous employer are the international flying and the exotic layovers in Europe and Asia.

 

[Going2Baja]

Don't tell them you've always had a boner for their F/A's ever since you started jumpseating. And definately don't tell them about the time you layed over in the same hotel and partied all night with the SW crew that had an early morning show when you had an extra 12 hours after they bailed!

Things to do (So I've heard from hired friends

Have your wife/G-friend make heart shaped cookies in SW colors and hand them out to everyone you meet along with your business card. (By the time he sat down for the interview there were close to ten phone calls saying what a great guy he was!)

Good luck!!

Baja.

 

[southernpilot]

SWA Interview

Do not let one single negative word slip from your lips during the process. BTW, the process starts from the time you kiss your spouse goodbye as you leave for the interview. It doesn't end until you kiss him/her hello when you get home. Every SWA person within earshot is focusing on YOU.

I suggest avoiding the bar at the hotel where you stay the night before. If you overhear a negative conversation at ANY time, walk away. Even if you are only an innocent bystander, some SWA PD spy might see you standing there and assume you to be negative. This especially goes for the bar.

In the interview, carefully choose your stories so that you never say or imply anything demeaning to any other human being, alive or dead.

Be politically correct at all times.

Don't lie about anything, but remember that YOU get to choose the story you want to tell. Just make sure that you choose a story that shows you to be great person who cares for others.

If you think that you can spin the "did you prep for this interview" question to your advantage, call AlbieF15. He's a great guy, who offers a great service. I just wish that I could tell you how to lie about using him when they ask.

Still after all these years

You Jerk!

You sound like you are in SWA HR Dept.
Yet everything you say is exactly true. Wish I had known that three years ago.

 

[Captain Overs]

Don't tell them you've always had a boner for their F/A's ever since you started jumpseating. And definately don't tell them about the time you layed over in the same hotel and partied all night with the SW crew that had an early morning show when you had an extra 12 hours after they bailed!

Things to do (So I've heard from hired friends

Have your wife/G-friend make heart shaped cookies in SW colors and hand them out to everyone you meet along with your business card. (By the time he sat down for the interview there were close to ten phone calls saying what a great guy he was!)

Good luck!!

Baja.

Are you trying to get a job or try out for cheerleading?

 

[Going2Baja]

What's your point Capt? I don't need a job and never applied to SWA. All I said was leave the SWA party stories behind and cook cookies if you're into that. If you're trying to be funny - it didn't work. So as your profile says - Get back to being the 'bottom.' Oh yeah - good luck w/ that.

Baja.

 

[Hagar17]

Or.........Captain Ellen she must be gellin.........is that her Beaver that's smellin?

Dude, LMAO, I just about experienced a catastrophic reverse ingestion of Honey Comb and milk through my nose......................:laugh:

 

[learflyer]

What's your point Capt? I don't need a job and never applied to SWA. All I said was leave the SWA party stories behind and cook cookies if you're into that. If you're trying to be funny - it didn't work. So as your profile says - Get back to being the 'bottom.' Oh yeah - good luck w/ that.

Baja.

Well, if your supposed to "be yourself", Bringing cookies to a job interview is not being yourself. Even for Martha Stewart. If your supposed to be positive all day, and not talk a little negativity, your not being your self, he11, your not being human.

 

[Papa Woody]

Don't unirinate on the floor. Don't pick your nose. Don't burp. Don't fart. Don't ask stupid questions. Don't wear Dockers. Don't eat. Don't sleep. Don't scratch your crotch.

I guess a bow-tie is out of the question?

 

[atafan]

Picking your nose is OK, just don't eat it or flick it.

 

[Fox-Tree]

Here's something not to do:
One of the interview team is a chick.
Don't start out with: "Can I smell your pu$$y?" NO!!!!
"Oh, well then it must be your feet."

That's right out.

 

[learflyer]

and if she doesn't take care of her feet, it means she doesn't take care of u know what on the way down!!!!

 

[pilots-wife]

WOW...WHAT HAPPENED? I thought this was a professional forum with professional adults.

Thank you to those that have offered serious advice.