If you were an airline interviewer.....

[Skyrunner]

Hey Ya'll,

Hypothetically, if you were on an airline interview board and got to ask any question, what would it be?

Why did you pick this type of question and what kind of answer are you looking for?

Do you like technical questions in interviews?

Just interested,

Gracias,

SR

 

[bobbysamd]

Two questions

1. Why do you want to work for our company?

2. Why should we hire you instead of the other well-qualified applicants who are interviewing today?

 

[Swerpipe]

Why should we hire you?

Why should we hire you as opposed to someone else?

Here is this question translated to English..
"Who are you and how are you a good match for our company?"

That's my favorite question. I used to ask this question as an interviewer for Boeing. It is a great way to get to know the candidate's preparation, sincerity, personality, communication skills, charisma, knowledge, ability to handle pressure, etc...
There is no right or wrong answer. The candidate's answer should let the interviewer learn about the candidate's commitment, preparation, understanding of company culture, ability and experience in teamwork, ability and experience in problem solving, sense of humor, intensity desire to work for the company, etc...

 

[Singlecoil]

You are on an overnight with our company and you are in your hotel room. You look out the window and notice an NFL cheerleading squad is down by the pool drinking margaritas.

Do you close the curtains?

Do you keep looking out the window?

Do you go down and sit on the other side of the pool?

Do you go down and talk to them?

If you go down, do you order a drink?

Do you order what they are having, or do you get a beer?

 

[80/20]

Do you like technical questions in interviews?
Yes, they are great to hide the question behind the question.
Besides checking technical knowledge they can be used to check for something totally different, such as attitude and people skills.

Tell me about a time when… questions can also be very effective.

 

[mar]

Apologies to John Cleese

"What is the airspeed velocity of an unladen swallow?"

 

[#1 Windmilling]

African? Or European?

 

[AZaviator]

2 MORE

What does the Flux Capassitor do?
How many gigawatts does it take to power the Flux?

If they missed these two questions on the spot, I would follow with..."OOOK.....WHY DON'T YOU GO AHEAD AND PACK UP YOUR STUFF AND ........AHH....WE'LL LET YA KNOW..."

 

[Hugh Jorgan]

If a man says something in the woods and there is no woman around to hear him say it. Is he still wrong?

 

[banned username 1]

Past behavior is the best predictor of future behavior. Think about how you want your employees to conduct themselves, their mindset, yadda-yadda. Craft questions that will give you that information, sift out the B.S., throw in some tech questions and there you have it. Actually, a good employment app and job histories will do about 1/3 of your screening for you. An H.R, person that is able to glean things out of those is invaluable.

But that's just my opinion.

UAL78

 

[race#53]

UAL, Where is the RV-8 based? You can see i race an RV-10!!!!

 

[jointops]

Skyrunner,

JetBlue specifically avoids technical questions. A couple of reasons for that but the most important is that the company feels everyone who is asked to interview is more than qualified to fly planes. So the important difference for our employee groups is the "company fit" factor. That's where the old personality comes in to play.

We focus on the personality and how you deal with issues like CRM, creating the right environment for your crew, using all the resources available to solve problems. These are focused on through specific questions (do a search on this board and all the gouge for the interview is here) and they're looking for answers to fit a situation/action/result format in your story telling.

Hope that helps and happy landings

 

[ArcherB]

would one of you mind giving an example to a good answer to the question " Why should we hire you over other qualified candidates" . Thank you

 

[Tug Driver]

You are on an overnight with our company and you are in your hotel room. You look out the window and notice an NFL cheerleading squad is down by the pool drinking margaritas.

Do you close the curtains?

Do you keep looking out the window?

Do you go down and sit on the other side of the pool?

Do you go down and talk to them?

If you go down, do you order a drink?

Do you order what they are having, or do you get a beer?

whats the correct answer???????

 

[Singlecoil]

whats the correct answer???????

There isn't one, of course. Just an example of the style of some of the interview questions out there. No matter what you say, the interviewer just nods slowly, says, "Hmmmm," and scribbles on his note pad.
Man I hope I never have to interview again, it sucks.

My advice would be to get Cage's Checklist for Success and do the exercises. Write out answers to the sample questions and think a lot about stories and experiences you have had that could describe you and your decision-making process. Know your stories well enough that you don't need notes to jog your memory. I made that mistake on one interview. They want you to be able to pull that stuff up quickly from memory while making consistent eye contact.