Air Canada Interviews

[mogas]

Hi guys. Do educational transcripts have a deciding factor in the selection process?

[watermeth]

no

[iaflyguy]

I tried to apply last night and the site said no available jobs. Was only able to create a profile. Today it says the site is down for a week. Any word? Any other ways to get resume in?
5000+ and University

[OldDogNewTricks]

Hey folks,

To recap - Military/Avn College/4500TT/3900Turbine/600Turboprop

16 Dec - Call for interview
10 Jan - Interview
23 Jan - Call for medical
25 Jan - Medical

...and now I wait

Any gouge on the next course past 6 Feb? I assume there is probably a 5 or 12 March course. How long is the course?

Fingers crossed!

[Pilotslounge]

Anybody else in the early Jan interview group get a call for the medical? I have been watching my phone... hoping it will ring. Good luck to all!!!

[OldDogNewTricks]

Got the call tonight to give me the heads up that they would be contacting my references tomorrow. HR guy sounded like it was a done deal and I might be looking at a March course.

[Sea2Sky]

Congrats, Dog! To answer your question, PIT (indoc) is 2 weeks, break, 1 week procedures trainer (with breaks), 2 weeks sim (with breaks), line indoc, line check. All tolled, you are usually line checked 2 months from course start. The total length varies with your breaks, as the sim and class schedules vary.

[OldDogNewTricks]

Thanks Sea2Sky. Thats great information. It helps me with my planning to leave the military. Cheers!

[medEvac]

hey guys, ive read through all these threads on avcanada and thanks for all the good posts guys.
i got the email for an interview and i havent been able to find as much info as i thought i would have been able to.

what ( if anyone knows) is the success rate of the initial interview?

if anyone could post or pm anymore info on the questions they ask and anymore helpful info as they see it that would be great.

i did a jazz interview and there seemed to be a lot more helpful interview prep stuff available.

and for those who will undoubably ask
4000+ hrs
900 > 12500 mpic
most of my total is mpic
no college
french and english
efis

[medEvac]

also what is the schedule like for a new hire after line indoc completion?

say 777 rp? is it easy to comute? how many days do you work in a row, how many days off?

thanks again guys

[WhatThe?]

Airlinepilotcenter.com look for "gouge's"

Good luck

[ogopogo]

Airlinepilotcenter.com look for "gouge's"

Good luck

It's airlinepilotcentral.com and beware of multiple errors when you get over to mypilotcareer.com . AC no longer operates the A340 and certainly does not operate the B757. And where the heck is this base called "Winnig"?

[WhatThe?]

Airlinepilotcentral.com

Sorry

[ywg9]

Just wondering have calls started going out for the march gs

[OldDogNewTricks]

Got the call today for 5 March!

[collegejunkie]

Hi,

How important is it to follow the STAR format when answering questions? Also, to those who were succesful with the interview, how long were your answers? I don't want to seem like im blabbing on.

One more thing...how far away is the Four Points Sheraton from the CAE/Air Canada building in a taxi?

[redline7921]

3200TT/ 1400 MPIC/ 100 Jet/ Nothing above 12,500/ Aviation College

Called Beginning of Nov and asked for an updated resume
Emailed Mid Nov for interview
Interview Beginning of Dec
Emailed Beginning of Jan for medical
Medical Jan 23
Called Today (Feb 3) for March 5th course

A BIG thanks to all who helped me get to this point!

[MeAndMrPenguin]

STAR is an aid.

It will:

Prevent you from wondering.
Round out your story.
Keep the pace of your answer.
Make sure you convey all of your story.
Prevent panic one word answers which score...next to zero.
Allow you to relax.


Remember, if you get a curve ball, it is totally acceptable to ask for a moment to think about your response.

[OldDogNewTricks]

Consider that fact that the interviewers will be spending almost all of their time writing your responses feverishly. They will try and summarize your responses to the hiring board. So the descriptive words you use are important because they are the ones that will make it onto the paper. You have to deliver the message in a complete enough fashion that they can capture the "good message" (Use of SOP's, Teamwork, Team building...). So the STAR method keeps you on message and gives a nice package for each response.

[collegejunkie]

Thank you for the responses....

How far away is the Four Points Sheraton in a Cab? is it in proximity to the CAE/Air Canada Building?

[N8]

How far away is the Four Points Sheraton in a Cab? is it in proximity to the CAE/Air Canada Building?

Let me google that for you....
9 minutes, 5.4 kms.

http://maps.google.ca/maps?saddr=6257+A ... s&t=h&z=14

Good luck

[popnchips]

Got the call for March 5th!

4600 TT
2300 MPIC (all under 12500)
No Jet
No French
No EFIS
Aviation College

Interview Dec 1st
Medical Jan 11th
Ref check Jan 12th
Call for GS Feb 3rd

It is a lot of waiting for phone calls but worth it. The interview/behavioral/cog test day can be stressful depending on what order you do it in. I was the last person to do the interview that day so I was anxious through most of the tests. I finished the cog and behavioral stuff by 11:00 and had to sit and wait till 14:00. Used it as more prep time. follow the format and try to convey all the important points (SOP's, CRM, SMS, passenger comfort) As stated earlier the pilots interviewing you are there to translate your stories from Aviation to HR. They were very good at making me feel comfortable in the interview, and understand that it is a big step in most pilots career. Pick out your best stories and forget the rest, write them out and practice saying them out loud in the proper format. I did not do the PCC online course but probably should have just as practice. I went through all the interview type questions I could find whit a fellow pilot who had done the interview a month before me. If you walk in prepared and confident (but not cocky) you should do fine. Don't sweat the behavioral tests, if you give and honest assessment of yourself you should be fine. I did put down some less than favorable answers. Not to say I'm a bad person but who can honestly say they have never lied or broken any law ever?
Hope it helps, good luck to all.

[mogas]

Does the medical invitation comes in a form of email or phone call? And how long after the interview would you expect to receive the medical invitation (from what I've read its anywhere from 2 to 5 weeks)? Feeling kinda antsy...

[popnchips]

E-mailed for Dec 1st interview in mid Nov. Got a phone call for the medical on Jan 9th. Followup e-mails for everything.

[sim_deval]

Tell me what you guys think :

I received an email 5 days ago inviting me to choose a date for an interview. Obviously, the selected date for my interview has to be confirmed by HR. So I immediately responded but since last wednesday I haven't received any news or confirmation. I am not in a rush and I understand the selection process is a lot of work for HR but I'm really starting to worry since one of the interview date is in less than 24h from now...

Do you think my response got lost? Should I send another email or patiently keep waiting ??

Thanks