TBNT!

 Failing is probably the most important part of the process. So I beg you to not be to hard on yourself. Receiving a “Thanks but no thanks” time and time again, in the moment feels devastating. However it will make you appreciate your wings that much more.

I applied with the airlines for 3 consecutive years before getting a face to face interview.  On that day I received  yet another “Thanks but no thanks”. This wasn’t even a face to face I was personally invited to either, it was an open to the public interview in San Diego CA with 115 candidates(pre-Covid). So after waiting 6 months before I was qualified to reapply and interview, I  drove 3 1/2 hrs and went to an open interview in Fresno CA, a rural area with a much smaller population. The competition was less then 25 candidates. So if you take any tips away from this post let it be this. 

SOMETIMES ELIMINATING THE COMPETITION IS AS EASY AS CHANGING YOUR LOCATION.

RESEARCH, RESEARCH, and more RESEARCH! 

I spent the majority of the application process researching flight crew and all things aviation related. I didn’t know at the time what I was looking for I just knew I wanted to know everything about the industry. I found myself looking up the same things over and over again watching YouTube videos and reading and re-reading Glassdoor. I was completely consumed with finding my way into the sky. It wasn’t until I turned my research away from flight crew and the airline industry and channeled it into getting to know who I was that I finally received my first CJO: Conditional job offer.

 

Knowing yourself is KEY in any job interview. But a flight attendant interview is an interview on STEROIDS. You are selling yourself and in order to do that you need to know your product like the back of your hand. Most importantly it needs to be relevant to the consumer (the airline you are applying to). Now I can’t do everything for you but I will say this, being proud of who you are and what you are doing in life makes selling yourself far easier. 

If you go above and beyond in life the question “Tell me a time you went above and beyond?”won’t stump you. If you are open to constructive criticism and can own up to mistakes you’ve made and over come them. When asked about failures or weaknesses they won’t come across as negatives because weaknesses to an open minded self aware individual are not really weaknesses at all, they are only opportunities to grow. 

Lastly, don’t let intimidation get the best of you! Everyone in the room at your interview is beautiful but so are you! Chances are you have spent an enormous amount of time deciding on the perfect suit to wear and I promise you that you look just as sharp as the next guy.

Through it all SMILE, SMILE, SMILE.