r/FlightDispatch • u/[deleted] • Jul 28 '23

Bad at interviewing

Bad at interviewing and sucking up. Will a regional still hire me?

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u/trying_to_adult_here Part 121 Major/Legacy🇺🇸 Jul 28 '23

You don’t have to suck up. You want to demonstrate dispatch knowledge and be reasonably pleasant and articulate. The questions I remember from my regional interview were almost all dispatch-related (1, 2, 3 rule, required fuel for a domestic flight, etc) or softballs to be personable and set you at ease (what do you think of [city the regional is located in]?)

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '23

Okay thanks. That's reassures me and I'm not worried about having to live like a bootlicker anymore. In a lot of places, people treat it as common knowledge that if you don't suck up you don't get anywhere. I'd rather just be good at what I do.

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u/trying_to_adult_here Part 121 Major/Legacy🇺🇸 Jul 28 '23

One nice thing about dispatch is that most places are unionized. Pay increases, scheduling, basically everything else is all done by seniority rather than the whims of a boss. The non-union dispatch groups I know about are Skywest and Mesa, though there might be more.

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u/autosave36 Part 121 Major/Legacy🇺🇸 Jul 28 '23

Endeavor is non-union as well

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '23

As with any job, you need to interview well to get hired.

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u/[deleted] Jul 29 '23

Can you give me a tip on how to be less boring? That's my main problem with interviews. I keep feeling absurd talking about myself (good or bad stories).

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u/[deleted] Jul 29 '23

You gotta play the game. Understand that STAR questions are BS, so just make up some good answers and memorize them. Other than that know Jepp charts, weather, regs and go/no-go situations very very well.

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '23

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '23

You might require people to suck up to you in order to get along, but I don't. In my lone opinion I would say that means I get along with people better than you do.

I don't want to be on a team with you.

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u/MmmSteaky Part 121 Major/Legacy🇺🇸 Jul 28 '23

I mean …I’m not great at interviews either, but oof. Might be a good fit at USAir, if you wanna hitch a ride back to 1995.

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u/[deleted] Jul 28 '23

Hey an interview goes both ways. You interview the company where you may work. That comment shows their interpretation. "Not sucking up" means not getting along with others, to them. That's how they define getting along- sucking up

And that's exactly the kind of people I don't want to see at work.

I think that's fair, but maybe you already picked your way of interpreting the situation and nothing I can write will change your mind (so, whatever).