Speak like you are talking to someone with a slight language barrier, slow and deliberate, do not interrupt the interviewer, and listen closely to them so as to fully understand their questions.
Don't use 1000 words if 100 will do the job.
Can you tell I have had kids????
Be calm and good luck.
That sounds like a pretty good tactic - I sort of throw words together and talk faster on the whole when I'm nervous and only a few people can keep up. I've been trying to mentally take it slower to think about each word and pronunciation. I'll give that a try over the weekend, I have some online German friends I play War Thunder with but haven't tried speaking with. Great advice, thank you very much.
So, just pretend the interviewer is from Ohio!
Ooookay then?
Normally, I would recommend calling from a landline. If you're going to be on the road at least find a spot with good signal coverage and park while you're on the interview call.
Yeah, I'm planning on stopping in OKC or somewhere with great reception a while beforehand. I'm planning on pulling out my resume, cover letter, interview questions, and a few notes I'm going to be writing up here about the most common interview questions by phone ("Tell me about yourself", "Tell me about your biggest strength or weakness", "What are your salary expectations", and "where do you expect to be in five years" are a few google searches yielded). Any opinions on answering those would be great.
Find an airport on the way, stop there, use the landline.
Relax. Don't rush. Think before speaking.
KAPA?
Actually, KASE in Aspen. One of the problems when I get talking really fast is I don't "fly the airplane" - it ends up flying me. I mix words together that I'm considering and sound retarded. I'm working on it though. Whenever I try to speak slower, I feel like I'm doing 15 in a 70mph zone. I guess it'd be better to speak slower so I can fill out the full 30 minutes of interview (with the added benefit of being understood).
Congrats on second interview. Just take your time. You will be fine.
Shawnee huh....I was a Paramedic for the Shawnee Regional Hospital for 7 years in early 90s. Have a lot of good memories there! Grandma in Seminole and I grew up in Noble. Good area
Really? Cool. It's not a bad place, I moved here in Oct 2012 as the first move away from my parents in CA. Since then, I've worked fast food and aviation parts sales. And seen 2 tornadoes in person... Give me earthquakes any day!
It appears that you are from Shawnee. My cousin is the manager of the Shawnee airport. He may be able to give you some pointers. I bet he wouldn't mind if you stopped in to visit. He has a degree in aviation administration and was the ops manager at Morristown airport just outside of NYC. He wanted to move back to God's country and took the gig at Shawnee about a year ago. If you are interested, PM me and I can give you his contact info, or you can just go find him at the airport. Don't know if he's out there on weekends.
Holy crap, aviation really IS a small community. Yes, I'd love to talk to him beforehand and see what he has to offer about airport operations. Ideally, I'd like to be flying for a living (PPL 96 hours), but I'm just out of college and there are always airports to work at in case, you know? I went calling around the airport at the FBO and at a couple other on-airport places but none had anything available. Sure, shoot me a message with his contact info, I'd like to pick his brain!
Do find a question to ask. It looks good.
But I don't suggest presumption.
Good luck.
I've heard mixed messages about asking "when do I start". I'm not an incredibly confident person and it just feels out of place and a bit off to me, but some people I know have used it to get into other jobs so who knows. I'll probably just stick to asking questions I think. Speaking of which, what kind of questions would I ask? If it was something about the job, I feel like it'd make me look like I'm really interested (which I am), but at the same time they may not like it because I don't know the job and the duties involved. Part of it is becoming licensed to drive snowplows and runway brooms and a ton of other stuff though, so maybe I could ask about that?
There's also a
Beechcraft Starship on field...not that I've been spying or anything. So gorgeous.
I'm also curious, on the subject of questions to ask - I know rent is expensive there because, well, it's Aspen. I half wanted to ask if there were any possible places for rent for people like me at the job. I'll be making $16/hour full time if I get the job and I wanted to make sure that'd be paying at least a barely livable wage for the area. From what I've heard, everything is more important there due to the location - milk and bread being more expensive, even fast food wages, is why I want to ask. My dad thinks it's a bad idea to ask that because it makes it sound like I'm unprepared for the area and the cost involved. I've also only moved once on my own in my life, so there's that. Thanks for the support guys, any advice is appreciated.
jk, good luck!
