Cathay Pacific recently held their
invite-only interview session at Crowne Plaza Hotel for Singapore based crew,
and I was the few who got lucky to get selected. I personally feel that they
are rather low-keyed; there weren’t any advertisements about this recruitment,
and i only got to know about it through flygosh. Thanks flygosh!
Okay so I
applied via email as per their instructions, sent a CV and cover letter, and
few days after the date of closing of the application, I received an email stating
to attend their first interview session.
1st Interview: It’s in a meeting room in the hotel, and I
was rather surprised by the number of people attending, only about 20 attended.
But I wasn't sure if there were other first interview sessions. So I proceeded to
registration counter, took a name tag, and first they did was to measure the arm
reach.
They mentioned height isn't important, but rather whether you can reach
the height stated is more important, which is rather true. You can be 165 tall
but you have shorter hands, or you can be 156 tall but have longer hands. But
either way, I passed, and went into the room. It was a banquet seating, so there’s
a quilted table with chairs around it.
First it was a brief introduction of Cathay
Pacific and working environment of Singapore based crew. And followed by the
REAL assessment. Each table were given strips of paper containing a topic, and
everyone had to choose one, stand up and talk about the topic you chose, and
basically entertain everyone with your presentation skills. Similar to show and
tell?
With a 1 minute limit. This was more of a warm up session, but they are
STILL assessing you.
Next was a group work. Naturally every
table forms a group itself, and each table given a scenario and questions, and
within the group, we had to either come up with solutions/conclusions/answers
etc depending on which scenario you got.
We were also given flipcharts and
markers, and within 10 minutes, we had to sort everything we want to share
among ourselves. That’s a challenge, 10 minutes is quite short, but the longer
it is, the more expectations they have of us. In this phase, I noticed the assessors
weren't looking much at us, so I guess they are focusing more of the
presentation part. Either way, 10minutes was up, and everyone shared a bit of
what their group discussed, and that was the assessment.
