Aer Lingus Cadetship - 2018

Ellenc234 · 17-05-2018 9:00pm

Has anyone done the "short video interview" yet? Just wondering what it's like

Thanks!!

gav4321 · 17-05-2018 9:09pm

Ellenc234 wrote: »

Has anyone done the "short video interview" yet? Just wondering what it's like

Thanks!!

Not yet, and I can't imagine anyone is going to discuss it here until the application closes on Sunday for the sake of an even playing field.

I did it before and I remember it being quite tough, you see the question for 15 seconds and the camera comes on you for 2 min. Quite difficult

Batman18 · 17-05-2018 10:45pm

gav4321 wrote: »

Not yet, and I can't imagine anyone is going to discuss it here until the application closes on Sunday for the sake of an even playing field.

I did it before and I remember it being quite tough, you see the question for 15 seconds and the camera comes on you for 2 min. Quite difficult

We can all hope can't we!! Cheers for the info on the way it works though

sailing · 18-05-2018 12:07am

Following on from the question of salary. A recently signed off pay rise will give a pilot with 26 years service assuming you hold command a basic salary of €201k before all other generous add ons. Retirement age is 60 with an option to continue to 65 if you wish.

Your expensive training is paid for in an era where similar opportunities are limited. You are also at the very start of a new career. I’m not sure what some people expect!

Its a great opportunity for anyone interested in getting into the industry and will be well over subscribed.

Aoibhs · 18-05-2018 12:15am

Ellenc234 wrote: »

Has anyone done the "short video interview" yet? Just wondering what it's like

Thanks!!

Haven’t done it yet but if you look at thread from last selection process you’ll have an idea. Going to do mine on Saturday.. dread it. Did the online assessments today. Good luck ðŸ˜¬

Tristan100 · 18-05-2018 1:01pm

To anyone who has done the online assessment, is a mouse needed?
Can it be done on a laptop track pad?

Aoibhs · 18-05-2018 1:59pm

Tristan100 wrote: »

To anyone who has done the online assessment, is a mouse needed?
Can it be done on a laptop track pad?

Laptop track pad works fine.. think it’s actually easier than using the mouse..

Ellenc234 · 18-05-2018 9:14pm

Aoibhs wrote: »

Haven’t done it yet but if you look at thread from last selection process you’ll have an idea. Going to do mine on Saturday.. dread it. Did the online assessments today. Good luck &#55357;&#56876;

Great thanks!! same here lol.. best of luck!

gav4321 · 18-05-2018 9:44pm

Done all of my tests tonight and the video interview. Questions quite straight forward but the camera setup got me a little bit.

Good luck to all

Aoibhs · 19-05-2018 11:15am

gav4321 wrote: »

Done all of my tests tonight and the video interview. Questions quite straight forward but the camera setup got me a little bit.

Good luck to all

Hi gav,
What kind of questions did they ask?

gav4321 · 19-05-2018 12:28pm

Aoibhs wrote: »

Hi gav,
What kind of questions did they ask?

Won't say the exact questions here as that would be unfair to the people who have already submitted.

But the questions were very general, nothing technical. I wouldn't be getting too worked up on them, it will be the format (video recording you with a clock in the corner counting down) that will put you off more so.

kona · 19-05-2018 12:54pm

Aoibhs wrote: »

Hi gav,
What kind of questions did they ask?

Its very easy to find out what the questions are if you use some intiative. Ya cant be asking boards.ie what way to configure before take off!

Batman18 · 19-05-2018 2:05pm

gav4321 wrote: »

Won't say the exact questions here as that would be unfair to the people who have already submitted.

But the questions were very general, nothing technical. I wouldn't be getting too worked up on them, it will be the format (video recording you with a clock in the corner counting down) that will put you off more so.

Definitely agree with this! Safe to say I'm not going to be the next big youtube star

:D

I hope not but I reckon this is the end of the road for me

jenni_495 · 19-05-2018 3:53pm

Don't get discouraged, these tests are hard, you have probably done better than you think. That's what I am hoping for myself anyway!

I don't know about anyone else but I sure as hell felt like I did a lot of waffling about very little in the video interview so sure we are all in the same boat

peavey555 · 19-05-2018 10:52pm

For anyone who have completed both assessments. In 2nd assessment, is your Interview item listed as completed or still "In Progress" after completing it ? I have a tick box beside all other items but not this one. Got an error message for 1 video upload for interview.....

Thanks

GTTDI GOD · 19-05-2018 11:19pm

peavey555 wrote: »

For anyone who have completed both assessments. In 2nd assessment, is your Interview item listed as completed or still "In Progress" after completing it ? I have a tick box beside all other items but not this one. Got an error message for 1 video upload for interview.....

Thanks

Just finished my assessments, the interview item had a check beside it. Fairly happy with the interview, questions weren’t too tough but I may have waffled a bit! Ha...happy enough with the rest of the assessments! Good luck to you all!

ChikiChiki · 20-05-2018 6:42am

Just going over my basic arithmithic now. Is there a need for calculators or are they permitted?

Thanks in advance.

Markkerley · 20-05-2018 1:59pm

GTTDI GOD wrote: »

Just finished my assessments, the interview item had a check beside it. Fairly happy with the interview, questions weren’t too tough but I may have waffled a bit! Ha...happy enough with the rest of the assessments! Good luck to you all!

What kind of questions came up in the interview if you don’t mind me asking? How long did it take?

Aoibhs · 20-05-2018 2:54pm

ChikiChiki wrote: »

Just going over my basic arithmithic now. Is there a need for calculators or are they permitted?

Thanks in advance.

Yeah they are allowed..

Aoibhs · 20-05-2018 2:55pm

Markkerley wrote: »

What kind of questions came up in the interview if you don’t mind me asking? How long did it take?

It’s only 90 seconds per question and there are 4 questions.. fairly standard questions.. nothing technical

Markkerley · 20-05-2018 4:00pm

Aoibhs wrote: »

It’s only 90 seconds per question and there are 4 questions.. fairly standard questions.. nothing technical

What were the questions? And did you speak for the full 90 seconds?

Kuyashi · 20-05-2018 4:02pm

Does anyone have an idea on the timeline for when invites/rejections would be sent out once the current stage deadline has passed?

Aoibhs · 20-05-2018 4:10pm

Markkerley wrote: »

What were the questions? And did you speak for the full 90 seconds?

Think I’ll be struck down if I gave the questions out.. but they were just general questions.. nothing abstract really.. no I didn’t speak for 90 seconds for every question you can stop the recording when you have said all you can say..

faoiarvok · 20-05-2018 4:37pm

Aoibhs wrote: »

Think I’ll be struck down if I gave the questions out.. but they were just general questions.. nothing abstract really.. no I didn’t speak for 90 seconds for every question you can stop the recording when you have said all you can say..

The people who have to review all these might appreciate brevity!

ChikiChiki · 20-05-2018 9:08pm

All done. A pretty mixed bag and reactions was the only one I got full marks on. Took a lot out of me mentally I must say, fairly exhausted after it.

Think Verbal Reasoning despite smashing practice ones was probably my worst part as I approached it wrong. Mouse control did ok for the first few mins and then a bit of carnage. Similar for others. Arithmathic was straightforward. Maybe got 1/2 wrong.

I thought the video interview was grand as im used to presentations/video conferencing etc from work however i really should have kept it more concise. Not enough time for me.

All in all I would say an average performance but hopefully enough! These things are not designed to be easy.

Definitely think i fared much better overall than the last time i did similar.

dubladdie · 20-05-2018 10:23pm

Hi, I'm trying to log in to do the online assessment but it wont let me. It says that we have until midnight to complete? Anyone else having this issue?

j4vier · 20-05-2018 10:24pm

dubladdie wrote: »

Hi, I'm trying to log in to do the online assessment but it wont let me. It says that we have until midnight to complete? Anyone else having this issue?

yes same, site is down

JustJoe7240 · 20-05-2018 10:25pm

Are you using the link from the second mail that was sent out, there were issues with the first one.

COR11 · 20-05-2018 10:26pm

I just had the same problem? I was in the middle of mine and had 2 assessments left, when I finished 1 of them I got a message saying “Service Unavailable HTTP Error 503. The service is unavailable”

j4vier · 20-05-2018 10:27pm

JustJoe7240 wrote: »

Are you using the link from the second mail that was sent out, there were issues with the first one.

yes using the second link, trouble started at 10 pm

SarahSTARRR · 20-05-2018 10:27pm

Ah lads!!! We crashed the site and I only had 2 more tests to complete

COR11 · 20-05-2018 10:28pm

What are the chances of them fixing it before 12....

SarahSTARRR · 20-05-2018 10:29pm

Seeing as its a Sunday, I'm not very confident

COR11 · 20-05-2018 10:32pm

SarahSTARRR wrote: »

Seeing as its a Sunday, I'm not very confident

They’ll hardly reopen it tomorrow?

johnner_c · 20-05-2018 10:34pm

Yep. Was just about to do the video assessment...had given the example a bash twice (it's a nightmare btw lol) and then bam, site crashes. I'm gonna walk away for 20 minutes then come back and hopefully it's sorted!

SarahSTARRR · 20-05-2018 10:36pm

COR11 wrote: »

They’ll hardly reopen it tomorrow?

I have emailed and asked if an extension will be granted due to the site going down so we'll have to wait and see I guess :mad:

johnner_c · 20-05-2018 10:38pm

SarahSTARRR wrote: »

I have emailed and asked if an extension will be granted due to the site going down so we'll have to wait and see I guess :mad:

Did you just respond to the AerLingus email with all the details in it? or is there a specific address?

j4vier · 20-05-2018 10:39pm

SarahSTARRR wrote: »

I have emailed and asked if an extension will be granted due to the site going down so we'll have to wait and see I guess :mad:

same

email sent to aerlingus@cut-e.com

johnner_c · 20-05-2018 10:40pm

Ok cheers. Will do the same now.

dubladdie · 20-05-2018 10:47pm

COR11 wrote: »

They’ll hardly reopen it tomorrow?

SarahSTARRR wrote: »

I have emailed and asked if an extension will be granted due to the site going down so we'll have to wait and see I guess :mad:

They will have to re-open it and give some sort of an extension surely? Fingers crossed!

COR11 · 20-05-2018 10:56pm

Anyone know if this happened the last time?

WayneH · 20-05-2018 11:03pm

Same problem here guys but I also sent my email to Recruit at AerLingus dot Com (sorry, it wont let me post an email address) as I suspect cut-e are a vender who AL outsource teh tests too, and I suspect they wont be calling AL in the morning to advise that they had an outage.

Markkerley · 20-05-2018 11:04pm

dubladdie wrote: »

They will have to re-open it and give some sort of an extension surely? Fingers crossed!

Yeah surely they will reopen it tomorrow. They cant let so many people miss out on their possible future because of an issue on their side. If it was ryanair... well.. it would be a different story

Markkerley · 20-05-2018 11:10pm

Lads and ladies, are ye gonna keep trying until midnight or pack it in?

COR11 · 20-05-2018 11:14pm

Markkerley wrote: »

Lads and ladies, are ye gonna keep trying until midnight or pack it in?

Pack it in, anyone who can fix the problem is in bed no doubt

SarahSTARRR · 20-05-2018 11:16pm

Markkerley wrote: »

Lads and ladies, are ye gonna keep trying until midnight or pack it in?

Pack it in. No way is it going to be back up and fully functioning for everyone to complete their tests in the next 45 mins.

Markkerley · 20-05-2018 11:16pm

True enough, hopefully they'll open it again tomorrow. Be a pity if we did all of those assessments for nothing

JustJoe7240 · 20-05-2018 11:28pm

Markkerley wrote: »

Yeah surely they will reopen it tomorrow. They cant let so many people miss out on their possible future because of an issue on their side. If it was ryanair... well.. it would be a different story

Playing Devils advocate here, But they may not, Applicants had 4 days to complete the assessments,and with the thousands of applicants who have probably already completed the assessments, They may just say tough luck to the guys who were having issues with the portal in the final 2 hours.

COR11 · 20-05-2018 11:30pm

JustJoe7240 wrote: »

Playing Devils advocate here, But they may not, Applicants had 4 days to complete the assessments,and with the thousands of applicants who have probably already completed the assessments, They may just say tough luck to the guys who were having issues with the portal in the final 2 hours.

People have work and family commitments, no point setting a deadline if you’re not going to honour it

a320famalam · 20-05-2018 11:47pm

COR11 wrote: »

JustJoe7240 wrote: »

Playing Devils advocate here, But they may not, Applicants had 4 days to complete the assessments,and with the thousands of applicants who have probably already completed the assessments, They may just say tough luck to the guys who were having issues with the portal in the final 2 hours.

People have work and family commitments, no point setting a deadline if you’re not going to honour it

True enough. I work 4 on 4 off 12 hour shifts. First opportunity I had to do this after minimal prep was today.

Deadline was until midnight all, unfortunately things went down before midnight cutting the deadline short. Aer lingus will likely work with people as opposed to take a hard nosed approach.

All remains TBC but stay positive, the airline wants people to do well - doesn't want them to get shafted by a dodgy IT server.

Good luck!

Aer Lingus Cadetship - 2018

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