Emirates Day 2!

Going back to the same hotel, the next day, was a whole different experience then the first time. Everyone was happy and excited that they got called back. And there was only about 20 people compared to the day before -when there was 120.

Today mainly focused on how you interact with other people. We did a couple exercises, one of them involving us asking the person to our right which celebrity they would be for a day and why. I chose Colbie Caillat, and I know there are a ton of better choices, but I could NOT think of anyone else in that moment. At least it wasn’t Angelina Jolie..3 people out of my group of 10 chose her!

The 2nd activity was a scenario; your plane crashed, you have people who are hurt – out of the 10 items listed, which five things would you grab and why.

They then went around our group asking various questions about why,what,where,and how.

I lucked out and got the easiest one: We chose our 3rd item to bring to be bottled water. Eaaaasyyy.

Next: they deliberated while we waited in the hall. I was almsot positive I didn’t make it. There were a lot more outgoing, loud, confident ladies in my group, and I was just hoping I wouldn’t be the ONLY one going home. How humilating.

Well, they called us back into our room, and they gave us the “Thank you for coming, please leave right away if you do not make it” speech. But the way they eliminated people was so classy! We had all been given a number, and they called us to leave the room in numerical order. On the way out they gave everyone a slip of paper saying if they had made it or not.

I maaade it!

I was so shocked!

Only 8 people made it to the final round.

The only other person to make it from my group was a boy. And he happened to be the one of two boys there that day, and very good looking.

The rest of the day was spent waiting for our flight attendant instructors, and filling out paperwork. They gave us a detailed list of things we needed to bring back the following day to our one-on-one interview.

I was so excited! I left, actually considering what it might be like working for Emirates! And living in Dubai… not my favorite part of the job. That, and along with the 3 year contract you have to sign.

But I was still extremely excited to have made it another round!

I took a picture as I drove home from Day 2, so I would remember dat der daaayyyyy!

Emirates Day 1

So, I was supposed to have Saturday off. But, life happens, and I ended up going into work at the extremely early time of 3am; making,baking,and packaging our bread before leaving at 6am. It was a crazy morning!!

I rushed home, got ready, grabbed my things, and flew out the door (but not before stopping at the twin sisters house and getting tea & an english muffin! Yum Yum). I made great time, and got there a half hour before it started!

There was already a ton of people there, and I joined the line that had been forming, to pick up a couple forms we all had to fill out.

9 am comes, and we all file into the room and take our seats. I sat by my two new friends I had made.( Blue dress and Hawaiian girl.)

There was an introduction, talking about Emirates, how it worked after you are hired and your move to Dubai. Then following that, a DVD.

Did I mention that the two ladies that were leading the Open House were gorgeous and had amazing accents! One was from Australia, the other from Bosnia.

Afterwards, they had a Q&A session. People are pretty hilarious. Some of the questions they were asking were sooo silly. I mean, do you really need to know what the cost would be for all the different cell phone plans over in Dubai? C’mon.

Well, the thing that took up the most time was the interviewing process. There were only the two interviewers, needing to talk to the 120+ people,  and each conversation took 1 – 3 minutes.

So nice pretty Hawaiian girl and I left to get something to eat in the Hotel lobby. I never saw blue dress after that. This other blonde, that I had noticed at the very beginning of the day, ended up joining  us and we all got to chatting at the small starbucks.

It was crazy how far some of the Flight Attendant hopefuls had come; Georgia, North Carolina, Hawaii, Texas, a 7 hour drive up from Los Angeles! And as far as I knew, Emirates did not refund anyone of expenses. Yikes.

So after about a half hour, we went back in the main room and joined the line that had formed.

My turn came.. and 1st thing I was asked to do was complete the reach test. Shoes, off, reach up high, and yes!! I cleared the tiny poster that represented a certain height everyone had to be able to reach.

Following that were the questions.

“Can you tell me a time where you had to deal with an upset customer, and how you handled it”

I explained this horrible misunderstanding that had happened one time at my job, where a customer had brought in a picture of her family that she wanted put on a cake. The thing was, she wanted us to cut out the rest of the family – so that only the part of her daughter was left.

So we followed her directions, she came in to get her cake — and she flipped ouuutt when, after asking for her family photo back, did she realize we had used the actual picture and not a copy!

I described how upset she was and how I worked out the misunderstanding.

“Why do you want to be a Flight Attendant for Emirates?”

I had planned on giving the cliché answer of “I love people, love to travel” , mainly because I could not for the life of me think of another response! But when the time came, I ended up saying something along the lines of, ” Its something I have always wanted to do.”

I finished. Met my two friends out in the lobby and compared our interviews.

After numbers & “goodlucks!” were exchanged, the three of us went our different ways.

((The ladies had told us that if we received a call by 6pm, to come back the following day.))

I left thinking that I most likely would not be getting a callback.

But I diiiiid! I could not believe it 🙂

End of Day 1

Crazy Weekend.

I can’t remember if I have ever mentioned on this blog how I want to be a Flight Attendant.

Over the past year or so, I have gone to a couple interviews.

First one, flew out to Georgia, learned ALOT, wasn’t picked. ((ExpressJet)

Second one, flew out to Texas, was five minutes late due to …a lot of things, and they wouldn’t let me interview. ((Continental))

And this weekend I went to my third interview.  ((Emirates))

Only this time it was in San Francisco.

Pretty much the only reason I went to Emirates’ Open House was because of its location (only an hour and a half away), I had the day off , and I thought it would be a great experience ( So that, down the road, when I finally went to an interview I cared about, I would be more prepared.).

Thank goodness for helpful sisters, who go on spur-of-the-moment shopping trips, to be able to be properly dressed for the interview! (And, on top of that, win Tim McGraw/Kenny Chesney concert tickets for me!)

Well. The next couple of posts will tell you how the Open House went..