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Post by xanngac » Wed, 19 Dec 2007 5:58 pm

Don't give up must have faith in yourself snowss. :)
And so my journey begins... :)

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Post by xanngac » Wed, 19 Dec 2007 5:59 pm

jassylolly wrote:hehe my birthday also in Jan ^^
25th Jan, that is. yours?
Hee mine's on the 10th.
And so my journey begins... :)

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Post by elyn3ve » Wed, 19 Dec 2007 6:48 pm

xanngac wrote:
jassylolly wrote:hehe my birthday also in Jan ^^
25th Jan, that is. yours?
Hee mine's on the 10th.
hihi.. mine is on 9th! :)

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Post by garlic » Wed, 19 Dec 2007 7:19 pm

O2 Zinc wrote:
garlic wrote:
O2 Zinc wrote: think she will only be back next week, as 2molo is public holiday.. :???:
oh ya! friday then.. hope she's not taking few weeks/mths leave. :?
i have just received call from SIA, the mgmt is confirmed at 26 Dec, mine is 9.30am slot..who else having the same as me?
i still have not receive any calls. argh! hope they haven't forgotten me..

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Post by sqhopeful » Wed, 19 Dec 2007 8:14 pm

I got an e-mail to go for the interview on the 27th too! :) Gosh! It's my 5th time and I reallllly hope to make it in 2007!

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Post by VeniE » Wed, 19 Dec 2007 8:37 pm

Okay ppl…
To help those newbies and the members here who are going for the upcoming interview, I’ll do a summary of the rounds and little Venie’s tips.

Round 1: Mass intro (a group of 10 ppl)
There will be 2 interviewers doing the interview, one will be doing the talking and another one will be the observer. Usually they will ask you do a self-intro and why wanna be cabin crew.

For me, the interviewer asked us to do a short intro and something interesting abt yourself. The interviewer also emphasis that they dun want us to state why we wanna be cabin crew( sick of hearing the same ans. lol.). So when it’s my turn, I do a short intro of myself and regarding the interest part myself, I told them abt my experience as a school prefect.

For this round, they wanna see how you react in a crowd of ppl, and how you present yourself. While waiting for your turn to speak, always sit still and pay attention to the person who’s doing the talking coz the observer is watching EVERYBODY in the room. When it’s your turn, stand up, smile and take a deep breath before doing the talking. Speak with confident, not too much hand gestures and always smile in between the pause.

Keep your speech short and sweet. Best to limit it between 1 to 3 mins. Too long will appear too loh soh.

Round 2: Kebaya & skin check (kebaya only applies to girls)
Girls will change into the kebaya available on the stand. Choose one that is not too tight or too loose. They will ask you to tie up your hair if it’s long. Then you’ll queue up to take your height and weight. Den you’ll line up in a row to do your walking turn by turn.

Just walk as normal, not too stiff, not too fast. And SMILE!!! Sometimes the lady will ask you one or two questions, whether you working or studying, whether is this your first attempt. They just wanna look at your teeth.

If you pass you will proceed to skin check. If you were asked to change out of your kebaya means fail the walking. For the skin check, you’ll stand in front of a spotlight, abt a meter away. They will assess your face, neck, back, lower arms and hands. Not everyone is born with flawless skin, the thing is you must be able to cover those flaws. After that you can change your kebaya.

Round 3: 1 to 1 interview
This round there will be one interviewer doing the interview. It is more of get-to-know you session. They will look at your application form first before posting you any questions. Commonly questions asked are stated below. And at times they will ask you some plane scenario questions. Different ppl will get different questions, some tough ones some will get simple ones.

And there’s a passage to test your oral speaking. But some girls din get that. So depends on your interviewer ba. Always browse thru the passage first before you start to read. J

For me I was asked about my previous job and one interesting thing that happened. Why I wanna be cabin crew? Why I didn’t make it at my previous attempts? What I have improved so far from the first attempt till now? Scenario qns asked were what will you do if you met a drunken passenger? Will you still provide him more drinks? If you accidentally spilled a hot drink on a passenger and the passenger is super furious, what will you do?

Show them that you’re really keen in joining the airline.

Round 4: WCT
This was phased out. But not sure whether will they implement again. As I never been to this round so can’t help much. Keke..

Round 5: Mgmt Round
This round there’s two interviewers doing the interview, one is the observer and one will do the talking. Same thing, they will look at your application form before asking you the question, similar to Round 3.

For me, question ased were my previous job, why wanna join cabin crew, how long I intend to stay with the airline.

This is a list of commonly asked questions that I know of:
-tell me abt yourself & your family
-why do you wanna join SIA as a cabin crew?
-why cabin crew and not any other frontline job?
-what qualities does a cabin crew needs to acquire?
-why do you want to switch a career?
-why wanna leaveyour current job?
-what are the roles of a cabin crew?
-what makes a good customer service?
-where do you see yourself in 5 to 10 years time?
-how serious are you about being a cabin crew?
-why are you not selected from your previous attempts?
-what make you think i (SIA staff) will want you to join us as a cabin crew?
-if you're not successful, what are your plans?
-name me 5 cities that SIA flies to
-what do you know about SIA?
-what are the aircraft SIA currently has?
-what is the recent news you know about SIA?

Finally, just wanna say that just relax and dun panick. Once you’re too tensed up, you can think properly and ans that you give will not be the best. Definitely you don’t wanna regret after coming out if the interview that you din say this or that or should have said something else. They are not looking for perfect ans, as long as the ans you gave is justifiable will do.

I always tell myself: “If you can’t even handle these interviewers den what makes you think that you can handle those nasty passengers on board?”
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Post by ben-yng » Wed, 19 Dec 2007 9:25 pm

xanngac wrote:AAAHHHH~!!! Everyone!! I'm going for interview on the 27th!!!!! OMG!!!
ok..first to leave the Titanic..Congra

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Post by ben-yng » Wed, 19 Dec 2007 9:42 pm

salvana wrote:hey hey hey....xanngac....

U go ger... go go go....
row.. row... row... easy easy.... dun b nervous... u've ample time to prepare till 27th.
We shall b waiitng for ur good news here! :D

ben-yng,

hm... probably i shld juz focus on my study 1st... coz somehow this recruitment drive thingy is pretty distracting....
1 thing for sure, we'll definitely b colleague 1 fine day.

xanngac & ben-yng,

simply love ya both.... u both r very entertaining... simply neva fail to put a smile on my face wheneva i read ur posts... :)

hey :x why you sound like going to say good bye going to leave us? you wanna get punch izzit? dont you leave us for the moon trip.

I think you made a right decision, seems like this time they prefer those available "immediately", (my availability is after March)..so we better aim for Jan recruitment, get prepare from now on.. I will still send in the application, but of course..wont put hope on it..juz send for "fun" hehe..

ok 10 horse power to you, engine on for your study, ur study will definately effect you the most in your future careers~~

but dun leave this forum even 1 day oo.. we are part of this big family too (haha shy shy..punch me if you want).. :oops: :oops: :oops:

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Post by ben-yng » Wed, 19 Dec 2007 9:47 pm

xanngac & salvana,

love ya both too..but salvana ur msg sounds sad...my tear..my nose.. omg..i wanna cry~~~ i wanna sing~~~ :P

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Post by starrynitezz » Wed, 19 Dec 2007 9:48 pm

missy_ee wrote:
starrynitezz wrote:hmm.. if its not too obvious, should be ok ba.. if not u got to fix ur teeth

my 1st attempt was 2years back, i felt that she was staring at my teeth in e 1-1 session..
so i guess i din make it due to that.. i got buck teeth n vampire fangs.. :oops: went for e braces n teeth is much straighter now :D
I am now learning not to show my teeth when i smile...hee...
Starrynitezz, i thought you got through the 1 to 1 interview?? Hw about the management round??
hee... now im going for e management round on e 26th...i think this is my 5th attempt with SIA .. cant rem... started trying since 2 years back... :oops: e 1-1 session that i had failed was refering to e attempt 2 years back..which was my 1st attempt too..

tell me how not to show teeth? they are observing ur smile when u talk..even if u can get tru e 1st round, but theres still kerbaya n skin check n 1-1 to go..

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Post by ben-yng » Wed, 19 Dec 2007 9:51 pm

xanngac wrote:
VeniE wrote:
xanngac wrote: Thanks Venie for being such a motivation to us all. I'm sure there will be more "birds" joining you all soon! :)
no prob..

so what horse power you all want??

i help you keep a lookout in ebay.. whahahaha...
Hahaha the best you can find! With so many of us in the boat, the horse power must be very powerful.
Venie,

seems like you joining our topic as well hehe//

m a bit shy lar since you joining the nonsense topic brought out by me.."horse power" haha..

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Post by starrynitezz » Wed, 19 Dec 2007 9:54 pm

O2 Zinc wrote:
garlic wrote:
O2 Zinc wrote: think she will only be back next week, as 2molo is public holiday.. :???:
oh ya! friday then.. hope she's not taking few weeks/mths leave. :?
i have just received call from SIA, the mgmt is confirmed at 26 Dec, mine is 9.30am slot..who else having the same as me?
me 9.15am~ ha im feeling abit worried but excited too :lol:

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Post by ben-yng » Wed, 19 Dec 2007 9:54 pm

xanngac wrote:
jassylolly wrote:hehe my birthday also in Jan ^^
25th Jan, that is. yours?
Hee mine's on the 10th.
guys..since these 2 lovely gurl bring out their birth date..me ben-yng, will try my best to provide 300 horse power to them..

Happy Birthday ya!!!

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Post by ninono1 » Wed, 19 Dec 2007 10:15 pm

starrynitezz wrote:
O2 Zinc wrote:
garlic wrote: oh ya! friday then.. hope she's not taking few weeks/mths leave. :?
i have just received call from SIA, the mgmt is confirmed at 26 Dec, mine is 9.30am slot..who else having the same as me?
me 9.15am~ ha im feeling abit worried but excited too :lol:
mine is 930am.. hee..

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Post by starrynitezz » Wed, 19 Dec 2007 10:17 pm

huh.. minez e earliest arh... anyway e email said e whole process may stretch til 1pm...so long.. :???:

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