Glassdoor users rated their interview experience at Air Canada as 100% positive with a difficulty rating score of 3 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty). Candidates interviewing for Flight Attendant and rated their interviews as the hardest, whereas interviews for Flight Attendant and roles were rated as the easiest.
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I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Air Canada in Nov 2017
Interview
I received an e-mail about a recorded interview almost immediately and completed it a few days later. I got a call from Talent Acquisition the day after applying but missed the call. I returned the call but ended up leaving a message. Now waiting.
Did anyone else apply from away? Do you have to get to Toronto/Calgary/Vancouver on your own for the face to face interview?
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
A passenger is upset because they can't find space in the overhead compartment for their carry-on bag. What do you do?
I applied online. The process took 1 week. I interviewed at Air Canada (Vancouver, BC) in Nov 2017
Interview
I applied for air canada and got a call back a week after? did my phone interview which was very easy and language test and now going for face to face interview.
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at Air Canada (Vancouver, BC) in Oct 2017
Interview
The interview process has been an amazing, professional, and extremely thorough. Immediately after I saw the job opportunity on LinkedIn, I was recommend by a senior flight attendant to apply.
Not even 24 hours after my application was sent, I received a phone call to schedule a phone interview with very simple questions made for screening purposes (they also exaggerate how demanding the schedule is and that it'd be beneficial if you are bilingual).
A week goes by and we scheduled a language assessment test which was fair as its purpose is to see if you are able to comprehend the language and express your feelings in the specific language. I was tested in English, French, and Spanish. For French they asked me to spell my name and other SIMPLE questions (I don't want to go into much detail as it seems like each step should be almost like a surprise.. which I liked!). All I can recommend is for you to study your conversational skills.
Afterwards, I was invited for a face-to-face interview which took place at a hotel. Wow it was well organized! Again, I don't want to spoil too much to ruin it, but it was very interesting! We started in a big ball room with registration (expect 50+ people). Then a recruiter called people as they came in and they we were led to another room to begin the F2F interview. If you passed that portion, you were then invited to another room with a group and do a group interview (it was fun and an interesting way to see how people work in a group)!
Once you pass that round, you were invited by the recruiter for a medical exam which I had done yesterday and now waiting for that final call. Again, it was a VERY thorough exam (drug testing, etc..). Before I forget, before the medical exam you were tasked to do several online tests to determine IQ and EI.
I hope this helps anyone who's in the current hiring process! Over the last few weeks I've been desperate to find anything on the hiring process (interview questions, etc) but I realized that the experience of it being almost secretive was even better. If this job is meant for you, it will happen!
Best of luck to everyone.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Tell me about a time where you had to make a difficult choice, but either way, the result would negatively effect someone.