Leg One: Curbside
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0.1 Who is this for?
Eligibility Pre-requisites
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0.2 How this works
Your learning key
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0.3 The Interview Illusion
Your anti-illusion toolkit
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0.4 Onboarding
Deadheading a supernumerary flight
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0.5 Serial Reject
From serial reject to Emirates graduate.
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1.0 Curbside Prebriefing
Welcome aboard
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1.1 Pre-Screening
Requirements & Crosschecking
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1.2 Clipped Wings
Crosschecking the 99% Rejection Rate
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1.3 Preparing Paperwork
Application Photos (Corporate Culture)
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1.4 Getting Dressed
Grooming (Corporate Culture)
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1.5 Preparing For The Event
The Cabin Crew Lifestyle (Early Mornings)
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1.6 The Guest House
Grooming (Operational Clothing) Dress like you belong up there.
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1.7 Virgin Atlantic (VHQ)
Cabin Crew Habits
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1.8 My Forever Uniform
Why do you want to become cabin crew?
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1.9 Curbside Debriefing
Crew Crosscheck — let’s review the journey so far.
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2.0 Jet-Bridge Prebriefing
Your first lesson in airborne intelligence begins now.
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2.1 Welcome to Virgin
Airline Intel
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2.2 Briefing Room
Cumulative Impressions and Airport Time
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2.3 Meet Your Crew
Interview Buddies & Slam-Clickers
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2.4 Dress Code?
Grooming (The corporate colour trend)
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2.5 Swimming Test?
Gilding the Lily to Overcome Requirements
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2.6 Meet the Seniors
Performative Alignment vs Behavioural Integrity
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2.7 Jet-Bridge Debriefing
Crew Crosscheck — let’s review the journey so far.
Leg Three: InFlight
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3.0 Inflight Prebriefing
The method behind the madness
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3.1 Q&A Round
Ignorance vs Silence
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3.2 Self-Presentation
Alignment & Personality
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3.3 Discovery Mission – Group Task – Part 1
Failure often reveals success
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3.3b Meet the Recruiters
You can’t sneak past professional people-watchers
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3.4 Discovery Mission – Group Task – Part 2
Comparison vs Connection
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3.5 Discovery Mission – Group Task – Part 3
A world of instinct and evidence
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3.6 Discovery Mission – Group Task – Part 4
Cultural Awareness and Introducing Others
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3.7 Pretty Woman – Group Task – Part 1
Crew Resource Management & Flying Through the Crash
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3.8 Pretty Woman – Group Task – Part 2
Practical Personality Tests and Behavioural Crosschecks
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3.8b Layover – Dance Through The Spills
The Clash of Assumptions
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3.9 Find and Chuck
Situational Awareness
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4.0 Pre-Interview Briefing
Stress-testing the process, from start to finish
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4.1 Pre-Interview Prep
Meddling in mock interviews
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4.2 Customer Service Experience
Questions (Hypothetical vs actual)
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4.3 Grooming
Grooming (Breaking the rules)
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4.4 Setting Off
Prep is a lifestyle choice
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4.5 Arrival
Leave Regrets Behind. Bring tactics.
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5.0 Pre-Section Briefing
The madness begins
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5.1 EK Video
Beware the slow, glossy seduction
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5.2 The Q&A Round
Missed opportunities
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5.3 Bathroom Break
Undercover recruiters
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5.4 Group Discussion – Stubbed Out
Group Discussions (Competing for noise)
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5.5 Elimination Round One
Why did they make it?
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6.0 Pre-Section Briefing
The revolving teacup of group assessments
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6.1 Group Discussion – The Revolving Teacup
Group Discussions (Over-agreeableness)
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6.2 Essay – What do you think the role involves?
What do you think the role of cabin crew involves?
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6.3 Personality Test
Crew or not crew?
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6.4 Group Discussion – Ditched
Group Discussions (Managing repetition)
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6.5 Mini One on One
From number to name
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7.0 Pre-Section Briefing
How quickly they forget
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7.1 Final Interview
It only takes a week to be forgotten
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7.2 Final Final Interview
Rote memorisation vs muscle memory
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7.3 Question: Why do you want to be cabin crew?
The recruiter’s scalpel that exposes fantasy
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7.4 How to frame ANY story
Don’t avoid your passion topics…use them to your advantage.
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7.5 Question: Have you visited Dubai?
Questions (Cultural adaptation)
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7.6 Question: Why do you want to work for this airline?
Questions (Corporate culture)
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7.6b Layover – Virgin Atlantic Ghost Flight
When it’s your dream airline
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7.6c Question: Why do you want to work for this airline?
Questions (Fit vs infatuation)
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7.7 Question: When have you struggled to fit in?
Questions (Adaptability)
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8.00 Pre-Section Briefing
Onboarding
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8.01 Application Photographs
What is the real point of application photos?
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8.02 The Golden Call
DXB Bound
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8.03 Marhaba Dubai
Biometrics and Security
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8.04 Induction week
Two dozen nationalities and a bunch of slam-clickers
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8.05 Uniform Fitting
Up down zig zag turn
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8.06 Grooming
Have you ever looked in the infinity mirror?
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8.07 SEP
BRACE! BRACE! EVACUATE!
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8.08 Ditching
Duh, swimming is a regulatory requirement
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8.09 Joyeux anniversaire
Cream piped like a veil
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8.10 Graduation
I am now a flight attendant — or am I?
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8.11 Champagne or chocolate?
Wash scrub reapply
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9.0 Final Debrief
Crew Crosscheck — let’s review the journey so far.