hello i cannot wait to share with you the exciting exciting exciting exciting news news that so many
of y'all have been waiting for but delta air limes is going to be accepting flight attendant
applications this week so today is saturday the 15th of january 2022 so this week this week
sometime this week sooner rather than later um delta airlines will be accepting flight attendant
applications and um this is really really exciting because they usually don't accept applications
this early in the year they're usually wrapping up from you know they just accepted applications in
august of 2021 and um have been bringing back people that had job offers pre-pandemic
and now they are already ready within just a few months of the last time they accepted applications
to accept more flight attendant applications and the reason that they're ready to um hire flight
attendants more flight attendants is because they are getting ready to grow um they're getting
they're just you know they just they're gonna keep climbing i think is the way they would say
that and in this case that means they're going to be uh expanding to new destinations new routes i
can't wait to see what their new destinations are that's always really exciting when an airline goes
into a new place um so that's why they are hiring flight attendants again so quickly on the heels
of the last time that they accepted applications it's because of growth um airlines hire for two
reasons either growth or attrition um growth means they're expanding and they're actually
adding to the workforce attrition when they hire because of attrition that means that they have
had some turnover or some churn in their in their work group so most recently we've been seeing
a lot of hiring with the mainline carriers due to attrition that resulted in people either not
returning after furlough or um which delta didn't furlough but uh people were coming back not coming
back after leave or furlough or people who took um at the beginning of the pandemic they took
early retirements and now that aviation is back up and running there was some attrition from that so
a lot of the airlines were actually just filling spots um even but they weren't growing but delta
has announced that this hiring coming up this week is going to be because of growth which is
really exciting that's just really really exciting um it's always nice healthy things
grow right plants children airlines uh so that's super exciting um i've gotten notes here because
i want to make sure i go over all the different things that i want to tell you um they're okay
so this year they are they're going to be hiring they're estimating about 1500 flight attendants
um and that's in addition to the flight attendants that they put through training
last year and are scheduled to go to training you know like this month next month that already
received their job offers last year so it's another 1500 which brings their total from 2020 to
2022 to over 4 500 new delta airlines flight attendants there have been some years where we
have been excited when they were gonna hire 250 flight attendants like i could remember that i
can remember one year they increased it from like 500 to 750 was their estimation it was that was
within the last well since i've been doing this so within the last eight years but uh that and
that was like holy cow so much opportunity and this year 1500 which brings their total to 4 500.
so cool um so if you are able to apply again and you have not been successful in the past um you
are not alone there are lots and lots and lots of people who are um not successful uh the first time
that they interview with delta or the second even and there are so many people that i can
even think of that i know of that people that you'll even meet during the recruiting process
that it took them multiple times before they were able to um polish themselves to the level
that delta was looking for and now they've had successful careers and have some responsibility
and it was no reflection on uh how many times it took them to secure the job so that's really
exciting that hopefully that's encouraging if you haven't been successful in the past um so i wanted
to share that with you and um delta is hiring i think this goes without saying but they are hiring
this is going to be for english speakers uh this is a non-load position so or a non-lod position
lod stands for language of destination so when an airline flies to a country depending on how
far away it is depending on how many passengers uh that are not native english speakers that they
plan to carry there's different requirements as to uh whether or not the flight attendants need they
need to have flight attendants on board that speak the language of the majority of their passengers
why for safety reasons obviously so that you can evacuate the plane in the language that your
passengers understand so a lot of times we see positions um during slower times of hiring we'll
see positions that open that are for languages different languages and they actually are going
to be hiring for some specific languages um czech danish dutch greek hebrew italian and japanese
so those are going to be opening as well as the english-only non-lod non-language of destination
um opening application job listing will be available so um you can take you can decide
which one sounds if you're qualified if you speak a second or a third language um they're
also for these language of destination positions they're looking for native or near native fluency
so it's not the kind of thing that like you were pretty good at it and you want to just maybe take
some uh extra classes to like get to that level this week that's not really what they're looking
for you will have to pass a language test don't apply for a job that you're not qualified for
uh language wise so if you don't speak the languages at the native almost native full fluency
level do not apply for them it just slows down the recruiting process it slows down human resources
and it's kind of not an integrity either which is a big deal for delta as well um
integrity honesty and integrity so if you're not qualified for the job um that being said english
is opening this this week so you can apply to that one um if you applied back in august though
and you are unsuccessful uh you are you ha this opening falls within your waiting period so you're
not able to reapply um please don't reapply again because you're not you're not eligible to reapply
yet so please don't reapply again it just slows down human resources it doesn't reflect well
on you it's not a great example of following directions or having respect for the policies
and procedures um so if you applied in in august and you have been unsuccessful um gotten a thanks
but no thanks at any part of the process you're you're still in your um you're still in your
waiting period before you can reapply so this will not be the listing that you can reapply to but
they're not going to hire 1500 flight attendants from and get them fully completely trained and out
online from this one job opening so they will open again probably within the next couple months again
and i imagine that will be outside of your window and then you'll be able to reapply then okay so um
let's see where i am in my notes all right stand by
all right great so now let's talk about what you need to apply here are some information for what
you need to apply and some qualifications i think are important for you to know before you apply
first of all you will need a resume this time when you apply um a couple years ago i think it
was actually 2019 uh delta did um did something new and uh unique and they had an application
that was just a couple pro like a pre-qualifying questions and no resume no job history no nothing
and they didn't accept a resume the whole process you went through the whole thing just to just and
all they knew about you was what you said in the in the interview which was actually a pretty cool
way to um to interview people especially for the flight attendant position because it's not an it's
not really an experience based um job in the sense that they need to know what airplanes you've flown
or how long you've been a flight attendant or anything like that you don't need flight attendant
experience you just need life customer service safety teamwork experience all of those things
so those things are usually easier communicated anyways during an interview so that was kind
of interesting that they did it that way well they're not doing it that way anymore even though
i said it was cool um so they are requesting a resume so you do need to have your resume ready
um delta there may be a place for a cover letter it's not necessary a resume that is ready to go
don't forget if you have the company's name the airline's name in your cover
letter or in your resume delta airlines is three words delta air lines it's not delta
airlines okay they're the only one that break the word up but you know you're not gonna get
they're not gonna just kick you to the curb over that little technicality but those little details
delta's into little details that's what take that's what elevates service right
it's little details glass napkins that face the correct way clean linens presentation like those
little details are the things that really elevate a service so
um go ahead and if you have the name delta airlines in your resume or your cover letter
go ahead and double check it make sure it's three words okay uh you will so you will need a resume
i'll i have some videos on resumes for flight attendants i will link them down
in the description if you need help um going either creating a new one or you want to watch
a video about flight attendant resumes so you can tweak yours um another qualification that i wanted
to let you know is that you need to be 21 by april 1st okay so not 21 when you apply not 21 by the
time you attend to training so you can be 20 years old today and your birthday could be in march
or february or january and you can apply so you the requirement is you have to be 21 years old by
april 1st 2022 okay so if you're older than that then you're good to go
there's no cap on the top amazingly and awesome which is not like amazingly in the way that i'm
like surprised but in the way that i'm grateful because there had been an age limit for flight
attendants for a really really long time so it's really um i'm just grateful every time that i
remember that there's you know especially now that i'm 40 and maybe want to go back to flying one day
there's no age limit which is really which is cool all right and then you'll also need a passport so
you need a passport that has a minimum of 28 months remaining when you report for training
okay so this one's a little different and you need to have 28 months that's over two
years left on your passport by the time you report to training so if you wanted to
if you think that you're going to be really close to that number in the next six months or so so
let's say you have like three years left or so on your resume on your resume on your passport
you may want to go ahead and get that thing renewed um so that you will have it back and be
completely cleared when you're ready for training because you don't need it to apply necessarily
um you don't need the 28 months on it to apply but you need it before you can report to training
so if you they give you a training date and you show up you have 23 months left on your
on your passport there's a good chance that they would send you home so that you can rectify
that so we don't want that to happen all right now this one is the oh there's an also they have a on
their website and i will link the i will link down below in the description there is a link that will
take you to the delta website where they go over the interview process or the application process
the process to become a flight attendant starting with your um application moving to the assessment
the live video interview the face-to-face interview at delta's world headquarters in atlanta
and then the cjo the conditional job offer background check and then training six weeks
of training so there's a little chart like i said i'll link it down below but um it hasn't changed
since the last round um in august it appears so um before that 2019 there was an extra video
interview in there an on-demand video interview that's not in there anymore so now it is um
it's application assessment live video interview so a one-on-one like a skype interview with a
recruiter and then the face-to-face that has been very similar for a long time it's a full day
meet and greet interview group activity kind of uh day and then job offer and then training so
um like i said i'll link that below so that you can take a look at it there is some frequently
asked questions in there too about some of the different parts and and a little explanation about
them um like i said it's the same as it was kind of in august so if you've been keeping up with it
um then that it hasn't changed um and then the last thing that i wanted to tell you or i wanted
to share with you is i was actually able to ask one um when someone from the hiring team um what
what makes uh one candidate successful over another or what is the kind of thing that
delta is looking for like that wow factor that they're looking for what makes someone
successful during the application process and some of the things that she said certainly will help
is being safety and service oriented so safety and service oriented notice safety is listed first
safety and service oriented they're looking for people who are problem solvers
people who are collaborative so that means they are great team players um collaborative
team player though is a little bit different than a go along to get along team player
collaborative team players contribute and voice an opinion and they add to the team instead of just
um implementing or executing team protocols if that kind of makes sense so that's
that's kind of an interesting way to look at it that's kind of a little tip there collaborative
um means that you're really contributing to the problem or even the service or whatever situation
you're in um they're looking for people who are passionate and they're looking for people who
have a joy for helping others which is a really sweet way to think about customer service so it's
more than just customer service which is a little bit transactional which is why a lot of airlines
have moved more towards the word hospitality but the way that this recruiter explains it is she
says a joy for helping others and i love it when um i think helping is such a good word because it
could be anything from a service to um someone who is uh sick or having a medical emergency
or uh you know even escalated up to a full aircraft emergency you're helping people in
all those different situations from baggage to evacuations so having a joy for helping people
is uh is something else that they're kind of looking for so if you are ready for delta to open
um get ready it's coming this week so like i said today's 15th it's a saturday of january
it's january 15 2022 so this week we will see applications open um and oh and it also said
um i believe it's not on this paper but i believe she told me that it's gonna be open
for a few weeks or a week or two so it's not one of those uh three hour openings or the four hour
opening that backfired that we saw from um another carrier uh so sometimes though since we're talking
about this sometimes the delta application while it's open will like open and close
within hours it will open and close and then open and then close and then open
again because sometimes everyone you know they get a quarter of a million applications a year
or something like that 250 000. so um there's a huge rush sometimes right at the beginning
when they first open applications and so that can cause their system to kind of glitch a little bit
so if you see on facebook or get an email from me that says they're open go go go and then you go
and they're closed you probably didn't miss it it probably is just resting for a moment so refresh
or come back you know in 10 minutes or however but don't let it freak you out you probably didn't
miss it she said that they expect it to be open for a week or two which is exciting all right good
luck keep climbing get ready to rock the passport plum i can't wait to see everyone's uh training
and graduation pictures from this hiring round and i'll talk to you later bye