Tips - Emirates Open Day

If you are here, it means you are looking for great tips for the Emirates Cabin Crew Open Day. Through our clients, we have summarised a list of what goes on at the Emirates Open Day. With the lifting of the pandemic, most airlines and Emirates included have started actively recruiting for cabin crew worldwide. Emirates are visiting nearly all cities covered in their list of destinations to hold the Emirates Open Day to attract young confident individuals with at least 12 months of customer experience to the aviation role. To take your customer service to the next level, what better way than to consider the Emirates cabin crew role. To attend the Emirates Open day, you do not need to first register, just bring along a photo and your CV to the venue. They will conduct a variety of exercises at the Emirates open day, and it is a long day but if you survive till the end of the day, chances are you would have had a very successful Emirates Open Day, and with fingers crossed, you should get the golden call offer the next day. Yes, Emirates are now doing the one day whirlwind style recruitment where all decisions are made within a day by the recruiter.

HOW TO PREPARE FOR THE EMIRATES OPEN DAY

• Review your CV thoroughly - line by line and word for word to ensure you map your current work experience to most of the requirements on the Emirates careers portal advertising the Emirates Cabin crew role. Prepare a very useful Emirates Cabin crew CV for the Emirates Open Day.
• Please ensure to state on your CV that you are very fluent in English; verbal, written and comprehension.
• Please ensure that you explain all employment gaps as any gaps here will mean you will not last through many of the Emirates Open day rounds.
• Please ensure you do not use standard templates on the internet that contain multi-columns. These multi-columns cannot be read by the HR software and all CVs are uploaded at the Emirates Open Day and must pass the ATS filter system. The ATS is the Applicant Tracking System used by the Emirates Cabin Crew recruitment system to shortlist candidates. This may be eventually replaced by new artificial intelligence called ChatGPT which is even more powerful in analysis CVs and making more effective shortlist for the recruiter / talent acquisition team.
• Do not lie about your customer services experience, you would not go very far if you do. One of the criteria they look for is honesty. Dishonesty will be detected through the elimination rounds.
• Ensure your picture shows you in the best presentation, style and image.
• Do not just list the skills in your CV. Make a compelling CV by providing a line or two evidencing each skill to your latest work experience.
• CVs should be at most 2 pages. A one page CV should be avoided as it is too busy and you simply cannot sell most of your skills on a single page. Majority who receive the golden call have a CV of 2 pages. The only exception is if you are in your early 20s, say 21-23 and only have one or two jobs.
If you feel you are not confident to write up your own Emirates Cabin Crew CV, we can help review your latest CV and make changes for you. Adding keywords and evidencing Emirates cabin crew skills and providing you with a compelling and well designed professional Emirates Cabin Crew CV to take with you to the Emirates Open Day.

Differences between EMIRATES CABIN CREW OPEN DAY & EMIRATES CABIN CREW ASSESSMENT DAY

The Emirates Open Day as the name suggests is an open day and anyone can turn up and attend without any pre-registration online or otherwise.

The Emirates Assessment Day is an invite only day and participants who wish to attend the assessment day are required to register for that event at least a week before the date of the assessment day event. If your CV gets shortlisted, then you will receive an invite from Emirates to attend the Emirates Assessment Day. Even if you have pre-registered online previously, you should still apply separately for the assessment day event. Remember that the Emirates assessment day is specific to that date and venue only.

If your Emirates Cabin Crew CV does not have sufficient experience, then you will not be shortlisted for the assessment day. Remember when Emirates goes through your CV content, they are not just after someone who has any type of customer experience. They are looking for people who are able to articulate their customer experience on their CV in a compelling way that shows they meet the cabin crew skills.

If you need a review of your CV and a rewrite of certain sections to increase your chances, simply click on the button below and we are delighted to review, find out more about say shortfalls that you have not shown, then rewrite it for you. We want you to have your best chances so always here to help you get shortlisted for the Emirates Assessment Day.

To check the cities where the Emirates Open days and Emirates Assessment days are held, go to the Emirates Careers portal and you can find the latest dates and venues there for all upcoming Emirates open days and assessment days.

For those concerned about the age, you have to be at least 21 to apply. Although no maximum age is stated on their adverts on the Emirates website, it is clear that they prefer younger individuals. Never forget this is an ab-initio junior and first role in the Emirates Group. As a guide, 21 to 30 is their preferred range for new freshers without prior crew experience.

When attending the open day, remember there are several elimination rounds including the initial introduction round, picture round and followed by the group activity. All of these rounds are to rigorously test that you are confident, speak good English, approachable and have strong interpersonal skills.

Group tests are a good way where Emirates recruiters can see and tell if your communication skills, team leadership, problem solving, decision making and handling conflicts with each other are a good culture and team fit for the Emirates cabin crew role.

During the group plays, your team is given a scenario where often there is a shortage of resource and the team has to decide some order of priority for a variety of customers with different backgrounds. You first discuss amongst yourselves, then one of you would be nominated or volunteered to present the solution to the rest of the groups. During the assessment day group play, the recruiter will go round with a note pad taking notes of strong individuals and also the weak ones who will get eliminated in the next round. Sometimes, there is also a mystery shopper, an undercover applicant placed in the group, they are part of the talent acquisition team to look at the process involved, suggest improvements and also to note down any strong candidates.

We run mock practise sessions on Zoom - one to one role plays and teach you the techniques so that you will be able to adopt the right presentation skills and show good positive body language on the day. These Zoom sessions are available worldwide and many who have attended our sessions have secured first time passes. Yes, we pass on lots of good techniques and tips so that you can ace the Emirates Open Day or Emirates Assessment Day. Click on the red button below to find out more.

If you made it through the late afternoon of the Emirates Open day or the Emirates Assessment day, you will be invited to attend the final interview. The final interview often contain 3 to 4 behavioural interview questions requiring you to use the STAR approach to answer these questions and by providing compelling examples that you have personally come across in your current work experience. If your content or presentation is poor, then you will be unsuccessful in this last and final stage. We can help you with preparing answers based on good content from your work experience, coach you on presentation and it will overall increase your chances very significantly.