Air France cabin crew selection day from an assessor: the group exercise in French, the English test, the CCA question and what the panel scores

Air France CDG, seven years, and I assess at the selection days some months. Claire wrote the candidate's day and the waiting; Amélie and Raoul wrote the airline. The panel's side of the Air France selection, because the French applicants read the Gulf assessment threads and arrive at Roissy with the wrong preparation.

The day from the panel

Forty candidates, the Air France centre, the document check (the CCA if held, the bac, the passport, the photo, which the French candidates get right more than most), the group exercise in French, the English conversation, the individual interview in French, the medical convocation for the ones who pass. Calm, as Claire said, and the calm is deliberate.

The group exercise in French

A service scenario (the DOM delayed flight, the connecting passengers, the special assistance), eight candidates, the panel watching for the French version of the cooperation: the candidate who structures the discussion without dominating it, who listens, who speaks correct French in the register the cabin requires (the French panel scores the register more than the Gulf panels score the English). The candidate who speaks the Gulf group exercise English in French (the loud enthusiasm, the hand on the shoulder) is marked down for the register.

The English conversation

Gentler than the Gulf's, as Claire found, because the panel is checking the B2 can handle a passenger and not scoring the warmth in English. The French candidates who have the B2 on paper and not in the mouth are caught here, as at every airline, and the ones who studied abroad pass it in two minutes.

The CCA question

Asked, noted with approval if held (Claire's experience), because the CCA in advance means the candidate committed before the airline and shortens the course. Not required; an advantage. The panel's note says 'CCA acquise' and the training department reads it.

The three things the French panel scores that the Gulf panels do not

One: the register. The French of the cabin is a specific formal French and the candidate who has it (the vous, the formulas, the tone) is scored for it and the one who has the café French is not. Two: the knowledge of the airline as a French institution: the Air France history, the Africa and the DOM network, the strikes as part of the culture (the candidate who understands the unions is the one who will join one). Three: the realism about the Paris base and the crash pad and the seniority: the candidate who says 'I will do the Roissy crash pad for two years and the Marseille base later' is scored for the realism, as the Lufthansa panel scores it (Lena's thread).

What the French panel does not score

The warmth in the Gulf sense. The family question (not asked). The appearance beyond the standard (the desk checks it once). The readiness to move abroad (the base is Paris). The French panel is the legacy European panel and Lena's two endings advice applies: the French story ends with the procedure and the register, not the customer's face.

For the French applicants

The register, the institution, the realism, the CCA in advance, and the Gulf preparation left at home. The Roissy panel is a French panel and it scores French things.