I've applied!!

I started my application online on http://www.emiratesgroupcareers.com/ on September 22nd 2009, after alot of research and debating with myself whether this is a career I want to pursue now or in a few years ( I can never make up my mind as to where or what to do with my life as you'll notice! ), the writing began.........it took me approx 2 months to finish my application! Not that I'm at lazy, it's just I wanted everything to sound professional and word perfect and of course didn't want to come across as desperate for the job ( although I am :). The pics were quite hard to get right too, they asked for a head an shoulders shot and a full length one, not easy getting a full face full of make up to stay on whilst trying to take decent pictures in 42 degrees heat!! ( Travelling round Australia by the way ).

The questions were quite tricky and do demand a fair bit of research on Emirates, the first question was 'why work for us?', well in my head my answer was.....live in year round sunshine in Dubai, live a glamorous life with no rent and feel like a celebrity whilst weearing the famous uniform and of course travel to lots of amazing destiantions for free!! Of course, I didn't write that, I talked about how I'd travelled with emirates on several occasions and admired the servie they offered, also talked about how Emirates is an award winning airline with over 400 Inernational awards, spoke about my ability to speak fluent French and German and most of all, wrote about my natural ability to deliver exceptional service even after being on my feet for 15 hours! The other questions were quite straight forward, experience, education, references...

Anyway, I've sent off my application ( both paper and online ) about 1 week ago, on http://www.cabincrew.com/, many of Emirates previous applicants have said it can take up to 3 months to hear back. I did receive a letter back from them saying that they had received my application and the status had changed on their careers website from 'submitted' to 'application under review' so it's all a waiting game now.......