Candidates who pass stage 2 meet easyJet itself. The assessment day is run and scored by easyJet, with CAE handling the invitations and the results. It is held online on Microsoft Teams, entirely in English and on UK time, and it asks no technical questions. On the Skyborne route this stage ends, if successful, in a conditional offer of employment before training even starts, which is exactly why the airline treats it seriously.
How the day runs
easyJet's welcome presentation: about 40 to 60 minutes on the airline and on working for it. You listen; no candidate gives a presentation.
The group exercise, usually late in the morning: five or six candidates and two assessors.
The one-to-one interview, at a time shown on the candidate portal, anywhere from late morning to late afternoon.
The assessors are easyJet line staff, typically a captain or senior first officer and a cabin manager, not psychologists. The candidate portal opens about a week before the day with documents to accept, and CAE asks for your CV about a week ahead to pass on to the assessors. Results arrive by email the next day.
The group exercise
The brief is short and non-technical, with no calculations. In 2026 the format was five minutes to read alone, then 30 minutes to discuss and reach a conclusion together. The information is split between the members, so the first job is to pool it and check that everyone has the same picture. Typical tasks are choosing between options for a fictitious airline, ranking a set of incidents by severity, or prioritising work, and the assessors may add new information near the end. You are scored individually on how you work with the group, not on the answer.
What scores: propose a method and a timekeeper, bring quieter members in by name, build on other people's ideas, disagree by offering a solution, and summarise every few minutes so the group reaches a shared conclusion in time. Staying passive is a common way to fail this part, whatever happens in the interview.
The one-to-one interview
Expect 45 to 60 minutes in two parts: motivation first, then three or four competency-based questions. The motivation questions to prepare: introduce yourself; why a commercial pilot; why easyJet, with figures; the qualities of a good first officer and which of them you have; the challenges facing the industry and how easyJet responds; easyJet's competitors and its position between the ultra-low-cost carriers and the legacy airlines; its values; how a pilot shapes the customer experience; and the challenges you expect in training.
The competency questions most often cover leadership (stepping in when it was not your role), situational awareness (a time you kept it or lost it), decision making, teamwork, conflict and challenging a superior's decision. CAE names four competencies for the day: cooperation, leadership, situational awareness and decision making. Answer in the STAR shape (situation, task, action, result), say "I" rather than "we", and have a second, recent example ready, because the assessors probe and may ask for another.
Commercial awareness is scored. Know easyJet's business model, its market and competitors, the outside factors that move its results and how a pilot contributes to them; its annual report is the best single source. Answers without that commercial focus, or competency examples that are weak or unstructured, can cost you the day however strong your motivation.
Results and retakes
An unsuccessful non-technical assessment means a six-month wait before reapplying to any easyJet pilot training programme.
If your stage-2 pass expires during that wait, you sit stage 2 again before the retake.
A pass is valid for 12 months: if you have not started a course by then, you go through selection again.
After a fail you can ask CAE for a short feedback call.
How to prepare
Prepare six to eight true stories covering the competencies above and rehearse them aloud in English until each takes four to seven minutes and survives an interruption. Read easyJet's annual report and its values page, and know its A320-family fleet, network and bases. Practise the group exercise with five other people and an observer, using a brief whose information is split between you. Treat the online setup like an exam: quiet room, stable connection, camera at eye level, and no notes to read from during the competency questions. The personality questionnaire has done its job at stage 2; the Big Five Personality Test here is still a quick way to know your own strengths and weaknesses before someone asks about them.