Biographical Inventory

Overview

What it looks like: Untimed multiple-choice questions about your verifiable past — "In your final school years, how often did you take the lead in group projects?" with realistic frequency options. Airline and aviation selections use exactly this format: DLR's biographical questionnaire is part of the Lufthansa-group selection and feeds the later interview, and the FAA ran empirically keyed biographical questionnaires for air traffic control hiring for over a decade. How the real thing is scored: In a real biodata inventory each answer option carries a hidden weight, derived from how strongly choosing it correlated with training success in thousands of earlier candidates — an "empirical key". We don't have that criterion data, and won't pretend to: this exercise gives you no score. What you get instead: A familiarization and interview-preparation report — it explains the method so the format holds no surprises, reflects your answers back grouped by domain with a prepare-a-story prompt for each (these are the life examples your interviewers will dig into), and flags domains where your history is thin so you can prepare those answers deliberately. Candidates usually meet this questionnaire cold and treat it as noise; walking in already knowing what it is, and with your own life inventoried, is the entire advantage.

Assessments

Tested in assessments at Lufthansa Group.

Airline mappings are based on public information and may change.

Example: a biodata item

Biodata items ask about your verifiable past — not opinions, not hypotheticals. You pick the option closest to what you actually did. There is no timer and nothing to work out.