Recent content by Fat Pav

You and me are in the same training block and class together

Everything about it really. Would mean a significant change in rostering/days off and how that would work. Would the shift pattern change to 4 on 4 off? When do you change from earlies to backs and vice versa. The significant impact that this will have in staff rest, fatigue etc. How does it...

Sunday becoming part of the working week is a disaster all round. Do you work in the railway currently? 1775559626 Good stuff mate, hearing I’ll either have mines next week or have a date for it next week.

How are you doing mate? Finally get yours done? When I went for my Guards one, you don’t get the results, you just get slotted into a training course and released from your current job.

Last round of interviews were STAR based around the job competencies which were: Communication, Customer Driven, Decision Making, Focus on Results, Collaboration, Resilience and Self Development.

Anyone who has sat the Conductor assessments recently, can they confirm if it’s exclusively online or if they had to attend Atrium Court?

You’d be a trainee for around 3/4 months max then onto full wages, about to increase to a full time salary of £42.2k per annum with the wage rise effective 01 April 26.

The current plan is to use the entrance to carriage drive as an entrance / exit and run services from 7-15 platforms. Unsure if the main concourse area will be cordoned off to the public. Not sure how feasible this is and the frequency of services that will operate, personally think that at peak...

Thanks for the input mate. I’m based in Glasgow mate so depots near me. They had to postpone the assessments for those still waiting as there are a lot of displaced staff who are taking up residence in Atrium Court just now until Central reopens.

I’m internal, waiting (eh, patiently) on medical at this point. Cheers for the info, hoping I don’t have any underlying medical conditions at this point now the paranoia is hitting. :D

Anyone offer any insight as to wait times for medical after passing level 2 assessments and MMI? What’s involved/expected at Optima?

Does anyone have any pointers for DMI? Have mines coming up and need to start preparing for it. Anyone who’s gone through it able to offer any insight as to what questions/themes they’re looking at?

So I’ve just sat mines and finished them all, essentially a personality test to start with and the rest are concentration tests. Clicking a button when there’s two matching shapes, clicking incorrect or correct on an E symbol which has 3 dots surrounding it (similar in concept to Bourdon test)...

It seems like a new step that Scotrail has introduced. I sat level 1 driver assessments in 2023 and it was application, assessment, interview. Have never done these before and I would have assumed that this was for external candidates only. 1765565167 It’s annoying that they’ve shifted the goal...

I haven’t looked at it yet but have had a follow up email asking for it to completed within 3 days and not the previously mentioned 7 days. For transparency, I’m an internal candidate and have sat the driver assessments (passed) and never progressed past interview stage. I haven’t done these...