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I start training as a conductor for TfW early next year.
You're doing the right thing staying positive. Sounds like you're on the right track with your application.
Sorry to hear you weren't selected for the assessment day. From what I know they get a huge number of applications for this role so you have done very well to be in the talent pool.
TfW are in the process of rapid expansion so hopefully something will come your way over the next six months...
The staff who interviewed me were all ex-ATW. I am unsure if the question sheets they were reading from were new or not.
I would imagine the questions being fairly similar anyway.
Best of luck tomorrow
I have attended an assessment day for a conductor vacancy with this TOC before. In the group exercise we were given an example of a situation a conductor could face and we had to work out how we would deal with the scenario effectively. The assessors were more keen on how we worked together than...
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