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Since you are internal, you may not need a medical, depending on your current role and if you already have one in place for safety crit duties, and you may not need to give as much notice as an external candidate. For example, a new external starter who needs to give there employer 8 weeks...

Have you arranged to have the medical? You won’t receive an offer letter until the medical is passed

They haven’t over recruited, the whole point of the talent pool is so they can call upon people as and when they are needed. This might be slow or fast depending on staff retiring, leaving, moving up into management, moving depots, etc, there’s a whole range of reasons why a vacancy will be...

If you have been through OPC testing you will definitely hear back, pass or fail.

I don’t know of & not heard of, anyone not getting a place on a course once they are in the talent pool. Varying lengths of time to come out of the talent pool & get on a course, but they will get you on eventually. It costs them a substantial amount of money to put you through OPC testing &...

18 months or more in the talent pool is not uncommon, things have moved quickly in the last couple of years due to the catch up from Covid & gearing up for the new trains to arrive. The pace has now returned to normal & this is why they don’t usually give out dates etc other than saying you’ll...

You could be in the talent pool for up to 2 years, so if you’ve only just got in I’d get your lilo out & enjoy your time in the pool

Congrats on making it through the process & into the talent pool, you’ve done the hard part! Now just sit back & relax and carry on with life, when they have a course & more importantly vacancies at your chosen depot, they’ll give you a call with a start date :D As you’ve not long got into the...

Thanks Dynamonic, great for a rough idea as I understand nothing is certain.;)

Just wondering if anyone knows what dates, (month), roughly, the other driver courses are likely to be this year? Are they the same every year? Do they run two or three courses per year? Thanks

Not heard anything yet Nathan but I suspect places will be offered fairly soon if it’s a March start date. Have you been offered a place on the March course?

I am also into the talent pool, a huge relief! Good luck to those still waiting to hear back! A massive thank you to everyone who has contributed to this thread, it’s very helpful and a great way to know what to expect from the process.