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Congratulations, unfortunately talent pools can be anything from a couple of weeks to years, COVID 19 has had a serious impact on railway recruitment, you don’t say what job you’ve applied for as that can have an impact on the waiting game it might also help get a reply from someone else waiting.

There will be no difference in what SJT they give you and unfortunately you have to answer to what you would do in the situation, these tests you can’t really prepare for or no one can really give you the answers the whole point if then is to determine how you would respond in the given...

The government says in the press release: But all those dates are at very different stages through 2021 and 2022 so it’s going to be some time before every TOC is in the same playing field as others.

At least Firstgroup went into more detail with that mid Dec 20 cut off to accept the Groups commitment to the new deal moving forward, RMT have just published a statement as well on them. Although looks like the Management fee is cut and will be interesting to see detail on performance related...

Don’t forget most ticket office fall under schedule 17 within a TOCs franchise agreement which means they have to staff them for a set number of hours as per the agreement so I would say they still have some security, certainly the next 5 years, even under emergency measures the DFT are...

No I went straight to the manager to ask, hopefully when the recruitment block is lifted we will get the next opportunity, just a bit of bad timing due to Covid

Apparently there is a block for external people to start due to covid as a result some jobs are being advertised internally to allow them to fill them, hopefully when the block is lifted we can get the opportunity to start.

It looks like part nationalisation of the railways is getting closer as reported by ABC and the telegraph on new Emergency Recovery Measure Agreements. "Train firms that were struggling financially prior to the coronavirus pandemic will be offered an operating margin of as little as 0.5%...

If you think 6100 applicants even with an automated system will take some time, suspect they will do batches and may be depot specific as well, good luck to all those on the forum in the mix.

Also over 6100 people applied both internal and external so you can see why they are very cut throat in the initial sifting.

The next big step will be to get people back in the habit of buying tickets, as revenue and ticket checking have taken a back seat since March. Just look at Grand Central they can not afford to not have 100% revenue collection so will be ensuring 100% or as near as possible as they have no...

Who did you do your tests with as X country use the OPC tests but don’t report them into the central database and don’t have access them selves, also the do the opposite test to group bourdon (Dots) they do the letters so if the TOC you used does the group bourdon (dots) then you will have to...

I tend to think it may delay but will not stop, FG have said they have 12 months Running capabilities with the finance already secured over 300 million from Goverment but they lost 300 million and are really banking in selling their Greyhound business in the US, I think it will depend on what...

If you’ve not waited the 6 months the online system will flag this and not allow you to continue, of course this is only for first group although if a different t TOC of the group you should be ok.

Ah ok I wasn’t sure what stage they were at, yes if just SJT or the OPC tests or TOC equivalent then no your on your own, unfortunately.