Yeah I’ve got the same one.
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First Rail London - Trainee Driver - Recruitment Discussion
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Business Bob
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In my experience it's a balance of accuracy and speed. Even if you mess up/get 1 wrong, its whether you get back on track quick enough or just spiral out of control.
The tests are designed to put you under pressure and see how well you cope. It's unlikely to complete all the questions or get to the end of a test.
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Means it's with the recruitment team now for booking with OPC.
On the other side of the coin, as someone who works at NXG depot, there's still at least 50-60 drivers who've been there since the depot opened in 2010. It's not for everyone, it can be intense but for a lot of people who start as trainees it's all they know. When you know no different as to what other places are like, there's no comparison and it becomes the norm. Most colleagues who have done lateral moves have done so as it's closer to their home, or moved to other TOCs across the country as that's where they moved to. On the plus side, as we have a large complement of drivers (249 - going up to 257 or something like that), things like annual leave is hardly an issue. Special occasions etc you may find yourself on the "#5 on list" etc, but generally as there's a 42 AL per day rule, the odd ad-hoc day is rarely denied straight off. Swapping shifts with so many more people is a lot easier, as is swapping your block leave weeks. With leave, we are allocated 4 weeks, 1 week spring, 2 weeks summer, 1 week winter. All are moveable, and you can split up your summer leave weeks, they don't have to run concurrently. If a block leave day falls on a rostered rest day, you get that annual leave day back. I once had it where my 2 weeks summer block fell in the middle of my long weekends. The days I got back from the rest days covered the gaps and a bit more and I once had 5 weeks off in one go.
Qualified drivers have been recruited over the last couple of years to cover natural movement and retirements, but we're at a point now where we have many vacant lines in the rosters and with an increase to 18tph in December, more will be needed. Plus I'm not sure how many more Southeastern drivers are left to come over!
& if you didn’t get that email?
Bro….
lifeisarail
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I have a quick question. I have already completed a Train Driver apprenticeship. Would I still be eligible for the Trainee Train Driver position, or would having already completed the apprenticeship make me ineligible? I’m shunter driver by the way
All the applicant received the assessment today so might take long.
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I would say apply and contact the company thy may put u on the qualifier list?
v16ull
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I looked at the example questions on my notebook and decided it would be easier to do the test on my big laptop and logged in again on my big laptop only to discover it thinks I have completed the test and it is showing “assessment results not received yet”. Have I blown my chance?
I think once u start the test u are not allowed to go back
v16ull
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I didn’t actually start it, was only on the example questions. Basically I realised I would have to scroll up and down to do the test, which is a pain and would definitely slow me down so I decided to switch to my gaming laptop which has a much larger screen. While I was setting that up, my session timed out and I got logged out without realising. I’ve emailed them asking them to allow me to take the test, hopefully they let me.
Business Bob
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Shunter Driver and Mainline Driver are different. You would have to apply as a trainee driver.
lifeisarail
Member
Thanks will do
That problem is I’ve done the apprenticeship for train driver as shunter, because this job is apprenticeship aswell, I’m wondering if they will take me since I’ve completed the apprenticeship. 1 TOC didn’t take me in because this same issue, but I will contact recruitment and try to find out
rail graft
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I haven't recieved anything since completing the second assessment, is that bad news ?
Did you get results for the 1st one quickly? Did mine at midnight, still no reply… pretty sure it’s automated, so guess I failed?
People said they got their results within 5 minutes to an hour
Ah, must have failed then.. thought I did pretty well, guess not lol. Thanks for letting me know
Doubt you’d know anything after a certain time on Friday as it’s weekend.
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If you have a 2nd email just use that to apply again
NSEWonderer
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Im hearing new applicants aren't receiving the 1st assessment yet and those who have but didnt finish it before an apparent reached quota haven't also recieved the second one.
still waiting for a reply on the results of my 1st assessment from First Rail London… been 14 hours now.
v16ull
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Right, after my little wobble (thinking the test had auto submitted after getting timed out during the practice questions), I was able to take the test. I’m sure I got them all right but only managed 16 in the time which is probably too slow. I took the test 15 minutes ago and haven’t received an email……yet
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I’ve noticed a pattern…… anyone who did their assessments outside of business hours hasn’t had an email (including me). Although it’s possible, I think it’s unlikely we’ve all failed. Fingers crossedstill waiting for a reply on the results of my 1st assessment from First Rail London… been 14 hours now.
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Yeah I did mine around midnight, so I guess that might be the case. Thank you for sharing and goodluck on your results.
v16ull
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I’ve gone back through this thread and it seems later applicants have also started completing their assessments and that could slow the system down too. Try not to think about it (easier said than done) until Monday when we will likely get our results either way.
v16ull
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I take it you’ve not had an email either?
Not yet, but I want the email to be delay. As I still have time to wait to resit my MMI
Came back to check the thread, I saw online that they do not send out emails during the weekend and usually send result batches on the Monday morning.
v16ull
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Yes, that’s the conclusion I’ve come to. It’s going to be a long night……