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Hi there Nela, Congratulations on reaching that stage with Southern. I can't personally say I've been in your situation with the invalid credentials situation however I would strongly recommend that you take a screenshot of it when trying to log in where it states invalid credentials so that...

I recently undertook the assessment day and sadly failed. One more life to go now :s I'll be the first to admit that a lot of it was nerves and as @Seehof mentioned I'd built it up in my head not only from the standpoint of what to expect but also reaching that stage within the application...

Good evening, As @NorthernTech has rightly said, in terms of the tests and what to expect should you be successful at the interview stage, then your TOC will send you documentation that will reference the test and give you practice material to work with. The only one you can currently...

I will be the first to admit that I've not got any experience within this sector however I would almost certainly imagine that you would either require a college or more likely a university degree in something like mechanical engineering / industrial design especially if you're wanting to design...

Had my psychometric testing earlier today and found out that I sadly failed. The phonebook test and tones test caught me out. I realise that I now can't re-take the tests again for 6 months but does anyone know (specifically with Northern) as to whether if a driver role was to come up say 4...

Please don't take this as me trying to rub salt in the wound when I say this but I applied first time and reached an interview, however, I wasn't progressed any further. In fairness, the interview wasn't the best from my point of view. As others have very rightly said given the number of...

You realise you could have been far more helpful and actually answered had you known. I did search 'assessment centre' and given this thread relates to the assessment centre I felt that it would be the most appropriate place to ask.

@nathanreder Thank you for this amazingly helpful post. I have my psychometrics on Tuesday for Northern and it's safe to say I'm starting to get a little nervous now. Regarding the group bourdon test I've heard mixed things in terms of the timings, is it 1 or 2 minutes you get per page...

What tends to happen in those situations, does the trainee still travel with yourself for the route learning aspect despite them not being able to drive the train or would they be temporarily moved out to another minder until you return back to traction that they can drive?

Thank you all for your swift and very helpful replies. I realise it's a long way off yet, should I get the job but I can't help but get excited about my future career becoming a real possibility and the thought of being able to drive trains for a living is a dream of mine. So if I've...

Hi all, Apologies if this is in the wrong section of the forum but my question regards training and more specifically route learning. I'm just curious to know what the process is once the classroom side of training is completed and you start learning to both drive and the route learning...

Hi all, I've recently found out that I've passed my shortlisting and interview for train driver with Northern (based at Leeds) and had a few questions. Psychometric testing - I'm told although not confirmed that psychometric is to the enhanced and not standard grade. What does this actually...

So I'm pleased to say I found out yesterday that I've passed my interview. Psychometric testing next. @CardiffDan have you heard anything?

I really don't know, the interview was a bit harder than I was expecting although I made sure I answered all the questions. Whether they were strong enough though. I've been replaying it back in my head all day and on the one hand, I think I did fairly strong, I nailed some of the bits I wanted...

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Absolutely agree with this. As somebody who also works within the police, we regularly see internal candidates go through for jobs that they believe they can do just because of experience and when they actually start they realise they can't. At the end of the day the job should be given to...

So I have my train drivers interview on Monday. However I have psychometric testing for service driver (depot) on 5th July. Hoping if I do well on both I'll just be able to use the psychometric testing for train driver too rather than having to retake it.

It's very much like the police, the process you go through to become a police officer these days is very similar to that of a train driver and when you finally make it to training school the last thing you want to do is blow it by becoming entitled or not putting in the work. There is a saying...

I'm not a driver myself nor do I work for a train operating company however I do work for the police and their medical policies tend to co-inside with each other. Personally speaking, if they have noticed something like that, then I would expect that they would refer it to the doctor for them...