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Will just have to be patient I guess, especially given current circumstances.

No rejection email yet - you had one?

Hey Ratty, glad to see I'm not the only one still hanging around this thread hoping for the call up. Hopefully everyone else has given up and moved on and it will be just us two waiting for a couple of openings now! Time has flown by indeed...here's hoping for some good news for us both in the...

This is very wishful thinking, but I'm hoping some of the current Metro train drivers have applied for the new Virgin fleet. Best of luck to anyone into the assessment stages! :)

Usual quarterly question: anyone heard anything new? Thanks.

Hmm, if I was going to spend a lot of time/money re-recruiting, I'd be looking to pick the best applicants for the job...meaning anyone scoring higher than those still in the holding pool :( I really hope I'm wrong and it's just a case of us in the holding pool waiting patiently for new...

ModernRailways: thanks for the suggestion about contacting HR, and I guess you never know unless you try...but my understanding was that they couldn't tell us where we were placed in the holding bank, and could only confirm if another intake was planned/that successful candidates would have been...

Hey all, First, thanks for the updates, it's good to see there's still a bit of life (and maybe hope) left in this thread for those of us in the holding bank. I couldn't see anything on the website about recruitment, and I'm somewhat relieved to hear another recruitment drive would be...

Hey, sorry I can't answer your question, but I'd like to know too! My suspicion is, if there is another June intake, we should have been contacted by now :cry: What with DB not having the contract renewed for running the Metro, I'm even less hopeful of hearing from them...but fingers crossed...

Happy new year to all...the countdown to December 2016 and the end of my two years in the holding bank has well and truly begun. Can anyone confirm if there was another intake class started February? On a related note - I see DB are under quite a lot of fire for the recent running of the...

So can anyone confirm if the next intake trainees have now been notified? Thanks.

Oh that's too bad Dobb, but congratulations on your new job. Can you tell me when they contacted you? Like Ratty, I haven't heard anything yet but was hoping it might be a case of them sending out something in the post. Of course, if they're ringing people up and this was a while ago, I'll...

This is exciting news, thanks for the update! Do you happen to know when the candidates will be notified (or if they have already)? If anyone still subscribed to this thread should get called up, first, congratulations! - but second, please let us know, I'd really appreciate hearing how...

Hi, Don't suppose you know roughly how many made it through the assessments into the holding bank from last years recruitment? Or failing that, how many assessment days were held in Doncaster? In mine only 2 of 4 passed, so assuming groups of 4-6(?) with a complete guess at 50% making it...

Hi, Previous posts say there have been three intakes (February/June/September 2015) of 8 trainees each (24 new drivers total), and driver numbers would be over complement with the September class. I'm sure someone will correct me if I have got this wrong. Fingers-crossed for more intakes...

Hey all, Glad to see there's still some life to this thread. As one of the people in the holding pool from the last recruitment drive (passed the assessments Dec 2014), I'm still hoping I'll hear something from DB one day, and keenly aware my pass may only be valid for another year! I...

Thanks for the update Frankfurt. I agree Ratty81 that it's good news we may still hear from Metro if they keep the talent pool going for longer than the two years. I wonder if anyone knows how many passed the assessments at Doncaster? If it was 34 then Ratty81 and I are unlucky, but I...

Thanks for the update. So that's 24 trainee drivers recruited. I seem to recall an earlier post estimating up to 32 drivers...so only one more intake? On a related note, do you know of any situations where people in a talent pool have never been called up? I know they said the assessment...

Hey Ratty81, I wouldn't worry about when you passed the assessments, I was also one of the last I think. As I understood it, your overall score determines when you start, so you should get called up if you scored higher than someone who passed at the start of recruitment. Fingers crossed...

Thanks for the replies Ratty81 and ModernRailways, good to see this thread still has some life (and hope for us in the talent pool!). Ratty81, I'm also anxious about the two year limit for the holding pool. Reading around on this forum it sounds like there is a shortage of drivers, what with...