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It’s a shunt driving role

Because I have already passed to enhanced standard and have my licence but I didn’t want to wipe my passes out if I failed them this time round. 1673895748 Yes that is correct and I made sure I got the recruitment person, Emma, to confirm this in an email so I withdrew.

Eurostar do. I pulled out of the process a couple of weeks ago after being invited down because of it.

I’ve done one myself and in my opinion they are a huge waste of time and in no way beneficial to the job

Are they using an apprenticeship route??

Ah right, they need your NI to check Assessment results usually

Have you already done any psychometric tests?

Depends of its being done as an apprenticeship and who the training provider is. We had a company called Train’d up and they would t accept foreign equivalents and degrees count for nothing believe it or not

Worsley.

Are you going as a qualified driver?

What have you been offered at Manchester?

It’s pretty much a standard job interview. Just do some research into the company and locos and you’ll be fine!

The personal track safety only takes a day or two. I live in M28 and my base is in Crewe, all our trainings there so no lodging away. May have to do a week in Southampton at some point for wagon training I think. If they’re going down the apprenticeship route like they said to me you’ll need to...

yeh I shocked myself everytime I got through the assessments and somehow ended up with enhanced standard! I started on 14th September, it’s good, lot of information gets chucked at you but it sinks in. We start our rules and regs next week so it’ll ramp up a bit then. Did they say wether you...

Ahhh great stuff!!! Well done! Very had industry to get in so you can be very chuffed with yourself!

4 of us doing functional skills at the minute because none of us have certificates!

Yep, spot on. I didn’t get on with SB and I already had psychometrics to enhanced that I did with freightliner and I started with them last month.You’ve done the hard bit really!

Just a rumour I’ve heard but I believe the tests are changing this year so anyone who has previously failed twice will be able to apply again some time in the future

Just remembered actually! It was this year. Right as the COVID was kicking in! I was in there about 40 minutes I think. They were all decent people, it wasn’t a grilling or anything. They will ask you about working at night and how you’ll feel about lodging away from home.

It’s done through an apprenticeship scheme. 99% night work and periods away from home. They’ll ask you what you know about OTM, what you know about swietelsky etc. Go into it with your eyes open because this isn’t like working for a TOC or FOC. I interviewed for the same position last year, lost...