I think it would be worthwhile if the mods could merge the two threads as you only get the full story if you read both. Regardless of the rights and wrongs of travel distance from depot, I'm sure being on a stage 2 or especially 3 MFA is going to have a very negative effect on their chances of getting a job.
Fair enough. My other point still stands though - I would strongly recommend you go solely through your reps for advice rather then asking on a public forum. I appreciate your frustration, but I fear you're doing your career prospects more harm than good by posting here.Just for clarification I’m not on a stage 2/3. However I was seeking advice as someone else who was on a stage was given a position and I was on the understanding that you couldn’t progress your application if you were on a stage.
however the time for myself and another person have been looked at differently and I have had my times rejected even though the other person is over an hour and as far as I am aware you have to be under the hour or your application would be progressed
Good advice, delete the threadI think it would be worthwhile if the mods could merge the two threads as you only get the full story if you read both. Regardless of the rights and wrongs of travel distance from depot, I'm sure being on a stage 2 or especially 3 MFA is going to have a very negative effect on their chances of getting a job.
That said, I would also recommend the OP take a step back, a deep breath, and then delete these threads and contact their reps. It's hard to see how any good will come of it these threads - but its easy to say how anyone at GTR HR could put two and two together and work out who exactly is being discussed here, and that is definitely going to have a negative effect on their chances of getting a job.
It isn't.Why is the gender of the successful trainee relevant?
So it sounds to me like that thread was looking for reasons why someone else who got the job ahead of you shouldn't have, and this one is the same?Just for clarification I’m not on a stage 2/3. However I was seeking advice as someone else who was on a stage was given a position and I was on the understanding that you couldn’t progress your application if you were on a stage.
………………Maybe the sexist attitude was detected during interviews and somewhat ironically was the very reason for their failure?
The OP hasn’t failed, they have passed everything and are in a talent pool awaiting a course,
so probably not! If it was that apparent in any of the interviews I doubt they would have reached the stage where they are at now.
It would seem strange to progress someone that far just to say, sorry you live to far away, these problems should be weeded out at the paper sift and definitely should be addressed in the Managers Interview.
I know of at least 1 GTR depot that may be moving soon or even potentially closing.
There is often a misperception that being in the talent pool means you have go the job and are simply waiting for a course to come up. Unless you have a formal letter stating you have an offer of employment and a contract then your still just another tiny fish in a very large pool. Some talent pools are at different stages in the assessment process. There is often still the medical left to pass.
PM ok ?
Care to digress or is it just mess room gossip?
My main point was that the issues being raised such as the time/distance should have been addressed well before reaching the stage where they are currently at. But yes, if circumstances change such as the depot closure you mention this may well have a bearing.
DMI doesnt have expiry date. Why would it?Quick question.... how long are driver manager interviews valid for?
The DMI is basically the same as any other job interview.Well surely if they don’t like you got some Reason they could keep making you take it again and again? I thought it was marked against a set industry standard?
I think you are way overthinking this and it’s only because you were told you would be next for a course and somebody else has been given a course ahead of you and you are trying to justify their reasoning.Well surely if they don’t like you got some Reason they could keep making you take it again and again? I thought it was marked against a set industry standard?
That or part hardly ever happens if ever really happened.I think you are way overthinking this and it’s only because you were told you would be next for a course and somebody else has been given a course ahead of you and you are trying to justify their reasoning.
At the end of the day you have successfully passed the Psychometrics, the DMI & MMI and you are now sat in the Talent Pool and there you will stay until:
1. You get allocated a course
2. Successfully pass a medical
3. Sign a contract (hurrah you’re in!)
or
your Psychometrics time expire or the talent pool is disbanded as they no longer require everybody in it!
That or part hardly ever happens if ever really happened.
I think it was Virgin at the time (now LNER), binned all of their talent pool too a few years back. There is an old thread on here about it somewhere.It certainly has really happened, a couple of years back GWR binned an entire talent pool at something like the two year mark. On another thread in the last day or two, someone has said they were dropped from a talent pool when their psychometrics expired.
Probably depends from company to company. One factor may be whether or not the Manager who interviewed you has left in the intervening period. We just don’t know. You need to ask your HR or recruitment department tomorrow.Quick question.... how long are driver manager interviews valid for?