little-legs
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Hi Michael1985:I am new to the group and have just seen you have had an interview for northern on the 4th May, can i ask have you had any reply back as of yet with the outcome of the interview.Evening guys
I applied for the Trainee Driver role in Hull for Northern, when it was advertised on January 29th.
I got an email on the 19th April inviting me for interview on the 4th May. If my application is anything to go by, then that’s roughly 10 weeks from the application deadline to getting the invite to interview, so don’t despair if you’ve not heard back yet.
I’m an internal candidate (currently a conductor), who has successfully passed the interview with the DTM’s last July (failed the psychometric), and can tell you that internals and externals get interviewed at the same time. Also, a colleague of mine applied this time around and didn’t get an interview, so it’s definitely not a case that all internal candidates are guaranteed an interview.
Also, I’m reliably informed that Northern are starting to do their psychometric testing in house from now, which may be a reason that applications are taking a bit longer as I don’t think they would start interviewing until the test centre is fully operational.
From experience, once you have an interview, the process moves quite quickly. For example, the last time I interviewed, it was on a Friday morning, I found out on the Monday that I’d passed and then I had my psychometric the week after, so that was a total of 8 working days from interview to psychometric.
Anyway, just thought id share my experience to give some idea of timescale.
Best of luck everyone.
Many Thanks