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Cross country trains advertising for qualified drivers

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Cross country trains advertising for qualified drivers at new street and Plymouth, be nice if occasionally they did trainee driver vacancies how do they expect people to learn to drive it’s not a car ya know. Any quailfield drivers out there who got a trainee driber vacancy recently consider yourself bloody well lucky.
 
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Northern Tank said:
Cross country trains advertising for qualified drivers at new street and Plymouth, be nice if occasionally they did trainee driver vacancies how do they expect people to learn to drive it’s not a car ya know. Any quailfield drivers out there who got a trainee driber vacancy recently consider yourself bloody well lucky.
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Mate loads of companies have been advertising for trainee vacancies lately. In fact I’d say more so than qualified lately!
 
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Mate loads of companies have been advertising for trainee vacancies lately. In fact I’d say more so than qualified lately!
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Northern did, true however they only let you apply for one at once and then never give feedback which is a bugger. Not many others do
 
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In the last few months there have been trainees for
Freightliner
northern
GbRf
DBcargo
Colas
East Midlands trains
London North Western
Southern
South West Trains
First group

May have missed some

Just got to keep your eyes peeled bud, I understand not all of them may be local for you and a couple were for depot/shunt Driver jobs but it’s still a good foot in if you’re able to make some compromise
 
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Transpennine have literally just advertised for Trainee Drivers!
 
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Sorry I honestly wasn’t being funny or anything, but if you want to drive it does take a lot of patience, just got to keep your eyes on this forum and operator sites. On the front page there’s live threads of people going through the process now.

You’ve got to remember that driving roles are well sort after, literally talking 500+ applicants per role and that really isn’t an exaggeration, I’m not sure if youve ever gotten through to the interview stage or not but that’s the only stage where you’ll be able to receive feedback due to the high numbers, but that’s where this forum comes in handy as there’s plenty of advice from other people’s experiences.

Keep your chin up it is a bit of a game of luck but one day who knows
 
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Don't forget about MTR Crossrail, they are providing feedback even on Stage 1 Assessment.
 
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XC don't need trainees, they get enough already qualified applicants
 
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Bit confused in that Northern one.....they advertised that vacancy a month ago, applied and nothing back yet, no update on my account.....yet they are advertising again?!?
 
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Northern Tank said:
Cross country trains advertising for qualified drivers at new street and Plymouth, be nice if occasionally they did trainee driver vacancies how do they expect people to learn to drive it’s not a car ya know. Any quailfield drivers out there who got a trainee driber vacancy recently consider yourself bloody well lucky.
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You seem like a well reasoned, top quality applicant. I'm surprised you've not been snapped up for the Train Drivers job you're owed.
 
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You seem like a well reasoned, top quality applicant. I'm surprised you've not been snapped up for the Train Drivers job you're owed.
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Thank you and not sure mate. Shouldn’t really say this wish I had been born 20 years earlier as it was probably easier to get on British rail, days of second men and lower wages. The higher wages one reason so many people
From outside the railway family apply.
 
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Northern Tank said:
Thank you and not sure mate. Shouldn’t really say this wish I had been born 20 years earlier as it was probably easier to get on British rail, days of second men and lower wages. The higher wages one reason so many people
From outside the railway family apply.
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I think you missed the sarcasm.

Northern Tank said:
Let someone else do the work for them, then they have a cheek yo Cancel trains cos of short staffed notning but ****in hypocrites.
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The same issue will happen if they took trainees. Ultimately, while they do not need to spend the money training drivers, they won't. I'm sure, if they did, of course, you would be far from the top of their list, more likely near it's bottom - if on it at all
 
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