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I’m quite a bit older than most… maybe this helps or maybe not?, but I’ve had 2 interviews and got offered both jobs, Personally I believe you’re playing the interviewer and not the job! I quickly assess the person and get on their wavelength, once the person you’re talking to likes you, the...

I know they have training sites at: Birmingham Westbury (Wiltshire) Ipswich Crewe Possibly Leeds too You could end up at anywhere, it will depend on what course you end up on. However if you are away from home depot you will get a hire car with fuel card, accommodation with breakfast and an...

Who on here is on April 18th course?

Have you not done the manager interview already, I had that before the assessment stage

It will be a DMI they just do things a bit out of sync to other toc/foc’s Q same questions as normal, draw on your past experiences, it’s pretty standard stuff. Lots use the STAR method, I don’t… Im a little older and have a fair bit of life experience so just draw from one of those...

It will flash up on screen like this

To practice Atavt test I used Google map street view to find some busy junctions in cities and printed them off, my wife held them up for a few seconds and I wrote down if a remembered cars/pedestrians/traffic lights etc The Bourdon test us easy to practice (loads of material out there for free)...

Your scored (it tells you your score if you check back on your application) Score most likely will be based on the multiple choice stuff you answer on the application form! I doubt someone checks application manually at this point

Basic is around £31k but with Sundays/bank hols plus the few bonus bits and bobs, my mate makes in region of £39k. I believe you work several weeks 'on' then get some time off dependant on depot. For instance you could work 8 weeks of shift work then you have 2 weeks off. In that 2 weeks if you...

Are you on west?

I'm pretty sure these vacancies are just to refill the now expired talent pool. GA have recently cut alot of services and a friend said a lot of depots are massively over staffed.

They will take the people with best results to the assessment stage and depending on how many get through… they will pull more from pool if needed

Yes secure than a passenger rail company as they are always gonna be propped up by government, but by no means insecure!

If you’ve got this far I’d imagine it’s a formality, can’t see them turning you away now

I’m in no way sure but I’d say you’d need to be in the 90% upwards for accuracy, but also when you do a lot of these tests it’s to do with how you deal under pressure…. No one can successfully perform 2 tasks side by side (not even my wife) so you will get some wrong but it’s important to...

These tests often are designed to see how you deal with pressure rather than just speed and accuracy! It’s impossible to not make any errors it’s sometimes about how you recover yourself.

When I practiced I just used street view on google maps, picked a junction somewhere, started looking for 10 secs then close laptop, then 7 secs, 5secs..... until I was always getting 100%

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Passed stage 1 and 2 in 2017 and secured a job as depot driver, wondering if there is a time limit on the passes, will I be able to use those passes to apply to a different TOC as a trainee mainline driver

Rumour was they had plans to put a wheel lathe in near harwich international station, the drivers needed for shunts there would of been based at Colchester, So GA Upped staff to supply harwich, I believe this plan has been scrapped, im told Colchester depot already has a full roster