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As others have said, it’s very basic, read some letters on a chart (with glasses if you wear them) read a couple of paragraphs of text gradually getting smaller. Using the machine to read boxes in different positions on the screen and say which is further forward or further back. Then the colour...

Had my medical on Wednesday, start 5th September :D

Good luck for tomorrow :D

Yeah you were really lucky someone couldn’t take the vacancy due to holiday :D:D:D

Hopefully the interview will be fine the last one was. HR did say a vacancy needs to be filled urgently starting end of may hence the quickness of interview etc. Hopefully you won’t be long behind 1647019422 Yes still interested, was very sunrises to get a phone call this morning. Had given...

Just had call from SWR recruitment asking if I’m still interested in the role after being offered a position 2 years ago pre pandemic. My assessments are still valid but I need to have another interview (in 2 weeks) if successful a potential start date in may ! (Subject to medical) at Fratton.

I was offered a job at Petersfield starting in January 2020, but was unable to take it up. At that time i was told that the box would move to the ROC @ Basingstoke "sometime in the next few years" That said i was also told it should have moved "a few years ago" :D As for shifts this is what i...

I had to do functional skills maths level 2 at work and haven’t been in education for almost 40 years. I found it very straight forward, all online, plenty of practice material. Some of the things came back to me some didn’t. But overall there was plenty of help and I passed first time. As...

Mine was high (although the third reading taken just before the end of the medical was only just over) I went to see my GP a couple of weeks later and it was fine, she signed the form the NR nurse gave me, i emailed it in and everything was OK. I know others who had a high BP at their medical...

it’s just down to perseverance I’m afraid. I did over a dozen applications over a 2 year period. I used the same answers to the 69 questions, same CV every time. Some applications I got a straight knock back, some I got an interview. I was offered the reserve position on one and finally got...

Please be careful discussing this in an open forum, we have no idea as to exactly what happened and you never know, those involved may be members of this forum!

Friend of mine had interview with SWR for commercial guard back in feb last year. Had phone call next day offering her the job. (Obviously different times now)

don’t know,for definite but I seem to recall last time it was a 4/5, but don’t hold me to that :D :D

Thanks hopefully not too long for her now then :D

When did you pass your interview? A friend passed her interview in January but was told no Immediate vacancies and would hear around April/May with an estimated start date end of the year, but then COVID happened, so she’s still waiting to hear.

:D And will always need MOMs !

well done, a long journey but light at the end of the tunnel. (Pardon the pun):D

I was offered free train travel to go to my medical, but that was travelling with SWT, and NR staff get free travel on SWT, (local agreement) so doubt it’s a countrywide thing. As for petrol I was told it was down to me to get there. I decided to drive as it was quicker and due to the location...

yes and have been on both sides of it.:D

It took a couple of goes but I was offered a job at 51 as someone with no previous railway experience so it’s totally doable. As others have said read all the posts, the information is invaluable. The process has changed slightly due to current circumstances but learn the non technical skills...