With an extreme exception, you always have to live within 45 or 60 minutes before applying for trainee driver jobs.
I don't get it, it reduces the pool okay? But it also by that argument allows people that allow for lower quality candidates to do better since the pool is smaller and thus potentially leading to a worse set of drivers surely?
Some people live in rural places, so to apply they have to move away from home before getting a job to a new place.
I have applied for at least two TOCs that do training at places like York but the job itself is as much as 5 hours away or sometimes even more by car to where you work, Why can't you move after getting the job?
I know people who are the children of drivers who apply for and get jobs with depots they live hours away from on the promise they move closer before starting the training. I know someone who got a job and the TOC moved them to a different depot after they got the job even further away pushing them out of the time barrier.
I have never known any job like this, want to be a pilot move afterwards, do air traffic move afterwards, want to be a lawyer, banker, judge, work in a shop, mechanic, engineer etc, it is honestly one of the only UK based jobs for a UK applicant that I know where I need to live here at the job itself before applying but also live within distance of depots so that I can even apply on the off chance they recruit there.
Why is this even a thing? Do they not want only the best rather than the best of an area? I am honestly surprised, and I hate myself for even suggesting this, that no one has ever claimed geographical discrimination or something.
This isn't a rant, I just want to understand why living near GTR means I cannot work for South West or ScotRail or LNER in most cases etc unless I uproot my live just in case or live in a camper moving depot to depot as jobs open.
I don't get it, it reduces the pool okay? But it also by that argument allows people that allow for lower quality candidates to do better since the pool is smaller and thus potentially leading to a worse set of drivers surely?
Some people live in rural places, so to apply they have to move away from home before getting a job to a new place.
I have applied for at least two TOCs that do training at places like York but the job itself is as much as 5 hours away or sometimes even more by car to where you work, Why can't you move after getting the job?
I know people who are the children of drivers who apply for and get jobs with depots they live hours away from on the promise they move closer before starting the training. I know someone who got a job and the TOC moved them to a different depot after they got the job even further away pushing them out of the time barrier.
I have never known any job like this, want to be a pilot move afterwards, do air traffic move afterwards, want to be a lawyer, banker, judge, work in a shop, mechanic, engineer etc, it is honestly one of the only UK based jobs for a UK applicant that I know where I need to live here at the job itself before applying but also live within distance of depots so that I can even apply on the off chance they recruit there.
Why is this even a thing? Do they not want only the best rather than the best of an area? I am honestly surprised, and I hate myself for even suggesting this, that no one has ever claimed geographical discrimination or something.
This isn't a rant, I just want to understand why living near GTR means I cannot work for South West or ScotRail or LNER in most cases etc unless I uproot my live just in case or live in a camper moving depot to depot as jobs open.