Honestly i cant rember exactly, with them recording your every move during the test etc i did want to jot down the questions.
Sorry my auto correct for some reason does this, it's really annoying. It is more specifically for Chester Railway Station as a trainee Signaller, so it will start as a grade 2. If you have any information in regards to the first question I had that would be great.
I've seen some of your post and it looks like you have an interview for the same grade as me in Chester. Is there any advice you could give me for this, also any idea as to what kind of assessment activities I can expect? Are there any resources which you used that you found very helpful?
I wouldn't worry about specific questions like that beyond knowing that the role of a signaller is to control the movement of trains . At interview they won't expect you to know about the various different types of systems in use to control signalling equipment , there are various different arrangements anyway from lever frames to OCS or NX panels to the various different types of computerised interfaces .
Thank sounds great. I hope its okay for me to ask you, what kind of activities should I be expecting to do?
There is no assessment activities other than a face to face interview. Mine was about 45 minutes maybe a little bit less it went so quick. You will have 2 people interviewing you one usually takes the notes and one usually asks the questions. Learn what you can about Signallers, the STAR method and also research the company, reading through this thread page after page helped me learn as much knowledge as possible and helped me massively in the interview. They are not going to ask complex questions about the role as you don't know anything yet so don't worry about that. It will be 'name a time when you have gone above and beyond at work' or 'name me a time when you had a difficult situation and how did you cope with it' Then after those questions there is an activity that you need to complete asking what you would do in a situation that they give you. Good luck!
Good Evening all,
Thank you, I appreciate the support and help. If it's okay to ask one final question. When you say the activity involves asking what I would do in this situation, does this refer to something that would actually happen on the railway (a real signaller scenario) or will this be a general 'what would you do in this situation' question (referring to something that would happen outside of signalling)? Thanks again.
Yeah a real signaller scenario. They give you the information though and you just answer with what you would do in that situation.
okay cool, thank you. I'll have a good look through this thread to make sure I am fully prepared for the interview. As you mentioned before, I won't really know anything yet being an interview. I'm assuming all the information I need to answer the situation based activity question will be available either on the Network Rail website or on here.
Just the base location on the advert. For some relief jobs it's physically impossible to live within 50 mins of all of the covered boxes!
Well done on passing the online assessment. Did they make you use a webcam and microphone, to remotely check you were doing it honestly?
You can not take test unless you have a microphone and webcam so they monitor you at all times.
After i did my scenario on the video it was straight to face to face interview couple years ago then it all follows up on that list, there wasn’t no assessment centre in person
