Hi all,
Hopefully somebody can shed some light on this for me. A vacancy has appeared on the Network Rail careers site for a grade 2 signaller in Cutsyke, Castleford, Yorkshire. The thing is, it's advertised as being a fixed term secondment until March 2018. Now if the application process takes as long as I think it does, ie. several months, followed by (if you're fortunate enough to get through) 12 weeks at a signalling school, how could you possibly even start such a secondment before March 2018, let alone complete one?
I emailed recruitment to ask them about this and how it would work given the timescales involved. I wondered if there was some kind of mistake such as it should never have been advertised to external candidates or that it should have said March 2019. Unfortunately, I just got a reply saying they could confirm it was March 2018, there is no guarantee that there would be any employment beyond that date and it was at my own discretion whether I wanted to apply.
All of which is fine, but I'm still none the wiser as to how you would be able to start work in time for any meaningful secondment before March 2018.
I've applied for it anyway as I suppose there's nothing to lose, just curious as to whether someone is able to explain what I'm missing here.