Minnie6868
New Member
Recently applied for Trainee Train Driver. Once the application was completed it then took me into a 20 minute multiple choice test. The questions were very specific to having existing railway experience. After a few days I was notified that I was unsuccessful due to failing the test. Hey ho! So I applied for Ambassador (customer service). Same thing (difference questions) again. It's a pity that employers are still ignoring academic qualifications (I'm educated to post degree level) and ignoring the wealth of customer service experience I have (including Railway) or maybe they are glancing at the Equality form which is completed at application stage, which shows that I'm over 50. I really do believe that securing a good position within the Railway is about who you know and not what you know. It would be nice to see Avanti turn this on its head, now that they've got the Francise. I worked at a Station where the Station Manager (not Avanti) must have had a recruitment agency in her local pub because I was surrounded by her Mom's best friends. We were about 40 miles away from her village. So it's still 'jobs for the boys/girls'!