Hear on the grapevine someone in Northern's HR wrongly
re-advertised the Conductor Manchester vacancy, suggesting the second and/or third advert was an error, meaning (rumoured) 200+ applications binned. About a third of candidates are being contacted... a sloppy HR mistake perhaps but the thing that brought it to light was an absence of one word... 'sorry' in HR's reply, which is doing the rounds on a WhatsApp group.
Edit, this is the snippet...
Email Northern HR sent to candidates said:
Thank you for your interest in the Manchester Conductor vacancy.
Unfortunately, there was a malfunction with the recruitment page and the vacancy falsely opened for new applications.
We are not taking new applications for the role at this time, your application will be withdrawn from the process.
The mind boggles