Plastictaffy did you not have any kind of response for a whole year then and they randomly messaged you recently for an interview? :/. It's been 3 weeks now since I applied and the advertisement ended so I have just decided to send a follow-up email. I've never had to wait this length of time before to await a decision. It is understandable that hundreds would have applied for this 1 position though and many applications overlooked.
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You would only be based at one of them. It would depend on vacancies available at the time. You wouldn't necessarily get to choose which one you wanted.
plastictaffy
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I heard nothing from applying up until January, when I had a letter from HR apologising for the lack of movement since we'd applied. Then nothing until last week.
The e-mail would have been pretty out of the blue, but one or two of my colleagues had had an e-mail, that gave me a heads-up.
DJUK15 - don't expect anything to move quickly with regard to jobs working on the railway. Every man and his dog wants to work on the railways!! They have a lot of applicants to go through for the job, and it will take a long time. Patience!!
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plastictaffy
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Youngbuck - same as me. Couldn't fit one in earlier, as I'm currently in the middle of 7 straight shifts - thursday was the earliest I could manage!!
7 day shifts.. I was lucky enough to give those up about 2 years ago but the thought of it still makes me shiver!
plastictaffy
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Got a couple of points in the roster where it happens, sadly. Half of it was earlies, and I flipped over to lates on the Sunday.
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There's a reception for the BOP on platform 1. If you come out of the booking office and turn right on the platform and follow the building round, you 'll come to a door with an intercom mounted on the side of it.
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I am still waiting to hear the outcome of my application for snow hill. I have had my auto email regarding my application but not heard anything since. 1 month and still waiting!
Recruitment in the rail industry is notoriously slow and for good reason as they want to find the best candidates to put through the selection process for the roles. A lot of people need to relax a bit, its just a job.
plastictaffy
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My interview was terrible. Had I been an external, I might not have bothered, I really wasn't feeling it. I was told that we'd hear by mid to late next week, apparently there are assessment dates booked and HR are keen to keep them.
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Does this mean they're extensively sifting the next stage? As in, they'll only be a handful of people having interviews? Or a very small percentage of the applicants?
Ive seen you post on another forum you seem to know alot about the role.. I thought as an internal you'd be clued up?
They told another applicant they would get back in 4 weeks time but they also told us two different start dates.
With all this coded information im not sure if Im applying for a job in bletchley park instead of bletchley station!
i,ll give my opinion for anyone who cares , ive been interviewed and i am an internal applicant , some of us rightly so will be wary of saying to much on an open forum ,
but what i feel i can say is ive heard there is a course in november and one in may , im also aware they want to expedite this process and get people on in November
anyone who has got this far has done very well , when they open a vacancy such as trainee driver they have in excess of 15,000 applications , huge numbers are then shifted out for the simple things and so on and so forth
the final batch was approx 500 then down to 40
ive heard we will find out shortly
good luck all who have got this far
but what i feel i can say is ive heard there is a course in november and one in may , im also aware they want to expedite this process and get people on in November
anyone who has got this far has done very well , when they open a vacancy such as trainee driver they have in excess of 15,000 applications , huge numbers are then shifted out for the simple things and so on and so forth
the final batch was approx 500 then down to 40
ive heard we will find out shortly
good luck all who have got this far
I don't know about London Midland but my friend works in HR for East Mids and they get a horrendous amount of applications for any Trainee Driver job, be it depot or mainline. You couldn't even put 5% through for interview because the number of applicants is so high.
An interesting way to do it
But they must still need to put enough through to interview to account for those failing interview or passing and then failing assessments
I must have been very lucky as I have only ever twice failed to pass the initial sifting stage of a trainee depot or mainline application
plastictaffy
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Clued up I may well be. That doesn't neccessarily mean that I will do better or worse than any other people in the interview. As I said in an earlier post, I really wasn't feeling it on the day. I was told at the end of the interview that we will hear either way in this coming week - however at least one other internal (not on here) was told it would be a few weeks before he heard. It's worth remembering that we were all interviewed by different people as well - I know that me, Cobbler, and the other internal I know of were interviewed by different people - perhaps they were aware of different timescales.
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Did you book the 9am or 1pm slot?
In the email it gives you a list of all the exams you'll be taking, type those into Google/YouTube and you'll get plenty of info
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i am also through , booked in for 9 , lets get it done !
Which depot did you apply for?
Haven't heard anything yet
plastictaffy
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You should have been sent some information on the tests that will be required of you. It's important that you do the practice material, it is all very relevant to the actual tests you will do.
Having phoned HR this afternoon, I too have been successful at interview (christ knows how, I thought it was a shocker) but I will be invited straight to the second lot of assessments, as I have already passed stage one.
Berries
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Well done guys!
Well done!
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