Harry Monk:
Colin_scottish:
Ive applied to become a train driver with virgin good pay and the base is only 20 mins from my house.I applied for a job with Connex South Eastern as a trainee train driver. Quite a long time ago now. They wrote back and said that my application had been accepted but due to the overwhelming demand etc etc etc…
I later found out that there are 300 applicants for every job, and the majority of the jobs go to staff promoted internally.
Funnily enough, I’m old enough to remember the days when anyone who wanted to drive a train could get a job driving one.
There is a lot of competition for train driver jobs, of those that get through the application sift, most fail the assessment stage. 300 applicants per job is a fair assumption. In my experience, around 50% of drivers are recruited externally.
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