Irish Rail Jobs Discussion

ah brilliant. Good luck to us all.

It's with teams again. Hopefully this time i won't have a power cut.🤣

Rescheduled 16pf tomorrow, 2nd time getting this far, hopefully can progress further this time....( nervously chews on finger nails and laughs anxiously) 😬

It seemed to go well, it does go into detail and explores a lot about you as a person and how you deal with stuff, which given the nature of the job, would be important for IR, but of course the question now is whether or not my personality is suited to their criteria,

Yeah hopefully, the waiting can be torture, especially in the earlier phases, but that's how it is with large numbers of applicants, I'd actually love to know the pass and fail figures of each phase.

Just got the invite for the Line Manager interview next week. Good luck to anybody who has their interview coming up.

I felt uneasy after mine on Friday too, didn't feel great about it the second they hung up

Was it your line manager interview? Did they give class start dates or what it would be as in dart or diesel?

Did they say dart or diesel class?

Hi guys, with regard to anybody who has done their line manager interview, do you remember any of the questions asked?

Such as:

Role of train driver - what do you think is involved?

Why Irish Rail & becoming a train driver?

Managing shift work

Customer service tasks

Working independently

They were telling me they plan to start in March if successfull

ah okay! Hopefully they run a few more classes if I’m successful because I’m indisposed for a week in April for Irish dancing worlds 🥲

I've just completed my line manager interview there. I thought i would put people who have yet to do it at ease. All of the information that your given in the email for it is more than enough to plan and study around. As for being intimidating I felt they were very nice and moved through the interview hitting all the points outlined. I felt mine went well. I answered all of their questions as best I could and now have the waiting game. If it's a no for me then it wasn't suited for me. Best of luck to everyone waiting 👍

That’s a bit rude. There will be other classes that run through out the year, I’m sure. I have been training for this since qualifying at nationals and as I don’t just compete in solos, I compete in teams as well - as in there’s 7 other people relying on me too and everything is booked and paid for.
I’ve no problem going on the panel and waiting until the next class. I won’t pick between my career and my competitive sport if I don’t have to and so far there’s been zero indication that I’d have to. I’ll wait to speak to them directly if I’m successful about it, thanks.

ah brilliant! Glad you felt it went well.
I’ve a week to go before mine. Best of luck!