It'll be very close for me, with the talent pool being kept open for 2 years from sitting stage 2 I'm ok until November 2021. There seems to be a small group of around half of dozen of us who are at serious risk of coming out of what has been a long and time consuming process with absolutely nothing. Not helped by the fact that EMR haven't really kept us updated - the last email I had from them was back in April telling me that October was likely to be the next course. Nothing since. Does anyone feel they don't want to give us bad news?
I get the impression that Derby was overstaffed which is why the October course was for predominantly Nottingham drivers - which I fully understand, but for future courses I would hope that those of us who are at risk of dropping out of the pool would be given the opportunity to change to another depot. Lets face it, both sides of this recruitment process have invested a fair bit of time (and money) in filling the talent pool, so why let it go to waste... It's frustrating as I would have happily nominated either Nottingham or Derby as both are under 30 minutes drive from my home, but as we could only select one I chose Derby as it's a bit nearer.
