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Depends on how good/how well liked you are to be blunt. In my experience if youre willing to learn and show aptitude the old heads have no problem teaching you the ropes. Me and my classmates have been in for over a year now and we actually do serious work, from full on inspections, maintenance packages and repairs. We didnt have any time to sit around and do nothing, trail by fire sort of training right from the beginning. Theres a couple of a**holes who wont teach you a lick but theres many maintainers who want to teach you. Makes sense, once you learn the job you make their job easier as well.

Not sure about the CDL license but its definitely not a requirement to be hired. I know E/E department is desperate for new hires cause its so hard for them to hire veteran E/E personnel from the outside so they are trying out a new tactic of hiring fresh people with no E/E experience and training them up. Signals is always looking for new hires as well. Everybody who got hired from my exam either went to power/signals or E/E. I dont know anyone in signals personally but i heard from friends who know fellow helpers in signals that its basically just flagging all day everyday. Im not sure how long they will give you to notify your employer cause of the circumstances right now but they didnt give me anytime at all. They called me on a monday to schedule my medical for Wednesday of the same week and told me in the same phone call if i would be able to start the following monday. Unfortunately i was only able to give my employer a one week notice, but im also very young so a long career with MTA over potentially burning a bridge because i couldnt give a 2 week notice was a no brainer for me. You do have a small say over your schedules in the beginning. So in MTA your seniority is everything, seniority is different from your list number. For example say they hire 20 people with the list numbers ranging from 1-150. If im #50 on the list i could be #10 out of the class of 20 depending on what list number the other 19 people are. At the end of your training your instructor will have a list of 20 available spots for you and your classmates to choose from. The spots will have a reporting location, days off, tour of duty listed. (for example: 34th St penn station/ Sunday-Monday off/ 10pm-6am). Since your #10 out of the class of 20 you would choose after the first 9 people make their selections. Kind of like a draft pick for sports teams. Your instructor will explain everything in great detail but word of advice if you could get sunday-monday off. Take it, trust me.

it might be, i forgot the order for preemployment/drug test days. We also didnt have a canvass letter, might be something new they are doing due to covid. As for the verifying your employment its up to them to verify. Honestly i dont think they checked up on anyones past employment. We got a huge influx of helpers (close to 70) into my department, the people in my class are pretty good because they all either had experience working in the electrical field or went to college for electrical theory. The later hires were all picked up from odd professions that had nothing to do with electrical and it shows unfortunately. Some of them look like they never picked up a hammer in their life.

everyone who is hired off the civil service exam (the one you took) is permanent status. Only people who are hired "off the street" with just a resume/interview are provisional. They need to take and pass the same civil service exam you took to become permanent. I passed exam 8611 so im permanent. Im assuming you dont have youre list number yet cause they are backed up cause of covid but once they hire you, you will be in a permanent position.

After the drug test you go in for pre employment, fill out a bunch of paperwork, verify your past employment/education/living location stuff like that. After the pre employment you get called in to do your medical examination. Just a couple of simple tests, like hearing, eye sight, and a quick questionnaire asked by a nurse/doctor? a couple other medical tests but nothing crazy like blood tests or anything like that. The medical is the last step, they swear you in and take your picture for your MTA pass ID same day as the medical. After medical you get your class information/starting day. Starting day is always at the union headquarters at 195 montague st in brooklyn. First two days is just HR and the union talking up how great it is that you got hired haha. The 3rd day is when you report to PS 248 the transit learning center where i assume you guys took your exams. You stay at the school for a couple weeks depending on what department you guys land in, i was there for 5 weeks. I landed in elevator/escalator department.

Good luck to all of you, i got lucky and was hired for the TEH position in June 2019. If you guys have any questions feel free to hit me up.

yes you need a valid drivers license to be hired for the MTA. every single position requires it

just basic information. you only need cdl if the job specifically asks for it. but they would have pointed that out in the application

They called me directly.

First two days is HR. 8am till 4pm. After that is 7am back at the school we did the exams in for training. The first day we just went over employment information, pension, benefits and everything and they give you the employee mta care.

About 20 people

I did pre employment 2 weeks ago

Yea I’m here now. I did medical last Wednesday. And yes I’m in elevators

Me and a coworker got our medicals already and we start Monday. We were below 100 on the list.