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12 minutes ago, 2ride said:

I’m scheduled for a cleaners interview at a later date with one of the RRs. Do you know what they’re looking for to hire somebody? I have tons of customer service and logistics experience on me with some manual labor, but idk if it’s enough to make the cut. I would be really happy if I got into metro north since its hiring process for conductors and engineers (especially for internals) seem to be a bit more fair than LIRR’s.

Elaborate as much as you can on your safety sensitive duties. Try to quantify your cash handling or reporting experience as well, include monetary or metric figures to any part of your job you did on a daily basis as well as any accomplishments.

Mention any significant customer service experiences you've had, good ones, bad ones and instances where you have had to adapt. Your reactions, the actions and results of those actions. 

These questions are not gonna seem relevant to the position but you will be near main line track and in yards as a cleaner and your ability to work with others is critical. You will be customer facing as well.

know the basics of metro north, the 5 main lines, major stations are a bonus, Equipment types, use the wikipedia page. 

Honestly do wish you and everyone else gets hired, just reacted in bad taste to your posts concerning the tests. Im old school I guess. 

6 minutes ago, 2ride said:

Yes, I was humble about it in the LIRR thread. I’m definitely upset and disappointed, but I don’t have animosity towards the company except surprised that its hiring process consists of random things along with lack of responses/help. Mind I tell you I waited 4 weeks before I even got one question answered although I’ve tried reaching out to people like once or twice during that timeframe? It’s hectic, brutal. You clearly don’t understand people’s situations here and what they’re dealing with. If you looked into them better, this conversation wouldn’t have went out of its circle.

I get it, but like I stated with Lawrence, its 20-30 people who just did interviews or 50-60 who got an s&d overview invitation or 100-300 who got a job orientation invitation ALL sending them emails with questions. Look at it from their pov, they cannot answer every email when 90 percent of the time the answer is in the invitation email they sent. People have a tendency to ask questions about things that are not relevant at that junction in the process. Now they have to siphon thru hundreds of irrelevant emails and people questions get lost in the sauce. 

In the end their focus goes to the candidates who got picked for interviews. And sometimes being chosen depends on who interviews you, for which I can agree is unfair but life is unfair. Just keep trying.

12 minutes ago, 2ride said:

Dunno what implications you’re making, but I haven’t seen or thought of you posting on here for months and all of a sudden you’re coming on here just to claim that you feel annoyed by random posts that were never addressed towards you? Also, instead of being hostile about me and Lawrence’s situations, what you could’ve done was calm us down, answer our inquiries, and try to understand the issues. Did you do that? All I see is you coming to look for a man-child level argument on a job forum. For a conductor yourself, I think you should know better than that. 

who said im a conductor, I went thru the hiring process.... not arguing just stating facts. I am helping you, you just want to be coddled instead of looking at your predicament from a rational pair of eyes. hundred of candidates, averaged scores based on exams and interviews, you were not competitive enough. work on your next attempt instead of complaining online about the HR process. 

3 minutes ago, 2ride said:

That’s a lie man! I never PMed you. I PMed someone else about the process. Take a chill pill, you seem to have spent too much time on this forum confusing yourself with everything now. Also, you don’t need to caps lock your thoughts. Everyone here is supportive and searching for answers aggressively on how to board on the company. Your misinterpretation of things is making it worse.

check your inbox from a few months ago....Your one to talk about supportive...Your shitting on the hiring practices, yet want a job. Make it make sense.....

7 minutes ago, 2ride said:

Serious question, how old are you? You’re not stalking me or anything right? Based on your post history, you don’t seem to get a lot of responses from other people on the forum because of how rude and denigrating you are sometimes, I hope you realize that.

YOU SENT ME A PM ASKING A QUESTION WHICH I OPENED WHEN I LOGGED IN ONLY TO SEE YOUR PROFILE FILLED WITH POSTS ASKING THE SAME QUESTION..you can't get over the fact that you took the cognitive and passed and didn't get an s&d invite.... move on! You're not gonna change a system thats been the same hiring practice for years!!

5 minutes ago, Lawrence St said:

When I did the interview that's what I was told. Perhaps I misheard them and they meant one year.

I keep getting mixed answers as to when we will do on-the job training, some say classroom training is two weeks and then you lead into on-the-job, others say its two months and then your able to go in service under supervision by the fourth month.

If you had an interview already and are possibly in consideration for employment, any emails you send to HR right now are gonna take a backseat. They are probably trying to get you and multiple other candidates set up for class. Theres various things they have to do after they find enough candidates to start a class. Patience is key. You have an edge coming from NJT, training is gonna be a breeze for you. Training is a mix of OJT and lots of class time. I will PM you some details about your questions. 

17 hours ago, Lawrence St said:

Does MNRR offer paid leave like sick time and such?

im still confused with the training part, for the 24 months we go through training we can’t have a vacation? That’s ludicrous!

Where are you getting this information from? Of course you get sick time lol and you get vacation depending on when you start. Training is not 2 years, you may wait 2 years to promote to conductor but that may change depending on demands of the company. 

On 11/30/2022 at 11:51 AM, 2ride said:

It’s absolutely insane. I passed my cleaners for this agency and I still haven’t been contacted for an interview yet, but they still have another posting up right now. Like how much longer do they go on with applicants without responses?

You keep posting on this forum about your so called bad experiences with MNR, one minute you had an interview and didn't get picked and now you still haven't been called.. which is it? 

If you didn't get picked, don't come on here bashing the company yet still have a desire to work there. It's a public forum where they can see what you post. They have the right to interview you and not pick you, prob found someone who's more qualified or maybe just a better fit and I don't blame them based off your multiple disgruntled post history. Jesus Christ.

Anyone currently in pre-employment stage with MNRR for A/C and waiting on a start date for training?....

I was told there is an August class, end of month...

That being said. Don’t get discouraged. A year will fly by in no time. Keep trying and also don’t hesitate to try and get in via other positions. I think like a user mentioned above, safety is key but also on how to deal with people. Customer service is a big part of the operation.

Another piece of advice is to make sure you know as much about the railroad as possible. The names of the lines, some major stations. Some history. And memorize the job description. I can’t stress that enough. They want you to know what your daily responsibilities are…

Respectfully brotha, passing the interview is nowhere near the last step. If you pass you still have to be medically and physically cleared. Your in pre employment. You have to have your primary physician clear you to even take the physical agility test. Then the railroad doctors check you out. It’s like an analysis. Then there’s a drug test and once you clear another round of background screening for past drug tests from old jobs, then you start training. 
 

and even then your still a conditional employee that has to qualify as an A/C. I’m taking everything one day at time. Nothing is promised. There’s no last step IMO…until you qualify 

Have my conditional new hire medical coming up soon. Been through a rough couple months dealing with family losses and have had 2 occurrences of high blood pressure during my last few doctor visits. I say it’s due to stress which led to poor eating habits…that changes now though with this opportunity.

will hbp be an issue during the medical?? 

52 minutes ago, mjg2020 said:

How did it go?

Went well, passed the exams (vocabulary,cognitive, and math) just like previous users mentioned earlier in this thread….

just waiting on an email for next steps..which I believe is getting study material for signals and definitions. That’s the real hard part.  
 

it was a big class prob about 60-70 ppl…I’d estimate about half passed. Wish everyone could’ve made it but I think the cognitive exam was a little tricky..I just skipped anything I didn’t know and moved on to answer questions I could because of the time limit.

If you do get called sometime in the future just brush up on multiplication and everything else is random can’t tell you what to study for really… 

2 minutes ago, mjg2020 said:

Ah gotcha. Yeah the RR has an interesting system of hiring people. I have applied for Amtrak and got a lot of rejection emails and still apply to them. Ive applied to MN for Laborer and the application says passed prescreening. I also applied to the Locomotive Engineer position for LI and got the vaccine email about two hours ago. Little irrelevant but I am a volunteer at a trolley museum (BERA) so that might help as far as experience besides cash handling and customer service.

Nice, that should help, sounds like you know more about trains than me haha. I also applied to Amtrak and Metro North but never heard from them either. Not as much as Ive applied to LIRR tho. Im fairly close to Jamaica yard and Hillside yard and right next to subway that can take me to Penn station in under an hour.

1 minute ago, mjg2020 said:

Oh interesting. Yes. I have been a cashier at a local grocery store for almost 2 years. 2 years on Nov 18.

Ahh ok, I'm hardly an expert on what they are looking for but I wouldn't get discouraged if they don't call. Ive applied to over 10 jobs for LIRR alone and this is the first time they have called me.

It's probably random based on keywords in the resume and I'm sure thousands of people apply. Its weird because in my profile there are some applications I have that say "passed prescreening" under status and I've never gotten an email. The A/C position they emailed me for and the status hasn't even changed it still says "applied". Maybe they like persistence, I'm still gonna keep applying if I don't make it for this position.

1 hour ago, mjg2020 said:

I got the email about the vaccine mandate today but not the open house.

From what I have seen in the forums in past pages there are multiple training classes. So its possible there are multiple open houses as well. Did you include customer service and cash handling type jobs in your resume? I now thats what they look for....

6 hours ago, Via Garibaldi 8 said:

Because they had a hiring freeze before the pandemic, then the pandemic came and they had lots of workers retire early and so on, so now there's a serious worker shortage and they are struggling to meet the schedules. With the federal funding they've received, they've been able to allocate monies towards operation of service. Ridership is down now, but the hope is that they'll continue to receive funding to keep service running, as they expect ridership to rebound years down the line. If you start cutting service now, you may never get a sizable amount of riders back.

Ok gotcha, thanks for the info. I hope it rebounds as well. Pandemic was devastating to many industries including my current one...

I am extremely thankful to even get called for an employment opportunity with the LIRR, but theres one thing I am a bit curious about...With all this talk of ridership being at an all time low due to the pandemic as well as the railroad seeking aid money, how come they are hiring? Is there a bunch of retirements or something? I read somewhere in this forum, maybe this post a few pages back that the A/C roster had more than enough employees...

10 hours ago, mjg2020 said:

No unfortunately I didn’t hear back from anyone. Maybe they have multiple open houses for this posting.

Could be, hopefully you get an email soon. Before I got the open house email I got an email from the MTA about vaccine mandate for all new employees and the subject line had the job title I applied for....so if you get one of those it may be a good sign 

Anyone on here going to the Nov 5th open house for Assistant Conductor?