bp98 Posted September 17, 2021 Share #1676 Posted September 17, 2021 They're hiring again, for those still interested. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjg2020 Posted September 25, 2021 Share #1677 Posted September 25, 2021 I applied last week. Lets see how it goes. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MidtownNYC Posted October 14, 2021 Share #1678 Posted October 14, 2021 On 9/24/2021 at 11:42 PM, mjg2020 said: I applied last week. Lets see how it goes. Any link i try to find but couldn't 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squarebag Posted October 14, 2021 Share #1679 Posted October 14, 2021 I think it was only up till the 29th of September 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjg2020 Posted October 14, 2021 Share #1680 Posted October 14, 2021 4 hours ago, Squarebag said: I think it was only up till the 29th of September Correct 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mtahopeful121986 Posted October 27, 2021 Share #1681 Posted October 27, 2021 Goood afternoon, I received a text and a phone call telling me to come to livingston street next week for station agent processing. I have not gotten a email with the documentation to print out. Does anyone know the number I can call to speak to someone 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Altezza Posted October 29, 2021 Share #1682 Posted October 29, 2021 Anyone on here going to the Nov 5th open house for Assistant Conductor? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjg2020 Posted October 29, 2021 Share #1683 Posted October 29, 2021 4 hours ago, Altezza said: Anyone on here going to the Nov 5th open house for Assistant Conductor? No unfortunately I didn’t hear back from anyone. Maybe they have multiple open houses for this posting. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Altezza Posted October 29, 2021 Share #1684 Posted October 29, 2021 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 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjg2020 Posted October 29, 2021 Share #1685 Posted October 29, 2021 36 minutes ago, Altezza said: 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 Hmmm interesting. I’ll keep an eye out for that email. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Altezza Posted November 2, 2021 Share #1686 Posted November 2, 2021 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... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Via Garibaldi 8 Posted November 2, 2021 Share #1687 Posted November 2, 2021 (edited) 7 hours ago, Altezza said: 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... 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. Edited November 2, 2021 by Via Garibaldi 8 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjg2020 Posted November 2, 2021 Share #1688 Posted November 2, 2021 On 10/29/2021 at 4:41 PM, Altezza said: 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 I got the email about the vaccine mandate today but not the open house. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Altezza Posted November 2, 2021 Share #1689 Posted November 2, 2021 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... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Altezza Posted November 2, 2021 Share #1690 Posted November 2, 2021 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.... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjg2020 Posted November 2, 2021 Share #1691 Posted November 2, 2021 1 minute ago, Altezza said: 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.... Oh interesting. Yes. I have been a cashier at a local grocery store for almost 2 years. 2 years on Nov 18. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Altezza Posted November 2, 2021 Share #1692 Posted November 2, 2021 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. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjg2020 Posted November 2, 2021 Share #1693 Posted November 2, 2021 11 minutes ago, Altezza said: 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. 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. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Altezza Posted November 2, 2021 Share #1694 Posted November 2, 2021 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. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjg2020 Posted November 2, 2021 Share #1695 Posted November 2, 2021 6 minutes ago, Altezza said: 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. Oh okay Im from CT in New Haven County so I am far from NY. But if I get lucky I would relocate. As of the trains part I don’t know as much as you think I do Lol. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjg2020 Posted November 7, 2021 Share #1696 Posted November 7, 2021 On 10/29/2021 at 1:37 AM, Altezza said: Anyone on here going to the Nov 5th open house for Assistant Conductor? How did it go? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Altezza Posted November 7, 2021 Share #1697 Posted November 7, 2021 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… 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
j1211 Posted February 1, 2022 Share #1698 Posted February 1, 2022 after you take the s&d exam and pass of course when do they contact you for the medical test? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjg2020 Posted March 28, 2022 Share #1699 Posted March 28, 2022 I applied again for AC. Let's see where this goes. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2ride Posted March 28, 2022 Share #1700 Posted March 28, 2022 Does anyone here know if there is a drawback to withdrawing the application that was originally submitted and then reapply because I needed to fix a resume or cover letter? Would reapplying affect my candidacy or I will still be in the same boat as first time? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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