Being interviewed for the job

[sprinkle]

Remember a lot of the questions, like garage door opening in and can't close for car.Most of all I remember learning all the postcode area's and the sorting test at the end off two weeks. Worst of all training guy didn't notice I sorted left handed, stamp still in the correct corner but told me if I did this in the test the following day I would fail.He said everything in Post Office set up for being right handed!! But he was a decent guy and gave me slightly more time in the test.
34 years later, still here!!!

[glass joe]

2001, some sorting test in a class room, then a interview in front of 3 people at a desk, then in some classroom for a few days then to the office and working with someone for 3-4 weeks. fun days haha

[Expostie]

No your not mad. The bike and the gears the chimneys and the smoke. This is just before they introduced. RRIS payments and lowered the pass threshold for that test to 30%

[dddelta]

I remember that test when I started in 1987. Like being back at school. Some young lads failed it. Wonder where they are now?
Anyone else remember feeling dead important at signing the official secrets act when you got your contract?

[PDAHappy]

I remember when I joined in 2003 a maths test and a postcode test/sorting test.Again there were people who failed.But what I do remember is being asked in the interview was “Are you happy to wear a uniform” and “Can you ride a bicycle in bad weather”.

[celtic1967]

I remember when I joined in 2003 a maths test and a postcode test/sorting test.Again there were people who failed.But what I do remember is being asked in the interview was “Are you happy to wear a uniform” and “Can you ride a bicycle in bad weather”.

Same year I started. I remember doing the maths test and doing it in about 3 minutes and thinking I must have missed some pages out! Some blokes in the same room were still working their way through when the examiner called time.

[Fannybaws]

Joined 2001 and remember doing a maths test and a couple of others. During the interview was asked if I was happy walking up to 8 miles on busy days and the lino telling me it wasn't the job it used to be . Spent first week at the local MC getting introduced to everything RM with a day at my designated DO. Then IPS and prep tests about 2-3 months into the job.

Oh those were the days.

[Fannybaws]

Anyone else remember feeling dead important at signing the official secrets act when you got your contract?

Yep and I can still remember the very serious speech the lino gave about confidentiality and protecting customers info before we signed.

Felt dead important at the time

[FAB]

Anyone else remember feeling dead important at signing the official secrets act when you got your contract?

Yep and I can still remember the very serious speech the lino gave about confidentiality and protecting customers info before we signed.

Felt dead important at the time

Doubt you have to do that now. Wonder when it was dropped. With privatisation I suppose.

[Russpuss]

Remember that test in late 1970s then interview with someone who asked what year my mother was born to which I replied that I don’t know and what has that got to do with anything. Later I was a deputy manager trained for interviewing new entrants in the 2000s they had done the online application, but then when someone came and couldn’t answer the questions because there English was not very good leaving me to then have to explain why in my opinion they were not suitable for employment.

[twoloops]

This is why RM can & will have our pants down with a crap deal, turkey & Christmas comes to mind

[KEB-1991-Crew]

I remember the test process quite well. I had a few friends who were already at KEB and they were not the most academic but called the interview "the cabbage test" because if you failed it you must not have been too smart. There were about 25-30 of us in the classroom and I thought the test was pretty basic stuff, seeing as I had not long done my GCSEs. I think there were 3 of us that were called out to leave the room and I was convinced I had failed as I thought there's no way 20+ people could fail that thing. Turns out I was wrong and we were escorted away in a lift to get a cuppa and tell them if we wanted the job. I don't really remember much of an interview after that, more of a group chat.

[Mr Rush]

Lol. All 25-30 would be offered the job now, over the phone, zero face to face classroom, zero 'tests' just one question ,"do you have a driving license?"

We've had a fair few turn up who are, to put it politely, not in suitable physical shape to do the job. One woman joined and left in the span of my long weekend. Had there been some intial face to face contact the farce would never have transpired (assuming anyone would dare say something in the current climate).

New starts tell me day one is spent on a protracted Zoom call in lieu of a proper induction and then day two consists of sitting in the office watching every WTLL video ever made for hours on end. Frankly, I think the sooner your hit the street the better - the thresher to their wheat or chaff.