Answers: no. equal employment opportunity
apply and you can win a job.
I am ex railroad. made lots of money and soon will collect a hugh pension
HI, first entry I would like to do is thank you for your service to this country.
To be immaculately honest, there is no living I can think of that give you any practical help for the operating department.
It is freshly too different than any other craft. Of course most people on the RR that hire hold never worked in the operating department and hold absolutely NO concept of this and continually hire the worng family.
All you really need is a gameness to work, nights, weekends, holidays, birthdays, etc.
Good work but poor enthusiasm at times.
I do not work for the BNSF but I know this and other major carrier have made a commitment to relieve veterans by giving them hiring preference.
BNSF have been nominated among the top 10 military friendly employers within teh United States.
Look on their websites, and GOOD LUCK!!
I believe you have a appropriate chance. One aim railroads approaching veteran is that they are used to strange hours and demanding working conditions. Railroads pay qualified ancestors well, and bring back rid of poor employees like a shot. Like the military, it is too easy to accidentally gun down someone.
Do you want to work for a big railroad, or a smaller one? I suggest that you contact the specific railroad(s) that you are interested in. Here are some links:
http://www.unionpacific.jobs/
http://www.mta.info/mta/employment/
http://www.akrr.com/arrc123.html
http://www.akrr.com/arrc9.html
http://www.railserve.com/employment.html
http://www.deltasouthernrailroad.com/emp...
http://www.readingnorthern.com/employmen...
http://www.tweetsie.com/employment/worki...
http://www.wsorrailroad.com/employment/e...
http://www.bnsf.com/employees/communicat...
http://www.inrd.com/employment.shtml
http://www.southshorefreight.com/employm...
http://www.beltrailway.com/employment.ht...
http://www.akrailroad.com/AboutAampK/Emp...
http://www.nscorp.com/nscportal/nscorp/J...
I hold heard that railroad do give nouns to vets.
I applied to 2 railroad, one of them 2 times. The first time I applied to one of them I was not elected. The 2nd Time, I was invited to a "hiring session" facts that each hiring session is different. This one I have to show up by 8AM I think, we be told to bring a copy of our application which we could get from the website.
We showed up and inside this room be about 75 those all in place to work, some had on dress clothes, as I did, I saw one guy have a tie, and some had jeans and t-shirts. We be given the scare speech, you will hatred it the hours suck, you work in adjectives weather, are on call adjectives the time, you are away from home. They took a break and told us to smoke and call our wife or significant other to sort sure they want us to do it.
We came final from break and a few guys had vanished, a few others left next after they found out that you would be locked into a job for 2 years and wouldn't win to switch to track labor crew until after then.
We packed out some papers, and they talked more or less the benefits and the good things. We after took a reading test, we come back from break and they told us our interview times if we have passed, they started at A, went to Z, and be 5 minutes apart. If you failed the reading assessment you were not given the interview, so I took lunch and come back hasty, and waited, get my interview, and left they told us that they have about 100 guys a light of day interviewing, and they had 4 days of that, and they would phone call us on a day latter in the week I feel it was Thursday.
I never get the call after the interview, and my status online said not qualified on interview.
A couple months go by, and then I get a call from them, I be about to bound on the ceiling my heart was hitting so fast when I answered the phone, it be a new sourcing agent and they needed to hire me pending drug question paper and physical. I accepted after making sure it be the location I was interviewing for since. I took the drug test and physical locally, and consequently another week I had to drive and do a Physical Abilities Test (PAT). All that get passed and I got the approval to start New Hire class. That be 3 weeks, then 2 months OJT (On the Job Training) after 2 weeks of Conductor Training, and then I would own been on my own within a few weeks. In conductor class we found out they had overhired for our terminal and we be being forced to another location, and my seniority be dead ending so I would have have a chance to be out of work, and I couldn't afford that so I changed jobs.
Like you. I hold an aviation background from the military, but settled to do something different.
So I applied for a railroad job, of the 150 guys who applied, two of us be ex. military and we both got hired.
I contemplate it is because we have the mindset to settle down and attain the job done, we can judge for ourselves and have the dicipline required to walk to work at all hours of the hours of daylight and night (unlike our civilian counterparts, who phone surrounded by sick etc, if they do not want to take a train that have work to do online at 3.00 am when it is minus 30 degrees).
So go for it, you'll wallow in it.
if you have a specific skill it will facilitate. Just keep on sending surrounded by resume's. More & more railroads are hiring "older" inhabitants because of their work ethics and human being in the military will indubitably not hurt your chances.They newly sometimes take forever to hire. Sometimes it may expect taking a crummy job to start & later applying for interoffice job postings to work yourself up to the chore you want. But in the long run close to Michael M said you make huge money & bring a great pension.
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