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BTEC - Newbie Question
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Author:  unklbrian [ Sun Sep 15, 2013 2:36 pm ]
Post subject:  BTEC - Newbie Question
Hi , I've had a shufty through the forums on here , and cant find anything about Btec [ level2 taxi] training courses .

I'm starting one Tomorrow [ Monday 16/9/13] here in Mid Sussex , funded by the Job Centre , leading [probably] to a job with Road Runners ...

Has anyone here any experience of these courses and job oppurtunities coming from them ? ..

I've a bit of experience driving for a local taxi firm , Ok - it was 20 odd years back & part time !

Many thanks in advance
Brian
Author:  Sussex [ Sun Sep 15, 2013 6:34 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: BTEC - Newbie Question
unklbrian wrote:
Hi , I've had a shufty through the forums on here , and cant find anything about Btec [ level2 taxi] training courses .

I'm starting one Tomorrow [ Monday 16/9/13] here in Mid Sussex , funded by the Job Centre , leading [probably] to a job with Road Runners ...

Has anyone here any experience of these courses and job oppurtunities coming from them ? ..

I've a bit of experience driving for a local taxi firm , Ok - it was 20 odd years back & part time !

Many thanks in advance
Brian

A good friend of mine did something similar to you and now works on Five Star.

So get your license and ring around.
Author:  unklbrian [ Sun Sep 15, 2013 7:32 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: BTEC - Newbie Question
Thanks Mr Sussex ....

It was Five Star that I worked part time for wayyy back , and I've known Pete for more years than either of us would care to remember ! ..
It certainly would be an option [ where's the chin stroking smiley ?]
Author:  unklbrian [ Mon Sep 16, 2013 4:43 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: BTEC - Newbie Question
Interesting first day on the course , before it started I had to sign on in the same building [ I've been on the jam roll for a few weeks ] to be told that I still needed to apply for 28 jobs in the next fortnight - the duration of the course , even though there is a garunteed job at the end of it ...

Now for some sums
There are 15 people on the course - if they have to do the same thing [ apply for 28 jobs]
That will be 420 job applications , from people mainly in their 50s with little chance of even an interview .
Whilst being told they have a job at the end of the course !

Oh Boy , I'm glad i'm not a job interviewer ....

more updates as the course progresses :wink:
Author:  wannabeeahack [ Mon Sep 16, 2013 4:46 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: BTEC - Newbie Question
When I did a course on welding, we welded, when i did a course on electrics we did wiring and stuff

so then, when does the TAXI DRIVING course move onto driving a car (i.e. practical not theory)
Author:  unklbrian [ Mon Sep 16, 2013 5:02 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: BTEC - Newbie Question
The Driving part comes at the end of the course afaik :roll:
Along with the medical !
it does seem a bit 'Bottom about Face ' eh !
Author:  Sussex [ Mon Sep 16, 2013 5:57 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: BTEC - Newbie Question
unklbrian wrote:
The Driving part comes at the end of the course afaik :roll:
Along with the medical !
it does seem a bit 'Bottom about Face ' eh !

I suppose the driving bit and the medical bit costs money, so maybe it's best done that way just in case the trade ain't for you.

But I was surprised when my mate told me that's the way it went.

But then I shouldn't be surprised what happens up in yokel Mid Sussex. :roll: :roll: :roll:
Author:  unklbrian [ Mon Sep 16, 2013 6:49 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: BTEC - Newbie Question
Sussex wrote:
unklbrian wrote:
The Driving part comes at the end of the course afaik :roll:
Along with the medical !
it does seem a bit 'Bottom about Face ' eh !

I suppose the driving bit and the medical bit costs money, so maybe it's best done that way just in case the trade ain't for you.

But I was surprised when my mate told me that's the way it went.

But then I shouldn't be surprised what happens up in yokel Mid Sussex. :roll: :roll: :roll:


Arhhh , we has to know wot the difference is between a Cow & a Goat up round 'ere mucka :roll:
Author:  roythebus [ Mon Sep 16, 2013 10:40 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: BTEC - Newbie Question
Part of the driving test here on Romney Marsh is the question "can you make a U turn?" Usual reply "no, but I can make one cry"... :shock:
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