London OS Test

[Jurassic]

Good luck to all those writing for London tonight. I heard from HR that 250 people are writing, and then distant applicants on the 30th, which will be approx. 50. So given that the failure rate is about 50% for this test that leaves 150 or so for 8-10 jobs. Not bad.

Please post if you are writing tonight and hear anymore news.

[ThFyrWthn]

I'm not writing but just wanted to add a GOOD LUCK to the pot :)

AND...

Anyone from firehall.com who makes it on with London/2005 >> beer's on me. I mean it :)

[DoubleHelix]

I'll be there. I'm stopping by brantford on my way up too.

[Michael13]

COOL!!! Thanks Sue!! Anyone that makes it to London, the beers are on her!!!! I make it to London all the time for the bars!!! HHAHAHAHA Can we all crash at your place too????!!!? HAHAHAHA

[ThFyrWthn]

Originally posted by ThFyrWthn


Anyone from firehall.com who makes it on with London/2005 >> beer's on me. I mean it :)

and duuuuude, the name's Paula. Gotta get the chicks name right at least LOL! :D Hehehe

[TTFD]

hmmmmmmmmm..................I'm not actually applying to London, but for free beer, i'd sure make a trip!!!!

Will you feed me too???

;)

[iamvff]

Originally posted by Michael13
COOL!!! Thanks Sue!! Anyone that makes it to London, the beers are on her!!!! I make it to London all the time for the bars!!! HHAHAHAHA Can we all crash at your place too????!!!? HAHAHAHA

Hey Micheal13...was that a joke??...a little levity??....a sense of humor??....well there's hope for you after all. Welcome to club, I am sure you'll have a blast.

( I'm just kidding around with you, don't flip out.....Sorry if it sounded sarcastic...didn't mean it that way. Glad to see you can have chuckle too:D )

Be safe,
iamvff

[iamvff]

Hey TFW,
I will be flying "over" Ontario in August , and actually may be stopping over in Toronto, on my way to St.John's to see hrecruit. Could me and him get some free beer too:(

Be safe,
iamvff

[FrAnToS]

hey what's up,

just came back from writing the os test ....... it was different. it was my first time writing one. what do the rest who wrote think?

i thought we would have gotten to write another test before the actual interviews but i guess this was good enough.

[Michael13]

Theres funny posts and theres serious posts. I have an excellent sense of humour, just some times it hasnt been the right time here at Firehall.

[ThFyrWthn]

for fear of it being spread to far that there is FREE BEER IN LONDON I'll have to limit it to SUCESSFUL applicants to the London FD LOL I know what those words will do to some people :rolleyes: :D

cept...

if you're from far far away like MANITOBA, OUT EAST or sometin like that! Whew! But... you have to bring all your cool FF stories with you. K?

August it is then, lemme know when you get to town :)

TTFD, Michael... you have to sweetin the pot... how COOL are your FF stories?

:D

UM... back to the topic posted... em hem

Cool FrAnTos! Hope you kicked butt! They are some niiice numbers you're competeing against :)

[DoubleHelix]

London is a great city thats all I have to say. After visiting Brantford on the way to London I must say its like 2 different worlds. Brantford was the most unfriendly and hickish town ive ever been in. I would love to live in London after going up and down Richmond street and going around and checking out all the houses and stuff. Unfortunately when you see one of your teachers from your Pre-Service class whos been firefighter for alot of years then you realize its tough competition.

[FrAnToS]

lol .... i'm pretty sure almost everybody in that room made the pit stop to brantford.

i do see what tyou're sayin abut the difference in the cities though.

[DoubleHelix]

The first 2 people I talked to looked at me and faced the other way without saying anything. I was like okay screw this town.

[Jurassic]

Doublehelix, I wouldn't judge the entire city based on those 2 people. Brantford is actually a decent, affordable, nice place to live. I mean it's not London obviously, but it's pretty good if you like less traffic and a beat up downtown ;-) My friend just bought a house there and said he saved $100k by purchasing there and not burlington.

I also wouldn't worry too much about your teacher's from pre-service writing the OS. remember, they have a 50% chance of not passing that test. AND, the city might not necessarily want to hire full time guys for their own reasons. I'm interested to see what the numbers are after the tests are marked. I'm guessing around 100. And maybe 20 or so from distant applicants. The distant applicants do have an unfair advantage of getting an interview the day after they pass the OS and York fitness. Whereas the local applicants that pass might not get an interview. They obviously won't interview 150 for 8-10 jobs.

[DoubleHelix]

When will we find out our results even if we dont get an interview?

[FrAnToS]

funny ... i was wondering the exact same thing

[Jurassic]

Probably a letter in a few weeks indicating your OS results. At least that's the way it worked for Belleville, so considering it was administered by the same place, that should be it.

Think about it this way though, if you pass the OS, but don't receive an interview, your test should be good for Brantford.

[DoubleHelix]

Brantford is doing a CPS are they not? I'm pretty sure they are. And I talked to some guy in London and he said that written interview is impossible.

[Jurassic]

They've used it in the past, but I wasn't at the info session so you might be right.

Yeah that written i've heard is a way to filter out those that aren't local. Ah well, i'm not too concerned..not applying. Oh yeah, I also heard that they are hiring from their "list" so that start date may be misleading, as this hiring might just form a list for next year's hires.

[FrAnToS]

anybody hear anything about the london os test results or get a call for an interview .... if i remember right, think calls were comming out this week ..... no?

[Jurassic]

Frantos, London interviews over the next couple days. If you wrote and were not called yet, you *probably* didn't pass or did not meet their screening point system. They are interviewing successful applicants that passed the york fit and OS on sunday, sunday night or monday. The 1st interview is only a screening interview one on one with HR, and the 2nd interview will be the monday or tues. Talk about a fast process!!

Hope that helps you some. As usual, the OS drastically cut down the original 275 or so applicants.

[FrAnToS]

alright, thanks for the input ...... the os test was hard to gausge but at least i know what to expect next time around. also nice to hear the timeline for london. thanks for the info