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Symon27
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PostPosted: 14:58 - 14 Oct 2012    Post subject: Quick question. Reply with quote

On a job application, when it asks do i hold a full uk driving licence do i answer yes?

I have a full bike licence but im not sure if they mean car?

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That_Hornet
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PostPosted: 15:11 - 14 Oct 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ive always said yes.
Pink license = full license

edit: Unless your applying to be a driver or expected to drive a car.
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PostPosted: 15:13 - 14 Oct 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

They will mean car. I think even an employment tribunal would find in their favour on the grounds that it is a term in common usage. But if you really want the job, you could always phone them and say you are taking driving lessons etc.

A tip I once read, if you are going for a job then phone up to ask specific questions. Make sure the questions are sensible, and they might remember you as being the keenest applicant. The tip was to phone after 5pm. Phone before 5pm and you will get fobbed off by some secretary type. Phone after 5pm and only the boss will still be there. Bingo - you get to impress the boss. It might get you an interview at least. You have to find ways to stand out from the others applicants.
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PostPosted: 15:36 - 14 Oct 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Unsure, but why not pass your driving test?

You have a full bike licence, you wont find driving that hard. My guess is <20 lessons and passing the test 1st or 2nd time. That way you'll be able to honestly answer yes and should you ever unexpectedly need a car, you'll be able to drive one.

Worthwhile investment in my opinion. I used some inheratence money that I got to pass my test rather than going out on spending it on fun stuff.
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PostPosted: 15:50 - 14 Oct 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Its very important to have a full car license anyway, for emergencies.

E.g. if a family member collapses and need driving to hospital or whatever, and you don't know how to drive, you'll kick yaself.

Just get it passed asap.




But, back OT - they basically want to know if you'll be driving to work or not - we all know how public transport is late all the time. Just put yes, with motorcycle in brackets.
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J.M.
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PostPosted: 16:01 - 14 Oct 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

BigDan wrote:
E.g. if a family member collapses and need driving to hospital or whatever, and you don't know how to drive, you'll kick yaself.


Why not phone an ambulance and try and take care of them whilst it arrives?
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PostPosted: 16:43 - 14 Oct 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

BigDan wrote:
Its very important to have a full car license anyway, for emergencies.

E.g. if a family member collapses and need driving to hospital or whatever, and you don't know how to drive, you'll kick yaself.

Just get it passed asap.




But, back OT - they basically want to know if you'll be driving to work or not - we all know how public transport is late all the time. Just put yes, with motorcycle in brackets.

I've got my test booked. I seemed to do it the wrong way round tho to every on else.
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PostPosted: 16:59 - 14 Oct 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

J.M. wrote:
BigDan wrote:
E.g. if a family member collapses and need driving to hospital or whatever, and you don't know how to drive, you'll kick yaself.


Why not phone an ambulance and try and take care of them whilst it arrives?


Its an example... there are many situations where you need to know how to drive.
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PostPosted: 19:06 - 14 Oct 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'd imagine the question implies you may be required to travel to somewhere else for work possibly or maybe to use a work vehicle which undoubtedly will have 4 wheels, I may be inclined to say yes because you won't be telling porkies (as such) you do have a full licence and they should have made it clear in the either the question or job description as to whether you may be asked to drive or travel else where.

It would be a shame to not get a job over something like a car licence which seeing as you have already achieved the road skills shouldn't take too much to pass.
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PostPosted: 19:25 - 14 Oct 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

The driving test is very easy, I booked 10 hours of training (including the test) and passed.
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PostPosted: 19:34 - 14 Oct 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

Just say you have a full UK driving license with category A (motorcycle) entitlement only.
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PostPosted: 11:35 - 15 Oct 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

numpty2 wrote:
The tip was to phone after 5pm. Phone before 5pm and you will get fobbed off by some secretary type. Phone after 5pm and only the boss will still be there.


I dunno where the heck you / they work(ed), but that doesn't sound too realistic to me.

Call after 5-ish pm and who you'll likely get is some lower-mid level dogsbody who's got a few things left to catch up on and can't do much more than leave a message for the person you actually wanted to talk to anyway.

Ring up at a sensible hour, talk to the secretary, ask to speak to the boss or whoever is in charge of interviewing. If they're busy, ask when they'll be free and call back then or even ask for an appointment for them to call YOU (who's keen NOW eh? Very Happy). If the secretary doesn't know who that would be, have them put you through to HR, who should almost certainly be able to find out who would be responsible in that particular department, if not being able to answer the question themselves anyway. If the secretary can't work out how to put you through to HR, hang up, call reception, ask THEM to redirect you. Or to the boss. Pretend to be a delivery driver trying to drop something off at their home and who has been given the reception desk number as the alternate contact. They rarely bother actually speaking to whoever they forward you to anyway.

If they then don't pick up, LEAVE A MESSAGE. That way they know you're not a salesman and therefore might bother to call you back. If they're just sitting there at their desk derping on the internet and screening their calls, they might even pick up a few seconds after you start speaking to the machine, if the voicemail isn't centralised.

Yahoo Answers Source: actually working in a place like what you're thinking of and seeing who leaves when and how the getting-through-the-switchboard game actually works.
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PostPosted: 11:36 - 15 Oct 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

neil. wrote:
Just say you have a full UK driving license with category A (motorcycle) entitlement only.


That's no good if it's one of these electronic forms, or even a paper one where it's just "tick yes or no".

It's worth calling up about it, because different places ask that for different reasons. It might be just because both the local public transport is shite and the local geography quite cruel, and so you need to be independent (and they won't bother looking at anyone who lives more than X miles away who can't drive / ride a powered bike). In other cases it might be because you might end up being called upon to move around several sites, taking boxes of materials with you as you go.

I've had both of those - the former a nightclub attached to a posh hotel in the arse end of nowhere, where cycling would have been a liability, taxis prohibitively expensive, and getting lifts from friends/family very unrealistic; riding would have been just fine, and indeed there was at least two other employees who did on a regular basis (I'd only recently got my car at that point, let alone moved on to bikes).

The latter was just in what was supposedly a fairly simplistic college library attendant job. Turned out they had three campuses roughly at the corners of a triangle 3-4 miles on a side, and inter-library book requests were catered for by dispatching an employee with a couple of large plastic crates. Not something that could be dealt with too easily on a powered or pedal bike (though I'd have at least attempted it on mine, probably stacking it bigtime halfway between two sites...), or even realistically by public transport despite being in the nexus of bus, train and metro lines around northwest Birmingham.
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PostPosted: 12:37 - 15 Oct 2012    Post subject: Reply with quote

BigDan wrote:
Just put yes, with motorcycle in brackets.


This is what I've done,got an interview on wednesday
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