How long did you guys wait before getting a response from the application phase?

I waited 5 working days before hearing back about being successful at the assessment centre then two days to be offered a role after that

How long was your application with them before you heard anything?

Sorry I misread what you asked. I applied in July last year and didn't find out until a few weeks ago but I believe the recruitment process has just started again and that's why I waited so long

only 1996 !!!!!

1896

I recollect reading in the Post Office Telephones magazine/new-letter, in the 1970s, that some telegraph poles in Birmingham, had just been taken out of service, having been erected in the 1850s.

I am just really confused why I am not going to a proper training centre like Yarnfield... but Portslade just down the road from me. I still don't fully understand what my role is fully as a network engineer as different from a service engineer? Do i not train to go up the poles? Do i just do classroom based work if training in Portslade?

Well done to all of those who have passed so far. Good to see a big recruitment drive happening again and BT can be a job for life as there are prospects and it's a good pension

You'll probably find that they move you around during your training so could end up in yarnfield.
They've told me my training won't be all in the same place. I start in yarnfield but someone on a previous post said they were asked to start there training at yarnfield a week later. So I'll probably be moved on after the first week so the next group can start. So it will probably be the same for you.....

Possibly one of the BT/OR participants could give you an answer.

My suspicion is that you would be designing the working details of how the network principles are put in to practice.