Super friendly and approachable, there's a lengthy mostly unpaid (IIRC) training process where they get you your B licence. Requires a clean record, passing police and background check, medical exam etc. there's also ongoing training modules of things to keep aware of and the driver improvement course eventually too. Overall it's not a bad company with great friendly management, prefect for part time regular work with summers off (unless you volunteer to do longer charter trips)
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Are you good with kids, Any at fault accidents, do you like to drive, ever driven something bigger than a truck like a cube van
good and fast and professional thank you. Everyone is so friendly, well there is a few grumpies but they just old lol. They need more employee get together. And increase pay
I applied online. The process took 3 weeks. I interviewed at First Student (Norristown, PA) in Aug 2022
Interview
The interview process was fairly easy. They asked a few relevant questions related to the position. I was also offered a sign-on bonus as an incentive to accept the job offer and they have now reneged on the offer claiming it no longer exists.
Interview questions [1]
Question 1
Have you worked with children before? Do you have experience driving larger vehicles?
Bus Driver applicants have rated the interview process at First Student with 1.6 out of 5 (where 5 is the highest level of difficulty) and assessed their interview experience as 63% positive. To compare, the company-average is 65.1% positive. This is according to Glassdoor user ratings.
Candidates applying for Bus Driver roles take an average of 29 days to get hired, when considering 16 user submitted interviews for this role. To compare, the hiring process at First Student overall takes an average of 20 days.
Common stages of the interview process at First Student as a Bus Driver according to 16 Glassdoor interviews include:
Drug test: 23%
Skills test: 19%
One on one interview: 19%
Background check: 19%
Phone interview: 6%
Other: 4%
Presentation: 4%
Personality test: 4%
IQ intelligence test: 4%
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