by krs1
I feel like I should give up hope on my goals for CSX Employment. Hello everyone, within the past year, I made the decision that I was going to hard-charge for railroad employment, namely CSX. My father is a retired railroader and there is nothing else that I want to do. However, it seems that I've been consistently hitting a brick wall and I'm far past frustrated with this company. I have a four year management degree from a well known university, a voc-school associates degree, six years of military experience, safety experience, crash/fire experience, construction experience, investigations, just name it. Since the beginning of last year, I have applied for well over forty jobs with this company. Some of those applications are still pending in a year's time. I do want to mention that I haven't ONLY been applying for the administration side of CSX but I've even tried multiple attempts at freight conductor because I understand that sometimes one must get his foot in the door. Now, here's what's frustrating to me:
Denial, denial, denial, application pending review, application received/pending, brick wall. I mean literally, I have tried absolutely everything from freight conductor to contract compliance coordinator (experience in debt collection) including multiple applications to even attend more school with the company (Train Master, Contracts, etc). With my experience and degree I cannot advance anywhere with CSX when a friend of mine with no more than three years in the food service industry (Yes, McDonalds) almost INSTANTLY gets selected to attend freight conductor's school. Is this some sort of a joke? Am I overqualified to accept the absolute lowest positions CSX has to offer? I can't get in for communications maintainer, signals, or even track worker. The company claims to be military friendly well my experience there certainly hasn't advanced anything.
My question is, WHAT IS GOING ON? Why can't I get in? Where are things potentially going wrong? Should I continue to apply for jobs or slow down a bit? Can you see why this is frustrating when I've been trying a year and know people who have just graduated high school that almost instantly get in? I'm WILLING to start at the bottom and work my way up people! I'm out of ideas and am on the verge of giving up hope as stated earlier. Perhaps another railroad will be more interested in a enthusiastic employee with railroad retirement as a goal. Who knows.
Denial, denial, denial, application pending review, application received/pending, brick wall. I mean literally, I have tried absolutely everything from freight conductor to contract compliance coordinator (experience in debt collection) including multiple applications to even attend more school with the company (Train Master, Contracts, etc). With my experience and degree I cannot advance anywhere with CSX when a friend of mine with no more than three years in the food service industry (Yes, McDonalds) almost INSTANTLY gets selected to attend freight conductor's school. Is this some sort of a joke? Am I overqualified to accept the absolute lowest positions CSX has to offer? I can't get in for communications maintainer, signals, or even track worker. The company claims to be military friendly well my experience there certainly hasn't advanced anything.
My question is, WHAT IS GOING ON? Why can't I get in? Where are things potentially going wrong? Should I continue to apply for jobs or slow down a bit? Can you see why this is frustrating when I've been trying a year and know people who have just graduated high school that almost instantly get in? I'm WILLING to start at the bottom and work my way up people! I'm out of ideas and am on the verge of giving up hope as stated earlier. Perhaps another railroad will be more interested in a enthusiastic employee with railroad retirement as a goal. Who knows.