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      School Bus Driver of A Large School Bus Interview

      21 July 2010
      Anonymous interview candidate
      Toronto, ON
      Declined offer
      Neutral experience
      Easy interview

      Application

      I applied through other source. The process took 2 days. I interviewed at First Student (Toronto, ON) in July 2010

      Interview

      It looks like they need a lot of people and so they bring in a lot of people to what they call an "orientation" session. They try to weed out people as quickly as possible. After the first few hours of questioning, many of us left because we figured out the pay structure, which was shockingly low. Basically, the whole process started with me noticing their ads and contacting them. Then they interviewed me over the phone - basically about my age (over 21) and my driving record and a few other questions. Then the lady said to come into the next "orientation" session. It turns out that you have to pick up your bus every morning, do your morning route and do your afternoon route, at minimum. You get $25 for each route. You can often take on more trips during the day: taking morning kindergarten kids home at lunch and taking afternoon kindergarten kids to school after lunch. You might also do a field trip to the science centre, or something like that. The extra trips are paid for at $10.50 per hour!!!!! You need a B class licence, I think she said: if you are accepted, then they will train you for three weeks and you'll get 25 hours driving before you graduate. You don't get paid for this training, but you don't pay anything for it either. I finally got out of her that you can make from $50 per day up to $75 per day. The lady, Anna, was selling the job as a a great job for those who love to look after kids and will take it very seriously. In other words, you're not doing it for the money. Personally, I do agree that you have to understand the importance of driving peoples' children around, and I do agree that it is a great job that way. However, I need to make more money than that - I told her that I had to make $100 per day, minimum, for the next year, so I just couldn't do it.

      Interview questions [1]

      Question 1

      She asked a few people, "What colour is a school bus?" I think that she was testing a few peoples' communication skills - one guy was very asian and took about five attempts to answer the question before he finally said "yellow".
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