{"id":10692,"date":"2020-06-03T10:20:10","date_gmt":"2020-06-03T10:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/?page_id=10692"},"modified":"2024-03-08T16:40:01","modified_gmt":"2024-03-08T16:40:01","slug":"becoming-a-t-0-autumn-1962","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/becoming-a-t-0-autumn-1962\/","title":{"rendered":"Becoming a T.O. Autumn 1962"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Alec Bray<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

These are some letters from the BBC during my application to become a TO\u00a0 (sorry, there are no copies of the letters from me <I>to<\/I> the BBC!!).\u00a0 These letters include:

1 – Vacancies\u00a0\u00a0 – No vacancies at the moment …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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2 – First Interview – invitation for an interview.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This was actually for a film cameraman position, but it turned out that it was for a NEWS cameraman.  I was not interested in, nor indeed suited to, that sort of job, and the interviewer,   Mr Dunhill – who was very nice and put me at my ease – suggested that I try BBC Engineering – Television!! – as they were recruiting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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3 – Invitation to a Board Interview for a BBC Engineering- Technical Operator – position<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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4 – Board Interview Acknowledgement<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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5 – Offer <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Did I want to become a BBC Technical Operator?   The redacted passage states that the offer was subject to the results of examinations, when known,  but I had already presented the main results.

 Yes,  I did want to become a BBC Technical Operator …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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6 – Confirmation of my Acceptance letter<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In this last letter – note:

“… Will you please note that the induction
course will now last for three days and not one
week as stated in my letter of 28th November…”

which explains why I never had some of the experiences that many of the other people in Technical Operations had on Induction at the BBC, why I was a bit adrift on my first day in the Studios – and why I was always sure that I worked on the second<\/em> episode of “The Chem Lab Mystery” on my first day in the Studios (LG “E” to be specific, with Mike Bond!)

I had clean forgotten that my induction was just three days!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Staff number: 111181<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Alec Bray These are some letters from the BBC during my application to become a TO\u00a0 (sorry, there are no copies of the letters from me <I>to<\/I> the BBC!!).\u00a0 These letters include: 1 – Vacancies\u00a0\u00a0 – No vacancies at the … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10692","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"coauthors":[],"author_meta":{"author_link":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/author\/alec\/","display_name":"Alec Bray"},"relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 6 years ago","modified":"Updated 2 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on June 3, 2020","modified":"Updated on March 8, 2024"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on June 3, 2020 10:20 am","modified":"Updated on March 8, 2024 4:40 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"","featured_img":false,"series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10692"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18145,"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10692\/revisions\/18145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tech-ops.co.uk\/next\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}