# How to land a graduate scheme with no relevant experience Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/future-you-achieve-your-career-goals-19096/how-to-land-a-graduate-scheme-with-no-relevant-experience Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/future-you-achieve-your-career-goals-19096/how-to-land-a-graduate-scheme-with-no-relevant-experience.md Podcast: [Future You: achieve your career goals](https://stenobird.com/podcast/future-you-achieve-your-career-goals-19096) Published: 2026-03-11T06:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://prospectsfutureyou.podbean.com/e/im-doing-a-competitive-grad-scheme-with-transpennine-express/ Audio file: https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/pk3uex4g9aqu57gt/Transpennine_DRAFT_1.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/future-you-achieve-your-career-goals-19096/episodes/how-to-land-a-graduate-scheme-with-no-relevant-experience Duration seconds: 1351 ## Resource Want to land a competitive graduate scheme with no rail experience? In this episode, Megan Taylor shares how she went from studying psychology and working in healthcare to securing a place on the TransPennine Express graduate scheme, beating 1,500 applicants. We cover: The full graduate scheme application process (psychometric tests and assessment centre) What it’s like day-to-day How transferable skills helped her stand out What happens after the graduate scheme ends --- πŸ“ Unsure what to do? Take the Prospects job match quiz: https://www.prospects.ac.uk/job-match?utm_source=Podbean&utm_medium=Podcast&utm_campaign=Job+Match_transpennine+ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/futureyou_pod/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@futureyou_pod YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@ProspectsJisc πŸ“œ Episode transcripts: https://www.prospects.ac.uk/podcasts/future-you-podcast-transcripts ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/future-you-achieve-your-career-goals-19096/episodes/how-to-land-a-graduate-scheme-with-no-relevant-experience/transcription-requests` β€” Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/future-you-achieve-your-career-goals-19096/how-to-land-a-graduate-scheme-with-no-relevant-experience.md` β€” Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.