I recently had my first oral board interview, and here I am going to tell about the experience; what it was like, and what I learned.
At this point in my pursuit of a fire service career I’ve taken only a handful of tests and only recently had my first panel interview. I had assumed going into the interview that the panel would be made up of a variety of firefighters and senior officers from the department, but it turned … Read the rest
As FireCareer’s youngest and most inexperienced blogger in terms of firefighting/fire-career experience (excluding Dr. Jen Milus who works with firefighters, but is not one), my value to readers is my ability to see things quite clearly from your point of view. That is of course because I am living, or have just gone through exactly what you’re going through. Unlike the other accomplished fire veterans who write here at FireCareers, I do not have decades of experience. I’m a new guy like … Read the rest
Becoming a firefighter is anything but easy. Consider, these days nursing is becoming a hugely popular career route, especially here in the San Francisco Bay Area where salaries are the highest in the nation. Recent RN graduates around here can’t find jobs for months and for some, over a year. well boo-hoo! Try getting into firefighting where the average time to get hired runs 5 years!
There aren’t too many careers out there that are quite as hard to break … Read the rest
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