Posts Tagged: Recruit
Train Your Replacement. Bob did. Paul does.
It's been 5 years since I wrote "Missing a Mentor: What about Bob?" -- a tribute to someone who I admittedly under-appreciated until it was too late.
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Job Announcement: Recruit Firefighter
THIS IS NOT A JOB, IT'S A CALLING! The Bluffton Township Fire District is accepting applications for Recruit Firefighter. They are looking for highly motivated, team oriented individuals to join their growing tradition. The BTFD provides fire, rescue and non-transport basic and advanced life support services to a growing and diverse population in the South Carolina lowcountry. Are you ready to change your life and your lifestyle? Apply today!
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Run-to-the-Curb is Top Story
[caption id="attachment_1811" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="That's me with Past Chief John Latimore, one of my best friends in the fire service and the neighborhood I grew up in."][/caption]
It's been more than a month since my presentati…
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@FireRECRUITER: Make the Right Investments
The following article tells of a small city that is threatening to stop collecting a voluntary public donation that has brought thousands and thousands of dollars in mission-critical equipment to their combination (paid/volunteer) fire department.
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@FireRECRUITER: It’s EMS Week – Roll With It!
From www.FireRECRUITER.com:
In honor of EMS Week-2010, I thought I’d promote the (dare I say) sexiest video I’ve ever seen come to volunteer recruitment and retention.
“Roll With It!” is a part music video, part movie trailer — full-on hig…
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FireRECRUITER: The Art of Speed-Recruiting
If you had just 30 seconds to convince someone why they should join your volunteer fire department, what would you say?
What would your message be? Do you have a standard sales pitch that you use for just such occasions? Can you even say hello in 30 seconds?
I recently had the opportunity to coach and practice some speed-recruiting exercises with the Doyle Hose Co. 1 in Cheektowaga NY. They had been invited to be a part of career day at the local high school in their response area and they invited me to join them.
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Fire Chief Blogs His Way Through Fire Academy Experience
Not only is he hanging it out on the line for all of his firefighters to see if he's got the right stuff to be considered one of their own, but he's exposing his fire academy laundry for the public to see through his blog. Both take a lot of guts for a 50-year old fire chief and I give him a lot of credit.
It's good reading and contains fire service and life lessons for all of us. Check out "On Scene with Car 1." See for yourself.
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Creating a Clearinghouse
Patience is some times not one of my better virtues. I've been kicking around the idea of creating an online clearinghouse of recruitment and retention resources for quite some time.
Needless to say, it's an area of the fire service that I'm quite ab…
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