To clarify, you've been volunteering with the county as a single role medic and now wish to be employed as a FF/medic? That's what I got from your first post. If so, that's a little different spin than just going from volunteer to paid doing the same exact thing; you're also aspiring to do suppression as well, having never done it before. Is that the case?
Essay test for hiring. Why do you want to be a firefighter paramedic?
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I hate having to answer questions like that bc-- duh why does anyone work-- to make money for life's necessitites.
You've been
Doing it for free already lol.
Just say ( much nicer) you need to get paid and want to continually advance in the field by obtaining new
Skills & abilities blah blah bla.
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Positive side of all of this is since u were /are a volunteer, it shows a commitment to the job and that (hopefully) you won't flake out on them..bc employers are worried about their bottom line as well.
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I've been volunteering most recently. They added supression to the job while I was out on maternity leave and didn't let me come back without being crosstrained. The fact is, I'll be a FF/medic on the medic unit. I'm not expecting to get any time on the engine, while that possibility does exist.
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I've been a volunteer for the past 17 years, but my time without a paid job has only been in the past 3 years or so. I have been consistently employed in several different kinds of systems, in different roles since 1998.
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I got a similar question on my last interview. Worded something to the effect of "why do you want to work for ______." I answered it honestly, but my honest answer was a good answer. I knew the people running the show. I've known them for more then a decade and I know how they run a show. I know they have the same values toward a job that I do and that is a huge reason I wanted to be there. I also have a personal interest in the system. My aging parents live in the county.
I also told them that I had been pretty picky since my lay-off and I wasn't going to work for just any old organization. They were my first choice (and I told them such) because of the above reasons and I hoped they would chose me because I would work hard for them if they gave me the chance.
They're giving me my chance Monday.
Sometimes honesty is the best policy, especially if it's the right thing to say. Why DO you want to work there? Only you can really answer that question.
I also told them that I had been pretty picky since my lay-off and I wasn't going to work for just any old organization. They were my first choice (and I told them such) because of the above reasons and I hoped they would chose me because I would work hard for them if they gave me the chance.
They're giving me my chance Monday.
Sometimes honesty is the best policy, especially if it's the right thing to say. Why DO you want to work there? Only you can really answer that question.
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Honestly, I don't expect much pay difference. It's been a couple of years since I worked there, so a little bit more money for inflation. We'll see.
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Right? She always spells my username wrong that way. It's in her brain, there's no correcting her.
The kids are in alphabetical order, thus a b c KIDS mom.
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The pay difference between medic and fire/medic is huge in this area. Medics usually make around $16-20 an hour. Fire/medic can start off at $32 an hour.
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Where is this you live? Damn! $32/hr is more than I'll be making as an RN. Now is that regular or OT pay?