Hiring committee

[firemed839]

Hello everyone,
I am new to this forum and thought I would try this as a first post. I work for a small service in AL. I have been recently asked to set up a hiring committe for the company. My question to anyone who has had experience with this is what have you done in your service? Do you use your present employees or do you bring outside people in to be on the comnmittee? Any suggestions on this would greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance.

 

[reaper]

Present admin and field employees. When interviews are preformed, we have an interview done with Admin staff and a separate interview with field staff. Then notes are compared and a hiring decision is made based on committee approval.

 

[DogPoundMedic]

My old FD did something similar to the previous post. We had 2 fireman, 1 Lt, and one Captain on our initial hiring board. Did a round robin style of questions,(most questions we found online). We ranked each question a 1-5 score for points, i think 20 questions total. We also graded on their dress, past experience, emt/medic, and other education like ems degrees ect.
After initial interview which was after the backgound check was done. We would forward who we thought was good to out Chief and Asst. Chief then they would do their own interview, worked out pretty good

 

[tcripp]

We have a panel interview for the hiring process to include the office manager, chief, asst chief, as many of the 4 captians we can get and then a few field EMTs and Paramedic's.