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FIREPREP.COM NEWSLETTER FirePrep.com Newsletter #57 Fireprep.com entry-level newsletter is about YOU BEING THE BEST - THE BEST PREPARED AND BEST INFORMED!
We currently have over 35,000 subscribers to our newsletter! January 20, 2010 The estimated time of reading any section of this newsletter is 1-2 minutes - our newsletters are well
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1. Fire Prep Topics of Interest – Strengths and Weaknesses 2. Charlotte, NC Exam Prep 3. Job Announcements by www.FireJobs.com 4. Entry Level Exam Prep ========================================== Go to the link below for our website sitemap: 1. Fire Prep Topics of Interest – Strengths and Weaknesses I was going over some questions for interviews, and I was hoping someone could help me with an answer. What are good answers for the question; what are your strengths and weaknesses? What are some bad answers? — John Reply: Let's start with what your answers are first. O.K. If asked those questions I would probably respond with something like; My strengths are education, willingness to
start from the bottom, my diverse background in fields other than fire fighting, and the fact that I have experience but am very adaptable to my current surroundings. My weaknesses are occasional tunnel vision,
excitability, and no full-time experience. There are probably a thousand faults but you get the point. Where do I go from here? John First understand that if we start giving answers, everyone
would clone them and they would lose their value. I encourage candidates do use their own answers, reflecting their personal life experience. This question can be asked in many ways, i.e.: What attributes
do you think a firefighter should possess, or what qualities, what strengths etc. I think you can come up with better strengths. Education, starting at the bottom and a diverse background are not really strengths. They
are what you've done to prepare for the position. Areas relating to loyalty, honesty, and being dependable etc. are strengths. When you're deciding a weakness, use something that might have been a weakness,
but you have already done something to correct it i.e., you had a problem speaking in front of groups. You have improved this situation by taking a public speaking class or joining Toastmasters. Since
firefighters are in a living environment, we would not be looking for someone with occasional tunnel vision and excitability. No full-time experience is not a good choice for a weakness either. Got a call
from a candidate. He lives in Washington now and his oral was in 4 days. He got his Firefighter1 from an academy in Southern California. He said it hasn't helped much trying to get a job. He has now been a medic for 8
months with no luck in testing. In the most pathetic monotone voice he said this is the department he really wants to work for and (with absolutely no enthusiasm) he will be one of the 15 hired. He asked if
he could run one of his answers on what a negative is for him that his firefighter buddies and other friends helped him work out. Sure, shoot. Joel said a negative for me is my past. Even though I got a DUI and some
other minor stuff, that's not who I really am. I couldn't believe my ears. Uh, Joel that answer would only open a can of worms. Don't use it. Joel said, OK how about this one. Another negative
for me is my paramedic skills. This job will help me improve them. Again, I couldn't believe my ears. Yep, that's the guy we want to hire, the one with the poor medic skills. Can't use this one either. As
already mentioned, everyone becomes an expert when they get hired. The answers Joel worked out with some firefighters and friends were definitely not helping but hurting him. The bigger problem is he didn't even have a
clue. This was just one answer. How bad were the others? I would like to say this was an isolated incident. We encounter these bad answers on a regular basis. It is especially painful in an actual
oral board where we see the candidates die a slow death one question after another. Then the candidates wonder why they don't get hired. This is an area where we try to keep candidates from stepping on the land mines. After a little probing, we did find a negative Joel could use that he was working on to improve. Thanks to Capt Bob Smith, Entry-Level Author and Speaker, for his great insight into the oral interview process. Additional information on Capt Bob's CD/DVD Oral Interview Program can be found at the link below:http://www.fireprep.com/conquer_the_job_interview_capt.html ========================================== 14-day FREE email series! If you want to start getting that competitive edge immediately over your
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Firefighter Examination, Don McNea Fire School has prepared an in-depth preparatory package to help you prepare for this exam. Click on the link below for all the details:http://fireprep.com/charlotte_firefighter_exam_pre1.html ========================================== 3. Job Announcements by www.FireJobs.com About Firejobs.com: Since 1996, Firejobs.com has been providing its members with
the most comprehensive and accurate firefighter employment information available. We list complete hiring information and provide links to the Departments' websites and local area. Every time we post a new
listing, we verify the information and verify links to the department. We search newspapers all over the nation daily to provide you with the most current job listings available. Firefighter Job Openings: Portland, OR Denver, CO Naples, FL Tampa, FL Bloomington, IN Great Falls, MT
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Portland Fire Bureau 503-823-3700 Last Filing Date: January 25, 2010 Contact: City of Portland, Portland Building Lobby Application Center Go to the link below for Don McNea Fire School's top scoring test-taking strategies to help you prepare for the exam!http://www.fireprep.com/test-taking_strategies_for_fir.html Denver Regional Council Of Governments County 303-455-1000 Last Filing Date: May 21, 2010 Contact: Denver Regional Council of Governments Naples Police and Fire Department Collier County 239-213-4890 Last Filing Date: January 20, 2010
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