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Cutting edge interview skills to get that badge from Fire
Captain Bob.
More than 2,053 candidates have received their badge from
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September 3, 2002 Copyright Code 3 Publishing 2002
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IN THIS
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1. Quick Presentation Skills Tip
2. Entry Level Skills Tip
3. Promotional Level Skills Tip
(Entry level should read this too)
4. Robs Corner
5. New Badges
6. Humor
7. Resource Websites for Candidates
First
this from my firefighter son Rob:
Today I had to do something that
no firefighter ever wants to do. I had to go and see one of my brother
firefighters lying peacefully in a coffin. Mike was at work six weeks ago, and
now he's dead. Mike was the picture of health, lean, ate right, exercised
religiously, and was very busy at work and off. Pancreatic cancer took him from
us. Mike was a very private guy, and he didn't want anyone to make a fuss over
his passing.
Please take to heart the things
we can learn from this terrible thing. Live each day, as if it could be your
last, but with a thought for the future. Take care of your health, our job is
dangerous we don't need to be exposing ourselves to anything extra, and take
every precaution to strengthen your body and health.
But most important, WHERE YOU’RE
BREATHING APPARATUS AT EVERY OPPORTUNITY. Mike is the second brother the Contra
Costa Fire Dept. has lost to this nasty form of cancer. People remember him
being on a call where they got caught in some chemicals without their masks
on.
Yesterday I went to a fire where
8 of the 9 firefighters on scene where in the smoke working with their bottles
on, but not their masks. I love my job and I want to love being retired. Most
firefighters have a retirement system, and contribute to something extra for
when they retire. Take the same care of your body as your finances.
We will all miss Mike, and think
of him always. Don't let his passing be in vein. Think of Mike, when you’re in
a building, and the fires out, and the bottles heavy, and others have taken
theirs off, I'll wear mine.
Then this from Tom Dominguez:
When you are sorrowful look again in your
heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been
your delight. K. Gibran
Where's the water? WHERE"S THE WATER???? Mike.....you go on ahead and size it
up for us. We were blessed to know you and we will see you on the other
side. MGB you, your family and friend.
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1. Quick Presentation Skills Tip
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Emotions:
It’s not uncommon to have emotions overwhelm you when you tell a personal story or answer an oral board question. Should you try and hold them back, or let them be part of your story? I suggest you let them flow with the story.
My son Rob says it’s ok to have a tear go down you cheek, but it must evaporate to steam before it drops on your suit.
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2. Entry
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I am soooo stoked right now.
When was the last time, if ever, you have felt this way in the testing process? Click here to learn how this inside “Nugget” skill helped:
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Bottom line getting a badge is all presentation skills!
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3.
Promotional Level Skills Tip
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Tactical Fire Problem:
The biggest problems candidates make in fire simulations is they don’t take command and assign their crew to another company, don’t order enough resources and lose their resources.
Always have a piece of paper to sketch out the scene. On the upper right of the paper list the resources you have responding and ordering up. On the left side where you assign those resources. Physically make the change when it occurs. You can get to the point where you are assigning units to needed tasks before they arrive and start backing up in staging.
After the exercise, it’s common for the raters to ask you what you saw, what was your plan, where some of the equipment is assigned and what would you do differently.
If you write everything down, you will never lose track of the resources ordered, in route, staging, or assignments given.
It keeps the hot set cooler.
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4.
Robs Corner
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When the
phone company needs to install a phone system, it will estimate the number of
days the job will take, and then counts back from the date the customer needs
it, and starts the job on that day. If there is any problem, the phone is not
ready on the due date.
I talk
to people all of the time that, similarly, figure out how long they think it
will take them to prepare for their interview and then count back.
I wish I
had a dollar for every person that has called me in a panic, “They just sprung
it on me” they say, “I didn’t know it would come up so soon”, “They moved up the
date and surprised everyone”.
Think
how happy you would be, if you were the one that wasn’t caught off guard. Think
what it would do for your confidence, just walking in the door for your
interview, if you knew everyone else was in a panic, but you had been ready for
a month.
They
can’t spring an oral interview on you, because it was in the job announcement.
It said you would have a written, physical agility, and an oral interview. You
either weren’t paying attention or you forgot. This isn’t your girlfriends
birthday, or your anniversary, this is your career we’re talking about, get with
it, and get on it, the day you put in the application.
FIREFIGHTER ROB
NRTC@SONIC.NET
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Rob is Captain Bob's Son. He works for Contra Costa fire department. He does all the entry level coaching by phone nationwide. You can contact him direct with your questions or set up a coaching appointment @ 707-869-1330. or e-mail me @ nrtc@sonic.net
You can read more of Rob’s
wisdom by clicking here:
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5.
New Badges
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Dear Capt. Bob
Thank you for your help in preparing my resume and getting ready for my Chief's interview. The information I obtained off your website and your help over the phone definitely contributed to my successful results. I could not believe it when you responded to my fax so quickly. I also appreciated your "no bullsh*t" approach to your comments. If someone is worried about getting their feelings hurt and can't handle some honest advice, then they are in for a surprise when they hit the station as a probie!
I am currently starting my 7th week at the State Fire Academy and am looking forward to joining my company. Anyone who is having troubles getting hired on would be wise to give check out your web site. You can definitely use me as a reference if anyone wants some proof that your materials really work!
Thanks again, Brent
Hello Capt Bob,
I just wanted to take a moment to say thank you for all of your great
advice. Your advice and my hard work has finally paid off!!!!!!!!! I was
recently hired in CA.
Your insight and advice had helped me to realize my weaknesses and correct them.
I would just like to say thanks again for all the help you have given me and
others like me. Sincerely, Bill
Bob,
After my previous job with a county department, I couldn’t get a job as a
tow truck dispatcher. After lots of
work and road blocks—here I am! From unemployed to working for one of the best.
Bob, I
am one of you extreme success stories. I now gross what their Captains and maybe
BCs make. You got a friend for
life.
Karma baby, karma. Thanks again, I still owe you big time...Brett
Capt. Bob
I got the badge-you may remember me as the guy who went skiing rather then practice for my chief interview and failed in a miserable way. Well hard work paid off for me in the end and I continued to interview, got my script and my character down, and road the winning pony all the way to the finish line.
I cannot thank you enough for the verbal smack in the back of the head you gave me in 2/02 for taking a powder day over a private consultation. It gave me the focus to achieve my ultimate goal-getting the badge!!! Now due to the location of my department, in Washington State, I have the best of all worlds.
I could not have done this without the personal advice you gave me over the phone and the aid of the audio and video tapes your son Rob and yourself put out. By taking the advice from those resources I, with a little practice, interviewed so well I ranked number one on various hiring lists and was offered three-yes three jobs in the course of a one week period from various departments and was able to pick out the best department in the best location with the best pay and all that goes along with it.
Yours is great service that has helped myself and many others achieve their dreams and I along with all the others you have helped and those who you will help in the future. Thank You. Sincerely, George
Promotional:
THANKS FOR THE WORK YOU AND YOUR STAFF HAVE BEEN
DOING! I HAVE RECEIVED MY BADGE AS CAPTAIN IN THE FIRE DEPARTMENT.
I USED THE TECHNIQUES AND IT WORKED! YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY CORRECT THEIRS NOTHING
LIKE HAVING THE BADGE! Dave
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The Formula
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Here's what we know after 30-years of experience.
Candidates
who get our Audio/Video Entry Level or Promotional Program,
use the work booklet, practice with the all-important TAPE RECORDER, and come
back for a private coaching session, catapult themselves into the Olympic
camp. That's where you get a shot at that badge you have
been
looking for.
One on one coaching sessions
are where you get dialed into making your best presentation. It can make the
difference between being down on a list and being in the top 10 going for the
chief's oral. Candidates armed with this information are the one's who are
smoking past you in the oral, grab the badge and leave you as the bride's maid
again. We know because we get the calls when they get their badge! You can
contact my Son Rob direct to set up a coaching session @ 707-869-1330.
Robs e-mail is nrct@sonic.net
Click here to learn more
about private coaching
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You start by ordering our
Entry Level Audio/Video or Promotional Program from the products section of our
web site below or by calling our distributor Rayve @ 800-852-4890. This program
will keep you motivated! The program comes with a no questions asked full refund
if you're not satisfied. You're at no risk except you might get a badge.
Consider also getting our new book "Eat Stress For Breakfast" to help you
along your journey.
"Nothing counts 'til you have
the badge . . . Nothing! And, there is no feeling like proudly
wearing the badge."
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6.
Humor
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For those of you not familiar with the work of Steven
Wright, he's the guy who once said: "I woke up one morning and all of my stuff
had been stolen......and replaced by exact duplicates."
He also said:
If you must choose between two evils, pick the one you've never tried before.
Plan to be spontaneous tomorrow.
If you think nobody cares about you, try missing a couple of payments.
Drugs may lead to nowhere, but at least it's the scenic route.
Borrow money from pessimists-they don't expect it back.
99 percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name.
42.7 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot.
A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.
All those who believe in psychokinesis raise my hand.
Early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met.
OK, so what's the speed of dark?
Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm.
When everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.
Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now.
Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.
24 hours in a day ... 24 beers in a case..coincidence?
Dancing is a perpendicular statement of a horizontal desire.
What happens if you get scared half to death, twice?
Why do psychics have to ask you for your name?
A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.
Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.
To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.
The sooner you fall behind, the more time you'll have to catch up.
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7. Resource Websites for Candidates
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Perfect Firefighter
Candidate. Job listing and a
complete resource web site with a community bulletin board.
Don McNea Fire School, Inc. is the #1 Firefighter
Preparatory Entrance School in the Country.
They have the inside information how to tackle those psychological and
personality questions on the written.
Learn how entry level and promotional candidates are
improving their interview scores up to 15 points and nailing that badge!
http://www.eatstress.com/newpage2.htm
FREE 101 Inside Secrets How to Get a Badge!
http://www.eatstress.com/faq.htm
Check out the specials on
our products for entry level and promotional testing:
http://www.eatstress.com/newpage6.htm
Firenuggets.com "The Internet magazine dedicated to keeping firefighters safe" http://www.firenuggets.com
B-Pad Assessment Devices.
If you're an agency looking for a new dimension to evaluate candidates,
or a candidate wanting information on how you can orientate your skills for this
evaluation check out their web site:
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