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The Problem is Poor Oral Board Skills!
Most candidates do poorly on their oral boards. The problem is most of them
don't know how poorly they are doing. I've seen it too often after being on over
100 oral boards. It's the most misunderstood and least prepared for portion of
the testing.
With all respect to the following comment, this is one of the most important
clues why candidates have trouble in their oral boards:
“I recently had an interview, and I know my answers were great especially after
hearing how another candidate answered them. He made the list, and I did not. Go
figure!” Jed.
This is the problem! Most candidates think their answers are great, when they
aren't. If their answers were as great as they thought, they would make the list
and get a badge. They listen to other candidates and firefighters who make them
into clones. Have you noticed, that once a person becomes a firefighter, they
are instantly the experts on how to get hired?
The following is a true story: If we can get the village idiot hired, you can
get a badge too! That's right! We had a candidate who was a volunteer taking his
third test to be hired as a paid member. When this guy was out of town, the
village didn't have an idiot.
He received our program and did not one, but two, coaching sessions. We
literally held him together with crazy clue. Guess what? He got hired. The next
week, he made this posting on a bulletin board, “I will show you how to get a
firefighter job.” The village idiot had become the expert overnight on how to
get hired. I couldn't believe what I was reading. He received thirty e-mails.
If you're passing the written and agility, which are usually pass/fail, and
you're not placing high enough on the oral, that's where the problem exists.
What most candidates do if they don't place high enough on the oral is go back
and try to pack on more credentials. “Oh, I have to finish my degree or get
through that academy” They do little to nothing in gaining the skills for the
oral board, which is usually 100% of the score. If you don't do anything to
improve your oral board skills nothing is going to change, you will never, ever
see that badge. The oral board is for all the marbles. This is where the rubber
meets the road.
“Do what you have to do be more marketable so you can take more tests and have
something more to offer a department, but remember that it all comes down to
that 15 to 30 minute oral interview. I've seen some awesome candidates with
resumes packed full of accomplishments that couldn't sell them self in an
interview to even make the top 50%.” Steve Prziborowski, Fire Captain, Santa
Clara County Fire Department
Stop looking in the magnifying glass at others . . . and start looking in the
mirror at your self. That's where the problem is.
Candidates who get this far in the process usually get discouraged and tell me
they feel like they have hit a wall. They don't know what to do next. Some of
their friends (with fewer credentials) have been hired. They're frustrated and
embarrassed. If it can work for the village idiot, it will certainly work for
you.
Hands down, we help more firefighters get hired in the US of A and Canada than
anyone else! Coast to coast, in every state and major city in the America, 24
hours a day, the citizens are protected by firefighters who went through our
program! Here's one:
I ordered your Entry Level Program. I did this after noticing many of your
students successful testimonies on the bulletin boards. I have many
certifications including Paramedic. The only hindrance that I found myself with
was not passing the oral.
Since ordering your program, I was nailing the interviews. Getting hired over
the auxiliaries at their own departments, and with a heck of a lot less
experience. Your program and techniques helped me excel past the other
candidates. I even had one city Fire Chief personally call me at home to set up
a Chief's oral, (had to decline, due to the fact that I was at orientation for
another dept.). To make a long story short, nothing counts until you have the
badge, nothing. For all of the candidates out there that don't believe this, try
passing and ranking #1 on orals with a stuttering problem . . . I did. Thanks
Captain Bob — Dave
Remember: “Nothing counts ‘til you have the badge . . . Nothing!” Ask Dave
More success stories here:
http://eatstress.com/testbest.htm
Has any what you've read made sense? Would you go on an African safari without a
guide? Then why would you go to an oral interview without a guide? Would you
cross a river without a guide to show you where the rocks are so you can make it
across the river without being washed away? Haven't you been beat up enough yet?
We would like to work with you to turn things around. It's been said that when
the student is ready to learn, the teacher appears. Are you at this point now?
We can help you wherever you are in the process. From the written test, physical
agility, resume, oral board, background, psychological, polygraph to the
promotional interview.
We can shorten the learning curve to the closest point between you and the
badge. Like the Tin Man in the Wizard of Oz, we're not going to give you
anything you don't already have. We're just going to show you where it is. There
is a badge out there for you. You just haven't seen it yet. We will show you how
to nail it!
It's a great feeling if you can be a part of the change in someone's life.
Multiply that by over 2300 badges throughout the
United States and Canada and you will understand that this is our reward. My
Fire Captain son, Rob and I have a great passion in seeing candidates get a
badge. This is serious work.
You can find more about our accelerated program here
http://eatstress.com/goldpackage.htm
“Do what you have to do be more marketable so you can take more tests and have
something more to offer a department, but remember that it all comes down to
that 15 to 30 minute oral interview. I've seen some awesome candidates with
resumes packed full of accomplishments that couldn't sell them self in an
interview to even make the top 50%.” Steve Prziborowski,
Battalion Chief, Santa
Clara County Fire Department
“Getting the job of your dreams is like winning the lottery!” Jerry Price,
Firefighter
"Nothing
counts 'til you have the badge . . . Nothing!"
Fire "Captain Bob" Author, Becoming A Firefighter
http://eatstress.com/goldpackage.htm
www.eatstress.com
888-238-3959
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