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Over 2,396 badges and counting have received their badges from this program!

 July 15, 2006

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Firemen Jobs is a great way to keep up on who’s testing, articles and current information here: http://www.firemenjobs.com

Steve Prziborowski, Fire Technology Coordinator at Chabot College and a Captain with the Santa Clara County Fire Department will be offering the following seminars:

August 3: 20 Steps To Becoming The Best Firefighter Candidate You Can Be – Attendees will learn 20 steps that will help them be the best firefighter candidate they can be.

August 3: Fire Service Oral Board Preparation – Learn some valuable steps that will assist you when you are faced with your next fire service oral board. Time permitting; some students may also get the opportunity to participate in a mock oral interview!

 For more information visit the Chabot College Fire Technology website at www.chabotfire.com

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to 15 points and nailing that badge! 
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Quick Tip

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Surfs Up!

When the sprinklers water our lawn earthworms will come out on the sidewalk to take advantage of the water.  The worms loop around.  As the water begins to dry up the worm’s head back to the lawn.  Some worms often get too far out.  You can see their trails as they try to loop back to the lawn.  Some run out of wet space, dry up and die.

I thought this is the same thing that can happen in some oral boards.  Candidates get off to a good start but can lose their way, run out of water wasting too much time on one or more answers, don’t make the loop to complete their orals with a high enough score to be considered and like the worms dry up and end up twisting in the wind.

That’s why I believe you should learn how to take a firefighter interview and take as many tests as you can fly, drive, beg, borrow, and grovel to get to.  Because the more tests you take, the better you get at taking tests.  When the department you really want to work for tests, you’re ahead of the curve.   You won’t be stumped by a question you‘ve never heard before.  You only need to stumble on a couple of questions to be caught flatfooted to throw your timing, inflection and your confidence off to keep you from getting a high enough score to be considered to go forward to gain a badge.

Case in point:  I just talked to Kevin a candidate who did miserably on his last two oral boards.  This, I’ve got everything including being a medic was shocked why he didn’t do better.  I asked him where he had been testing?  Kevin ran off a few departments.  I was at one of those departments written test.  I asked Kevin, “So, I gave you one of my business cards at that test, right?”  “Yes you did.”  “What did you think when you read the card?”  His reply was, “I didn’t think I needed it.”  “What do you think now?”  “I now know I need all the help I can get.” 

The magic can often happen quicker than you think.  Here’s a young lad with far less credentials that learned the combination to the vault:

Captain Bob, I would just like to say thank you! I am only twenty-one, and no college degree, but thanks to your program I have received two job offers! After months of practicing with a tape recorder and rehearsing my answers, the only head-splitting decision I have to make is between a great big agency or my hometown department! Thanks again!  Chris from California

You can learn how Chris made it happen here: http://www.eatstress.com/goldpackage.htm

My son Rob says we usually hear from candidates after they didn’t get hired by their dream department.  Then they’re trying to regroup to test for their second choice.

The last 4 candidates Rob coached from Canada all got badges!  More on coaching here: http://www.eatstress.com/private%20coaching.htm

More Oral Board tools here: http://eatstress.com/newpage6.htm

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 Bottom line getting a badge is all presentation skills!

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Information Products on How to Get a Badge.
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