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If this is your first promotional test, you're tired of being passed over, the list has expired again after all the acting time you put in without getting the badge for the second, third time or more, you don't want to be embarrassed again, then you've come to the right place.

If you could read just one article about how to turn your oral board scores into a badge this is it.  I challenge you to read this entire article and not change how you sell yourself in your next promotional exam.

Promotional assessment centers can include, but not limited to, in-out-basket, preparing a presentation, Oral Board, confrontation and disciplinary resolution, Peer Counseling, and Tactical Fire Simulation.

The following are Tools and Resources to help you gain your next promotional badge! 

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Step by step, we can help you with everything you need to know in the promotional assessment process.  You'll find the inside “Nuggets”, tips and resources you can’t get anywhere else to shorten the learning curve and the distance between you and that next badge. 

The "Nuggets" and skills that will be presented are for everyone interested in strengthening their position in gaining their next badge.  This is Quality Training you won't find anywhere else.  You can't afford to go to your next test without these Nuggets.   How bad do you want this job anyway? How many opportunities have you already wasted by not being really ready to take a promotional test?

Greetings Captain Bob!

It was my second crack at the Captains promotional and I didn't want to leave any rocks unturned. I called Captain Bob and got started by getting his  "Promotional Program".

Almost immediately I felt his enthusiasm and support, I felt my motivation increasing as we spoke on the phone. We got started by cleaning up my resume and making it more readable, what a difference when we were done! The oral board complimented me on submitting just a one page resume.

After receiving my package in the mail I got to work with my recorder. I especially liked the CD and would listen to it every time I drove in the car. I found that the CD information would put me in a frame of mind that would have "my nuggets" popping in to my head.

I couldn't believe how well my interview went, I was answering the questions and adding my own signature stories when appropriate. The interview panel was looking at me like I had invented electricity, I could tell that no one else had answered this way. I had the number one score in that portion of the exam.

After the final Chiefs interview was given the Chief called me and informed me that I had finished #1 and that he wanted me to be one of his new Captains, I couldn't believe my ears, I was going to be a Captain. What was most interesting was the number #2 candidate was the "Oral Board Guru" who teaches interview skills at the community college.

I love my new job. I have been placed in the training division and am planning an in-house academy in April. I am also on several committee's and task forces that meet on a regular basis. The thing I like the most is that now I am in a position to get things accomplished, no more complaining about the bosses now I am one.

Captain Bob was there for me from the beginning. I did the work and he gave me the support I needed. Thanks Captain Bob!!!!! Your friend, Chris

You can review what other successful candidates have said here:  Success Stories Here  

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Understand there is only one person keeping you from getting that badge . . . It’s YOU! Stop looking in the magnifying glass at others and start looking in the mirror at yourself. Even golf pros take lessons. It’s time to step up and get the gold "Nuggets" to put you over the top, make the cut in the Olympic camp, and get the promotional badge for the job of your dreams.

The following are Tools and Resources to help you gain your next promotional badge! 

The Promotional Assessment Center Interview

You have fallen off the end of the earth for up to a year or more. You’ve been immersed in preparing for the written portion of a promotional test. You have gone through all the policy and procedure manuals in the job announcement, purchased books, IFSTA manuals, and anything remotely related to the test. Your family can’t remember who you are.

While taking the written test, you can’t believe your agency, or the testing firm they hired for big bucks, could know so little about the fire service and put together such an irrelevant test. The major areas that were listed as material to study on the announcement didn’t have one question on the test. Talk about a dog and pony show.

Several candidates, including you, protest test questions. One you protest, you already had right. Weeks pass. Even though the personnel department knows the test scores within days of test they finally release the results three weeks later. You’re not number one. But, you’re not at the bottom either. You’re in the upper end of the pack in the middle. You’re in the Olympic camp. All you have to do is make the cut.

After investing all this time and money for the written test that can be weighted as only forty percent of the total score, most candidates do little or nothing preparing for the remaining sixty percent in the interview process.

Many candidates think they have it figured out in their head and write it down that it’s going to come out of their mouth the same way. It doesn’t! They do mock orals with their buddies who either have never been on an oral board (everyone is an expert) or it has been so long, they are out of touch with the process. These buddies can’t bring themselves to tell you how bad you really are.

Over the last 35 years I have been helping promotional candidates most of which had great credentials. They had degrees, certificates, training, and experience. Yet, they couldn’t present the package. And, if you can present the package . . . you don’t get the badge. Period! These people are shocked that candidates will less credentials, seniority, the village idiot, or guys they refer to as the "Car Salesman" type get the badge that had their name on it.

Most Don't have the Necessary Presentation Interview Skills:

The Problem is Poor Oral Board Presentation Skills! Most candidates don’t do enough testing to get good at it. The problem is most of them don't know how poorly they are doing. I've seen it too often after being on over 175 oral boards. It's the most misunderstood and least prepared for portion of the testing. Have you been beat up enough in the past, are you tired of being the bride’s maid when lists expire, and identify with what you have read so far? If you don’t think so, you might be in denial. Denial is a river in Egypt. Let your wife or friends read this far let you know if you qualify.

If so, I want to share some of the "Nuggets" I’ve acquired from 30 years of fire service test experience that have helped shortened the learning curve to enhance and strengthen your position to get promoted. Are you ready to take the plunge? If so, here we go. Keep your hands and feet inside the ride at all times.

This is a great time for promotional opportunities. Up to forty percent of the positions in the fire service are promotable. It is the quickest way for you to improve the economic situation for you and your family for the rest of your career and far into the retirement years. We are at the natural 20 year cycle for retirement, the economy has improved and positions are being filled, and administrations are changing. And, you can never know what will take place in a promotional examination.

Candidates who don’t prepare, won’t show up at the written test to fail and be embarrassed. I know a test where 25 people signed up for a captain’s test. Only 9 showed up for the written. The 6 who made the list were promoted within a year. You never know.

The interview portion of the promotional is the most important. It can be as simple as an oral interview including a fire problem or a full-blown assessment center. The assessment center can be made up, but not limited to a combination of an in-and-out basket, fire problem, oral board, a presentation to a panel or group, peer counseling, conflict resolution, leaderless group discussion, or writing an essay.

Fantasyland:

The oral interview is like fantasy land. It is not like the real world. Your answers in the oral board might not be what you would do in real life. Don’t fall into the trap. The board understands the rules, you can’t fool them. If you try, the board will crank up the music and let you dance your fool head off. Don’t try to intellectualize and bring heavy logic to this process. If you do, someone, who understands the rules in fantasyland better will get the badge. So, please follow the yellow brick road rules in fantasyland and don’t look behind the curtain.

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