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2 interviews after applying to a dozen ambulance companies - Would be interested in seeing your resume. Could it use some tweaking, is the resume in a format that is acceptable to most HR departments or is your Resume making a quick diversion to the proverbial circular file. Do not take offense at this but is your resume professionally written or is it in the jargon of a high schooler? Again don't take offense but HR departments look at resume's every single day and they quickly throw away resumes that are poorly written or look like "sh(*(&&T" if you forgive my french. Are you under or over the age of 21? That might affect your eligibility for insurance as well for their insurance carrier. If you are willing, send me your resume, ruffems@gmail.com and I'll take a look at it. There is a reason why you have only gotten 2 interviews after applying to 12 or more companies. One other thing, just a question to ponder, do you have anything in your past that could have a direct bearing on why you are not getting calls for interviews. Take this case for example A very good friend of mine applied to the KC MO police department, he got through the first several steps in the process. He was told by a Captain that he was a shoe in for the academy and then came the polygraph. He told the truth on the polygraph that he had taken money from a previous employer. He got the denial letter in the mail 10 days later. He attempted to get on with about 10 other police departments but on the applications they ask have you applied at other departments and he wrote down which ones. Apparantly, those departments talk amongst each other and he was told by a honest police department HR person that there was something in his KC MO PD hiring process that will keep him from getting on at any police department in a 100 mile radius. He said that he knew what that "something" was. So I would look inward (again don't take this the wrong way) and see if there is something that you can do to improve your chances at getting even an interview other than the tried and true response of "Volunteer work" because you may not have that option in your area. And again, don't take this as a personal insult but how did you apply to those companies? did you take the application in person or via the internet? If you took it in, in person, how were you dressed? Were you dressed shabbily and looking like a beatnik(again not personal), or did you go there with at least a shirt and tie on with nice slacks?, was your hair combed and did you not smell? If you sent it in via the internet, are you sure that you attached all documentation correctly, they may not have gotten all your paperwork. NOW, for your future job hunt. 1. When you drop off a resume/application/data packet - do it in at least a shirt and tie and slacks and dress shoes. Dress to look the part. 2. Call each of those agencies that you did not get an interview with but you filled an application out at, and ask to talk to the hiring person, HR or whoever. Tell them who you are and talk to them about any future positions or current positions. Let them know you filled an application out and you were wondering the status. (if you've done this, they may have already told you why you weren't hireable). 3. Keep good records of calls and who you talk to, never hurts to name drop when you are talking to someone who can make or break your future. If you talk to Jim Jones at the HR department and you have also talked to Janet Jones at the same HR department make sure you tell them that, they will then be able to talk to one another about you. 4. When you send your resume/application in to the next agency, follow up with a phone call to HR in 5-7 days just to make sure that your packet made it to them. Just because you send the package to them or dropped it off to them, DOES NOT mean that they got it. And last but not least, for the ambulance service that you REALLY REALLY want to work with, why not call their HR department and see if you can come in and sit down and talk to the HR person about the jobs open and what you can do to stand out. That's a first step of standing out and showing that you have the initiative in wanting the job. If you just say "oh hell, I'll just send this package in and wait,and wait and wait, and when I don't get a call, I'll just wonder what happened to it" You don't want to be that guy do you???? Of course not. Take care and send me your resume - Ruff

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I was 16 when I joined the VFD I was a member of for 6 years. I wasn't traumatized or damaged by what I saw, I guess it just depends on the maturity level of the kid Mobey.

You won't find any female bias from us here. The females we have here have already beat it out of us and put us in our place.