Firefighter recruitment. One of those topics that's like the weather: everyone is talking about it, but nobody is doing anything about it. What fire department out there--career, combination, all-volunteer--doesn't have a tough "row to how" when it comes to finding and retaining good people?
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Thoughts on Recruitment and Retention for the Volunteer Fire Service
By: Robert Avsec, Executive Fire Officer The recruitment and retention of members is a critical issue for many volunteer fire departments across the U.S. and Canada. Fundamentally, the problem has “many moving parts” as outlined by Rick Markley in his Introduction to my recently published e-book, Essays on Recruitment and Retention for the Fire Service: Recruiting and retaining outstanding firefighters is ...
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