By following a combination of these strategies for marketing and engagement, your department can expect to yield its best possible results for recruitment and retention.
For your department to remain relevant, it must meet various followers’ needs in multiple forms, which is difficult with audience attention spans shrinking to four seconds.
Fire and EMS departments must pay constant attention to connectedness and retention if they want to keep their volunteers. Otherwise, their volunteers will tune out and silently fade away
Conducting surveys and asking for member input in your fire/rescue/EMS organization is the sign of a healthy organization focused on volunteer recruitment and retention. However, mismanaging the process can irrevocably harm trust, loyalty and rapport in an organization that so
Sharing your volunteer fire department’s full application on your recruitment website instead of making first contact via a simple online inquiry form can be too much information–too soon for some applicants. There’s a better way to collect leads and move
Recruitment and Retention Strategist Walter Campbell discusses how recruiting has changed due to COVID-19 and offers tips on recruiting as departments return to normal.
