Recruitment & Retention
Finding, signing up and keeping volunteer and career members: recruiting strategy, applicant follow-up, onboarding and retention for fire, EMS and law enforcement.
Setting the Table for Volunteer Fire/EMS Recruitment Success
Organizations compete to attract potential leads to their table, so let's look at some methods for setting up engaging and productive recruitment tables at the recruitment fair or event your volunteer department will attend.
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Looking for Volunteer Fire & EMS Recruitment Influencers?
Throughout the pandemic, volunteer fire and EMS recruiters across the nation had to get creative and develop recruitment messages through new means of communication To help overcome those obstacles, some organizations hired social media influencers to help attract and recruit people to their brand. Although TikTok is new, using influencers is nothing new in the recruiting world.
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22 Law Enforcement Recruiting Tips for 2022
If you’re struggling with “recruiting block,” consider these quick tips to get the creative juices flowing.
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Everyone is a Recruiter – Law Enforcement Edition
Next time roll call complains about manpower, challenge each officer to find one applicant to take the test this year
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Striking the Balance Between Retention & Recruitment in Volunteer Fire/EMS Organizations
Recruitment without retention can create a revolving door in your volunteer Fire/EMS agency. Retention without recruitment will eventually wear down your workforce without a plan to address regular and positive attrition. Retention and recruitment are so interdependent that they must be tackled simultaneously in order to sustain and grow your volunteer emergency services organization.
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Chasing the Unicorn: Recruiting Today’s Fire and Emergency Services Volunteers
Fire & EMS is a volunteering opportunity like none other; difficult if not impossible to describe, largely because of the tremendous impact you can have on the lives of others, yourself, and your entire community. Not many volunteering opportunities put the ‘real’ into real world experiences and education like fire and emergency services. Our challenge is to motivate the right audience towards serving with us. So, if you’re not focused on volunteer recruitment and retention, what are you focused
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There is Still Time to Get SAFER: Recruitment & Retention Funding Grant Period Closes February 4th
The time is now to jump on your narrative and background data while you clarify and prioritize where you want to go with your grant-funded recruitment efforts. Don’t be afraid to dream big but be realistic too.
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How Results-Driven Recruiting Will Help Your Agency Hire Cops
The first thing police departments should do is start using data to measure the success of recruitment initiatives
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How to Develop a Police Recruiting Presentation That Works
If your agency is spearheading recruiting initiatives by emphasizing employment disqualifiers, it’s time to evolve
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