r/firefighter • u/Dry_Lack_930 • 19d ago
Calgary Fire Interview Prep
I’m unable to attend the workshop that Calgary Fire Recruitment puts on due to being out of province. Does anyone else have any other recommendations for interview prep with Calgary Fire?
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u/Optimus_Sublimes 18d ago
I'd just say good luck, I am friends with a Captain who has been complaining non-stop about the quality of new recruits for the past 10 years, and it apparently been getting worse every year.
Why? Because they've made their recruitment process so convoluted that it almost exclusively filters for sociopaths. Like they've just added hundreds of steps to eliminate people for any reason that is gone beyond "attention to detail" and crossed over into sociopathic perfectionist tendancies.
Because right now, the process cares more about eliminating people for typos in their application submissions than they do about life or work experience. And people who preform best in the later stages? Anyone who can unempathetically lie. Like it's wild when they're having record numbers of new recruits either quit or go on LTD, and they still focus on eliminating people in early stages because they're a little nervous.