What Firefighter and First Responder interviews feel like

Fire interviews and EMS interviews have interesting questions.

[lostmuffin]

"Sir, in 5 years I see myself having an answer to this hypothetical situation."

[EskimoJoe]

"Where do you see yourself in 5 years?"

"At another department."

[johnharris]

My friend was interviewing for his first EMT job with a big ambulance company in San Francisco. While he was sitting there he found a company pamphlet in the seat of the couch he was sitting on. So he briefly glanced at it. Well in the interview they asked what he knew about this company, and he started quoting facts from the Pamphlet. The company was impressed he did his research and he got the job. This guy ended his career as the Chief of a big city fire department.

[johnbeauvais]

I recall a story my father told about something as strange as this, it was early 2000s and they asked how he would deal with a situation between a person of Middle Eastern descent and a fireman that had been a veteran of Desert Storm. His response was “Wait is he Iraqi or Kuwaiti? Because if he’s Kuwaiti then they were on the same side.”

This did not satisfy the people asking the questions.

[macmedic]

EMS interview: Do you have a patch? Do you have a pulse?

Here’s your narcs, truck is right over there, and we’ve got calls holding.

[jminc]

Don't say "doing your wife." Don't say "doing your

[donho]

"No disrespect sir, but BCs never leave the confines of their air conditioned rigs, the Fire Chief never leaves city hall, and I will be a captain at a beach city department in the county that pays twice as much for less work. As to the guy that steals, should you have not caught that when you interviewed him?"
Life in the big city FD.

[Xeksyd]

I love watching your movies. The funniest thing is that I am a firefighter in Poland, many thousands miles away from you and everything you publish also applies to us 😂

[justanotheraviator]

Got it, don't let Jason do interviews!

[titaniumfox]

You are why I want to be a firefighter

[AyratHungryStudent]

In my first ever IT job interview I was asked "where I see myself in 5 years". I decided to be honest and replied "probably working in the US at Google or Microsoft". My interviewer was shocked and told me that despite me being the highest skilled applicant they needed loyal workers so they said no to me.
I never was honest in interviews after that.

[nonyabeeznuss]

Reminds me of "ethics questions" in Police interviews. They ask you a series of "ethical dilemmas" that aren't actually dilemmas.

"Your partner encourages you to sign 5 hours of overtime on your timesheet even though you only worked 3, what do you do?" or "a fleeing suspect throws a backpack on the ground before getting away. It is full of hundred dollar bills and nobody is around, what do you do?"

obviously the answer is don't forge your time sheets, and if a suspect ever literally just throws half a million dollars at you and runs away it's probably IA doing an integrity check because no other human being alive is ever going to willingly just throw half a million dollars at you.

[Watchingyou-daily]

That so sounds like an NREMT question.

[robstan]

Lol dude nobody is going to want to be a FF now. Lol

[stoneydixon]

Considering all of the things firefighters and EMS have to deal with and see, I think the answer to "Where do you see yourself in 5 years?" is 'therapy'

[noahdaubenspeck]

When I told my teacher I wanted to be a firefighter this is kind of what he did to me

[ThisGuy]

This is absolutely hilarious, I, no joke, just interviewed for a promotion at my fire department today. This is exactly how I felt in my interview pretty sure I had that same look on my face

[dgm]

Clear as mud about what our job entails! Perfect for the first interview to break in the recruits

[danstierman]

Interview with private EMS:
"Do you have a license?"
"Yeah, just got it, this is actually my first interview..."
"-Can you start today? We're short."

[Ahhhhhhhhhhh]

"In five years, I see myself continuing to educate and better myself and my community through hard work, care and dedication." Done.