Quote Originally Posted by 3.14
cool, so how hard will it be to get on somewhere? like how long will it take if you had to guess? also is there anything else i can do to make myself more attractive to be hired? i have even contemplated enlisting just to get firefighting experience out of it. i'd rather not but i will if need be.

also, do i need to go to an academy first or have fire-I or anything or is all that provided?

thanks so much for the help thus far.
I can only give you the expirence that I went through at Clayton County FD, where I'm currently employed.

But have patience, it's a long hiring process only because they are going to take only the best out of the pool of applicants. The fact that you have civil servant status with being a teacher helps alot too. Depending on how bad a certian county needs people you're looking on average about 4-6 month hiring procress.

1. Basic Skills Test
2. Orientation
3. Combat Challenge
4. Wonderlic/ Ethics Test
5. Psych. Test
6. Drug Test
7. Polygraph Test
8. First Interview
9. Second Interview

But that's just what I went through when I got hired on...