RECRUITMENT 2011

[flyonthewall]

Posted by: K99 

I love following this recruitment thread each year. Everyone gets all excited about applying for the MFS. Everyone gets their hopes up. Lots of questions are asked, further fuelling their confidence then BAM! FAIL.

Then the whinging starts......

:-D

[Monger]

I love following this recruitment thread each year. Everyone gets all excited about applying for the MFS. Everyone gets their hopes up. Lots of questions are asked, further fuelling their confidence then BAM! FAIL.

Then the whinging starts......

It would be frustrating when the MFS gives very little feed back on where applicants went wrong. They need to be more transparent and give out scores. But then they couldnt recruit the "types" of people they require......

[Alex]

Failing the psych testing, then blaming the testing process.... maybe thats indicating something right there.

Ok, Alex How would analyse this. I have given my answers.

1 a.) Do you own a firearm. False
 b.) Do you own more than three firearms. True

2 a.) Do you hunt animals. False
 b.) Do you prefer to shoot animals with a camera. True

A serious answer would be appreciated.  :-)

Is this meant to be a set of true/false questions? Your answers do not make sense for the questions posed.

Wicky?

[6739264]

I love following this recruitment thread each year. Everyone gets all excited about applying for the MFS. Everyone gets their hopes up. Lots of questions are asked, further fuelling their confidence then BAM! FAIL.

Then the whinging starts......

It would be frustrating when the MFS gives very little feed back on where applicants went wrong. They need to be more transparent and give out scores. But then they couldnt recruit the "types" of people they require......

Catch-22?

[chook]

What K99 says is true - sadly.
Most jobs you apply for either a)don't tell you why or b)don't tell you the real reason :wink:
Yep numbers Catch22
as for answering the firearm question like that-I too would say hmmm dodgy.
And before some attack me - I have been trained to recruit, interview & select new people. And have some experience in selecting wheat from chaff
So for those who didn't make it the first question you should be asking is Do I really want to do this? And then where can I do better? deep down I normally have know why I didn't get the job I want :wink:

[unfknblvable]

This test is primariy to see if your telling fibs, and if you do guess what - try again next year

[Scottie]

For those who are thinking about giving Mara ring don't bother as She will give you no reasons why you may not have made it just try again next year as they have their 150 and another 50 on standby for interviewing. I asked why and she said Quote other people where better than you.  So all the best to those who have an interview to everyone else see you in 2013 to try again.  :-)

[pumprescue]

Ahhh getting an answer from the non uniformed HR staff, good luck with that....

[Scottie]

Do you know of a way to find out pumprescue?

[flyonthewall]

Imagine being in her shoes. For starters, she is not allowed to tell anyone. If she did and someone found out, then she could even lose her job. Could you imagine how many people would be ringing to find out where they went wrong.......I bet there would be hundreds.

[gasman]

As the web site clearly states, feedback will only be given to those people who were not successful during the interview process. Read the web site guys and girls, its written for a reason.

[Monger]

As the web site clearly states, feedback will only be given to those people who were not successful during the interview process. Read the web site guys and girls, its written for a reason.

And why cant they tell you? They should have your scores right in front of them.Would be easier to give feedback at this stage than after the interview in terms of pass fail. Not hard to work out why they dont, besides being a large number of people to inform. An email with an aptitude score would do

[flyonthewall]

They gave out scores for the testing years ago. It was put onto the website and you looked up your application number and could see what you scored in each area of the aptitude test but there was no other feedback for anything. It was all pass or fail, no second chances either.

There are always lots of people who miss out, hundreds infact, so you'll just have to try again next time. Like has been mentioned, it's funny how many people think they can just apply and get in. 

[Sammy]

This was my first time around, I too failed to get an interview. I'm curious, if there are any MFS firefighters reading, how many times did you apply before you were employed?

[Monger]

This was my first time around, I too failed to get an interview. I'm curious, if there are any MFS firefighters reading, how many times did you apply before you were employed?

You have a much better chance of getting in the last few years due to the ageing fire service and a couple of new stations they are running 2-3 squads a year. Whereas 8-10yrs ago they were lucky to run 1 a year from what im told. I know a guy who got to the interview 6 times before he got thru, you need a bit of luck.

[flyonthewall]

4X over 7yrs

[Sammy]

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[BT085]

4X over 7yrs

of those 4 times- did u make the interview every time?

[pumprescue]

I know someone that got through on try number 10, got to the interview every time, so not sure what made number 10 work, but it happens.

This was over many years.

[flyonthewall]

Posted by: BT085 

Quote from: flyonthewall on June 03, 2011, 01:52:57 PM
4X over 7yrs

of those 4 times- did u make the interview every time?

No

[Monger]

Well, how did the interviews go? Come out thinking "How the hell are they gonna compare and rank us from that?"

[gasman]

All very quiet in here all of a sudden.......

[Gfoss]

Should change the name of this to NON RECRUITMENT 2011 cause the only people posting are the ones that didnt make it.... like me!!!  :-D

[mikey]

Well, how did the interviews go? Come out thinking "How the filtered are they gonna compare and rank us from that?"

Not well! I couldn't sleep the night before so walked into the interview dog tired. Interview was over in 35 minutes so felt like I did not give enough detail in my answers and felt a little under prepared.  I would say detailed and conscise answers would play a big part in the ranking.  Will be surprised if I make it through but good experience none the less.

[crossy]

What sort of Questions did they ask you mikey?