SA Firefighter

1. 76 candidates being interviewed
2. Mara has left the MFS
3 only 6 retained in the drill squad to take positions at Pt Pirie & Mt Gambier

I spoke to a bloke who knows a bloke who said just over 1000 made it through to the beep test with correct paper work, and the beep tests would start on the 12th January, so we should see our letters soon :?

OK, so now the dust is beginning to settle, has anyone heard or can guess the number of people that have applied?

Definitely no course this year. Possible cab rank by Christmas for course start in early 2015

'They' are the voices in his head. T.M. 33B.
Nothing has been set as yet. the real 'They' are hoping to get something happening soon. The recruit training guys still don't know anything as yet.

The recruitment officers still don't know when things will kick off...

Given that it takes over 30 weeks to make a cab rank, they would have to run simultaneous squads to do more than one this year, which would be more than difficult due to lack of resources (appliances, Brukunga time etc.)

Quote from: FFGAZZ on December 23, 2013, 11:32:05 AM
Last week I was lucky enough to meet a retired MFS firefighter who spent 15 years as an recruitment officer and all the testing is pass/ fail, however due to the large number of people who apply guys are missing out by only .5% in testing by someone who scored better.

If it was a pass/fail how can people miss out by .5%? Wouldn't it have to be graded to have a percentage result?
The only sections that are now graded are the interview and the 'written test' which contains the standard maths, English, etc. questions and the aptitude test which is called psychometric profiling (all part of the one testing evolution).

Quote from: Sammy on December 21, 2013, 07:09:52 PM


What are your thoughts on discrimination towards personality types? I'm unsure how it works, but if you were to get in the top 10% of the aptitude testing, but not receive an invitation to an interview, just because your personality profile doesn't fit.
Does this happen?

What personality type are you worried about being discriminated against?

Quote from: BCrocker on December 21, 2013, 09:30:18 AM

Quote from: aclarky1988 on December 21, 2013, 06:24:04 AM

Thanks mate, Sorry to hear you didn't get in and not good about your back.

Have many people got in first go that you know of? Im going to give it everything I have!!

I got in first try, and of the 19 in my drill squad, 12 were first timers

You are AWESOME!

There used to be a book called "preparing for career selection tests" by Veera Freeman that was excellent for studying, research the samfs organization for if you get to the interview (different departments etc) and make sure you're ready, it's coming soon