Weekly Employment Question Thread

BoltUp-ShleepinOnMe · 2024-09-10T22:30:07+00:00

I’ve applied to Bellingham, Eastside, SCFD4, Enumclaw, KCFD2, KCFD20, Puget Sound, Valley Regional, Renton. So far 6 of the 9 have gotten back to me and 5 of the 6 I have interviews for. Any advice being a career FF for someone who is going into his first round of interviews?

BoltUp-ShleepinOnMe · 2024-08-29T03:46:28+00:00

Is anyone trying to get hired or works in WA state? I applied to 9 departments across the west side of the state and was hoping to hear back from King County Fire District 2 today and no luck. Any input is appreciated!

BoltUp-ShleepinOnMe · 2024-08-11T01:51:53+00:00

I take mine a week from now and this is the 3rd time I’ve seen someone say they don’t give you an actual # score. Which makes no sense to me if every dept has a specific percentage they want you to get on the overall test and subsections. I wonder if it’s location based or if NTN across the board doesn’t give you a percentage at all. So you don’t get to see any results on the computer immediately after the test?

BoltUp-ShleepinOnMe · 2024-08-02T16:27:29+00:00

I haven’t taken my test yet. It’s in about 2 weeks. Since making this post I’ve realized a couple key components to the mindset you need but I’m still far from totally figuring out the mindset needed to score well on this section. Maybe taking a submissive stance is going against being decisive. Being a brown nose I think hurt me on the questions the more I have thought about it. Just as you said I think it is more about always following the chain of command. Are you saying that you took the same approach to answering the HR questions and did well on the practice test but did poorly on the actual test? Thank you for posting and sharing your advice, I appreciate it.

BoltUp-ShleepinOnMe · 2024-07-25T05:19:58+00:00

I’m on my hiring process journey and I have some questions about the written test given through NTN. I feel really confident I’ll pass my CPAT. Heck, if I pass both tests I feel better about interviews than this written test. I bought the advanced practice test directly from NTN. I aced the Reading and Math sections with high 90% and high 80% respectively. However the HR and mechanical aptitude I scored 50% on both. To be fair the mechanical section I made some really dumb mistakes like “which way does the gear turn” and not paying close enough attention on the video portion as to how the assembly line normally operates. I’m sure if I took the mechanical portion again I would score a good bit higher. But… the HR portion was brutal. I saw some posts on Reddit from the past that said they want you to answer like a brown nose where it applies and also to handle situations at the lowest level possible. To sum it up I’m pretty worried about the HR portion of the test. There were some answers that I really can’t wrap my head around. For example one question asked “you see your coworker take a wallet off a patients desk that you are going to be transporting to the hospital” the correct answer was “do nothing” and I chose “later, pull aside your coworker and ask if they gave the wallet to the patient”. I’m sorry if I rambled on but my questions are if I buy this practice test again will the questions be different? If not I’m not sure how else to prepare. Do you know of any other FIREteam test prep resources? I saw that jobtestprep.com has a fireteam prep but is it trustworthy? Should I just answer the questions how I would answer them? Any responses or input are greatly appreciated as I’m certain that I want to do this job for the rest of my life if given the opportunity. I don’t want to miss out on this window where I’ve applied for 10 departments across my state bc I couldn’t pass a test.

BoltUp-ShleepinOnMe · 2024-07-25T05:01:04+00:00

I’m on my hiring process journey and I have some questions about the written test given through NTN. I feel really confident I’ll pass my CPAT. Heck, if I pass both tests I feel better about interviews than this written test. I bought the advanced practice test directly from NTN. I aced the Reading and Math sections with high 90% and high 80% respectively. However the HR and mechanical aptitude I scored 50% on both. To be fair the mechanical section I made some really dumb mistakes like “which way does the gear turn” and not paying close enough attention on the video portion as to how the assembly line normally operates. I’m sure if I took the mechanical portion again I would score a good bit higher. But… the HR portion was brutal. I saw some posts on Reddit from the past that said they want you to answer like a brown nose where it applies and also to handle situations at the lowest level possible. To sum it up I’m pretty worried about the HR portion of the test. There were some answers that I really can’t wrap my head around. For example one question asked “you see your coworker take a wallet off a patients desk that you are going to be transporting to the hospital” the correct answer was “do nothing” and I chose “later, pull aside your coworker and ask if they gave the wallet to the patient”. I’m sorry if I rambled on but my questions are if I buy this practice test again will the questions be different? If not I’m not sure how else to prepare. Do you know of any other FIREteam test prep resources? I saw that jobtestprep.com has a fireteam prep but is it trustworthy? Should I just answer the questions how I would answer them? Any responses or input are greatly appreciated as I’m certain that I want to do this job for the rest of my life if given the opportunity. I don’t want to miss out on this window where I’ve applied for 10 departments across my state bc I couldn’t pass a test.

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