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		<title>Invest in your youth. Invest in your future.</title>
		<link>https://www.firerecruiter.com/2023/01/30/invest-in-your-youth-invest-in-your-future/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2023 16:21:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[You may never know the impact of your investing in young people, but one thing is for sure, what the outcomes may continue to be if we don&#8217;t try. A recent article out of Wisconsin highlights a high school fire service prep program that is paying dividends for the participants and the departments they&#8217;ll go ...]]></description>
		
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		<title>PRO-TIP: Focus</title>
		<link>https://www.firerecruiter.com/2023/01/03/pro-tip-focus/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jan 2023 17:44:17 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s a new year and a new opportunity to re-align our focus and our commitment to volunteer enlistment. This is the question I ask at the start of every presentation, class or simply conversations with others as passionate about the survival and success of the volunteer fire service as I am. If you&#8217;re not focused ...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Breaking It Down: New Member Announcement</title>
		<link>https://www.firerecruiter.com/2019/10/16/breaking-it-down-new-member-announcement/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Oct 2019 23:11:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Keeping with my theme of &#8220;Treat every public interaction as a public service, public education, public relations, AND a recruitment opportunity,&#8221; a new member announcement can have a positive impact on your recruitment and retention efforts. Young Blood: Newton Abbott Captain Josh Taylor at a recent fire in Orchard Park NY. ©2011 FireRECRUITER.com Let&#8217;s break ...]]></description>
		
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		<title>NEW RECRUITS: Buyer Beware!</title>
		<link>https://www.firerecruiter.com/2019/09/05/new-recruits-buyer-beware/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Sep 2019 19:41:47 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In my recruitment and retention related conversations and classes, I ask the pointed question: &#8220;What takes longer, getting good people into your fire department &#8212; or getting the bad ones the heck out?&#8221; Almost everyone acknowledges the latter response with a head nod, nervous chuckle or emphatic GETTING THE BAD ONES THE HECK OUT! Whether ...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Get Schooled on Recruiting High Schoolers</title>
		<link>https://www.firerecruiter.com/2016/11/20/recruit-em-early-and-often/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Nov 2016 02:33:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A recent online message from a firefighter friend prompted me to publish the recruitment insight I shared with him: Hey Tiger, I&#8217;m looking for help with our Recruitment and Retention Efforts . In the past few months we have lost a decent amount of younger members who have moved on in life to college, moving ...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Recruiter/Trainer Dream Job</title>
		<link>https://www.firerecruiter.com/2016/07/18/recruitertrainer-dream-job/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jul 2016 13:23:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Burtonsville Volunteer Fire Department in Montgomery County MD is in search of the right candidate to fill a newly created position of Director of Operations. This busy suburban combination fire department needs someone to fit together several of the moving parts of an organization of their size and level of activity. This is a ...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Recruitment Video of the Week: Perry Hi-Way VFD</title>
		<link>https://www.firerecruiter.com/2015/03/17/recruitment-video-week-perry-hi-way-vfd/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2015 16:45:45 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This week&#8217;s recruitment video review comes from Perry Hi-Way Volunteer Hose Co. in Erie PA. While the video is very professionally done, I&#8217;m concerned with any public outreach that leads with the message that our numbers are dwindling and the reasons people aren&#8217;t volunteering – instead of all the great benefits they should be joining for. Nonetheless, ...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Coordinated Attack!</title>
		<link>https://www.firerecruiter.com/2015/01/11/coordinated-attack/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Jan 2015 05:52:55 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[If you vent too early, oxygen is introduced and the fire can grow. Put water on the fire without proper ventilation and the trapped heat converts the water to steam and everyone&#8217;s survivability is compromised. A coordinated attack is critical not only in firefighting, but in the volunteer firefighter recruitment process too. While many states ...]]></description>
		
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		<title>﻿NVFC Receives SAFER Grant for National Firefighter Recruitment and Retention Campaign</title>
		<link>https://www.firerecruiter.com/2014/04/21/%ef%bb%bfnvfc-receives-safer-grant-national-firefighter-recruitment-retention-campaign/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Apr 2014 12:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[According to an NVFC.org press release, the National Volunteer Fire Council (NVFC) has been awarded a $2,390,479 Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response (SAFER) grant from the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to implement a national volunteer firefighter recruitment and retention campaign. All we can say here at FireRECRUITER.com is: &#8220;It&#8217;s about time!&#8221; although $2.4 ...]]></description>
		
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		<title>CRACKING THE CODE: Xbox™ Firefighters 14/04.20</title>
		<link>https://www.firerecruiter.com/2014/04/20/cracking-code-xbox-firefighters-1404-20/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2014 12:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In his article for Fast Company magazine titled: &#8220;4 Tips To Help Millennials Find Meaningful Work&#8220;, Adam Smiley Poswolsky makes the argument that young people want to do work with purpose: &#8220;They call us the lazy generation, the entitled generation, and the “me me me generation.” Based on the young people I know, these stereotypes couldn’t ...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Is reserving a name change right maneuver for volunteer firefighters?</title>
		<link>https://www.firerecruiter.com/2014/04/20/reserving-name-change-right-maneuver-volunteer-firefighters/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2014 04:05:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[While I appreciate that this chief gets the SoldierFirefighter connection, he also thinks Volunteer Firefighters need a name change to put us on par with our partners in the military reserves. What do you think? http://www.firerescue1.com/volunteer/articles/1883831-How-to-rid-fire-service-of-rivalry-with-a-name-change/]]></description>
		
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		<title>Where there&#8217;s smoke&#8230;</title>
		<link>https://www.firerecruiter.com/2014/02/06/where-theres-smoke/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Feb 2014 07:05:36 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Where there&#8217;s smoke&#8230;there&#8217;s a Delaware Volunteer Firefighter! proclaims this web site dedicated to recruiting more for their ranks. Delaware&#8217;s recruitment clearinghouse site does a great job of getting the right information in the hands of the right people by sharing scrolling sections that explain what it means to be a volunteer; and detail both the benefits ...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Orange Beach Creates Resident Firefighter Program</title>
		<link>https://www.firerecruiter.com/2013/11/23/orange-beach-fire-rescue-creates-resident-firefighter-program/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Nov 2013 05:40:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Orange Beach, Alabama&#8217;s Fire Department has gotten creative with a bunk-in program that leads to real career opportunities. While other FDLiveIn.com-like programs may prepare you to take a paid firefighting position in a neighboring fire department, county or state, the Orange Beach approach a step further (or closer to home) to create a farm system for ...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Be a hero, save lives, join LVAC!</title>
		<link>https://www.firerecruiter.com/2013/01/29/be-a-hero-save-lives-join-lvac/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jan 2013 16:14:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrWC9fNAvnU Great job by the Lancaster Volunteer Ambulance Corps (LVAC)  in producing this professional video demonstrating their capabilities and dedication to the community, just in time to celebrate their 60th anniversary of service to the Town of Lancaster and Village of Depew NY. With lots of images of their hard-working team, radio traffic voice overs and ...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Recruit your replacements. Train them well.</title>
		<link>https://www.firerecruiter.com/2013/01/23/recruit-your-replacements-train-them-well/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2013 18:07:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Given the national decline in experience-building fire load (aka-the work we do as firefighters), I&#8217;ve written before about the challenge of today&#8217;s fire service leaders to dig in and invest more in their firefighters than ever before to prepare them for success &#8212; and succession. While my first passion lies in recruiting the brightest and the ...]]></description>
		
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		<title>JOB OP: Senior Editor-FPP</title>
		<link>https://www.firerecruiter.com/2013/01/10/job-op-senior-editor-fpp/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Jan 2013 21:25:54 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[JOB OP: SENIOR EDITOR Senior FPP Editor Fire Protection Publications (FPP), the world&#8217;s leading publisher of high quality and technically accurate fire and emergency services training materials, is accepting applications for the position of FPP Senior Editor. FPP is an extension of the College of Engineering, Architecture, and Technology (CEAT) at Oklahoma State University (OSU) ...]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Hiring Pool is Open &#8211; Leland NC</title>
		<link>https://www.firerecruiter.com/2012/12/21/the-hiring-pool-is-open-leland-nc/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2012 16:02:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Advertisement for Hiring Pool Leland Volunteer Fire/Rescue Department, Inc. is accepting applications for our 2013 hiring pool. This pool of applicants will be used to fill any part-time or full-time hiring that the department may need for 2013. Once the pool is created it will be used for all vacancies in 2013, until all qualified ...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Loudon County VA Hiring</title>
		<link>https://www.firerecruiter.com/2012/12/19/loudon-county-va-hiring/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2012 16:47:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Loudoun County VA has posted a paid Firefighter/EMT recruitment  to their website at: www.loudoun.gov. FIREFIGHTER/EMT Recruitment #13-F136-322 Date Opened: 12/18/2012 8:00:00 AM Closing Date: 1/2/2013 5:00:00 PM Hiring Range: $40,925 Department: FIRE &#38; RESCUE SERVICE Job Type: Open and Competitive Full/Part-Time: Full-Time Eligible For: Full Benefits Schedule: Varies Reg/Temp: Regular ________________________________ INTRODUCTION PLEASE NOTE: An APPLICANT ...]]></description>
		
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		<title>Draft Choices</title>
		<link>https://www.firerecruiter.com/2012/12/15/draft-choices/</link>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[4tigerserie]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Dec 2012 05:50:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Volunteer fire departments, whether they realize it or not, compete for recruits. Sometimes with other volunteer fire departments but most often with a busy home life, other community organizations, volunteering opportunities and a wide array of social activities. What if our recruits, like in college recruiting, were in competition with other recruits wanting to be selected by ...]]></description>
		
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		<title>“VetNet” To Help Military Veterans Re-Enter Civilian Life</title>
		<link>https://www.firerecruiter.com/2012/12/01/vetnet-to-help-military-veterans-re-enter-civilian-life/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 Dec 2012 16:19:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[As we&#8217;ve shared before, recruiting veterans into the volunteer fire service can be a great solution to our staffing challenges. They might just be the perfect candidate as we don’t have to teach them discipline, respect, honor, loyalty, chain-of-command or teamwork. In return we offer the camaraderie, adrenaline rush, teamwork and sense of value that they miss from ...]]></description>
		
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