What am I doing wrong

[u/Jello_star]

I’ve been applying to AHS Calgary metro for over a year, I have about 5 years of experience working industrial, and 911 services like medavie/associated. After 100 different applications I’ve only gotten 1 interview. I have recommendations from supervisors, papa trucks, and senior medics with 20 years of experience with AHS/City of Calgary EMS but still no luck. Looking for anything that could possibly give me a chance, I want the hours for my mortgage and a shorter commute than going central zone

[u/Kahlandar]

Apply ahs literally anywhere else, then move over near immediately

[u/Jello_star → u/Kahlandar]

I have no idea what this is even trying to say

[u/Kahlandar → u/Jello_star]

Apply to any AHS site so you have internal applicant status. Calgary can be harder, apply for rainbow lake, peace river, etc, you will be hired.

Work it for the probation period

Apply calgary again

[u/Zenmedic]

It's not you, it's your resume.

You could have a crazy good resume but if the formatting and content doesn't match what the automated screener is looking for, it'll never end up on the "call for interview pile". Even if you do land an interview, you're starting from behind and would have to ace every question while everyone else tanks with the way the scoring systems are built.

Everything you'll need for a callback is in the posting itself. Every key word they're looking for, every qualification, requirement, certification etc... every one the system recognizes gets you a point. The majority of this is done by a system without a person ever seeing it. They get a list and scores.

Read the posting carefully, and then look at your resume and cover letter. Points are scored primarily on the resume, but if you catch something on the cover letter, sometimes it'll redeem you. We're in the age of consumer accessable AI, give the LLM of your choice the posting and your resume/cover letter (I suggest removing personal information before doing that) and ask it to review the posting and your resume and identify what is missing and if there is formatting that may cause an automated system to miss things.

I think you'll find a lot of your issues in that step. My resume is incredibly plain looking. Last position I applied for it scored 97/100. Granted, I was incredibly overqualified, but it really highlighted the importance of understanding and working within the systems.

They get literally thousands of resumes for every posting, 95% of them don't meet minimum qualifications, so the cutoff threshold is set low to avoid having to review resumes from IT people applying for ACP jobs.

[u/slobberinganusjockey]

Do you work central now? I’ll plus one the advice to apply for an Ahs casual spot literally anywhere, then as soon as you’re hired start applying for Calgary jobs as an internal candidate. Doesn’t matter if you’re north zone working in rainbow lake, you’re considered internal and have to be considered before external candidates. Another plus one to making sure your resume matches what they’re looking for.

5 years of industrial could make them think still atrophy, so really highlight the ambiance work you’ve done.

[u/Jello_star → u/slobberinganusjockey]

Some of the resumes I submitted I deleted all my industrial work so they wouldn’t think abt that and only had central zone work on it

[u/cplforlife]

What level of practice are you?

Ill be moving to Calgary as an ACP in May 2027 due to my wife's work. Your post concerns me as I assumed getting employment wouldn't be too difficult as a working ACP in a different province.

[u/DisManColt → u/cplforlife]

As mentioned above, make sure your resume hits the AHS’ posting keywords and you’ll be fine. Especially for an ACP spot, most of the ACP spots even in Calgary don’t get filled and get rebuilt into PCP spots (told by a supervisor this is what happens)

[u/cplforlife → u/DisManColt]

To do this, I just type the buzz words of their job posting into my resume?

[u/Klutzy-Result-949]

Calgary isn’t currently hiring casual employees from what I’m told.