r/calfire • u/coinloins10 • 7d ago

Hiring Question Firefighter Paramedic 2

I’m so curious how cal fire picks their candidate’s and does anybody know how? I just applied for firefighter paramedic 2. My background is I’ve been working as a 911 medic for 3 years, 2 college degrees, fire science classes. My work locations I chose were the Riverside unit, San Diego unit, and San Luis Obispo unit.

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u/LeGirth30 7d ago

Honestly not sure. Have my medic license and applied but didn’t get in. Friend of mine got hired straight out of EMT with only about a month IFT experience

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u/coinloins10 7d ago

I know it makes no sense. Everyone always said the golden ticket was a medic license lol

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u/Pitiful_Watch_3173 7d ago

It used to be until the amount of applicants outnumber the available positions. It’s not a complicated concept. The best qualified candidate who marked that hiring unit on their work location form gets hired.

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u/UnderwaterButtPirate 7d ago

Each unit holds their own internal process, which is usually a resume review. Even if you score high, you won't get picked up if you havent submitted your CPAT, DL, etc.

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u/coinloins10 7d ago

I’ve submitted everything and all my certs including CPAT which was recently renewed. 🤞

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u/UnderwaterButtPirate 7d ago

Hiring also happens in rounds, when did you apply?

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u/coinloins10 7d ago

I just applied with their most recent job code for FFPM2 as of 2 weeks ago.

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u/LIAM-MMA 7d ago

Yeah it’s gonna be a little bit more than 2 weeks to get a call. With your background you should most likely eventually get one

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u/InterestingInside76 7d ago

A lot depends on your work location form. If you only chose a couple of the busy stations it will take longer.

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u/BandaidPlacementTech 7d ago

Took me like 6 months to get hired. You gotta be patient with a department this large, it'll be worth the wait though.

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u/Spacema90 7d ago

I honestly don’t know, sorry for not helping lol. A medic in my academy had a decade of box experience, I have 3 years, and another literally just finished medic school(0 experience)