Join the FireRECRUITER live via the Internet on Wednesday-March 10, 2010 at 8pm ET at FirefighterNetcast.com for a conversation discussing the challenges of today’s fire service in recruiting and retaining volunteers.
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[...] It’s in the trenches of every community, every volunteer fire department, where the hand-to-hand combat of recruitment and retention takes place. This is where, armed with the proper ammunition (marketing resources), it’s always up to the local fire service to leverage the awareness created by the more global clearinghouse to maximize the effectiveness of their efforts. This is the tough, grunt work of R&R and it’s work that no one else can do for them. Often, to be successful in the trenches, we have to overcome very real perception, process, personal and leadership issues. These are the difficult challenges of real leadership. [...]