Fire Training Center: Career Readiness
The Fire Training Center provides support for its cadets during and after the fire academy.
Our mission is to provide those seeking fire service careers with the basic certifications and skills needed to gain employment with a structural or wild lands firefighting agency.
Our staff is comprised of active or retired firefighters with knowledge of the skills and certifications necessary to gain employment with the fire service.
We are a part of a twenty-two member consortium of fire departments state wide that looks to us to provide quality well trained individuals as possible recruits for their departments.
We work with our sources outside of the state to place our graduates in regional structural fire departments. In addition we train our recruits in wild lands firefighting to increase their employment opportunities and ensure they are eligible for employment with state and federal firefighting agencies.
The Fire Training Center will not guarantee placement, the academic performance self motivation and career seeking persistence of each cadet will determine the ultimate success of securing employment.
Career assistance
How we help our graduates:
- Resume development
- Public speaking training
- Interview techniques training
- Job listings
In addition our academy mentor is available to our graduates at any time to answer questions, offer advice or suggest further training that may help our graduates obtain the position they desire in the fire service.
Career fields after graduation
Upon graduation of the fire academy a cadet has a variety of career paths to choose from. Here are just a few possibilities available to you.
- Structural firefighter
- Wild lands firefighter state or federal
- Emergency medical service (Ambulance Service)
- ER Technician (Medical support staff for nurses and doctors in a hospital environment)