"The video-based test is easy to administer and it progresses at a very comfortable pace for the testee. Testing modules and instructions are explained in a clear and concise manner. Ergometrics has always been helpful and easy to work with; they are very responsive to our inquiries and requests and always a speedy turn around on results."
Niki Coleman - Human Resources Director
Parker Fire Department
FireTEAM Entry Level Video Test
FireTEAM is a video-based testing system that assesses critical skills necessary to be a firefighter and includes the often overlooked content areas of teamwork and human relations as well as mechanical aptitude, reading ability and basic math skills. FireTEAM can help identify candidate strengths and weaknesses before they are hired or even brought into the interview process, savings tens of thousands of dollars in recruitment, turnover, management problems and potential liability.
Benefits include:
Candidate dimensional rating on score report.
Ergometrics' Tests are Fair, with lower adverse impact.
Content and criterion validation show a high correlation between scoring well on Ergometrics' tests and on the job success.
FireTEAM is a video-based testing system that assesses critical skills necessary to be a firefighter and includes the often overlooked content areas of teamwork and human relations as well as mechanical aptitude, reading ability and basic math skills. FireTEAM can help identify candidate strengths and weaknesses before they are hired or even brought into the interview process, savings tens of thousands of dollars in recruitment, turnover, management problems and potential liability.
Benefits include:
- Measuring Cognitive and Teamwork Skills
- Identifying Top Candidates in the First Phase of Testing
- Easy Administration
- Two-Day Scoring Turnaround
- Dimensional Score Reports
- Reduced Cost and Hiring Time
- Lower Adverse Impact
- FireTEAM Human Relations Video Test
- FireTEAM Mechanical Reasoning Test
- FireTEAM Reading Test
- FireTEAM Math Test
- Abrasive
- Passive
- Authoritarian
- Inconsiderate
- Self-Focused
- Work Avoidant
- Problems with Management
- Adds Tension to the Team
- Low Tolerance for Others
- Mechanical Reasoning
- Systems Analysis
- Observation & Analysis
- Reading Level
- Math
Candidate dimensional rating on score report.
Ergometrics' Tests are Fair, with lower adverse impact.
Content and criterion validation show a high correlation between scoring well on Ergometrics' tests and on the job success.
FireTEAM Assessment Centers
FireTEAM Assessment Centers are tailored to your department's unique promotional needs. Select from a bank of sophisticated exercises and interview questions or request professionally designed custom materials. Ergometrics has experience in developing assessment centers for the ranks of Lieutenant through Chief.
FireTEAM Assessment Center elements commonly include:
Past behavior is the best predictor of future performance. To capture this important information, Ergometrics has developed an optional component for the promotional process. This consists of detailed comparisons of candidate performance in the department to date. We provide standardized rating tools to compare candidates on 15 important dimensions of supervision and management. Our consultants facilitate the entire process, assuring accuracy, fairness, and professionalism. This unique performance review element strongly enhances the predictive accuracy and real world relevance of your promotional process.
Select Group Evaluation
In this process, each candidate is compared with all other candidates in terms of their impact on the department thus far and their ability to function as a role model to others. Officers who are familiar with the performance of each candidate complete the evaluations separately and confidentially. Areas evaluated for first level supervisors include communication style, maturity in stressful situations, interrogative/investigative communication, initiative in handling and resolving situations, officer safety orientation, sensitivity to diverse groups, situational assessment and analysis, relations with supervisors and management, relations with co-workers, work habits, professional behavior and bearing, paperwork, persistence in learning and keeping up-to-date, physical skills, driving skills and over all job performance.
FireTEAM Assessment Centers are tailored to your department's unique promotional needs. Select from a bank of sophisticated exercises and interview questions or request professionally designed custom materials. Ergometrics has experience in developing assessment centers for the ranks of Lieutenant through Chief.
FireTEAM Assessment Center elements commonly include:
- Interview questions
- Oral presentations
- Role plays
- Video scenario questions
- Writing samples
- Written tests
Past behavior is the best predictor of future performance. To capture this important information, Ergometrics has developed an optional component for the promotional process. This consists of detailed comparisons of candidate performance in the department to date. We provide standardized rating tools to compare candidates on 15 important dimensions of supervision and management. Our consultants facilitate the entire process, assuring accuracy, fairness, and professionalism. This unique performance review element strongly enhances the predictive accuracy and real world relevance of your promotional process.
Select Group Evaluation
In this process, each candidate is compared with all other candidates in terms of their impact on the department thus far and their ability to function as a role model to others. Officers who are familiar with the performance of each candidate complete the evaluations separately and confidentially. Areas evaluated for first level supervisors include communication style, maturity in stressful situations, interrogative/investigative communication, initiative in handling and resolving situations, officer safety orientation, sensitivity to diverse groups, situational assessment and analysis, relations with supervisors and management, relations with co-workers, work habits, professional behavior and bearing, paperwork, persistence in learning and keeping up-to-date, physical skills, driving skills and over all job performance.
FireTEAM Interview
FireTEAM Interview is an entry level interview designed to provide information helpful in understanding how candidates may fit in with the station environment. This is an area that can be a major problem for some candidates and hard for supervisors to remedy if the candidate is hired. The FireTEAM Interview is centered around dimensions found in FireTEAM: Entry Level Test. The dimensional results a department receives from FireTEAM can be used as a guide in selecting the most appropriate and informative questions for each candidate. The FireTEAM Interview provides interviewers with detailed positive and negative behavioral indicators for each dimension, as well as specific questions focused on each dimension.
FireTEAM Interview is an entry level interview designed to provide information helpful in understanding how candidates may fit in with the station environment. This is an area that can be a major problem for some candidates and hard for supervisors to remedy if the candidate is hired. The FireTEAM Interview is centered around dimensions found in FireTEAM: Entry Level Test. The dimensional results a department receives from FireTEAM can be used as a guide in selecting the most appropriate and informative questions for each candidate. The FireTEAM Interview provides interviewers with detailed positive and negative behavioral indicators for each dimension, as well as specific questions focused on each dimension.
FireTEAM PROMOTIONAL EXAMS
FireTEAM Promote
Promotional Solutions
FireTEAM PROMOTE Measures:
Custom tests can be created for all promotional levels from Driver-Operator to Fire Chief.
Client Map
FireTEAM Promote
- Video-Based Exams
- Book Tests
- Custom Exams
- Lieutenant
- Captain
- Battalion Chief
Promotional Solutions
FireTEAM PROMOTE Measures:
- Managing Staff Performance
- Managing Difficult Employees
- Managing Conflict
- Staff Development/Delegation
- Interpersonal Relations
- Communication Skills
- Management Relations
- Integrity
- Managing Change
- Resource Management
- Written Tests
- Video Tests
- Performance Comparisons
- Assessment Center
- Candidate Preparation Materials
- Full Process Consultation
Custom tests can be created for all promotional levels from Driver-Operator to Fire Chief.
Client Map
"We are a small department and recently went through our first level entry hiring process. We were concerned about the correct type of testing to use for teamwork and public relation skills, areas that we feel are important. . ERGOMETRICS was recommended to me by an officer of a neighboring department. I contacted them and the rest was easy. The content of the test matched our criteria, the cost fit our budget, the customer service was great and the test was very easy to administer. We were completely satisfied with ERGOMETRICS and will be using them for our next hiring process."
James Pogue,Chief
Liberty Hill Fire
"I just wanted to commend you and your company on the excellent results we have received from your FireTEAM testing. We have found that the testing results are identical to our interviewers results and has given us a valuable tool to validate our hiring procedures. I would also like to thank you for the prompt attention that you and your staff provides us. We look forward to utilizing other tests as they become available."
David M. Hughes, Lt./EMT-P
Training - Safety Officer
City of Schertz Fire Department
"Things are going well here. We have hired the first three people from the new hiring list. They are very good individuals and will make excellent additions to our team. We also have extended conditional offers to three others, who I am just as confident with.
The testing process produced the results we were hoping for. I appreciate how easy Ergometrics has been to work with. You have a great product and we are looking forward to our continued use of your tests!"
Bill Bowes - Fire Chief
Papillion Fire Department
Nebraska
"Helena Fire Department has been using FireTEAM Testing for several years now. Prior to that we had used a variety of instruments and processes to try to determine before we made a job offer, how well an individual would fit in our organization. We were not really satisfied with any of them. Then we happened upon FireTEAM Testing.
We have found the ratings in the various performance dimensions to be very helpful. With each candidate, we focus on those areas where the FireTEAM evaluation indicates there is possibly a reason for concern. We give the candidate an opportunity to respond to the dimension ratings and we ask follow-up questions. Using those ratings we are able to tailor our interview questions to elicit a more in-depth response from our new-hire candidates. We have found the ratings in the performance dimensions to be a very good indicator of individual tendencies. The FireTEAM test has allowed us to select some very highly ranked candidates who turned out to be valuable, productive employees. FireTEAM Testing results have proved to be a very good indicator for us when trying to determine organizational "fit"!"
Steve Larson, Fire Chief
JR Feucht, Assistant Chief of Operations
Helena Fire Department, Montana
"The Caldwell Fire Department has used many of the "canned" entry level tests available on the market with little success. In the spring of 2006, Caldwell Fire was introduced to Ergometrics. Now we receive a profile of the candidate strengths and weakness as part of the entry level test. We have use the FireTEAM entry level test and have found it to be very beneficial. It was very interesting to see people we knew take the test and see how accurately the test would identify a candidate's strengths and weaknesses. Now as we assign the new candidate to their first company officer, we are able to match the candidate's profile with the office that will allow for the candidate to succeed. We are looking forward to using the Captain's and Battalion Chief's exams this spring in our promotional process." Mark Wendelsdorf
Fire Chief
Caldwell Fire Department
James Pogue,Chief
Liberty Hill Fire
"I just wanted to commend you and your company on the excellent results we have received from your FireTEAM testing. We have found that the testing results are identical to our interviewers results and has given us a valuable tool to validate our hiring procedures. I would also like to thank you for the prompt attention that you and your staff provides us. We look forward to utilizing other tests as they become available."
David M. Hughes, Lt./EMT-P
Training - Safety Officer
City of Schertz Fire Department
"Things are going well here. We have hired the first three people from the new hiring list. They are very good individuals and will make excellent additions to our team. We also have extended conditional offers to three others, who I am just as confident with.
The testing process produced the results we were hoping for. I appreciate how easy Ergometrics has been to work with. You have a great product and we are looking forward to our continued use of your tests!"
Bill Bowes - Fire Chief
Papillion Fire Department
Nebraska
"Helena Fire Department has been using FireTEAM Testing for several years now. Prior to that we had used a variety of instruments and processes to try to determine before we made a job offer, how well an individual would fit in our organization. We were not really satisfied with any of them. Then we happened upon FireTEAM Testing.
We have found the ratings in the various performance dimensions to be very helpful. With each candidate, we focus on those areas where the FireTEAM evaluation indicates there is possibly a reason for concern. We give the candidate an opportunity to respond to the dimension ratings and we ask follow-up questions. Using those ratings we are able to tailor our interview questions to elicit a more in-depth response from our new-hire candidates. We have found the ratings in the performance dimensions to be a very good indicator of individual tendencies. The FireTEAM test has allowed us to select some very highly ranked candidates who turned out to be valuable, productive employees. FireTEAM Testing results have proved to be a very good indicator for us when trying to determine organizational "fit"!"
Steve Larson, Fire Chief
JR Feucht, Assistant Chief of Operations
Helena Fire Department, Montana
"The Caldwell Fire Department has used many of the "canned" entry level tests available on the market with little success. In the spring of 2006, Caldwell Fire was introduced to Ergometrics. Now we receive a profile of the candidate strengths and weakness as part of the entry level test. We have use the FireTEAM entry level test and have found it to be very beneficial. It was very interesting to see people we knew take the test and see how accurately the test would identify a candidate's strengths and weaknesses. Now as we assign the new candidate to their first company officer, we are able to match the candidate's profile with the office that will allow for the candidate to succeed. We are looking forward to using the Captain's and Battalion Chief's exams this spring in our promotional process." Mark Wendelsdorf
Fire Chief
Caldwell Fire Department
FireTEAM Training
FireTEAM Training addresses common problem areas that arise in a fire station, with a primary focus on teamwork. Fire department managers express frustration with the lack of quality training materials geared toward the unique working and living circumstances experienced by firefighters.
FireTEAM Training is the solution!
The Living and Working Together training module reliably provides standards and expectations for station behavior including topics that trainers and supervisors may feel uncomfortable addressing. The videos, discussion and exercises help both experienced and new firefighters become as competent in team relations as they are in fire fighting methods and procedures.
FireTEAM Training starts new firefighters out on the right foot so expectations are clear and learning is not through embarrassing mistakes.
The FireTEAM Training program focuses on internal relations, including:
Catalog Chapter PDF 2.5 megs
FireTEAM Training addresses common problem areas that arise in a fire station, with a primary focus on teamwork. Fire department managers express frustration with the lack of quality training materials geared toward the unique working and living circumstances experienced by firefighters.
FireTEAM Training is the solution!
The Living and Working Together training module reliably provides standards and expectations for station behavior including topics that trainers and supervisors may feel uncomfortable addressing. The videos, discussion and exercises help both experienced and new firefighters become as competent in team relations as they are in fire fighting methods and procedures.
FireTEAM Training starts new firefighters out on the right foot so expectations are clear and learning is not through embarrassing mistakes.
The FireTEAM Training program focuses on internal relations, including:
- Chore Initiative and Making Our Own Reputation
- Doing Your Part to Strengthen the Team
- Living Together and Being Considerate
- Addressing Problems with Each Other
- Station Banter: Making Friends, Not Enemies
Catalog Chapter PDF 2.5 megs
FireTEAM Performance Evaluation System
The FireTEAM Performance Evaluation System ties directly into important job dimensions assessed in the FireTEAM entry level and promotional exams. Performance evaluations are available for the following ranks:
Following are just a few examples of the many performance dimensions that are included in our standard performance evaluations:
The FireTEAM Performance Evaluation System is ready for immediate implementation in most departments. However, Ergometrics is also ready to assist any department preferring to review and customize any of the performance evaluation forms. We offer implementation advice, assistance with customization and training for supervisors. Please contact us to discuss your specific needs.
The FireTEAM Performance Evaluation System ties directly into important job dimensions assessed in the FireTEAM entry level and promotional exams. Performance evaluations are available for the following ranks:
- Probationary Firefighter
- Firefighter
- Driver Engineer/Apparatus Operator
- Lieutenant
- Captain
- Battalion Chief
- Assistant Chif
- Deputy Chief
- Fire Chief
Following are just a few examples of the many performance dimensions that are included in our standard performance evaluations:
- Tactical Problem Solving, Adapting and Improvising
- Behavior in Difficult Situations
- Teamwork
- Drill Performance
- Persistence in Learning
- Relations with Supervisors and Management
- Living Congenially in a Station Environment
The FireTEAM Performance Evaluation System is ready for immediate implementation in most departments. However, Ergometrics is also ready to assist any department preferring to review and customize any of the performance evaluation forms. We offer implementation advice, assistance with customization and training for supervisors. Please contact us to discuss your specific needs.
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Diagnosed with a brain tumor, firefighter Mark Noble, Olympia, Washington, studied all the information he could find about firefighters and cancer. Fire Department Chief of Operations Pat Dale arranged for Mark to sit for this interview with Ergometrics.
Inspired by Mark Noble to do our part to spread the word, we at Ergometrics have created this video of his interview. The video contains important information about firefighters and cancer including specific suggestions for steps that firefighters can take to reduce their risks on-the-job.