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Recommendations for improving the recruiting and hiring of Los Angeles firefighters /

In 2014, the City of Los Angeles Mayor's Office sought assistance from the RAND Corporation to find ways to improve the process the city uses to hire firefighters into the Los Angeles Fire Department. RAND conducted a three-month review of Los Angeles's firefighter hiring policies and prac...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hardison, Chaitra M.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 2015.
Colección:Research report (Rand Corporation) ; RR-687-LAFD.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • Firefighter recruitment and outreach strategies
  • The 2013 firefighter selection process
  • Statistical analysis of the selection process
  • Recommendations
  • Appendix A. Key considerations in evaluating the selection process
  • Appendix B. Defining critical firefighter tasks, knowledge, skills, abilities, and other characteristics
  • Appendix C. Outsourcing the written test for entry-level firefighters
  • Appendix D. The impact of change variability in simple random sampling
  • Appendix E. Mathematics and examples of key considerations for stratified sampling.