I'm an emt who works for a private company for $12 an hour, all I want is a 2nd job (in customer service) paying about the same thing and it doesn't have to be in the health field, put me behind a desk or something, doorman, I don't care.
But I guess its ok for employers to OVERLOOK us EMTs and army veterans after all the hard work we do and the risks we take, just so they can hire some moron with a bachelors or something. Whoopie doo!!! I'm applying for a friggin customer service job, I have 8 years exp of customer service, 2 of which I've been an EMT. All those years should qualify me for any damn customer service job.
ON TOP of that, EMS is a very HIGH level of customer service because we are SAVING LIVES and TREATING PATIENTS. That's much more personal than helping someone get a different shirt size or giving someone their change.
The jobs I applied to all mentioned their compensation in the advertisements, I usually apply to the ones within the $10-$12 an hr range, so I'm already in that range. However, one time I applied for a cust servce rep position that paid $39,000 per year. Now this interviewer knew about all the experience I had in customer service. YET the position goes to someone else. What the heck, did the other person have ***9*** years of experience as opposed to my 8??? LOL.
I guess to them, someone who has experience doing CPR on dying customer is not as important as someone who has experience answering phones and talking to customers. Talk about no respect or recognition, none whatsoever. And you know what? The same crap happens to many war veterans after they come back from fighting. And those guys should get even more recognition than us because they're diving into the line of fire, but nooooooo.....
Maybe from now on, whenever I go to interviews, I should ask them if my experience and my current occupation will go overlooked or not in the hiring process, maybe that will help them open up their eyes and smell the potential candidate.
But I guess its ok for employers to OVERLOOK us EMTs and army veterans after all the hard work we do and the risks we take, just so they can hire some moron with a bachelors or something. Whoopie doo!!! I'm applying for a friggin customer service job, I have 8 years exp of customer service, 2 of which I've been an EMT. All those years should qualify me for any damn customer service job.
ON TOP of that, EMS is a very HIGH level of customer service because we are SAVING LIVES and TREATING PATIENTS. That's much more personal than helping someone get a different shirt size or giving someone their change.
The jobs I applied to all mentioned their compensation in the advertisements, I usually apply to the ones within the $10-$12 an hr range, so I'm already in that range. However, one time I applied for a cust servce rep position that paid $39,000 per year. Now this interviewer knew about all the experience I had in customer service. YET the position goes to someone else. What the heck, did the other person have ***9*** years of experience as opposed to my 8??? LOL.
I guess to them, someone who has experience doing CPR on dying customer is not as important as someone who has experience answering phones and talking to customers. Talk about no respect or recognition, none whatsoever. And you know what? The same crap happens to many war veterans after they come back from fighting. And those guys should get even more recognition than us because they're diving into the line of fire, but nooooooo.....
Maybe from now on, whenever I go to interviews, I should ask them if my experience and my current occupation will go overlooked or not in the hiring process, maybe that will help them open up their eyes and smell the potential candidate.