Summary
An online hiring effort, called the Fire Integrated Recruitment and Employment System, began as a project for the Bureau of Land Management in 2000. Interior's four firefighting agencies - the Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of Indian Affairs, Fish and Wildlife Service, and National Park Service - standardized their position descriptions and conducted an interagency pilot test two years ago. The system remains a work in progress, however. In the first years of its use, fire management officer Chuck Russell says, he received long lists of applicants only to find that many weren't qualified. Now he has the opposite problem - the screening process leaves out some good candidates.
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Chuck Russell never had to recruit seasonal firefighters without the help of the Internet. But the fire management officer with the Interior Department...
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