400 Apply for 7 Openings at Montclair Fire Department
The Montclair Police Department will also be giving its first promotional test in seven years, costing the township $69,900.
When the Montclair Fire Department announced it had handful of openings to fill, it only took a day and a half for 400 people to apply. The applicants will compete for seven probationary firefighters positions at the fire department. Director of Human Resources Katherine Dougher Berning said the department has been losing firefighters to retirement during the past few years, which has slimmed the force down to 82. “We hadn’t had openings for a while,” said Berning. The township began taking applications on Friday morning, March 1. By 11 a.m. Monday, Berning said the 400 limit was reached and applicants that came afterwords had to be turned away. The entrance level test will be given April 13 and then the applicants will go through a …
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1:13 pm on Wednesday, April 10, 2013
@Ride164 I could not agree with you more, a lot of people like to assume that people's intentions are motivated by money and money alone. I can not confidently say that out of the 400 there is not a single person that applied for the exam because they want to bring in a nice yearly salary or the medical benefits. There will always be at least one person pursuing this kind of position for only … more ›