{"id":106604,"date":"2011-06-17T12:33:30","date_gmt":"2011-06-17T07:33:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.epress.am\/?p=106604"},"modified":"2011-06-17T12:33:30","modified_gmt":"2011-06-17T07:33:30","slug":"glendale-fire-department-should-recruit-more-armenians-to-reflect-local-community-council-member","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/2011\/06\/17\/glendale-fire-department-should-recruit-more-armenians-to-reflect-local-community-council-member.html","title":{"rendered":"Glendale Fire Department Should Recruit More Armenians to Reflect Local Community: Council Member"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Glendale fire officials plan to develop a recruitment strategy to diversify their ranks and make it easier for existing personnel to be promoted from within and stay with the agency, reports the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.glendalenewspress.com\/news\/tn-gnp-fire-department-working-on-recruitment-practices-20110616,0,1657732.story\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong>Glendale News-Presse<\/strong><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the five-year strategic plan, officials will create a recruitment committee to identify the city\u2019s demographics and develop methods for hiring applicants who reflect those ethnic categories.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe understand the challenges that we face with recruitment,\u201d Fire Chief Harold Scoggins said recently at a City Hall budget session meeting. \u201cWe know the community is paying attention to it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Member of Glendale City Council Rafi Manoukian raised concerns at the meeting about the department\u2019s recruitment process, saying former Glendale Fire Chief Christopher Gray had assured him 10 years ago that recruitment efforts would generate more Armenian-American firefighters to reflect the local community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTen years later, the result is zero,\u201d Manoukian said. \u201cNothing is there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Scoggins said the department has made progress, recruiting one woman and four Armenian-American firefighters within the last decade.<\/p>\n<p>And about 40% of the hires were from a variety of ethnic backgrounds, including African, Armenian and Korean Americans, Scoggins said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think the programs are yielding results,\u201d he said. \u201cBut they are not just yielding results for Armenian Americans; they are yielding results from a number of different backgrounds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The recruitment strategy is one of eight goals identified in the department\u2019s strategic plan.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWe understand the challenges that we face with recruitment,\u201d Fire Chief Harold Scoggins said recently at a&#8230;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":106559,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tstyn_error":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[28392,28391,28393,28394],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106604"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epress.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}