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This book is the perfect companion to other oral board preparation books which provide lots of practice questions. I will focus on the concepts behind the best answers, and how to apply proven systematic structures to your answers. Keep those other books you have, so you can go through them again AFTER learning the methods presented here.
What you'll find in this book is really the end result of all my efforts to help my close friends get jobs as law enforcement officers. After I had taken enough police tests to figure out what departments were really looking for, I was able to start coaching my friends when they began testing. I had been hired with one of the largest law enforcement agencies in the state, so I set about documenting all the tips and strategies I knew about the police testing process. I wrote down everything I could think of that could help them get that extra edge.
The chapters are laid out as follows:
•About This Book
•Author Biography
•Chapter 1 – Oral Boards
•Chapter 2 – The 20 Most Common Oral Board Questions
•Chapter 3 – Concepts You Need to Know
•Chapter 4 – Priorities for Answering Situational Questions
•Chapter 5 – How to Explain Mistakes in Your Past
•Chapter 6 – Phone Interview Tips
•Chapter 7 – Written Exam Techniques
•Chapter 8 – Written Exam Types: Multiple-Choice Questions
•Chapter 9 – Written Exam Types: True or False Questions
•Chapter 10 – Written Exam Types: Fill-in-the-Blank Questions
•Chapter 11 – Written Exam Types: Reading Comprehension Questions
•Chapter 12 – Written Exam Types: Spelling Questions
•Chapter 13 – Written Exam Types: Essay Questions
•Chapter 14 – Application Tips
•Appendix A – Expanded List of Common Interview Questions
•Appendix B – Homonyms
•Appendix C – Law Enforcement Spelling and Vocabulary List
This collection of tips and techniques has been used by several of my friends over the years to get jobs in public service. Most of these principles will directly apply to the interview processes for firefighting and other emergency services positions. I have personally coached many of my friends and family to get them ready for interviews of all kinds. I know that this stuff works.
I am about to start my 15th year of service as a law enforcement officer. I've served as a Field Training Officer and a Police Academy instructor. I’m cross-trained as a fully-certified firefighter and emergency medical technician. I also own a training/consulting business where I teach skills specific to emergency services.
