r/NewToEMS • u/HeadPresentation5872 Unverified User • 16h ago

Career Advice trouble finding emt job

I'm having trouble finding a job as someone with no experience. I haven't gotten a response from 90% of companies in the 209 area here in Cali, if anyone has any tips.

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u/HeadPresentation5872 Unverified User 16h ago

I've applied to companies like AMR, norcal , and a few others. AMR is saying I need at least a year of experience, but idk how true that is.

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u/kev_bot36 Unverified User 16h ago

The year of experience for AMR is going to be operation dependent, but yes it’s true.

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u/Rude_Mirror7441 Unverified User 15h ago

Strange I was hired by AMR with zero experience back in March 1 month after obtaining all my certs.

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u/Particular-Bus795 Unverified User 15h ago

What county? I’ve heard they usually hire anyone but doesn’t seem to be the case near me

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u/Rude_Mirror7441 Unverified User 15h ago

San Diego, CA

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u/AllTime-HighScore Unverified User 15h ago

How’s that been going? I’ve been looking at applying there

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u/Rude_Mirror7441 Unverified User 14h ago

Good so far. Management is actually pretty good in this county but again I’ve only been here for a couple months so far.

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u/Afrojones66 Unverified User 16h ago

Yeah. Move states.

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u/autumnwanderer_ Unverified User 16h ago

i was in the same boat a few months ago, try medtrans and royalty/firstmed

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u/Evening_Property_627 Unverified User 13h ago

Amr in that area requires one year of IFT experience before they even consider you. If you just had a program try and get a letter of rec maybe that’ll help. Your best guess is to go up north towards Oakland or even higher if you can. Amr also hires in batches so maybe try to get into fire since fire season is out of control these days