Technician - Emergency Medical / Paramedic
Assess injuries, administer emergency medical care, and extricate trapped individuals. Transport injured or sick persons to medical facilities.
Top activities and tasks for this job:
- Administer first aid treatment or life support care to sick or injured persons in prehospital settings.
- Operate equipment, such as electrocardiograms (EKGs), external defibrillators, or bag valve mask resuscitators, in advanced life support environments.
- Perform emergency diagnostic and treatment procedures, such as stomach suction, airway management, or heart monitoring, during ambulance ride.
- Observe, record, and report to physician the patient's condition or injury, the treatment provided, and reactions to drugs or treatment.
- Assess nature and extent of illness or injury to establish and prioritize medical procedures.
- Assisting and Caring for Others - administer injections
- Drive mobile intensive care unit to specified location, following instructions from emergency medical dispatcher.
- Decontaminate ambulance interior following treatment of patient with infectious disease and report case to proper authorities.
About the test (Full Version)
The HR Avatar Technician - Emergency Medical / Paramedic Pre-Employment Assessment was designed to help you hire staff in this role. The test provides a whole-person evaluation by measuring job-relevant cognitive ability, personality, knowledge, skills, and relevant behavioral history.
Each component provides important data for hiring decisions. Cognitive ability has been linked to overall job performance in most jobs and correlates with a candidate's
ability to learn new skills and to solve complex problems. Personality characteristics determine how well the candidate will fit-in with a corporate culture. Knowledge and skills indicate how much training will be needed before a new employee becomes productive. Finally, relevant behavioral history detects counter-productive behaviors that can impact job performance.
The Technician - Emergency Medical / Paramedic test includes an animated work simulation in which candidates meet customers, colleagues and supervisors in a job-related context. Post-test surveys indicate the majority of candidates react favorably to these simulations.
The specific attributes measured include:
Cognitive Ability
- Analytical Thinking and Attention to Detail
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Behavioral History
- History Survey - Performance
- History Survey - Tenure
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Personality
- Adaptability
- Drive
- Integrity
- Teamwork
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Emotional Intelligence
- Empathy and Emotional Self-Control
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Following completion, the test produces a Candidate Selection Report that includes an overall score and detailed scores for each attribute. The overall score weighs each of the factors based on research and analysis from the U.S. Government's Occupational Information Network (O*Net). O*Net represents over a decade of dedicated research evaluating the relative importance of various factors that lead to success in almost 1,000 different job roles.
The Candidate Selection Report also provides expert interview questions that help you probe critical or low-scoring areas, along with a guide for noting your evaluation of the candidate's responses. Consistent use of an interview guide is an important part of gaining better candidate insights and making better hiring decisions.
More information about this Job
Annual US Wages (2019) |
Bottom 10%: | | $23,490 or less |
Bottom 25%: | | $28,130 or less |
Median: | | $35,400 (Average) |
Top 25%: | | $46,090 or more |
Top 10%: | | $59,860 or more |
Hourly US Wages (2019) |
Bottom 10%: | | $11.30 or less |
Bottom 25%: | | $13.53 or less |
Median: | | $17.02 (Average) |
Top 25%: | | $22.16 or more |
Top 10%: | | $28.78 or more |
US Employment Statistics |
2018: | | 262,100 |
2028 (projected): | | 280,800 |
Annual U.S. Job Openings: | 19,900 |
Top Knowledge Requirements
- Customer and Personal Service
- Medicine and Dentistry
- Public Safety and Security
- English Language
- Education and Training
- Mathematics
- Psychology
- Transportation
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Top Skills
- Critical Thinking
- Active Listening
- Speaking
- Coordination
- Social Perceptiveness
- Service Orientation
- Active Learning
- Reading Comprehension
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Top Abilities
- Problem Sensitivity
- Oral Comprehension
- Oral Expression
- Deductive Reasoning
- Inductive Reasoning
- Speech Clarity
- Speech Recognition
- Information Ordering
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Education Requirements |
High School Diploma: | | 11% |
Post-Secondary Certificate: | | 43% |
Some College: | | 30% |
Associate's Degree (2 yr): | | 12% |
Bachelor's Degree: | | 5% |
This graphic shows the percentage of people in this role who have their highest education in each category. |
Related Work Experience Requirements |
None: | | 33% |
Less than 1 Month: | | 3% |
1 - 3 Months: | | 12% |
3 - 6 Months: | | 8% |
6 Months - 1 Year: | | 12% |
1 - 2 Years: | | 18% |
2 - 4 Years: | | 10% |
4 - 6 Years: | | 5% |
This graphic shows the percentage of people in this role whose related work experience before they entered this position falls into each category. |
Alternate Titles for this Role: Ambulance Driver-Paramedic, Emergency Department Technician (ED Technician), Emergency Medical Technician (EMT), Emergency Medical Technician, Basic (EMT, B), Emergency Medical Technician/Driver (EMT/DRIVER), Emergency Room Technician, EMT Intermediate (Emergency Medical Technician, Intermediate), EMT, Paramedic (Emergency Medical Technician, Paramedic), EMT-I/85, EMT-I/99, EMT-P, EMT/Dispatcher (Emergency Medical Technician/Dispatcher), EMT/Paramedic (Emergency Medical Technician/Paramedic), First Responder, Flight Paramedic, Full-time Paramedic, Healthcare Specialist, Medical Technician, Multi Care Technician (Multi Care Tech), Paramedic, Rescue Worker
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