AUSTIN (KXAN) — For the first time, Austin City Limits Music Festival attendees might go away the pageant with a possible job alternative.
Both the Austin Police Department (APD) and Austin-Travis County EMS (ATCEMS) are recruiting for extra workers.
“We have a combined public safety recruiting booth here at ACL. It’s the first year we’ve done it,” stated Gabe Webber, ATCEMS subject operations commander.
Webber stated due to the staffing scarcity, they’re beginning to enterprise exterior of the locations they sometimes recruit like EMS conventions.
“Trying to reach a broader audience and something uniquely Austin like ACL fest gives us an opportunity to do that,” stated Webber. “We’re having challenges filling positions in the department. So we’re kind of expanding beyond some of the traditional recruiting lanes.”
One of their promoting factors is all the occasions the place ATCEMS will get to work. ACL being one in all them.
“It’s not just working on the ambulance. We have medics throughout the venue,” Webber stated. “It’s an opportunity to experience the crowd, experience the show, interact with the citizens, you know the attendees and get paid to do your job at the same time.”
At the sales space, there’s a QR code that takes folks to ATCEMS’ recruiting web site.
Webber stated recruiters will then be in contact with subsequent steps.
While it is too quickly to see the impacts of this simply but, Webber hopes it should assist fill positions.
“It’s a great city to work for,” he stated. “It’s a great city to live in.”
Along with ACL recruitment efforts, ATCEMS stated its just lately been to Houston, Beaumont, Texas, and New Orleans for EMS conventions to recruit.
