Dispatchers, Except Police, Fire, and Ambulance
Coordinating personnel and equipment preparation and assignment transfers to matching civilian crews and equipment to service needs.
How to prepare: Practice building a daily service-dispatch schedule in a spreadsheet, assigning crews and equipment to sample work orders and revising assignments when availability changes.
What the civilian work involves
- Schedule or dispatch workers, work crews, equipment, or service vehicles to appropriate locations, according to customer requests, specifications, or needs, using radios or telephones.
- Prepare daily work and run schedules.
- Confer with customers or supervising personnel to address questions, problems, or requests for service or equipment.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
- Microsoft Excel