Promotional testing for public safety
Promote with proof.
Written exams, fireground simulations and eligibility lists built from your own SOGs and contract — scored blind, approved by your people, and kept on a tamper-evident record.
- Fire chiefs
- Union locals
- Civil service boards
- HR and city attorneys
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- BKeyed
- C
- D
SourcedQuotes your guideline word for word — and waits for your reviewer before any candidate sees it.
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RecordedThe incident answers to the orders given. Every order is time-stamped, and every run replays exactly.
Dimension 2 of 6
BlindThe assessor sees a code, never a name — and picks a written behavior, not a number.
| Rank | Candidate | Written | Simulation | Composite |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bennett, A. | 92.000 | 89.500 | 90.500 |
| 2 | Cruz, J. | 81.500 | 86.500 | 84.500 |
| 3 | Douglas, R. | 75.000 | 80.000 | 78.000 |
Excluded · 1Did not meet the time-in-grade requirement — the reason is recorded beside the name.
e0cb 91a4 … 7c03 52df · recomputes from the stored recordsSealedCertified with its screening, every exclusion and its reason, and a hash that recomputes from the stored record.
Screens show the layout only. No question, scenario or rubric is ever published here — examination content stays with the department and its reviewers.
How a cycle runs
From your documents to a certified list.
We build the examination. You supply what only you can — and nothing goes forward that you have not approved.
You send your documents
Your SOGs, the collective bargaining agreement and civil service rules. We index them by section and tell you what we could not read. Nothing is drawn from a document until you approve it as a source.
- You
- Approve each document as a source — for study, for testing, or both.
- Bugle
- Read, index and cite them section by section.
Your officers rate the job
Duties come from the NFPA edition your authority has adopted and from your own guidelines. Officers you name rate each one: how often it is done, how important it is, how serious an error would be.
- You
- Name the raters. Your reviewer approves the result.
- Bugle
- Draft the duty list and run the ratings.
We design it; you approve it
Parts and weights, pass marks, the reading list, and a blueprint linking every duty to how it is tested — checked against your contract before anything is announced.
- You
- Approve the design as a version.
- Bugle
- Design it, and flag every rule it conflicts with.
We build it; your reviewer signs off
Every question drafted from your guidelines quotes where it came from. Each question, scenario, exercise and rubric is approved — or sent back with a reason — before it is locked.
- You
- Your reviewer approves every item.
- Bugle
- Draft, revise and lock the forms.
Candidates are told, then tested
Opening the process sends the notice: the parts, the pass marks, what to study. Then the written exam and the fireground simulation, every answer and every decision time-stamped.
- You
- Proctor the sittings you run in person.
- Bugle
- Deliver every part and record every sitting.
The list is certified and kept
Blind panel scoring, item analysis, an adverse-impact screening recorded with the list, and appeals decided on the record — then the whole examination exports as one document you keep.
- You
- Certify the list and decide appeals.
- Bugle
- Check every result before release, and keep the record.
The record
Change one number. Watch the record catch it.
Every consequential action is chained to the one before it, and each department’s chain is checked every day. Try it on a sample record:
- Change the composite score.
- Verify the record.
- Then try to cover it up.
Nothing has been changed. Verify the record, then try changing the score.
Who it is for
A promotional process has two sides. It has to satisfy both.
A process you can show, step by step
- Job analysis on the record: duties rated by officers you name, approved by your reviewer, every question filed under one.
- An adverse-impact screening recorded as each list is certified — while the options are still good ones.
- One place for the whole cycle: roster, forms, sittings, scoring, list and appeals.
A process your members can see into
- Tested on your own guidelines, each question quoting the paragraph it came from.
- Your agreement’s rules checked before the process opens and again before the list is certified.
- Scored blind, and every candidate given their own itemized packet.
Talk to us about your next cycle.
If you are running a promotional process this year, the useful conversation is about your ranks, your documents and your dates — not a demo reel.