The City of Santa Barbara is Hiring Lifeguards!!
The City of Santa Barbara is recruiting Pool Lifeguards for the 2020 summer. If you or anyone you know may be interested in working as a Pool Lifeguard this summer, please share this information with them.
To be a City of Santa Barbara Pool Lifeguard, no experience is necessary. To qualify candidates must be; at least 15 years old and able to pass a swim test and in-person interview.
The benefits of lifeguarding include:
1. Developing strong leadership skills-Lifeguards must be responsible, alert and assertive when they see unsafe behavior. This job leaves no room for shyness and people can truly develop their leadership skills by becoming a lifeguard.
2. Better communication skills-Lifeguards must interact with people regularly throughout the day (patrons and team members). This forces lifeguards out of their comfort zone and teaches them ways to proactively address safety issues as well as policies.
3. Improved self-confidence-Lifeguarding is a position that requires a great deal of responsibility, and is an important job because Lifeguards do make a difference, this has been proven to boost self-confidence.
4. Development of desirable skills for future careers- Being a lifeguard gives you skills that other professionals and hiring managers like to see in potential employees. Teamwork, Self Confidence, Communication and Leadership are all vital skills that are often not learned in school. They are learned through life experience. Lifeguards certainly have a jump on their competition when it comes to posses sing these skills and they can often adapt to their surroundings by leveraging those very skills.
Prerequisite
Must be able to successfully swim 500 yards continuously in 12 minutes or less and retrieve a 10 LB brick from the bottom of the pool.
To Apply or for More Information
Email the Recreation Coordinator: Aquatics, Todd Fahlstrom, at Tfahlstrom@SantaBarbaraCA.gov
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