Great department and plenty of benefits. The catch? If you want to be a dispatcher, you better be young with little to no real life or crisis communications experience, or any comms experience. If you are over 50, or definitely over 60, and have decades of experience, not only will you not get a job, HR will see to it that you don't get an interview. They will however send you a lame-ass rejection letter noting that it was a difficult decision (it wasn't, they don't want older workers there). The county next to them has had over 450 positions available over the last seven years, and only 5 people were hired that were over 60 and two of them were City Managers. Those numbers were verified by the HR department. The war against older workers needs to stop. Some people want to or need to keep working, they should at very least, be given an opportunity to interview for jobs just like everyone else.