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Philadelphia needs lifeguards -- so they're hiring non-swimmers

THE USA NEEDS TO START TRAINING MORE LIFEGUARDS NOW TO HELP PREVENT ANOTHER LIFEGUARD SHORTAGE IN 2023.

Philly needs lifeguards so bad they are reportedly hiring people who can't swim.

By Jasmine Sheena, New York Post

If a lifeguard saves you in Philly, they may be wearing water wings. The city is in such desperate need of lifeguards for their municipal pools they are willing to accept candidates that don’t know how to swim, according to Philadelphia magazine. Officials say they will provide swimming lessons to applicants who are aquatic newbies.

While the idea that their lives may be in the hands of a rookie swimmer may make some bathers nervous, city parks officials tried to downplay the report and assure residents lifeguards will get fully trained.

“We only have to train a handful of folks,” Department Commissioner Kathryn Ott Lovell told The Post. “I wouldn’t say they can’t swim, they just can’t pass our screening test on the first try.”

The city needs 400 lifeguards to operate its 60+ public pools — and the competition with the private sector to find workers is tough, Lovell said.

The American Lifeguard Association said in June that the shortage is affecting about a third of the nation’s public pools, leading to limited operations or closure at many facilities. 

New York City also contended with a dearth of lifeguards last year. Only 26 percent of last year’s 900 lifeguard job applicants passed the city’s lifeguard training program test, which some critics argue is too difficult to pass.

FULL STORY: https://nypost.com/2023/01/24/philadelphia-needs-lifeguards-so-theyre-hiring-non-swimmers/

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Lifeguards wanted! Paying $250/day to help keep pools open until Labor Day!

The American Lifeguard Association has received numerous inquiries nationwide from pool owners and employers asking for help keeping their swimming pools open through Labor Day. They are all offering $250 per day for the last ten days of the season. The candidate will need a current lifeguard certification. If you are interested in applying, we ask that you email us at alalifeguard@aol.com with a copy of your resume and all required certifications. We ask that you do not call us but instead email us the required information so that we may pass it on to the interested employers, so they may contact you directly if they are interested in hiring you. All replies must have a detailed resume and copies of all current certifications to be considered for this program. Candidates must be available to work every day between now and Labor Day with no restrictions on hours. The daily pay of $250 is based on an 8-hour day and will be paid directly by the employer.

If you are certified through the American Lifeguard Association, it will not be necessary to email us a copy of your certification, for we have it on file. If it is with another nationally recognized entity such as the American Red Cross, YMCA, or other entity, we will need you to attach a copy of your current certifications to your resume.

This program is for employers nationwide interested in hiring highly qualified individuals to help staff their pools and connect them with qualified candidates. It is a public service offered to all eligible candidates and employers at no cost.

Swimmers left vulnerable at beaches as lifeguard shortage rocks nation

Beach and pool administrators are scrambling to fill empty lifeguard spots, as swimming areas across the country have been forced to close.

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You know your coworkers hate you when nobody is in the pool and they make you work the front desk, “just in case”, while they hang out on the deck, even though you know damn well that no one is coming in after 5 pm.

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Dear Parents

If your kid is taking swim lessons, please pay attention to them and their behavior!

Sincerely,

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Looking Deep Into the Future to Solve Lifeguard Shortage

BY KATIE HONAN, THE CITY

More public school swim lessons, flexible hours, and adopting “shallow water” rules are all possible streams to more robust beach and pool seasons in the years to come.

Teaching more kids to swim right now could be among several long-term solutions to the lifeguard shortage, officials and experts say. New York City needs to be more “forward thinking” in recruiting and better utilizing the Department of Education’s school pools, Mayor Eric Adams said this week. More resources would ideally prevent the scramble the Parks Department has been in this summer to staff pools and beaches. While there are 50 pools inside DOE buildings, mostly in high schools, only 27 are currently open according to a department spokesperson. The remaining 23 are in various stages of renovation.

“I don’t know why we waited until this crisis happened... but we have pools that are being underutilized,” Adams said at an unrelated press conference Tuesday. “We have to be more forward thinking in teaching swimming.”

Parks Commissioner Sue Donoghue called it “a big priority.” The Education Department spokesperson said some of the schools with pools use them for physical education or partner with swim organizations that teach people how to swim and also train to become a lifeguard. They also work with the city’s health department on the Making Waves program, which provides free swim lessons and water-safety instruction. Since launching in 2015, more than 10,000 kids ages 6 to 18 have participated, the spokesperson said. “We need to be better prepared for lifeguard issues, start training them, certify, look at water safety,” the mayor said. “We need to think outside of the box so we’re not unprepared in the upcoming year.”

Failing to Keep Up

Although the city’s Parks Department aims to hire around 1,400 lifeguards each year, as of this week there were just over 850 guards hired, according to a spokesperson. The city’s lifeguard shortage resulted in the cancellation of the popular lap-swimming and learn-to-swim programs at public pools. The Parks Department is also doing rolling closures and enforcing capacity limits at larger pools, and has shut some beaches down to swimmers.

Early this month, the city struck a deal to temporarily boost the starting pay of lifeguards from $16 an hour to more than $19 an hour. Lifeguards will also get a year-end bonus if they stay the entire season, which ends a week after Labor Day.

Donoghue, the parks commissioner, told THE CITY on Rockaway Beach Wednesday that they’re already looking ahead to next summer to ensure there are enough bay watchers, noting work they do with the DOE on swim classes and other additions they can make at the end of the summer.

“We’re already meeting about and thinking about how we can expand the pool — no pun intended — of lifeguards,” she said.

FULL STORY: THE CITY

“The American Lifeguard Association feels strongly that this article points out some good solutions to help resolve the national lifeguard shortage. We need to create new solutions to help increase the number of lifeguards; otherwise, we will continue to have a critical shortage for many years to come,” says Bernard J. Fisher II, Director of Health and Safety.

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