The research behind why an individual decides to become a volunteer firefighter is scarce with very little known for certain about how the choice is decided. The age of younger volunteer firefighters appears to be more self-orientated more so than anything else but with no less thought about community safety. The decline in Australian volunteer firefighters is apparent with many variables coming into play such as employers less inclined to release volunteers to attend fires through to self-employment creating time constraints on volunteering. The current volunteer fire service is ageing with very few younger volunteers picking up the roles and progressing through to leadership roles. The constantly changing trends in younger Australians makes creating recruitment campaigns that target younger members difficult. The survey conducted shows that marketing strategies needed to be adapted to show not ‘only what you can do for us’ but also ‘what we can do for you’ to attract younger members by showing the training and possible career enhancements that come from the volunteer fire service. This approach doubled the enquiries from possible new members with more than half being from the younger generations. This shows that the future campaigns for targeting younger generations needs to address the trend in thought patterns of the target generation at the given time.

Continue up to 1.8: As per assessment criteria

· Eight (8) sources

· Five (5) of the sources MUST be peer-reviewed sources, and you must confirm their peer-reviewed nature in the title

· Each source must be related to your topic of interest

· The annotations must conform with the convention for an annotated bibliography (see the eReading list for resources).

Part 3: Summary (500 words)

Based on the eight (8) entries of the annotated bibliography, you will produce a short summary of up to 500 words which draws the eight annotations together to answer your question or respond to your thesis statement. The summary statement must be referenced (using the eight sources from the annotated bibliography).

References

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Cowlishaw, S, Birch, A, McLennan, J & Hayes, P 2014, ‘Antecedents and Outcomes of Volunteer Work-Family Conflict and Facilitation in Australia’, Applied Psychology: An International Review, vol. 63, no. 1, pp. 168–189, viewed 26 February 2021

Einarsdóttir, A & Osia, SU 2020, ‘“That’s My Job”: Tensions Between Employees and Volunteers in the Fire Service’, Nonprofit & Voluntary Sector Quarterly, vol. 49, no. 4, pp. 871–889, viewed 26 February 2021

McLennan, J & Birch, A 2008, ‘Why Would You Do It? Age and Motivation to Become a Fire Service Volunteer’, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Organisational Psychology, vol. 1, no. 1, pp. 7-11, viewed 26 February 2021

Hong, SI & Morrow-Howell, N 2010, ‘Health outcomes of Experience Corps®: A high-commitment volunteer program’, Social Science & Medicine, vol. 71, no. 2, pp. 414–420, viewed 26 February 2021