Ambulance Drivers and Attendants, Except Emergency Medical Technicians Job at The Ridgewood Blog, San Jose, CA

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  • The Ridgewood Blog
  • San Jose, CA

Job Description

* Ambulance Driver

Ambulance Driver Overview **Find The Best Ambulance Driver Jobs For You**

**Working as an Ambulance Driver**

Between 2018 and 2028, the career is expected to grow 7% and produce 18,700 job opportunities across the U.S.

**What Does an Ambulance Driver Do**

There are certain skills that many ambulance drivers have in order to accomplish their responsibilities. By taking a look through resumes, we were able to narrow down the most common skills for a person in this position. We discovered that a lot of resumes listed compassion, interpersonal skills and listening skills.

When it comes to the most important skills required to be an ambulance driver, we found that a lot of resumes listed 20.8% of ambulance drivers included emergency, while 15.3% of resumes included cpr, and 6.7% of resumes included hospital staff. like these are helpful to have when it comes to performing essential job responsibilities.

**How To Become an Ambulance Driver**

If you're interested in becoming an ambulance driver, one of the first things to consider is how much education you need. We've determined that 18.6% of ambulance drivers have a bachelor's degree. In terms of higher education levels, we found that 2.9% of ambulance drivers have master's degrees. Even though some ambulance drivers have a college degree, it's possible to become one with only a high school degree or GED.

Choosing the right major is always an important step when researching how to become an ambulance driver. When we researched the most common majors for an ambulance driver, we found that they most commonly earn high school diploma degrees or bachelor's degree degrees. Other degrees that we often see on ambulance driver resumes include associate degree degrees or diploma degrees.

You may find that experience in other jobs will help you become an ambulance driver. In fact, many ambulance driver jobs require experience in a role such as cashier. Meanwhile, many ambulance drivers also have previous career experience in roles such as emergency medical technician or security officer.

Tell us your goals and we'll match you with the right jobs to get there.

**Ambulance Driver Career Paths**

As you move along in your career, you may start taking on more responsibilities or notice that you've taken on a leadership role. Using our career map, an ambulance driver can determine their career goals through the career progression. For example, they could start out with a role such as emergency medical technician, progress to a title such as registered nurse and then eventually end up with the title nurse manager.

Ambulance Driver **Top Careers Before Ambulance Driver**

11.4 % 9.2 % 8.8 % **Top Careers After Ambulance Driver**

13.6 % 11.1 % 10.6 % **Ambulance Driver Demographics**

Compare Jobs Compare Jobs **Gender**

male

70.7 % female

25.9 % unknown

3.5 % **Ethnicity**

White

71.4 % Hispanic or Latino

15.0 % Black or African American

6.5 % **Foreign Languages Spoken**

Spanish

70.6 % Czech

5.9 % Japanese

5.9 % **Ambulance Driver Education**

Compare Jobs Compare Jobs **Majors**

19.7 % 12.8 % 8.5 % **Degrees**

High School Diploma

39.2 % Bachelors

18.6 % Associate

18.2 % ****

The skills section on your resume can be almost as important as the experience section, so you want it to be an accurate portrayal of what you can do. Luckily, we've found all of the skills you'll need so even if you don't have these skills yet, you know what you need to work on. Out of all the resumes we looked through, 20.8% of ambulance drivers listed emergency on their resume, but such as compassion and interpersonal skills are important as well.

* Emergency , 20.8%

* CPR , 15.3%

* Hospital Staff , 6.7%

* Patient Transport , 4.8%

* Medical Appointments , 4.7%

* Other Skills , 47.7%

**Top Ambulance Driver Employers**

4.0

Avg. Salary: $30,134 Ambulance Drivers Hired: 42+ 4.1

Avg. Salary: $29,815 Ambulance Drivers Hired: 21+ 3.6

Avg. Salary: $29,225 Ambulance Drivers Hired: 6+ 4.7

Avg. Salary: $39,372 Ambulance Drivers Hired: 5+ 4.1

Avg. Salary: $29,205 Ambulance Drivers Hired: 5+ 3.7

Avg. Salary: $29,986 Ambulance Drivers Hired: 4+ *

* Ambulance Driver

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