{"id":390049,"date":"2026-07-29T02:46:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T02:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/390049\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T02:46:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T02:46:09","slug":"lpd-meet-the-recruiter-event-helps-applicants-prepare-for-officer-hiring-process","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/390049\/","title":{"rendered":"LPD \u2018Meet the Recruiter\u2019 event helps applicants prepare for officer hiring process"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; The Lubbock Police Department held a \u201cMeet the Recruiter\u201d event Tuesday evening at the LPD Academy near the Reese Center, giving potential applicants an overview of what to expect on entrance exam day, the hiring process and the academy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Attendees had the opportunity to ask recruiters questions and get hands-on practice with the row machine, which is used during the physical portion of the entrance exam.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThe first thing that they\u2019ll have to do is they\u2019re going to take a written test and so we\u2019re able to provide them with a study guide to get prepared for that as well as a physical test,\u201d a recruiter said. \u201cWith our Meet the Recruiter event, that allows them to get some practice on the row machine because on entrance exam day they\u2019ll do both of those tests on the same day, so that gets them prepared for what\u2019s to be expected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The deadline to apply for an officer position is 5 p.m. on Aug. 7. A second \u201cMeet the Recruiter\u201d event is scheduled for the week before the entrance exam, which is set for Aug. 13.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KCBD. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) &#8211; The Lubbock Police Department held a \u201cMeet the Recruiter\u201d event Tuesday evening at the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[32398,319,100014,251,1739,137431,168,170,169,523,3605,137430,223,115046],"class_list":["post-390049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lubbock","tag-deadline","tag-kcbd","tag-kcbd-news","tag-local-news","tag-lpd","tag-lpd-academy","tag-lubbock","tag-lubbock-headlines","tag-lubbock-news","tag-lubbock-police","tag-lubbock-police-department","tag-meet-the-recruiter","tag-news","tag-reese-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}