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Welcome to
our first Episode of 2019, Marty with you here at Warehouse and Operations as a
Career! Last year, it sounds so funny
saying that, Last year in Q3 & Q4 we talked a lot about the importance of
Planning and setting Goals for ourselves and how, using those incremental goals
we can obtain the level of success, achievement and earnings that we want. With episodes 117 & 118, or the last two
weeks we’ve heard from 4 young managers that had developed their plans and are
each we’ll on their way to those individual goals they’d set for themselves and
3 Leaders in the Warehousing Industry share their thoughts on where Warehousing
is heading, the Opportunities to be realized and how they try and instill Goals
and Planning within their young Supervisors and Associates. I thought it’d be informational, or fun
anyway, to share a couple of Plans that’s been shared with me over the last
month or so.
Last week I
was giving a class on Warehousing, kind of an introduction to Operations and
all the positions and careers the warehouse and transportation fields have to
offer. One of the attendees, I’ll call
him Marcus showed a lot of interest in the Unloading, Loading and Driver Helper
positions. As we went further into all
the positions, I could see that the Electric Pallet Jack, or the rider jack had
sparked an interest with him too. Now
Marcus was really just entering the workforce, he was young, just wrapping up
his GED, he had gone to a couple of courses at the community college but wasn’t
planning on going to college. His work
experience was with fast food, which he’d only worked a couple of months
at. He had thought little about retail
jobs but wanted to earn more than he’d heard those jobs offered. Talk about being energetic and motivated,
this young gentleman was eager to get started and lunge head first into doing
something. He didn’t know what, or how
to get started but he was running forward anyway. I told him first we needed a plan. We sat down and put a quick one together.
Step one we
created a Resume. Now he was quite
amazed how we could be totally honest on it, even though he’d had some gaps in
his education and only 1 job, and with that, only having a couple of months
experience at doing anything. By wording
it correctly and listing his interest, achievements and placing all the
information in the right order of format I showed him how we could lead the
recruiter or hiring agent in the direction we wanted to go when we had them on
the phone for the phone interview. Now
of course that’s contingent on us getting chosen for that phone interview. I showed him how to use keywords within our
interest and implant our goals, so they’ll want to speak with us.
Next, we
wrote a few answers to the typical interview questions that we know we’ll be
asked AND we wrote a couple of questions for us to ask the hiring agent,
something like, What do you think of the company & Do you feel there’s
opportunity for advancement here?
Remember, they hardly ever get to talk about themselves. Asking a few questions of them is a great way
to be forefront in their mind. They want
to hire an engaging individual.
Next, he
really thought about his goal, which happened to be that he wanted to be a
pallet runner using the electric rider pallet jack. So, we broke it down, both Unloaders and
Loaders we’re easy positions to get hired on for. They both use the pallet jack, although
usually driving only about 35 ft at a time buy hey, that experience will get us
started.
So we
started looking at positions with companies that are hiring Unloaders, where
there allowed to learn and use the electric rider jack and that utilize Pallet
Runners to carry the unloaded freight from the docks to the aisles for the
forklift operators to put away. His plan
is to be an unloader for 3 months, get some practice with the electric jack,
the whole while letting his boss know that his goal is to be a pallet
runner. He is going to be on time for
every shift, stay late when needed and he’s written down about 20 topics to
bring up at the daily start up meeting or Safety meetings, he’s going to get
noticed and be engaging with his management team! His plan is to be a pallet runner within 6
months, and of course accept the additional responsibility and monies that come
along with it and be in training or a backup forklift driver, if not an actual
forklift driver in 18 months!
We had
identified an agency to apply with that had just those types of clients and I’m
happy to say he has his first phone interview set up for this week!
I love being
around such enthusiasm.
I heard from
another individual, she’s taking planning quite literally, she’s giving herself
daily task to accomplish to ensure she sticks to her plan. Check this out.
Each
morning, within 30 minutes of waking, I am going to write down what I finished
up the day before and what I did not get done.
She says I hope that list is very small each day.
She goes on
to say. So, on January first, I’m off
work. I am going to clean up my resume,
make it more professional looking and write down 3 questions to ask everyone I
interview with. I’ve been a packer for
over 6 months now, with that experience I am going to look for a job in the
Shipping department somewhere. I work
nights right now and there’s no open positions in our shipping department, nor
does it look like anyone is going to be leaving anytime soon. That afternoon I will look on every job board
in my area, there’s 5 of them on Facebook, and I’ll be checking all the
commercial ones too. I am only going to
apply at places that have a shipping department and who work first shift.
She mentions
she’s sending us her Resume and would like us here at WAOC to look it over, she’s
not sure about properly using keywords and how well she’s explained her work
history. We’ll certainly check it out
and get it back to her ASAP, as she’s on a pretty tight schedule, here’s her
day 2.
And on
January 2nd I am going to be calling everywhere I sent my resume too
yesterday and follow up on the applications I uploaded until 1 p.m. I am going to print out 15 copies of my new
resume and after lunch I am going to physically go to my top 5 choices, I found
on the 1st! Of course,
allowing time to attend any interviews or calls that’ll start coming in from
yesterday. I have added my email account
to my phone, so I can respond quicker to any email’s I get from prospective
employers.
On January 3rd
I am going to be out the door by 8am and go by the other 10 of my top choices,
in between appointments and interviews that are scheduled of course. And I’ll do the same on Friday the 4th. I am going to get me a new job by the end of
day Friday as I have to go back to work on the 7th for my present employer.
You have to
love her determination right. This is a
great plan, I wish she had built in a little more flexibility, but you know
what, with all that determination there’s no doubt in my mind that she’ll find
just the job she’s looking for! That’s
about all she shared with us, but I’ve asked her to keep us in the loop with
her progress, who knows maybe I’ll be able to bring her on the show once she
slows down after she starts her new job!
The New Year
brings us so much opportunity. As you
may know I look at it as a time to reboot myself, look at my goals, make any
adjustments I need too. Life gets in our
way sometimes and there’s absolutely nothing wrong with adjusting our
timetables or deadlines. The point is
that we are continually moving forward!
Let’s not
forget about looking into our benefits too, things like insurance, our
deductions for things like taxes and savings etc… Oh speaking of savings I read
a suggestion on Facebook this morning.
This is pretty neat:
If we save
the dollar amount of the week all year long we’ll have $1378.00 by week 52 or
the end of the year. So how it works is
we’d deposit $1.00 into savings this week because it’s week 1 of the year. Next week we’ll deposit $2.00, and so on each
week, meaning on the 10th week we’ll deposit $10.00, on the 18th
week we’d deposit $18.00, on the 35th week it’d be $35.00 all the
way to week 52 which would be $52.00.
We’d have deposited $1378.00 into savings by this time next year! I mentioned it to a couple of people that
we’re going to do it but run it backwards, so the larger amounts would be at
the first of the year when there getting those income tax checks back and the
smaller amounts would be during the Holidays at the end of the year. I think savings are really important, and I’d
encourage us to do what we can. $26.50
is all we’d need to place into our savings accounts each week on our own to end
up with that same $1378.00 if you’re not interested in that little challenge
game. And as we’ve mentioned before, if
we put any bonus money or increases, we may get throughout the year into those
accounts each week we’ll have that much more come week 52!
We’ll happy
New Year to ya and we here at WAOC appreciate you listening in with us each
week, we’re going to try and bring you interesting thoughts or things to ponder
all year long and we hope to help you with your Careers each week in some small
way at least.
We wish you a prosperous, productive and above
all a Safe year ahead. Help explain
Safety to a coworker, friend or family member, it’ll make both you and them
live Safer lives!
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Welcome to
our first Episode of 2019, Marty with you here at Warehouse and Operations as a
Career! Last year, it sounds so funny
saying that, Last year in Q3 & Q4 we talked a lot about the importance of
Planning and setting Goals for ourselves and how, using those incremental goals
we can obtain the level of success, achievement and earnings that we want. With episodes 117 & 118, or the last two
weeks we’ve heard from 4 young managers that had developed their plans and are
each we’ll on their way to those individual goals they’d set for themselves and
3 Leaders in the Warehousing Industry share their thoughts on where Warehousing
is heading, the Opportunities to be realized and how they try and instill Goals
and Planning within their young Supervisors and Associates. I thought it’d be informational, or fun
anyway, to share a couple of Plans that’s been shared with me over the last
month or so.
Last week I
was giving a class on Warehousing, kind of an introduction to Operations and
all the positions and careers the warehouse and transportation fields have to
offer. One of the attendees, I’ll call
him Marcus showed a lot of interest in the Unloading, Loading and Driver Helper
positions. As we went further into all
the positions, I could see that the Electric Pallet Jack, or the rider jack had
sparked an interest with him too. Now
Marcus was really just entering the workforce, he was young, just wrapping up
his GED, he had gone to a couple of courses at the community college but wasn’t
planning on going to college. His work
experience was with fast food, which he’d only worked a couple of months
at. He had thought little about retail
jobs but wanted to earn more than he’d heard those jobs offered. Talk about being energetic and motivated,
this young gentleman was eager to get started and lunge head first into doing
something. He didn’t know what, or how
to get started but he was running forward anyway. I told him first we needed a plan. We sat down and put a quick one together.
Step one we
created a Resume. Now he was quite
amazed how we could be totally honest on it, even though he’d had some gaps in
his education and only 1 job, and with that, only having a couple of months
experience at doing anything. By wording
it correctly and listing his interest, achievements and placing all the
information in the right order of format I showed him how we could lead the
recruiter or hiring agent in the direction we wanted to go when we had them on
the phone for the phone interview. Now
of course that’s contingent on us getting chosen for that phone interview. I showed him how to use keywords within our
interest and implant our goals, so they’ll want to speak with us.
Next, we
wrote a few answers to the typical interview questions that we know we’ll be
asked AND we wrote a couple of questions for us to ask the hiring agent,
something like, What do you think of the company & Do you feel there’s
opportunity for advancement here?
Remember, they hardly ever get to talk about themselves. Asking a few questions of them is a great way
to be forefront in their mind. They want
to hire an engaging individual.
Next, he
really thought about his goal, which happened to be that he wanted to be a
pallet runner using the electric rider pallet jack. So, we broke it down, both Unloaders and
Loaders we’re easy positions to get hired on for. They both use the pallet jack, although
usually driving only about 35 ft at a time buy hey, that experience will get us
started.
So we
started looking at positions with companies that are hiring Unloaders, where
there allowed to learn and use the electric rider jack and that utilize Pallet
Runners to carry the unloaded freight from the docks to the aisles for the
forklift operators to put away. His plan
is to be an unloader for 3 months, get some practice with the electric jack,
the whole while letting his boss know that his goal is to be a pallet
runner. He is going to be on time for
every shift, stay late when needed and he’s written down about 20 topics to
bring up at the daily start up meeting or Safety meetings, he’s going to get
noticed and be engaging with his management team! His plan is to be a pallet runner within 6
months, and of course accept the additional responsibility and monies that come
along with it and be in training or a backup forklift driver, if not an actual
forklift driver in 18 months!
We had
identified an agency to apply with that had just those types of clients and I’m
happy to say he has his first phone interview set up for this week!
I love being
around such enthusiasm.
I heard from
another individual, she’s taking planning quite literally, she’s giving herself
daily task to accomplish to ensure she sticks to her plan. Check this out.
Each
morning, within 30 minutes of waking, I am going to write down what I finished
up the day before and what I did not get done.
She says I hope that list is very small each day.
She goes on
to say. So, on January first, I’m off
work. I am going to clean up my resume,
make it more professional looking and write down 3 questions to ask everyone I
interview with. I’ve been a packer for
over 6 months now, with that experience I am going to look for a job in the
Shipping department somewhere. I work
nights right now and there’s no open positions in our shipping department, nor
does it look like anyone is going to be leaving anytime soon. That afternoon I will look on every job board
in my area, there’s 5 of them on Facebook, and I’ll be checking all the
commercial ones too. I am only going to
apply at places that have a shipping department and who work first shift.
She mentions
she’s sending us her Resume and would like us here at WAOC to look it over, she’s
not sure about properly using keywords and how well she’s explained her work
history. We’ll certainly check it out
and get it back to her ASAP, as she’s on a pretty tight schedule, here’s her
day 2.
And on
January 2nd I am going to be calling everywhere I sent my resume too
yesterday and follow up on the applications I uploaded until 1 p.m. I am going to print out 15 copies of my new
resume and after lunch I am going to physically go to my top 5 choices, I found
on the 1st! Of course,
allowing time to attend any interviews or calls that’ll start coming in from
yesterday. I have added my email account
to my phone, so I can respond quicker to any email’s I get from prospective
employers.
On January 3rd
I am going to be out the door by 8am and go by the other 10 of my top choices,
in between appointments and interviews that are scheduled of course. And I’ll do the same on Friday the 4th. I am going to get me a new job by the end of
day Friday as I have to go back to work on the 7th for my present employer.
You have to
love her determination right. This is a
great plan, I wish she had built in a little more flexibility, but you know
what, with all that determination there’s no doubt in my mind that she’ll find
just the job she’s looking for! That’s
about all she shared with us, but I’ve asked her to keep us in the loop with
her progress, who knows maybe I’ll be able to bring her on the show once she
slows down after she starts her new job!
The New Year
brings us so much opportunity. As you
may know I look at it as a time to reboot myself, look at my goals, make any
adjustments I need too. Life gets in our
way sometimes and there’s absolutely nothing wrong with adjusting our
timetables or deadlines. The point is
that we are continually moving forward!
Let’s not
forget about looking into our benefits too, things like insurance, our
deductions for things like taxes and savings etc… Oh speaking of savings I read
a suggestion on Facebook this morning.
This is pretty neat:
If we save
the dollar amount of the week all year long we’ll have $1378.00 by week 52 or
the end of the year. So how it works is
we’d deposit $1.00 into savings this week because it’s week 1 of the year. Next week we’ll deposit $2.00, and so on each
week, meaning on the 10th week we’ll deposit $10.00, on the 18th
week we’d deposit $18.00, on the 35th week it’d be $35.00 all the
way to week 52 which would be $52.00.
We’d have deposited $1378.00 into savings by this time next year! I mentioned it to a couple of people that
we’re going to do it but run it backwards, so the larger amounts would be at
the first of the year when there getting those income tax checks back and the
smaller amounts would be during the Holidays at the end of the year. I think savings are really important, and I’d
encourage us to do what we can. $26.50
is all we’d need to place into our savings accounts each week on our own to end
up with that same $1378.00 if you’re not interested in that little challenge
game. And as we’ve mentioned before, if
we put any bonus money or increases, we may get throughout the year into those
accounts each week we’ll have that much more come week 52!
We’ll happy
New Year to ya and we here at WAOC appreciate you listening in with us each
week, we’re going to try and bring you interesting thoughts or things to ponder
all year long and we hope to help you with your Careers each week in some small
way at least.
We wish you a prosperous, productive and above
all a Safe year ahead. Help explain
Safety to a coworker, friend or family member, it’ll make both you and them
live Safer lives!