Welcome back to Warehouse and Operations as a Career, I\u2019m Marty, and I hope you\u2019re having a Productive and Prosperous week. Can you believe it\u2019s May already, we\u2019re in the 5th Month of 2018, times flying by. This week I had the opportunity to slow down a little and get back to the basics. I really enjoyed speaking with some warehouseman at a couple different facilities. I had a few site visits scheduled and most of the management teams were busy or on vacation, so I was able to just walk around and introduce myself to some Receivers and Unloaders, I met a very interesting Put away Associate, he was an accomplished & experienced reach lift driver, and I met a couple of over the road drivers, those conversations are always interesting. Each one of my new friends was on their 2nd or 3rd position with their respective employers. I love all the opportunities our industry provides us and seeing people advancing within their careers, it\u2019s great seeing those plans coming together!
\nOne of my favorite and most enjoyable tasks is getting to do some recruiting and interviewing individuals for employment. I don\u2019t get to do much of it anymore, this week I had the opportunity and jumped right on it. My first interview was a young gentleman that had worked in the warehouse before and had been in the construction field for the last 4 years. His warehousing experience consisted of about 1 year with the electric pallet jack, running some pallets, a little sanitation and about 6 months of unloading trailers. He added he felt comfortable on the forklift, I think he had been on a sit-down counterbalance for about 6 months in all. Reviewing his resume, of course it was really heavy with construction duties. I noticed he had listed several certifications and courses with Health and Safety, all in the Construction Industry. It was evident he was interested in the Safety field. With all this in hand I grabbed his Application, attached his Resume and brought him back to an interview room. After introducing myself and throwing out a little small talk I asked him what type of work he was asking for. He shared he thought Construction was going to be his career choice but due to having to rely on different contractors and companies having bids accepted and ready to sign, he just wasn\u2019t getting enough work. We reviewed his resume together and by asking more in-depth questions I was able to ascertain he had a lot more warehousing experience than he had written, or maybe it was the way it was written! I explained to him how when I had first read is work history it came across as very little warehousing and I hadn\u2019t gotten that feeling of passion from it as I had from our talk! I brought up Safety and discovered he held several certificates in Operations as well, even an OSHA 10 hour in general industry as well. I helped him rework his resume, we explained more on his earlier positions and his Safety knowledge. It looked much better for the positions he was applying for now. I presented it to a Recruiter, they placed him, and he went to his PIT training the next day. He\u2019d been hired!
\nMy second interview was one that almost got away! He filled out the application but had not attached the requested resume, he just listed his work history. Really, he\u2019d just named the places he had worked and provided contact names and numbers as references. It looked like they may have been his Supervisors at each place. So, he had walked in about lunch time, a couple of recruiters were with other applicants and the others were out of the building. I just happened to be walking by as the receptionist was letting him know that she\u2019d get his paperwork to a Recruiter and someone would be calling him. I went ahead and asked her for his information and invited him to come on back. Know she thanked me but commented that he didn\u2019t have experience for the equipment positions he was applying for. But, being an Op\u2019s guy,