Hey everyone, Marty here with Warehouse and Operations as a Career, and I have absolutely no ideal what I\u2019d like to talk about today. We\u2019ve received so many great questions and topics suggested lately, I\u2019ve got to try and get caught up with\u2019em. Last week I briefly mentioned Planning and Goals and a long-time listener shared his plan with us, he didn\u2019t want to join me recording it but was happy for me to share it with the group! The gentleman had been working out in the oil fields of west Texas for the last two years. He never really liked the work, it paid really good, but he\u2019d decided he had no interest going back to school and felt like without further education his advancement opportunities we\u2019re going to pretty much be nil to none. His girlfriend has ran across our WAOC podcast somewhere and passed it on to him! They we\u2019re moving to Dallas about 3 weeks after that and he decided to plan out his next career.
\nThe day after they got moved in, he got started. He knew the pay rate he wanted to make after 12 months and focused only on the larger distribution centers, the larger national corporations. He actually took the time to call several companies and ask a few questions. I was surprised to hear he got so many answers. I mean I encourage everyone to do a little research on their prospective employers, but he really dug into them. He got answers like what type of equipment the facility used, how they felt about promoting from within, one place even shared their safety ranking with him. I think he faired so well with the questions and answers because he\u2019d done his homework and let the HR generalist or hiring agents talk about their company. Remember how we\u2019ve talked about how we need to interview our prospects before or while there interviewing us! Well, as he suspected he was being told that he\u2019d need experience to make that dollar amount he\u2019d envisioned so he started on his quest with a solid plan!
\nSo, he\u2019d picked 3 companies that he felt fit his needs and applied directly with\u2019em. He did the leg work, went to their HR departments, filled out the application right there, on their premises. Now normally I preach this approach, makes sense that it\u2019d be the best approach, right? A little shocked he was surprised that the first two places he applied just took his application and was told someone would be calling him if they had any positions that we qualified for and the 3rd place went as far as interviewing him and then stated they\u2019d be giving him a call should something become available that he was qualified for. He said the puzzling thing here was that all 3 we\u2019re advertising on different Facebook job boards!
\nHe had listened to our episode on using all the job boards to our advantage and how we could, while still being honest, rework our resumes a bit to reflect what we wanted to do, instead of what we\u2019d done. He removed all the information about the oil fields, added all his certificates earned and classes he\u2019d taken, kind of on the job training type stuff and leaned heavily on his thoughts of safety and what he wanted to be doing in 2 years! He took his new resume and uploaded it, through those on-line ads, for each of his three choices, the same 3 companies that he\u2019d just applied, in person, with! All 3 companies reached out and he secured a phone interview with each! I think this reinforces our thoughts regarding todays hiring agents. I don\u2019t mean that negative in any way but, I guess I mean their looking at our resumes only and not looking at us during that face to face interview. On his first visit they\u2019d all just read his past experiences, and no one dug in to find out what he was wanting to do.
\nAnyway, so the first company pretty much implied that without equipment experience they weren\u2019t interested but, yep you guessed it, should anything become available that fit his qualifications they\u2019ed give him a call. Companies 2 & 3 set him up with a face to face ...