Here we are at Episode 57 of Warehouse and Operations as a Career, I\u2019m Marty and I of course want to thank you for listening in again this week. I hope we\u2019ve all had a productive and prosperous one so far and it wraps up the way we\u2019d like it too and in our favor! We\u2019ve talked a few times about looking for work, how to build our Resumes and how to handle the phone interview and that all so important face to face meeting, many times the determining factor to us getting the position we applied for. We had a question presented to us last quarter about seeking employment and I wanted to talk about it today, maybe reach out to each of you for some thoughts and advice? A gentlemen is an experienced slip operator, he\u2019s done it for 6 years and it sounds like, or I\u2019ve assumed his old employer had a layoff or maybe closed the business. Anyway he\u2019s now looking for a job, a slip sheet operator position and hasn\u2019t been able to find one locally. He stated there\u2019s a lot of warehouses that is using the equipment but no openings. This is a tough situation, we\u2019ve worked our way to the position we really enjoy and we\u2019re good at it, top rated if you will but find that that job is gone, and now we\u2019re out looking for a new job. It\u2019s hard to accept but that\u2019s the facts, our old position is no more & now we have to go back out into the world and find us another one. In his particular situation there\u2019s no one, presently, hiring for that position. He said he\u2019s filled out 7 applications, had 3 interviews and no one is calling him back. He\u2019s been looking for work about 6 weeks now.
\nI asked for a copy of his resume and interviewed with him. I left the interview knowing he knew his stuff, he described the attachments operation thoroughly and shared several experiences with me on how he had handled the different situations that can come up while performing that task to a T. I knew he was great at his job, had a great outlook on attendance and working within the rules and policies of about any facility. What I found was he is interviewing for only the slip sheet operator position. You know, it\u2019s so easy for us to stereotype ourselves so strongly that our hiring agent may feel that that\u2019s all we can do or want to do. It\u2019s hard to accept that we\u2019ll have to perform other tasks but that old job is gone, we will certainly put in the time with our new employer to prove ourselves and show them we\u2019re the best slip operator in their employ and that may be exactly what we have to do.
\nOur Resume needs to reflect what we have done, what all we\u2019re good at, it should list all the equipment we can operate and not just the one thing we want to do. After speaking with him about how many warehouses were using the equipment he liked and doing a little research on each one he identified the 3 that would be the best fit for him. We looked at the hours of operation or the shifts they ran and the different pay rates, location and opportunities for advancement and he narrowed it down to these three.
\nI think step one is we need to look at our Resumes, we\u2019ve had the same job for 6 years so we\u2019re going to have to think back, include all our experiences, and list everything we\u2019ve done, and make sure all our talents are on there. If we\u2019re not sure about the formats used today we can check online, many sites can give us templates for the modern ones being used today. As we\u2019ve learned in earlier episodes and from speaking with JG our go to recruiter it\u2019s important to list our address and phone numbers we can be reached at during the day. It seems an email address is all so important as well these days as that may be the first forum used to reach out to us by many agencies and HR departments. If we\u2019re utilizing an online application be sure to fill in every line, it\u2019s probably there because it was important to someone! And if we\u2019re asked to upload our Resume we need to do it. We\u2019ll know someone that can help us with this if we don\u2019t know how or...