Thanks for listening in to Warehouse and Operations as a Career today, I\u2019m Marty, and we appreciate you stopping by! Last week we were in Atlanta Georgia, I had the opportunity to be a part of a large hiring event there, it was my second time to get to visit and meet job applicants out there and I really enjoyed meeting so many Career driven individuals! This week I\u2019ve been helping out again in the recruiting departments here in Texas, I really enjoy talking with all the applicants and visiting with them, learning from them actually. We\u2019ve talked a lot about our resumes and how although they don\u2019t have to be a professional document, at least in our fields, they should state what we\u2019ve done in the past and I believe we should tailor them to each position that we\u2019re applying for. And I think the phone interview and the face to face interview techniques has been discussed so I won\u2019t go into each of those again. If you\u2019d like to review our thoughts on them just scroll through the past episode library and look for anything social media or recruiting, there\u2019s several shows on those important subjects. Well, I jumped off the page again, I wanted to get a few more questions answered about our powered industrial equipment today but let\u2019s run with down the road I started on, I guess. I\u2019d like to share a couple of stories I\u2019ve experienced the last 10 or 12 days.
\nSo, I had this one gentleman come in, I\u2019m sure a recruiter had called him in after a phone interview, everyone was busy so I was asked if I could interview him. Upon entering the interview room, I noticed he had 2 little boys and his daughter with him. Now I personally don\u2019t think coming to an interview is or should be a show stopper but I\u2019ve learned most recruiters are not of the same opinion. I see their point, I mean that\u2019s how they make their living, their professionals, and we should probably be more professional ourselves. Anyway, it didn\u2019t bother me, we started the interview, we were just getting into his experience with powered units, he\u2019d been a counterbalance operator for 4 years, with the same company. As I was being impressed the little girl had to go to the restroom, she wasn\u2019t shy about it, was very matter of fact about it actually. The gentleman said he needed to take her, or she\u2019d just keep pestering him, and he asked if I could watch the two boys? The girl was the youngest, I\u2019d guess around 4 years old and the boys were like maybe 6 and 7 years old. As much as I didn\u2019t mind, they were there, I wasn\u2019t going to be comfortable watching his children and suggested he take\u2019em all with him. I guess everyone had to go once they all made it to the bathroom because I know it was over 6 or 7 minutes before they returned. Well we geared back up, talking about where he\u2019d worked, why he\u2019d left, what he was looking for in his next position etc when the youngest boy decided he needed to run down the hallway and got really upset when his father tried explaining that he needed to sit down and be quiet. I spent the time to conduct the interview, but I can understand how a Recruiter would have giving up or out right asked the gentleman to leave and come back the next day. I see this pretty often. I know its hard to find or pay for a babysitter, especially when your looking for a job. But, and we\u2019ve talked to this point before, Isn\u2019t our job interview really kind of like our first day at work? We\u2019re showing our value, our skills, we\u2019re going to want to impress the boss with our knowledge right. I\u2019ve heard all the arguments, I\u2019m not being paid for the interview or they placed an ad and need me so they should cut me a little slack or my personal favorite I was walking by and saw the sign. If we\u2019re walking by and saw the sign, I know we haven\u2019t done any research on the position or the company, we\u2019d have to just be, or it makes it sound like, we\u2019re willing to take any kind of a job that\u2019s being offered. I once had a recruiter tell me she doesn\u2019t interv...