Hey Hey, Marty here with you again on Warehouse and Operations as a Career. This week let\u2019s talk about how we\u2019re looking for work, some of the avenues used today and how we\u2019re using those available platforms. We\u2019ve discussed a lot of the advantages with Social Media a couple of times but I\u2019m not sure we\u2019ve talked about what all is out there and how companies may be using them. One of our first go to stop\u2019s may be ad boards or online classifieds I guess you\u2019d call them, one of the most used around here in my area is craigslist.org https://dallas.craigslist.org/ , then there\u2019s job boards, many of those are large national companies with a long reach like monster.com https://www.monster.com/ , glassdoor.com https://www.glassdoor.com/index.htm , careerbuilder.com https://www.careerbuilder.com/ , and ziprecruiter.com https://www.ziprecruiter.com/ , to name a few, oh and Indeed.com, https://www.indeed.com/ it may be the most well-known of all. In a lot of areas, it may be easy to find a printed classifieds paper, in my area we have things like the Thrifty Nickle and the Green sheet, you can find them at local convenience stores, carwashes, and a lot of apartment complexes carry them around the mail box area\u2019s too. I\u2019m sure there\u2019s something like that in most neighborhoods. Another good printed source is our local, city, town or even neighborhood newspapers, most of them still have a classifieds section where we can sell things we no longer need or maybe our old bike, car or motorcycle\u2019s. I sold a boat once through the classifieds ad\u2019s in our local paper.
\nSo, let\u2019s talk about the online classifieds first. I know for me this was my go too place for advertising about positions in the past, really up until about 2 years ago and I think it\u2019s still a great place to start.
\nTypically, a company or recruiter will write an ad with a brief description of the position there hiring for, the shift and pay rates and maybe a little bit about their company. Usually it will tell us everything we need to know about the job and qualifying requirements of the position also. The ad will list the employer contact information such as the address, phone number or hours and days that applications are being taken too. Sometimes we\u2019ll have to email our reply for information back through the ad\u2019s publisher though, maybe we can attach our resume or work history to it and send it that way. I\u2019ve hired many an individual utilizing this process and it worked ok but it can be burdensome for us as job seekers having to search through the 100\u2019s or 1000\u2019s of positions listed. I think they all have a search function that we can use key words like forklift, order selector, warehouse, transportation or really any position we\u2019re looking for. It helps to narrow our searches quite a bit, but we\u2019ll still possibly have to scroll through several different industries worth of stuff that may be using the same key words. I think these online classifieds are probably stronger in smaller cities or townships, well maybe not stronger, that\u2019s the wrong word, I\u2019ll say a great place to start with though. It\u2019s important to remember we need to really describe our work history, what we are good at and how we\u2019re going to be an asset to their company, we want them to call us and set up that interview!
\nJob Boards are a great online tool also. These are companies our prospective employer can subscribe too to post their open positions too. We\u2019re probably all familiar with the larger one\u2019s as you may see tv commercials and bill boards promoting them to employers and applicants all the time. They work in much the same way as the online classifieds sites, but they are much dressier or streamlined and may give us much more search criteria to really drill down to the positions we\u2019re actually seeking or looking for. Again, as with the online classifieds these are typically free to job seekers with the prospective employer paying for the advertisement...