Equipment Certification CDL Training Experience
b'Hi all, Marty here with Warehouse and Operations as a Career! I spent quite a bit of time on Social Media this week, if you follow us on Facebook you may have noticed I\\u2019m a member or have joined quite a few Job\\u2019s Groups in the 5 states I work with and try and post when I know of someone hiring or participating wherever I can. Since the New Year I\\u2019ve seen a real influx with the number of postings from companies offering training for a CDL license in transportation or Equipment Certifications in the Warehouse. Not that this really bothers or affects me, but I do want us all to understand what\\u2019s being offered through them. When I saw how may replies they get and noticed the number of post from individuals asking things like \\u201cWhere can I get Forklift Certified, or Where can I learn to Drive a Cherry Picker and Where can I get my CDL License I feel these people are legitimately asking for help and I\\u2019m not sure their receiving it, or in an unbiased form anyway or at least in some instances. So, I pushed back the topic scheduled for today and I\\u2019d like to share some thoughts on these two avenues to employment, probably good choices for some but possibly not all of us.
\\nSocial Media can be THE tool for us as job seekers, but I feel it can also and many times can get us off track or urge us to go down the wrong path when trying to get our careers started. Experience and Responsibility are the two components I believe in, and found to be the actual fast track tool.
\\nLet\\u2019s look at this scenario, the bosses son has been away to college for 4 years, only worked in the warehouse during his summers in high school, kind of knows how the freight comes in, that its stored in the racks and its shipped out when a customer orders it. He had a hand in all the tasks before, physically moving the product through the system but not really on a day to day routine. Anyway, he\\u2019s graduated now and is coming back to work with the crew. Now he\\u2019s a great guy, doesn\\u2019t come off as a know it all and he definitely has the training and education to review the P & L or Profit and Loss statements, Contracts and turns out he\\u2019s a pretty good negotiator or salesman to the customers but his expertise or experience in the warehouse or on the floor activities are going to be really lacking. He won\\u2019t know how to turn a pinwheeled pallet inside a trailer without breaking it and damaging the left corners freight, or how to slide a leaning stack of product back onto the pallet without having to restack the whole thing. And what about placing a small piece of wood between the trailer decking and the dock plate lip so we can drive our equipment in and out of the trailer without bumping the load off the pallet! Things like that, and about 5000 others aren\\u2019t taught at most schools, experience is how there learned. So, this gentleman has been given the title of warehouse manager, but I feel he\\u2019s going to struggle maintaining the productivity and handling the crew and daily operations because he\\u2019s still going to have to Learn the task or job. Is it going to frustrate him, make him work twice as hard, really wear him out? I believe it can and probably will! He\\u2019s been trained and educated to view and handle things at like a Directors level, he knows, and might I say he\\u2019s comfortable with those tasks because he has that training and that education. Now let\\u2019s change the story just a bit and say that he had worked in the warehouse during high school on weekends and after school each day. He had unloaded trucks, received the P.O\\u2019s, ran product from the docks, racked pallets with the forklift and pulled orders and shipped orders for that 4 years, went off to college and was trained in the same qualities we discussed earlier. I feel he\\u2019d be a great Warehouse Manager, a much stronger Director because of his Experiences, right?
\\nI guess what I wanted to talk about are perceived short cuts to our Careers today so I\\u2019ll get back on subject,'