So it\u2019s week 47 of 2018, and I appreciate you taking the time to listen in to us here at Warehouse and Operations as a Career! I\u2019m Marty T Hawkins and I we try and bring you some useful and interesting information each week, at least maybe provoking a thought or two that\u2019ll help you with your careers and career planning. We try and share our experiences and love hearing about yours as well. Please take a moment to email us, host@warehouseandoperationsasacareer.com if you have any questions, comments or topics you\u2019d like us to look into for ya.
\nOk, lets see, so this week I\u2019ve had the opportunity to work with recruiting. Don\u2019t know how much help I\u2019ve been but I\u2019ve lended a hand with placing ads or positions to the different job boards, and social media postings, I even helped with a Job Fair! You know recruiting is where it all starts for us as applicants, I had a lot of fun and really enjoyed helping to pair great employees with just the right companies and putting people to work, and getting them started, or at least seeing that they have the opportunity to turn those jobs into long lasting careers. I have no problem sharing with you that I find recruiting to be one of the most stressful and challenging jobs I\u2019ve had to do throughout the years. As a warehouse manager I use to interview any order selectors, fork lift operators, sanitation, really for all the positions under my watch. Our HR generalist did a pretty good job pre-screening the applicants for us but then I had to determine if the position was going to be a good fit for the job and that the company and task was going to match the applicants needs too. I want to feel like I made some good decisions, more than a few of my hires went on to become supervisors, managers, directors and even several Vice Presidents within the corporations! I had to learn the hard way, more often than not I went with the old gut feeling. If the prospect knew the terminology, could convince me he or she knew what they were doing they\u2019d end up getting a chance. Throughout the years I\u2019ve been fortunate enough to hire several hundred individuals, many took the job and worked it into a long term career, a lot of them are still friends of mine today!
\nToday\u2019s recruiters have so much more insight into our lives, personalities and our work histories, things move at a much quicker pace. It takes only minutes to check with our work references, back ground checks are all but immediate, some drug screenings are instant. And don\u2019t even get me started again on our Social Media profiles, we\u2019ve talked about our profiles several times on other episodes, and each recruiter we\u2019ve had as a guest on the show has urged us to make sure they depict the personality and life styles we want them to see. It\u2019s almost a guarantee that our hiring agent is heading straight to our social pages as soon as our telephone interview is wrapped up.
\nAnyway, I love recruiting, I wish I was better at it, I guess I\u2019m real comfortable with the sourcing, reviewing the resumes, and I really like both the phone interview and face to face interviewing but man, theres a lot more paperwork involved now than back in my day. Now I get to help out every once and a while, like this week, and that gives me my fix for another 6 months or so.
\nSo I\u2019ll share a few of my wins and losses I had this week with ya! One win was with a gentleman who\u2019d only been employed with this company for about 2 months, I\u2019d met him earlier, while he was interviewing for the position and really liked him. The recruiter that was hiring him had asked me to look over his resume and work history for her, he\u2019d listed a lot of warehouse experience and she wasn\u2019t sure it was all legit. I spent maybe 3 minutes with him and concluded he was a pure Op\u2019s guy and wished him luck. She hired him and her customer really liked him, he was rocking it over on his docks. As can happen though,