Marty here with Warehouse and Operations as a Career and we\u2019re in Oak Cliff, Texas today at the Taste of Oak Cliff Festival. If you will please bear with us as it\u2019s Cold, Windy and very noisy outside here, remember we\u2019re no audio gurus but I promise we\u2019ll be talking a lot about Operations and doing our best here as we\u2019re walking around talking to the crowd! The Distribution Training Center invited us out and I\u2019ve got to admit we\u2019re having a blast talking Safety, Equipment Operation and Health and Wellness in the workplace with all the visitors that\u2019s stopping by the booth! The Distribution Training Center has several different training programs for the general public and Distribution Companies and their employees. They offer classes on Order Selecting, Loading and unloading, Driver Helpers and Sanitation and Safety positions.
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\n What an interesting venture the DTC has put together, I can\u2019t wait until we get to go over and visit the facility. They\u2019ve taken a 50,000ft warehouse and equipped it in the form of a large distribution warehouse, well I guess that\u2019s just building one as they also have a production facility just down the street where they\u2019ll be teaching Food Preparation, kitting, packaging, packing and shipping. What an innovative idea, I\u2019m always talking about how there\u2019s no shortcut to those higher paying positions, and how experience is the our best teacher but with the DTC teaching us equipment operation, providing equipment certifications, how to unload and load trailers and offering us hands on order selecting techniques we could have that fundamental experience needed to walk in the door and apply for just those positions!
\nHere\u2019s one of their brochures that talk about the classes offered, let\u2019s see, I have two different brochures:
\nThe Warehouse training curriculums are on:
\nElectric Pallet Jack
\nCounterbalance forklift
\nReach Lift
\nDriver Helper
\nReceiving
\nOrder Selection
\nAnd Sanitation Programs
\nAlong with OSHA 10 hr and Osha 30 hr classes.
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\nThen the Food Service Curriculums include:
\nFood Packaging
\nFood Storage
\nKnife Safety
\nSanitizing
\nShipping
\nHaccp
\nAnd Food Handler Permits!
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\nWe\u2019ve gotten to interact with a lot of young people today, I\u2019ve been playing past episodes of the WAOC Podcast and answering questions about how to break into the Operations industry. It\u2019s been a blast talking about all the Career Opportunities available, you all know how much I like explaining operations and seeing young men and women eager to learn something about our industry.
\nYou know Operations has so many positions available to us not only to make a living with but to grow both Professionally and personally. Seriously what other industry offers so many earn as you learn opportunities? As we\u2019ve discussed on several occasions, we can enter this field, apply ourselves, learn everything, every task around us, let our management team know that we\u2019re looking for growth and we can retire from a Career we love.
\nIf your thinking of changing fields or entering the workforce for the first time, make your plan, research a little on the company your interested in and get started. Even if you have to take a position at a lower pay rate, get started and get some experience. Put your plan in place and get started on a great career!
\n I hope you enjoyed the venue out here today, and more importantly picked up a pointer or two! Be sure to shoot us an email to host@warehouseandoperationsasacareer.com if you have any questions about anything mentioned here today and I\u2019ll see that we dig you up an answer! Please don\u2019t forget to check out our Facebook and Twitter feeds using the @whseandops, we\u2019ll be doing some follow up there as well. Thanks for listening in today and I myself am going to find a place to get warm with a beverage! Until next week,