Welcome back to Warehouse and Operations as a Career, Marty here with you again and I\u2019m excited about todays show. We\u2019ll have a couple of Ladies on the phone with us today from Belmar Integrated Logistics that can maybe help direct us to finding the position we want, get that Job and set ourselves up in the most financially responsible way possible! Oh, I saw a caption on Facebook this week that read Success \u2013 It\u2019s all in your hands, I think I\u2019ve mentioned the podcast before, its Unlocking the Secret to Living Rich, anyway that caption on her page kind of reached out and grabbed me. We talk about our responsibilities as Applicants and Employees quite a bit here at WAOC and the more people we visit with the more I\u2019m learning just how important we are to our own success! I think once we think about it it\u2019ll help us project ourselves with the way we want to be seen by our hiring agent or employer. Anyway, I jumped off topic again, I\u2019ll get back to today\u2019s introductions! Sharon is a Sourcing Specialist; Recruiting for Light Industrial Positions in the Warehouse fields and Michele is a Benefits Coordinator assisting the new Associates through the maze of benefits companies may offer or participate in and helping us understand them so we can make informed decisions. I\u2019m looking forward to them both sharing a few of their thoughts and opinions with us here today!
\nSharon, welcome to WAOC ma\u2019am
\nSo Sharon, tell us a little bit about yourself, I hear you\u2019re a bit of a worldly traveler and speak 3 languages fluently, how\u2019d you get into the Recruiting field, and in particular into filling those Warehouse or Light Industrial Positions?
\nMichele, now this is actually your 2nd visit with us here at WAOC I believe, didn\u2019t you help us out with a few questions once before, I think we were visiting an outdoor Job Fair Belmar had put on back in July? So Welcome back!
\nNow Michele your title is Benefits Coordinator, and I understand you\u2019re an independent supplemental agent and a self-published Author & already working on a second book now. I bet us op\u2019s guys can keep you busy with all our day to day questions or questions from our significant others? I assume you enjoy the intricacies of insurance and benefits?
\nHere at WAOC we talk a lot about our Resumes, the phone Interview and how to really prepare ourselves for that Face to Face Interview, we\u2019ve done several episodes on just those subjects and we really try and stress their importance and what we should, as applicants, do to prepare for them. If you\u2019ve missed those previous shows try and check them out, we tried walking through the process from like A to Z. Personally I believe the initial Company Orientation is an important part, maybe the most important part of any new job. It\u2019s where we learn the do\u2019s and don\u2019t policies of our new employer and have the opportunity to take advantage of any benefits that may be offered. And I feel we should take advantage of everything that\u2019s discussed, most importantly ask enough questions to understand what we\u2019re signing, wither we\u2019re declining it or signing up for something!
\nSo Sharon, our group\u2019s talked quite a bit about the importance of our Resumes and the Phone Interview that we\u2019re hoping to get from them. Can you give us some examples on what we need to include in our resume and how we should conduct ourselves on that phone interview, what do you look for?
\nWe\u2019ve talked about the importance of being prepared for the Face to Face interview, what do we need to bring with us, both physically, like paperwork and even mentally, what do you want to see and feel from us?
\nMichele, are we as new Associates in too big of a hurry or maybe just excited we\u2019ve been hired on to focus and pay attention with our Orientation, I hear from recruiters all the time it\u2019s hard to get individuals to sit down and listen to all the information offered? And Why do you think that is?
\nAs applicants,