WAOC at the Taste of Oak Cliff with Belmar
b'Marty here with Warehouse and Operations as a Career and were back at The Taste of Oak Cliff Festival. We had a blast out here last year, and with an invitation from Belmar Integrated Logistics we jumped at a chance to come on out and talk with everyone that stopped by their Recruiting Booth today! I even ran into a couple of people I\\u2019d had the pleasure to help secure new positions for in the past, it was really neat getting to catch up with them and their careers! I wanted to talk about a recurring question that came up over and over again, it seemed to be aimed at staffing or sourcing companies in general, but I sensed frustration and sometimes desperation even as people would ask \\u201care you background friendly\\u201d. From my experiences your typical staffing or sourcing agency are working within their customers guidance. I believe things are mostly looked at on a case by case basis. I see this question come up often, way too often on social media too. Look, what ever happened has happened, we have to have a job, we\\u2019ve all got bills to pay and we have to find work. I feel, and understandably so, its easy to get frustrated and just start answering ads or posting comments like are you background friendly. As much as I believe social media is a great tool for us to use when seeking employment, we do have to work it. You\\u2019ve probably heard me, and several recruiters that\\u2019s been on the show, that Facebook is a great place to find those companies or agencies that\\u2019s hiring but call them! An email might be ok if they have provided an email address but call them, leave a message, or messages if you don\\u2019t catch them on the phone. I have just not seen any positive results with private or direct messages, recruiters just don\\u2019t have the time to answer all the questions one by one. I had one recruiter show me her Facebook inbox, it was full of where are you located, what are the hours, can you tell me more and are you background friendly. We shouldn\\u2019t have a problem sharing, I mean we have to be totally honest when we\\u2019re speaking with a hiring agent about our backgrounds. Oh, and as a side note, don\\u2019t falsify anything like that on our application, they won\\u2019t be working with us when we\\u2019re caught doing that. But like I mentioned earlier, everyone knows we need work. If we\\u2019ve paid our fines, done our time or whatever, and we\\u2019re working on getting a fresh start we can find work, we\\u2019re just going to have to work harder at it maybe. A few months ago, I had a young man explaining he had a background issue and another individual chimed in on the conversation, she knew of a warehouse that was a little more relaxed with employment history. She gave him the address and he applied and was hired on. Try not to get down about it or embarrassed, it happened, we\\u2019ve learned from it, or I hope we have, and we can get work. Even if its not exactly what we want, I encourage everyone to just get in the door and show our management team what we can do. Once we\\u2019re that valued employee, they\\u2019ll got to bat for us and they won\\u2019t want to lose us right! I encourage you to call the phone numbers in the ads or go and apply in person when the address is listed. The way I look at it is if a recruiter doesn\\u2019t supply you with a phone number or an address and is encouraging you to DM or PM them its probably not what I\\u2019m needing right now which is a job I can start quickly and with no cost to me! We\\u2019ll there\\u2019s my 2 cents about backgrounds and employment, we can find work, it\\u2019s harder maybe, but we\\u2019ll be successful. I hear just as many people without any kind of background opportunities getting just as frustrated. Finding work is work, but we can all find us something to get in the door with!
\\nSo, the taste of oak cliff festival is like most of your spring and summer festivals, you have the great food, man, there\\u2019s some great food out here today, anyway, there\\u2019s booths set up for the crafty type, business owners selling their jewelry and painting...'