Warehouse and Operations as a Career

Hello, I’m Marty and I’d like to thank you for listening in today with Warehouse and Operations as a Career. We’re actually out on the road again this week, visiting a Production facility in Arizona and attending a golf tournament benefiting the American Heart Association a bit later in Nevada. When I say attending I’m referring to working a Tee or Vendor table, by no stretch of the imagination co...

Hello and I appreciate you listening in with us here at Warehouse and Operations as a Career today, I’m Marty and today I’d like to share a question posed to our WAOC group. I had a great time researching for this episode. I sent out a few questionnaires to Supervisors and Managers I know soliciting their thoughts and advice, I posed the same question to each of them and not surprising all the ans...

Can you believe another week has already gone by! I'm Marty here with Warehouse and Operations as a Career and I'd like to thank you for Listening in with us again today. If you are a repeat listener, and I hope you are, shoot I hope everyone has Subscribed so you won't miss out on any of our weekly or special episodes. All you need to do is click that little subscribe button on iTunes if you're o...

Welcome back to Warehouse and Operations as a Career, I’m Marty and it’s that time of year where we typically see Opportunities for employment picking up within our Industry. With summer vacations winding down and Schools gearing up many markets may experience hiring Opportunities and maybe some movement within our departments and promotions to other tasks or duties! In Distribution this is kind o...

And a new week is upon us here at Warehouse and Operations as a Career, we appreciate you listening in today and hope you’re having a Productive and prosperous one. We had a great time last week visiting with so many Individuals at the Job Fair, it was great being able to speak with everyone out in the field and we hope you enjoyed the show! We’re going to try and get out and go mobile more often...

Warehouse and Operations as a Career is Mobile today visiting a Job Fair, well I guess its more like a Job Expo that Belmar Integrated Logistics is putting on here in the Bishop Arts area in Dallas Texas. I’m Marty and we’re having a great time out here with them! They have some great music going on and I’m sure were picking up some of the tunes as well. Everyone’s having a great time, they have a...

Welcome to another Episode of Warehouse and Operations as a Career! I’m Marty and today let’s answer a couple of questions that came to me this week. I’ve been working with several Job Boards in the social media world lately and we get asked all too frequently about the positions of Order Selecting and Forklift Driving. I’m pretty passionate about both of these positions, and yes, they are the sho...

Marty here again with Warehouse and Operations as a Career! You know sometimes we kind of get focused on the definition of a word and we can forget what all it really can entail and I think Safety is one of those words for us. I asked several people, in my travels last week “What does Safety mean to you”, and I received some really good, impressive actually, answers. The thing I noticed was the an...

Hello and thanks for taking a few minutes with us today here at Warehouse and Operations as a Career. I’m Marty and today I’d like to expand a bit on The Hiring process, well really more on our side of the hiring process or why and how we’re reaching out to the company for a position and explore our expectations. In a bit we’ll be speaking with a New Hire about his new position, how he arrived at...

It’s always nice to see the weather changing isn’t it! I welcome Summer, it gets a bit warm here in Texas but I’ve always been a Summer person. 2 Weeks ago, I was in Arizona and it was 118, I flew out of Nevada where it was 112, I have to admit that’s a bit warm even for me! Last week I was in Denver Colorado and it was actually in the 90’s while I was there, they said that’s unseasonably warm for...

Hope all finds you well this week, I’m Marty and we appreciate you checking in with us today here at Warehouse and Operations as a Career! I’m really excited about an episode, or I guess it’ll be several episodes actually where we’ll be speaking with a New Associate in the Freight Handling world. We’ll have a lot of fun with it and we’re going to try and follow him for a few months within his new...

I hope everyone had a Fantastic week, a productive week and a prosperous week so far! Today I’d like to talk about Longevity, loyalty, settling in, I’m not sure what to call it but basically discuss the, what appears to be the trend of hopping from job to job. We’ll have Rodrigo here with us today as well, if you remember he is a Regional Facilities Manager for a large sourcing company and has sev...

Hello again, I’m Marty back with Warehouse and Operations as a Career, Today Joe and I would like to talk about a few of the Warehouse tools and equipment that may or may not have specific regulatory or training per say attached to them but can present dangers of injury to us and others. Joe how you been doing Sir? Joe – just fine always glad to be here, how about yourself… Marty – Doing Great, tr...

Welcome back to Warehouse and Operations as a Career! We had an email question about Hand Trucks, a listener was wondering if there was a training course offered by anyone for its use? I gather there’s a position she’d like to apply for that had listed its use in the Job Description. She stated with 2 years of warehouse experience she had not had an opportunity to use one, seen them, but was a bit...

Appreciate you checking in with us today, I’m Marty with Warehouse and Operations as a Career, our Podcast is about the Positions and Opportunities within the Warehouse, Transportation or Operations fields. Today I’d like to talk a little about those Opportunities and how just maybe we can push them along a little & make things happen for us. A few of the most frequent things I hear from Superviso...

Hello all and Thank you for coming back and listening in today, I’m Marty here with Warehouse and Operations as a Career & we really appreciate you checking in with us. For those of you just joining us, or are first time listeners, gosh I guess this will be Episode 34 already, our show is all about getting into the warehousing or transportation and the Operations fields. We discuss a lot of the po...

Welcome again, I’ve been looking forward to today’s program, we’ll be visiting with James in a bit and learn all we ever wanted to know about a Career in Order Selecting from a professional, I think you’ll find it interesting and we’ll get the true scoop on the job. We discussed the position back in Episode 12 titled Order Selection where we briefly covered, really very broadly and at like a 20,00...

Hello all, and Welcome back to Warehouse and Operations as a Career. Well, we’re in the 2nd quarter of 2017 & I thought it’d be interesting to check in with some Subject Matter Experts again and maybe get their input on a few of our questions and kind of talk some Op’s Talk! I’m Marty and First up we have John here again, you may remember he visited with us earlier last quarter and shared his thou...

Marty here with Warehouse and Operations as a Career. Hope you’re having a great week and I want to thank you for checking in with us today. I was asked last week, by a young gentleman named Brad with a background in the Restaurant Industry, what kind of a Warehouse job was the easiest to get into. He was looking to make more money and be able to get more hours. He’d been working in the same resta...

Welcome back, I’m Marty with Warehouse and Operations as a Career. Today let’s touch on Leadership, we’ve discussed several different positions within the warehouse and transportation environments and of course what we’re interested in, or our goal is to make money, have a long term job that we can turn into a Career. Here in a bit we’ll be visiting with Jeremy, I can’t wait to hear his advice and...

Are we ready for work? Hello again, Marty here with Warehouse and Operations as a Career. We’ll have Joe joining us a bit later in the program today and we’d like to talk about being Ready or Prepared for work each day. We work in the Warehousing, Transportation and Operations fields, It can be Hot during the Summer, sticky and humid and Cold during the winter and maybe we work in Cooler vaults or...

Thanks for joining us here at WAOC today, I’m Marty and I’d like to talk about Production or the Production Facility for a bit. The Production world offers many warehouse opportunities and unlike in the Distribution arena, well I guess I shouldn’t say unlike really, but it does offer a different kind of productivity metric. Production doesn’t necessarily mean we’re building a complete product or w...

Hey everyone, thanks for listening in today, I’m Marty with Warehouse and Operations as a Career. We’ve covered a lot of ground over the last 27 weeks, everything from my thoughts on how to write our resumes to getting the attention of the light industrial recruiter and how to take control of our phone interview & the actual face to face meeting. Man, I’ve really enjoyed our talks about quite a fe...

Thanks for joining us today, we really appreciate you listening and all the Likes and Follows. The comments and questions we receive are really interesting & I hope we’re getting you the information and answers you need to plan out your careers & make informed decisions towards your jobs and advancement. I’m Marty and welcome back to Warehouse and Operations as a Career, where we discuss and share...

Today here on Warehouse and Operations as a Career we visit with Joe, our go to Safety man and discuss our thoughts and opinions on a few Safety Topics and Tools. We’ll talk in general about PPE and their importance. We’ll share a few questions that’s came up or been presented & share our experiences on a few of them. I looked at a few statistics from www.bls.gov, a great and informational website...