Why logistics industry is not attractive
01-April-2007
permalink email thisHow to attract young graduates?? As per survey the industry
clearly lacks of highly qualified people.
On average, the workforce in the distributive industry is not highly
qualified, with only 37% of the workforce holding S/NVQ Level 3 or
higher (compared to 52% in the whole economy). Almost one fifth of the
workforce holds no qualifications, including 8% of managers in the sector. 12%
of the workforce have NVQ Level 1 as their highest qualification.
(http://www.guidance-research.org/future-trends/logistics/ed-training/)
Being experienced in transport / freight industry doesn't make one a good
manager or supervisor and knowledgeable how to motivate employees to perform. Many
companies in freight industry don't have any QMS in place and managers are
daily dealing with solving operational problems ... doing work for
employees. No wonder the industry doesn't go anywhere. If there is no
motivation then how can someone find this attractive. Those who work in freight
forwarding do you recognise these words from manager: "we need to get a
good salesman in who can bring more business on board"... hope is
placed on single individuals instead of looking the whole picture. This
reflects the culture and it is not attractive.
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