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Guidance Community Discussion Space :: helping build careers Weblog 122 entries 08-July-2008 36 authors
show or hide details for this item Why logistics industry is not attractive Blog Entry 0 replies1 resource 01-April-2007 Trevor Piibar
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01-April-2007 14:18:44
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01-April-2007 14:33:18
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Trevor Piibar
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Logistics industry needs qulified people.

How 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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