UPS (United Parcel Service)

Warehouse associates can have a wide variety of duties on any given night. If you're good at one job, they'll train you in another. For the most part, however, warehouse associates load and unload trucks, sort smaller parcels by location into larger bags. They also offer hazardous material traini...

A Day in the life of an UPS Account Executive is: Get to the office by 7:30am, answer e-mails and forward paperwork until 9:30, have customer meetings from 10:00 until 11:45, eat lunch while answering calls, have meetings from 1:00pm until 4:30. Head home and answer e-mails and submit pricings un...

Experience or understanding of pickup & distribution networks, transportation management systems/practices, and experience or understanding of managing Vendors - especially 3PL companies. Additionally, you should have a solid grasp of cost-based or accrual accounting, forecasting, and decision mo...

You will spend 1-2 weeks directly training under a fellow Transportation Supervisor/Manager to "learn by doing" and experience the various aspects of the operation. There is a required training path for online training as well. Finally, a regional manager will train you on the financial managemen...

You can expect well over $23 an hour plus lots of overtime during holiday seasons and bonuses, really really good insurance one of the best employee month you can expect well over $23 an hour plus lots of overtime during holiday seasons and bonuses, really really good insurance one of the best p...

The interview is pretty straightforward. Emphasize that you can show up on time (interviews are often early in the morning!), follow instructions, and are physically capable of doing the work. If you have experience working jobs where you had to be on your feet for a long time, or worked outdoors...

You'll go in for orientation for one day, probably less than a week after your interview, where someone will go through the safety rules and various other items. It's intensely boring, especially since most of it is commonsense stuff, but it's pretty painless and should wrap up in less than six h...