It's never too late to learn
MHMS offers training that can keep your career skills current.
By Mike Flamer -- Modern Materials Handling, 11/1/1999
While talking to many materials handling professionals working around the country, I sense that many feel they are too old or set in their ways to change their approach to work. Hogwash!Today, there is a premium for seasoned veterans of the supply chain wars. Distribution companies and materials handling manufacturers are always looking for experienced pros with successful track records.
But, today's demanding marketplace places great value on knowledge. It isn't enough that you have twenty years experience selling materials handling equipment or specifying its uses within your plants or warehouses. The discriminating customer or employer wants professionals who have broad-based expertise, not only in a variety of equipment, but in the ways to use the equipment to solve problems.
If you understand the entire supply chain and can bring solutions to your clients' or employer's problems, you are a very rare person. You are probably your firm's leading sales representative, or you work for a consulting or systems integration company. Most materials handling professionals don't know how to solve most problems, either because they haven't been exposed to the problems or they haven't been taught how to approach them.
If you have concerns about the direction of your career in materials handling, consider this: your level of compensation and speed of advancement are directly proportional to the span of knowledge you possess about the industry. If you do not possess expertise across a wide variety of disciplines within the materials handling industry, you need to join the Materials Handling & Management Society (MHMS) today.
The MHMS offers outstanding correspondence courses, seminars, and home study courses designed for you, the practicing materials handling professional. With enough study and experience, you can apply for certification as a Certified Associate in Materials Handling (CAMH) or as a Professional Certified in Materials Handling (PCMH). Both certifications mark you as someone who is "a cut above" the rest--a respected, knowledgeable person in our industry.
Call MHMS today at 704-676-1183 and ask Bobbie Curtis to tell you about the many educational and training options available to you NOW. In-home study and correspondence courses are just some of the tools available to make you become more valuable to your clients or to your company. It's like money in the bank.
Professional Activities is the official publication of the Materials Handling & Management Society. For membership, access the Society's home page on the World Wide Web at www. mhia.org/mhms or contact Bobbie Curtis, Executive Director of MHMS, by calling 704-676-1183. The address is 8720 Red Oak Blvd., Suite #321, Charlotte, NC 28217-3935
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