When you write a regular column it can often be difficult to think of burning topics to churn out month in, month out (unless you’re Jeremy Clarkson who gets loads of new models each week and even gets to drive them!).
Browsing: Professional development
The Northern Irish logistics sector needs to address a critical skills shortage to remain competitive, says Skills for Logistics, the Sector Skills Council for the UK logistics industry.
The Northern Irish logistics sector needs to address a critical skills shortage to remain competitive, says Skills for Logistics (SfL), the Sector Skills Council for the UK freight logistics industries.
We are sitting on a demographic time bomb.
At all levels in The Professional Development Stairway, there must be a blend of skill types.
Skills for Logistics, the Sector Skills Council has unveiled its new ‘Experience Counts’ project, which involves the design and delivery of short customer care learning packages.
At the time of writing this column, we have another surge of interest in the popular press and TV on “Scourge of the White Van Man”.
As the new year finds this column in a title called Logistics Manager and in a section devoted to professional development, it seems appropriate to discuss management in logistics.
The skills shortage within the logistics industry is not something that has happened overnight. It has been getting worse every year for at least a decade.
We must work harder to attract new blood into logistics – make it appear to the young as the attractive, interesting, important profession that it is.