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The Growing Skills Gap & How Vocational Training Can Help to Shrink It

GlobalTranz

More manufacturers are turning toward vocational training and apprenticeship programs to help close the skills gap. However, some manufacturers will continue to avoid vocational programs in the interim, but they should consider the following ways vocational training will be a major player in addressing the growing skills gap. .

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Reforming logistics training: themes, challenges and the quest for the ideal

Logistics in War

A common trend found in the literature of military logistics is the decrying of training and education gaps interspersed within the persuasive arguments for greater military interest in logistics. The Australian Army has worked hard in recent years to improve the quality of its individual training, much as Thorpe desired of the USMC his work.

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This Week in Logistics News (August 26 – September 1)

Logistics Viewpoints

And when Mark Goodson and Bill Todman began shopping a modernized revival of The Price Is Right, Bob Barker joined on as the host, a role he would hold until his retirement in 2007. It has classrooms, virtual reality simulators and an indoor driving course, complete with facades of porches and parking lanes. Downing St.

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Decision-forcing cases for logistics: practicing logisticians to overcome ‘wicked problems’

Logistics in War

note: on occasion, LIW examines the art of training and educating logisticians. LIW is privileged to have Dr Bruce Gudmundson, USMC University, discuss a teaching method very relevant to training leaders in ways to overcome ‘wicked problems’ in war. By Bruce Gudmundsson. A link to his site can be found here.

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Trinity Logistics Partners with Truckers Against Trafficking

Trinity Logistics

We’re proud to have partnered with the efforts of Truckers Against Trafficking, to ensure that the more than 70,000 carriers Trinity Logistics works with are trained on how to spot trafficking and how to report it. What are TAT’s training initiatives? TAT has made its training easily accessible.

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TikTok Recruiting Videos… Are You Missing Out?

Go Hire- Logistics

Jess runs the popular HR blog, Workology, which she started in 2007. Additionally, she notes, “I’ve also seen 84 Lumber do some really good videos for manager training. I started as a HR director and I started a blog in 2007, I think, and it became my job. Her blog reaches about a million people monthly. You can do that.

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Capacity Issues? Collaborate! Aggregate! Don't Stagnate!

Blog on Log

I am up in Toronto today and tomorrow participating in a course for Transportation and Logistics' professionals. In the rail sector, the labor fallout from early retirements has restricted train crews, while track and speed constraints limit the ability to run additional capacity across existing rail networks.