WHAT ARE SHIPPERS AND CARRIERS LOOKING FOR?

Organizations are looking for entry-level management personnel, but also hoping that they will select people who will have the ability to become senior executives in later years. What the shippers and carriers would like to find is a here-and-now set of qualifications, and a later-years prospect of substantial advancement and responsibility in the organization. This paper is based in part on the views and experience of a number of outstanding senior executives from rail, highway, and water transport, and from the shippers. Topics covered include selection criteria, prospects for significant advancement, examples of personnel who have determination and imagination, personnel who demonstrate good judgement, and what educators, government officials, and business executives can do to enhance the development of determination, imagination, and judgment in the next generation of transportation professionals.

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• Authors:
  • Germane, Gayton E
• Conference:
  • Conference on Surface Transportation Education and Training
  • Location: Williamsburg Virginia, United States
  • Date: 1984-10-28 to 1984-10-31
• Publication Date: 1985

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Pagination: pp 113-123
• Monograph Title: TRANSPORTATION EDUCATION AND TRAINING--MEETING THE CHALLENGE
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Board Special Report
  • Issue Number: 210
  • Publisher: Transportation Research Board
  • ISSN: 0360-859X

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Carriers; Conferences; Education; Human resources management; Professional personnel; Qualifications; Traffic managers
• Uncontrolled Terms: Criteria; Human resources; Selecting; Shippers
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Highways; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; Research; I10: Economics and Administration;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00468172
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0-039-03914-2
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Apr 30 1988 12:00AM