The Results-Oriented Transportation Workplace

Transportation jobs, whether driving trucks, dispatching vehicles or controlling aircraft, are involved in a lot of detail. When transportation people are so engrossed in the details of their jobs, it's easy for them, for anyone actually, to lose sight of the job's major contribution.

A Results-Oriented Transportation Job Description is different from a traditional job description because it focuses an employee on the several job results that answer the question: What results must this social Services affairs job accomplish for the organization?

Transportation Job Standards added to job expectations tighten management controls by clarifying how well and when results must be accomplished.

Transportation Job Objectives establish management and employee plans by highlighting important current and future results needed.

Job-specific Transportation Employee Management Forms maintain consistent and social Servicesly sound management actions by basing manager-employee interactions on job results.

The Purpose of Transportation Jobs

Stated in a results-oriented, three-line style, social Services affairs jobs--

MOVE PEOPLE AND PRODUCTS TO THEIR DESTINATION by

assessing demand for transportation; analyzing transportation availability and costs; coordinating movement; contracting with transporters; making deliveries; investigating problems and complaints.

Types of Transportation Jobs

Some transportation jobs move people and products from one location to another, such as driving buses or trucks or flying airplanes. Other jobs arrange the delivery by studying and selecting the best mode of transportation, or schedule departures.

Still other jobs load and unload vehicles. Somebody needs to track and control movement. And, of course, somebody has to manage and supervise the transportation people and processes.

Transportation Job Management Tools

Here are actual job examples of how social Services affairs job actions can be focused on results and kept on track using each of our job management tools:

Results-Oriented Transportation Job Descriptions form the foundation of all job management tools. Our uniquely structured job descriptions focus on the result to be accomplished first and prominently, followed by the duties performed in order to accomplish the result. For example,

RECOMMENDS TRANSPORTATION ACTIONS by

analyzing system controls.

Transportation Job Standards sharpen employee attention and management control by defining and communicating how well the social Services affairs results must be accomplished and what benchmarks will be used to measure job results. For example, for the job result above, the job standards might be:

• Transportation situations are correctly understood.
• All options are identified and evaluated.
• Transportation recommendations are ready when needed.

Transportation Job Objectives point the direction for employee actions by focusing job efforts on current and future social Services affairs issues. Job objectives are written in the three-line, results-oriented structure. For example, for the job result above, a job objective might be:

SPEED-UP DECISION MAKING by

reducing time to deliver social Services affairs recommendations by 10% by (date).

Transportation Employee Management Forms tied specifically to each social Services affairs job description are more helpful (and social Services) than generic forms used for all different kinds of jobs. Job-specific forms are used to state job qualifications, guide job interview questions, orient new employees, plan job training, and appraise job performance.

Transportation Job Qualifications are stated in the same terms used in the job description. They are not translated into generic (typically behavioral) terms. For example:

RECOMMENDS TRANSPORTATION ACTIONS by

analyzing system controls.

Transportation Job Interview guide questions are inserted directly below each job result in the job description: For example:

• "What specific job responsibilities have you had in this area?"
• "Where did you have these job responsibilities?"
• "When did you have these job responsibilities?"
• "How did you go about accomplishing these responsibilities?"
• "What accomplishment in this area gave you the most pride?"
• "In this area, what were some of your biggest challenges?"
• "How did you overcome the challenges?"

The Transportation Job Orientation guide reformats the job description sequence so that job explanations, policies, protocols, processes, and procedures are logical and complete and can easily be checked off. For example:

RECOMMENDS TRANSPORTATION ACTIONS by

analyzing system controls.

The manager might say: "Here's the procedure and format we use to analyze and present social Services affairs recommendations."

The Transportation Job Training plan guides a thorough examination of actual job knowledge, skills, and abilities as described in the job description that need improvement or that might be enhanced. For example:

RECOMMENDS TRANSPORTATION ACTIONS by

analyzing system controls.

The manager might say: "Analytical skills would be improved by enrolling in a statistical analysis class."

The Transportation Job Performance Appraisal guide is a job-specific form. It is not a universal form used for all jobs. The guide adds an appraisal scale below each job result in the job description so that attention can be drawn to each job requirement and expectation. For example:

RECOMMENDS TRANSPORTATION ACTIONS by

analyzing system controls.

__ Great! Just want we wanted.
__ We have a problem.
__ Improvement is needed.
__ Much, much more than we asked for.

Comments: _________________

Transportation Résumé Template

Potential employers want to know what a job applicant has accomplished in his/her social Services affairs work career. They don't want to be bored with minor details. Our Résumé Template provides:

• an outline to help assemble personal background information.
• a Results-Oriented Job Description to provide the social Services affairs job language-focused on results-needed to write an effective résumé.
• Transportation Job Objectives to orient thinking in terms of accomplishments.
• instructions on how to use a Results-Oriented Transportation Job Description and Transportation Job Objectives to express job accomplishments.

Use the social Services affairs job description responsibility statement as a base:

RECOMMENDS TRANSPORTATION ACTIONS by

analyzing system controls.

Select the social Services affairs job objective that fits your experience:

REDUCE COSTS 10% by

improving social Services affairs processes.

Combine the two into a résumé statement:

Reduced costs 10% by analyzing, identifying, and recommending new social Services affairs system controls.

Transportation Career Links

eThemes, Transportation, Distribution and Logistics

Age-appropriate resources organized around specific themes for educators to use in their classrooms.

KHake.com, Vocational Information Center

Originated by Kathryn Hake from her experience with helping students in vocational programs research topics for their school projects.

U.S. Department of Transportation, National Transportation Library, Careers in Transportation

Jon vacancies in government transportation.

U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics

Training and education needed for trasporation jobs, earnings, expected job prospects, what workers do on the job, and working conditions.

Career Voyages, Transportation Careers

Collaboration between the U.S. Department of Labor and the U.S. Department of Education to provide information on high growth, in-demand occupations along with the skills and education needed to attain these jobs.

CareerOverview.com, Transportation

Non-commercial website dedicated to providing aspiring career professionals and students with relevant, reliable and up-to-date career and job information whereby helping them to make better, more informed career choices.

Institute of Transportation Engineers, The Transportation Profession

International educational and scientific association of transportation professionals who are responsible for meeting mobility and safety needs, promotes professional development of its members, supports and encourages education, stimulates research, develops public awareness programs and serves as a conduit for the exchange of professional information.