The Road Less Travelled Facing the Challenges of Your Career Development

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The Road Less TravelledFacing the Challenges of
Your Career Development

• Prof Philbert Suresh
• Faculty College of Business Administration
• GUST - Gulf University
• Hawalli, Kuwait

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The wood are lovely, dark and deep But I have
promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep
And miles to go before I sleep Robert Frost -
1941
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Session Agenda

• Establish the framework for your career with road
  less travelled
• Identifying career risks in logistics and supply
  chain
• Taking the bull by its horn the challenge to
  mind and physical skills
• Critical thinking, - knowing the rules and
  breaking it
• Preparation, training and competence mapping

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Can you solve this puzzle?
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Logistics Myths

• Logistics is a career for men only
• Logistics is all about trucks moving in and out
  
• Logistics is not a profession for young people
• Logistics attracts more brawn than brain
• Logistics has no discipline of higher education
• Logistics does not enjoy support of academia

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Logistics Truths
Women have entered the logistics profession
the trend is increasing CLM Survey follows
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Logistics Facts Is Stranger than Fiction
Trucking is one aspect of logistics it is
multi-modal operations that requires skills good
education and critical experience.
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Age Defies Time A Bitter Pill to swallow
People of all ages work 16 are 30 years or
less,18 (31-35),20(36-40),22 (41-45), 18
(46-50),9 ( 50)
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Chanting Logistics Truth
Logistics attracts more brawn than brain In
today's Competitive business environment, it is
more than education, it is certification and
credentials on a continuous basis survival of
the fittest.
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Council of Logistics Management Survey of Career
Patterns of Women in Logistics
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What is logistics? TWIMP !!!
Logistics is the universal thread or pipeline
that plans and coordinates the delivery of
products and services to customers all over the
world.
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What is Supply Chain Management?
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How Important Is Logistics?

• Logistics has a huge impact on the domestic and
  global economy.
• Logistics is of critical importance to human
  survival.
• Logistics greatly impacts our quality of life.
• Logistics affects our success in a wide variety
  of endeavours.

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A well educated and trained Transportation and
Logistics professional can start on a salary of
Dhs 8000 (US 2500 p.m.) to Dhs. 12, 0000
(US3200).
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• First Level Management
• ( US 30,000 or Dhs.110,000 to US 80,000 or
• Dhs 290,000 per year)
• First level management / Supervision
• Analyst (Freight Rate Specialist)
• Customer Service Manager
• Transportation Coordinator
• Warehouse Outbound Operations Manager

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• Middle Management
• ( US 40,000 or Dhs145,000 to US 111,000
• or
• Dhs 400,000 per year)
• International Logistics Manager
• Inventory Planning Control Manager
• Transportation Manager
• Warehouse Operations Manager

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• EXECUTIVE LEVEL
• (US 85,000 or Dhs 300,000 per year to US
  275,000
• or Dhs.1 million )
• Director of Logistics
• Vice President of Logistics
• SOURCE 1997 Logistics and Supply Chain
• Management
• Compensation Survey Results prepared
• by William M. Mercer Inc.

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Career Path in Logistics
Distribution Centre Management
Corporate Logistics Management Or Corporate
Materials Management
Materials Coordinator
Production Management
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Career Path in Logistics
Terminal Supervision
Terminal Operations Director Or National
Account Representative
Sales
Terminal Management
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What skills do logistics managers need?

• Logistics manager works with people, processes,
  and information.
• People Skills
• Analytical Skills
• Communication Skills
• Computer Skills
• Flexibility

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A Sample Introductory Program For Transportation
Logistics
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A Sample Advanced Program For Logistics
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New International Credentials 2005-2006

• Through TLC you can register for credentials of
  international recognition.
• All these are North American Credentials.
• Surf on website www.translogistique.org

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What kinds of organizations employ logistics
managers?
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Career Strategy For Logistics
BS Logistics Management under a revised
curriculum overseen by professional experts and
academics
Short term workshops and seminars in logistics
and supply chain management within Kuwait / GCC
countries .
Join the GLF your local logistics society for
professional development
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Watch Out For A Cool Chain in a Supply Chain
Seminar
Third Cool Chain in 3 sectors January 21, 2007
/Palm Hotel Kuwait 7 sessions Current Trends and
Issues of Logistics
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Scott Peck Author of Road Less Travelled

• Psychotherapy is all things to all people . His
  agenda in this tome, which was first published in
  1978 but didn't become a bestseller until 1983,
  is to reconcile the psychoanalytic tradition with
  the conflicting cultural currents roiling the
  70s.

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox

• We tire of well-worn ways, we seek for new.
  This restless craving in the souls of men and
  women spurs them to climb, and to seek the
  mountain view.

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• Competing in the overcrowded industries is no
  way to sustain high performance.
• The real opportunity is to create blue oceans of
  uncontested marketplace.
• TLC professional development program in a 4 day
  format helps you to develop your appropriate
  strategy be it in the corporate or careers
  market.

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Thank you for your attention and time