This week’s job listings cover some different areas of the country: the heights of the Rocky Mountains and the wide prairies of Oklahoma, and more. One of the great things about being a well-trained heavy equipment operator from a certified school like ATS is the lifetime nationwide employment assistance that gives you the foundation for working in many different locations. It’s an adventure!

Berthoud, CO — hiring crane operators

Adams, WI — hiring local truck drivers

Milwaukee, WI — hiring class-a CDL truck drivers

Broken Arrow, OK — hiring heavy equipment operators

Middlebury, VT — hiring heavy equipment operators

Palmer, AK — hiring crane operators

Menomonie Falls, WI — hiring local delivery drivers

Cary, NC — hiring dozer, excavator and pan operators

You will find opportunities like these every day on the Total Resources Network website. Being a graduate of ATS Heavy Equipment Operator Training School gives you access to a lot of job opportunities, and it’s up to you to choose the best situation for you and your family.

Whether you need to relocate for family reasons or just want to see what another part of the country is like, these two resources are the first place to look for positions. You will find that we have knowledge of employment opportunities because of our reputation for training excellent professionals. Take advantage of the ATS advantage and find a job today.

This week there are a lot of job listings all over the country, and many of them are CDL drivers. Did you know when you come to ATS for training as a heavy equipment operator that it only takes two to four more weeks to get your CDL training, as well? That simple investment puts you in the enviable position of being able to do a lot more on the job site and you will usually get the job at a higher wage. This is because you are more valuable to your employer. The return on your investment is pretty high, and many heavy equipment operators will also get their CDL for that reason.

Here are a few of the jobs available:

Amherst, WI. H.O. WOLDING hiring CDL drivers.

Mentor, OH. hiring boom truck operators.

Baraboo, WI. hiring dump truck drivers.

Janesville, WI. hiring CDL truck drivers.

Tulsa, OK. hiring heavy equipment operators.

Elbert, CO. hiring heavy equipment operators.

Sauk City, WI. hiring CDL truck drivers.

Neenah, WI. hiring CDL truck drivers

Fond Du Lac, WI. hiring CDL truck drivers

Wasilla, AK. hiring heavy equipment operators.

Green Bay, WI. hiring CDL truck drivers

Madison WI. hiring CDL truck drivers

Traverse City, MI. hiring heavy equipment operators and crane operators.

Hernando, FL. hiring Crane operators and riggers

Trego, WI. hiring CDL truck drivers

You’ll find a constantly updated source of information at the Total Resources Network website, and as an ATS graduate, you can use all the services on the site.

Some “employment assistance” places don’t really help you all that much. You could have access to a list of job openings but not given help writing a resume, for instance. One place held a resume-writing workshop where the instructor told the students that resumes really don’t matter because networking is how people get jobs! That workshop ended with a lot of students scratching their heads in bewilderment since they were there to learn how to write a resume. (And honestly, your resume is just as important as networking. It isn’t one or the other.)

What ATS Employment Assistance Offers

• Personal Career Counseling starts the first week of training, with an entrance interview where your Assistance Coordinator finds out what industries and locations you are interested in. Your individual goals become the base for the job packet you receive when you graduate; a list of employers, information about your training and skills, and other helpful stuff. Our Employment Assistance Department is open five days a week and we follow graduates up to make sure your career is where you want it to be — and if it isn’t, you can ask for help.
• Soft Skills are the things like writing resumes, interview techniques, networking methods, application procedures, and all the other factors that can keep a good heavy equipment operator looking for a job if they aren’t there. Your instructors are people who have worked in the industry in many positions and know what it takes to get that job.
• Job Leads at ATS are pulled from our Job Leads Database, one of the best sources of heavy equipment positions in the nation. For twenty years, this database has been constantly updated to maintain a comprehensive storehouse of information that students and graduates can search by state, city, or zip code whenever they need to find a new job.
• Total Resources Network is the ATS employment assistance website and this is truly a total resource. You can post your information and be found by employers looking for someone with your skills, or look for openings by location & job description. You can apply for jobs on the site, post resumes, network, and more. And, there’s no time limit on how long you can use it. If you need to find a new job ten years from now, you can get on the site as a graduate of ATS.

If you are a graduate of ATS Heavy Equipment Operator Training School, the answer to “how much employment assistance do you want?” is up to you.

Soft skills are things like writing resumes, filling out applications, interview skills, and stuff like that. Soft skills probably won’t be needed once you get hired to operate heavy equipment, although many jobs will require being able to navigate software or do paperwork. Soft skills might not seem too important until the lack of these skills keeps you from getting hired.

You see, many times, your resume and application are screened by a computer first, so a mistake can kick it right out of the running. Simple things like a typo can make a huge difference. So can having the right keywords in your resume, because the screener will be looking for words that match the job description. Therefore, application procedures are part of the training at ATS.

After that, in a large company you might be interviewed by someone in HR who works inside all day. Even if they got your name from your postings on Total Resources Network and trust your training at ATS, there will be some evaluation based on how you dress, speak, and act during the interview.

One of the words that comes up in a discussion of “soft skills” is networking. Networking is basically your people skills, and building relationships that are appropriate and professional with the idea that you will be running into these people repeatedly during your career. A network of people help each other. Some are just acquaintances, others are friends and coworkers. But when suggestions for job openings come up, they can give you a lead. Or you can help them by providing a reference about their reliability. Everyone you meet could potentially be part of your network.

For instance, your instructors at ATS Heavy Equipment Operator Training School are good sources of information about how to find jobs, and the resources needed. They know because they’ve got experience as business owners, foremen, and superintendents on job sites. During your training they are great additions to your network.

Soft skills aren’t things that you use once and then ignore. All the soft skills you learn at ATS will help you in many ways your whole life long. Our Career Services have been designed from years of experience, and we have found that graduates who use the soft skills they developed at ATS go on to succeed in whatever they do.

Associated Training Services (ATS) Heavy Equipment Operator Training School is one of the best places in the country to get trained for the job you want with heavy equipment. It’s also one of the best at helping you find the job that’s right for you, get through the application process successfully, and be prepared for an interview.

Find the job that’s right for you

As soon as you start your training at ATS, our Career Services personnel start working with you to provide personal career counseling. This can end up being a lifelong friendship because you get continued career help after graduation if you want it. The beginning of that career help is the entrance interview to establish career goals, industries you are interested in, and even the geographic location you’d like to be working in. You’ll get a job packet with a list of employers in that location and any other information that would be helpful in your chosen career.

Get through the application process successfully

One of the challenges of finding a job after you graduate is figuring out where the openings are. The ATS Job Leads Database is constantly being updated. You see a few every Saturday on this blog. But as a graduate, you have access to the whole thing and can search job leads by state, city, or zip code. Our ATS Career Services website lets you search by job descriptions too, and you can apply right from the site. You can post your resume (we teach you how to write a good one) and the employers can find YOU too.

Be prepared for an interview

It isn’t enough to know how to do the job if you flunk the job search process. So ATS trains students in the “soft skills” that a successful job search takes – like interview skills, networking, how to write resumes, application processes, and all the rest of it. Your ATS instructor has worked in their field and gone through the hoops to get a job out there, too. All our instructors are skilled and experienced and teach from that experience, including how they found their jobs and what that process was like.

Our Career Services are an important part of the package you get when you come to ATS.

In a lot of ways, a graduate of ATS Heavy Equipment Operator Training School has got hard skills and soft skills. Knowing how to identify soil, read a grade, understand site layout management, etc. while competently maintaining and safely operating a wide variety of heavy equipment is the stuff you will be doing every day for the life of your job. That’s hard, but that’s why training is important. The “hard” skills are the ones you use on the job.

But in order to actually get that job, you need some “soft” skills. These are things you won’t necessarily be doing on the job so it is easy to overlook them in preparing for a career. But ATS doesn’t overlook those soft skills; they are included in your training. Our Career Services office starts working with students from the beginning, helping to create a plan for what happens after your training is complete. Part of that plan is going to involve these three “soft” skills:

• application procedures
• networking methods
• interviewing techniques

You will probably appreciate the value of the second, networking, throughout your career because it is always going to be important to stay connected to people. But in the job-search sense, it is a soft skill because you don’t use it all the time while doing your job. You won’t be applying for a job every day, either, or interviewing. But each of these skills can get you hired.

They get you hired because they help you get through the filters an employer uses to narrow down who will be interviewed, and then they help you give a good impression of your abilities when you interview. If your application isn’t submitted properly, the computer will reject it before a person ever sees it. If the references on your resume aren’t so great (networking), then you might not get called in for the interview. And if you are not able to show how you will be an asset to the company at the interview, you probably won’t get hired.

So our Career Services works with you as part of the training, helping you develop those soft skills while you are learning the hard skills that will keep you employed as a successful professional heavy equipment operator.

One of the keys to happiness is being in the right career that you love. Poll enough people and you’ll discover that the people who are the happiest in life have a few things going for them. One of those things is that they are working in a career that is suited for them. Truck drivers are no different.

If you have a desire to be a truck driver, why not start right now? Associated Training Services offers truck driver training, and we have a few classes opening up soon.

Maybe you don’t want to be a truck driver. Perhaps you’d prefer to be a crane operator or a rigger. That’s fine. We have training classes for those occupations too.

The heavy equipment profession is one of the most lucrative non-degreed occupations in the world. It’s a highly specialized field that requires the proper training in safety and behind-the-wheel practical training in order to ensure that the workers let loose on the job site are qualified and certified for the job. Whether you desire to operate bulldozers, forklifts, cranes, dump trucks, or something in between, it all starts with training.

Now that the New Year is here, why not evaluate your career goals? Are you ready for a change? Do you think you’d enjoy the heavy equipment field? Then look into the training necessary to build a successful career as a heavy equipment operator.

Last weekend, Associated Training Services (ATS) posted a pretty good listing of heavy equipment jobs and trucking jobs from around the country. Of course, we posted some on the previous weekend and the weekend before that too.

You can try to keep up with these job listings on a weekly basis, but if you put all your eggs in one basket, you are not likely to get a job at all.

The best approach to finding a job in trucking is to get the necessary training, such as a course in truck driving that prepares you for your CDL testing, and follow that up by circulating your resume to employers looking for truck drivers.

The same goes for heavy equipment jobs. If you want a job as a rigger or signalperson, as a crane operator, or as a heavy equipment operator, then you should get trained and qualified. After you’ve achieved a basic level of education in the proper skills, then you can start circulating your resume. ATS has a job bank, a list of employers looking for qualified personnel. Our career services department will help you find employment after you graduate from one of our classes.

Getting a job in trucking or heavy equipment operations is not difficult for workers who are qualified and certified. You can start that journey today.

One of the best benefits to getting your career training through a company like Associated Training Services (ATS) is you’ll gain access to thousands of employers who are hiring right now through the career services department. This isn’t just some formality. ATS really wants you to succeed in finding your first job.

Why enroll in career training if you don’t have a reasonable chance of receiving employment when you graduate? ATS sees itself as an advocate for truckers and heavy equipment operators.

In other words, we don’t just train you and throw you to the wolves. We train you and work with you until you are employed. That means we want you to get your first job because it’s a feather in our cap as much as it is income in your pocket. When you’re successful, we’re successful.

So what do you get through the ATS career services department? Here’s how we support you:

• Personal career counseling – We work with you from your first week of training by assigning you a career services counselor. You’ll get a list of employers in your geographical area who are hiring and some tips on landing your first job.
• Soft skills training – These are job search and interviewing skills. We don’t just train you to handle heavy equipment. We also train you in the competitive art of searching for work and landing your job – and that includes what to say in your interview, how to present yourself confidently, and even how to prepare a resume.
• Job leads – Yes, we’ll tell who is hiring and where.
• Career services website – Our career services website lists all the best heavy equipment and truck driving jobs nationwide. If you can’t find a job on our website, then you’re not employable. Our success rate, however, testifies to how well we train our students to find work after they graduate.

Your heavy equipment career starts the day you start training. We don’t give up on you and we won’t let you give up on yourself.

We take a very different approach to heavy equipment training – we target our training and efforts into helping people start a career as heavy equipment operators. This means training our students in the skills that employers are looking for, not just the very basics. Our focus is also on helping students get into the workplace as operators as quickly as possible.

How do we achieve this? Our training packages include access to our career services department. They will meet with each student early on in their training to help them develop a job placement plan. This includes assistance with resumes, job applications and interview preparation. We also provide access to a database that has thousands of employers listed. This makes finding suitable employers in your region an easy task.

Our assistance doesn’t stop there. We have a dedicated jobs website that frequently lists job vacancies. These vacancies are provided by employers – a sure sign that employers trust our training and the quality of our graduates. As a graduate, you can add your resume to the database; this makes it easier for employers to find you.

If you are considering a career as a heavy equipment operator, then your focus should be on your career. Your training is just one of the steps required to develop that career, the other being experience in the work place. When looking for a heavy equipment training school, be sure to select one that has job placement as the focus, not simple basic training.