CLusTER PROfiLE
Make Your Career
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in Transportation, Distribution & Logistics careers,
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wo of Southwest Airlines’ senior college degrees—if they are willing to
managers know firsthand what it’s set goals, take on challenges, and get the
THe Texas
like to see careers go places in the training they need.
transportation industry. Jim Ruppel “The sky is the limit,” says Lynne Cagle,
deparTmenT of
and Greg Wells both began their careers a curriculum specialist at the University
TransporTaTIon
handling baggage at the airline and of North Texas in Denton. According to
“both landed positions of increasing America’s Career InfoNet, the number of
summer emploYmenT program
responsibility,” says Southwest spokesman jobs available in Texas in this field will grow
gIves sTudenTs TraInIng In
Chris Mainz. “Today Ruppel is vice by 13 percent through 2012.
maInTenance, engIneerIng,
president of customer relations and rapid
rewards at our Dallas headquarters and By Land, sea, and Air
and TecHnIcal posITIons.
Wells is senior vice president of operations.” This cluster helps ensure that products
and people travel safely from point A to
Take on the Challenge point B and arrive on time. The cluster also
Careers in Transportation, Distribution includes people who maintain and support
& Logistics offer plenty of opportunities the equipment and transportation systems,
to advance, just as Ruppel and Wells have. keeping everything in motion in the air and
That’s true even for job seekers without on the land or sea.
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is Transportation, Distribution & Logistics the right cluster for you?
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Take this quiz to find out. Answer “yes” or “no” to the following questions.
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1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10.
Do you like Do you enjoy Do you Are you good Do you pay Do you think it have you ever Do you do When on a trip, Do you have
to travel? solving word organize at operating attention would be cool worked part- well in your are you the a perfectly
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problems or events at tools and to details? to drive trucks time delivering english, math, one who reads clean driving
brain teasers? school or machinery? or fly planes newspapers? and science the maps? record?
church? for a living? classes?
If you answered “yes” to five or more of the above questions, Transportation, Distribution & Logistics may be the right cluster for you. To get a more specific
and scientific measurement of your attitudes and abilities, ask your guidance counselor or teacher about taking a career assessment test or interest inventory.
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