FedEx Poolie Calls

[big_al]

wow, you people responding to me are even more pathetic than I thought. Fedex Express is the "express" delivery name for one of their options. The COMPANY NAME is called fedex, or federal express. If somebody in HR calls you and says they work for fedex express, they obviously have no idea what their company name is and probably just got out of college.

 

[skykid]

I saw a group of guys in the AOC yesterday with "Purple Nugget" shirts. They looked like they were having a little fun with that ridiculous term - good for them. One guy was "Purple Nugget Caboose." Must have been the early May new hire class.

 

[sandman2122]

I just dumped a few "pur..............

oh forget it - that's too easy!

 

[Zulu]

wow, you people responding to me are even more pathetic than I thought. Fedex Express is the "express" delivery name for one of their options. The COMPANY NAME is called fedex, or federal express. If somebody in HR calls you and says they work for fedex express, they obviously have no idea what their company name is and probably just got out of college.

Wrong again Skippy. FedEx is the CORPORATION. FedEx Express is ONE of the INDEPENDENT COMPANIES under the FedEx corporate umbrella.

This is straight from the fedex.com web site (italics added):
"FedEx Corporation provides strategic leadership and consolidated financial reporting for the independent companies that make up today's FedEx: FedEx Express, FedEx Ground, FedEx Freight, FedEx Kinko's Office and Print Services, FedEx Custom Critical, FedEx Trade Networks, FedEx Supply Chain Services and FedEx Services."

 

[Falconjet]

Won't get a call back...like he is no longer hired? Out of the pool for good?

Ouch.

Another example of the fact that you are not "hired" until you are sitting in a classroom with an ID badge and an employee number.

FJ

 

[Hugh Jorgan]

Have you ever heard and Asian try and Pronounce "Federal Express"?
Japan: fedellarr expallessu
Philippines: Pederallllllllllllllllll exparesh
Korea, China, Taiwan, Thailand: ferr espeh

I think they changed the corporate name when international expansion required a more business lingua-franca-friendly name. Call me crazy.

 

[Phaedrus]

Hugh, I'm coughing up coffee reading your asian-phonics version of Federal Express. Well done.

 

[ViewCola]

I was told that you really should know who you are applying to work for so make sure your resume says FedEx Express.

If that is where you want to work.

 

[fartknocker]

I was told that you really should know who you are applying to work for so make sure your resume says FedEx Express.

If that is where you want to work.

Yep, it's all in the details.

http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1051648/M/http://www.airliners.net/open.file/1051648/M/

Since that is what the airplanes have painted on them, your resume should say the same.

 

[ViewCola]

Maybe I should have used some color on my resume?

FedEx Express...

 

[GrapeApe]

I was told that you really should know who you are applying to work for so make sure your resume says FedEx Express.

If that is where you want to work

I put "Federal Express" on my resume and it worked just fine. Don't think that is going to make or break anyone.

Here I am, taking part in hijacking a perfectly good thread.

 

[SilentBob]

I put FedEx on my resume and I'm in the pool. Be accurate, professional and neat and I guess they don't kick you to the curb for not putting "Express" on there. They do pour over the numbers and where you've been (in my case with a highlighter). Expect them to know about or have even been in some of the jobs you've done (mine did and had).

 

[JerkyHerky]

At some airlines, i.e. AA and UAL, it seemed as if the company was more interested in how the app and resume are filled out (like at AA you had to complete the App in a #2 lead pencil, etc.) at FedEx they are more interested in the content of the app. They do read the resumes very closely, but only for content that describes the kind of experience (aviation and personal) that the candidate has. This opinion based upon meet n' greet experience.

 

[Sluggo_63]

...at FedEx they are more interested in the content of the app. They do read the resumes very closely, but only for content that describes the kind of experience (aviation and personal) that the candidate has. This opinion based upon meet n' greet experience.

I agree, but I think if you went into an interview, and kept calling the company "Federal Express" vice "FedEx," the interviewers would wonder how much you had looked into the company.

 

[GrapeApe]

In my opinion, I think the interviewers are looking at your communication skills, verification of your experience, and ability to play nice with others on a 10 day trip. If you can quote the history of FedEx from the time Fred Smith wrote his term paper to the beginning in Little Rock and beyond, that's great but not what I think they are looking for. I have been wrong before but that's my guess....