Many trucking operations have higher standards than Federal minimum requirements. Drivers are often required to be at least 22 years old, able to lift heavy objects, and have 3-5 years driving experience. Companies want to hire good drivers who work efficiently and cost less to insure. They like drivers who have enrolled in driver-training courses. New drivers might begin on small straight trucks and graduate to larger trucks and finally to tractor-trailers. A few truck drivers advance high enough to become dispatchers, managers, or traffic workers.

Heavy truck and tractor-trailer drivers earned an average of $16 per hour in 2002. The highest 10% of this group earned more than $24 an hour. Driving a truck is a great career with lots of room for promotion and advancement. After moving all way up chain of promotion within a company, truck drivers often strike out on their own and open successful transport businesses GA

Air Liquide is a major international company and is also a private carrier. This means it maintains its own truck fleet and hires truck drivers. Because Air Liquide is such successful company, driving jobs with Air Liquide are stable, well supported positions. Solo Air Liquide drivers can expect to be home 80-90% of time and make between $50,000 and $70,000 a year depending on type of run and work performance. Air Liquide provides benefits like medical and life insurance, performance benefits, ample vacation time, flexible spending accounts, and quarterly profit sharing. As Air Liquide grows and succeeds, so do each of its employees! If you are interested in a truck driving job, you should apply here to drive for Air Liquide. Find out more about Air Liquide

Since interviewers are looking for candidates who display a positive attitude, you should state that you enjoy your job; that you are enthusiastic and ambitious; and that you welcome challenge.

It is important to tell truth in interviews. However, try to present facts as persuasively as you can. It would be pointless and self-defeating to reveal negative facts which are largely irrelevant and which only serve to highlight weaknesses in your case. So examine and assess your own case and tailor facts to give best and most positive impression.

It is essential to develop a rapport with interviewer. If you can give impression that you are in agreement or have something in common with interviewer and if interviewer takes a liking to you, you are off to a great start. So be pleasant and agreeable.

On other hand, it would be a grave mistake to appear as a grovelling 'yes' man or woman. Discretion should be your watch-word in this as in other areas.

Interviewers usually place a greater emphasis on experience than on paper qualifications, so it is up to you to convince them that your experience qualifies you for job on offer. This will involve using your experience as evidence to support statements that you make in answers to questions.

Now to sum up: here are success secrets known understood and applied by thousands of successful job interviewees.

1. Make adequate preparation to enable you to express yourself fluently in interview situation.

2. Be confident but try not to sound conceited: use examples to support your answers.

3. Make sure to acquaint interviewer with all relevant information in support of your case.

4. Relate all your answers to job for which you are applying.

5. Look out for indirect questions and know how to cope with them. 6. Concentrate on positive aspects of your case and be ready to deal with questions relating to any negative aspects.

7. Do not tell lies, but tailor truth in order to present a positive impression of yourself.

8. Determine to establish a rapport with interviewer right from start.

9. Convince interviewer that your experience entitles you to job.

************************************************************ The above article is an extract from introduction to 'Four Minutes to Interview Success',an audio-cassette based guide to CVs and Interviews, which has been recommended by N.Ireland Government Training and Employment Agency, and featured in 'Irish Independent', 'Daily Express', and numerous other publications. www.assignmentsplus.com

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