Internal Hiring:


FedEx has a policy of giving preference to its own employees before hiring from outside of the company. If you are a permanent employee, part-time or full-time, and qualified for a particular job, you will be considered before anyone "off the street" is considered.


If you are a courier, or handler, or customer service representative, or master coffee maker, and you meet the qualifications for "Crewmember", you will get an interview. One qualification that is often overlooked and that could be troublesome is "recency of experience." If you're unable to maintain recency of experience while being the master coffee maker, you don't qualify for the interview after all.


So, it's a sure thing (guaranteed interview), but it's also a gamble. Suppose you accept the master coffee maker position tomorrow, and this weekend discover that your UPT table mate is a Chief Pilot at FedEx and will bring you in for an interview before Thanksgiving. Whoops. You have this little 1-year commitment as the master coffee maker to fulfill before he can call you in for an interview. When you take the "I'll-do-anything-to-get-an-interview" job, you're really putting a lot of your eggs in that one basket.



I recommend you work as hard as possible on the network side of the equation to start off. The Internal route is an option, but it's not without risk. Even if you get the interview, there's no guarantee you'll get the job. That would be a very discouraging way to end a year of coffee making.




Good luck!




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