Exercise #2 Scenario: You are the Human Resources Director for Fedex Corporation, responsible for recruiting and hiring all Fedex drivers in the U.S. As unemployment has dropped, the challenges of maintaining a full crew of drivers has increased. It is time to write your recruiting plan for next year, and you need to research the external factors that could make your job either easier or harder.

Factual Questions:

1. How many Delivery Truck Drivers were employed in the U.S. for the most recent year reported?

2. What is the Job Outlook for growth in the number of Delivery Truck Drivers over the upcoming 10 years? Is this considered average, faster than average, or slower than average?

3. What is the unemployment rate for the most recently reported month, and how does it compare to the same month one year ago?

4. The American Trucking Association website predicts a shortage of how many drivers by the end of 2017? What factors do they mention as contributing to the shortage?

5. What percentage of total retail sales were contributed to e-commerce in the most recent quarter reported? How about the same quarter a year ago?