Getting a Job in Sanitation

Product Description
There are many viable, secure, and rewarding careers available to those with little or no postsecondary education. Sanitation is one of these industries. This volume reveals the wide range of activities within the industry, going well beyond garbage pick-up and hauling to recycling, snow removal, storm cleanup, and disaster relief efforts. Your readers will gain a new respect for and greater understanding of sanitation work. Essential information is provided regarding testing and training requirements, job search and interview strategies, public or private employment, workplace expectations, etiquette, and benefits.
From School Library Journal
Gr 7-10-Written in a clear, straightforward style, this series assumes readers have no prior knowledge of the featured vocations. In five or six thorough chapters per volume, the authors offer overviews of various fields and the choices students entering them need to consider. The chapters continue with the steps readers can do now to prepare, and what will be expected later. Finding a job, interviewing, paperwork, and what perspective workers will learn on the job are all discussed. The main texts can sometimes look squeezed and the spacing odd. The books contain attractive, captioned color photos; headings; fairly large font; and sidebars with additional information. α(c) Copyright 2013. Library Journal. LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.
From Booklist
While young children are fascinated by big, noisy trash trucks, teens might be reticent to consider a career in sanitation. But in this volume of the Job Basics: Getting the Job You Need series, Meyer focuses on the physical laborers who provide communities with vital sanitation services, rather than exploring positions in the field that require higher levels of education. She discusses education requirements (high-school diploma, certificate of completion, or GED) and potential exams (commercial driver’s license and perhaps a civil service exam), job search techniques, application process, interview cues, and training. Meyer gives cursory attention to the historical need for sanitary workers and the 1968 Memphis sanitation workers’ strike that led to unionization. Despite a few typos, this is still a valuable resource. Grades 7-10. --J. B. Petty
Review
Book review: Getting a Job in Sanitation. "While young children are fascinated by big, noisy trash trucks, teens might be reticent to consider a career in sanitation. But in this volume of the Job Basics: Getting the Job You Need series, Meyer focuses on the physical laborers who provide communities with vital sanitation services... She discusses education requirements, ... job search techniques, application process, interview cues, and training ... a valuable resource." -- J. B. Petty, Booklist