Bill Paul, one of the most recommended Logistics Recruiter on LinkedIn, discussed the future of jobs in the Freight Forwarding industry.
Bill started in Freight Forwarding in 1970 in his native Birmingham, England. In 1980, he transferred to the US by Jardine Air Cargo to open up their North American operations. In 1985 , Bill joined Phoenix International who were a one-office Freight Forwarder with a staff of less than 50 people. Over the next 10 years, he was one of the principal architects in making them one of the top three Ocean Freight Forwarders on the Transpacific route. The company was sold to CH Robinson for $675 million but prior to that Bill had left to start his first Freight Forwarding Recruiting firm – Freight Match Services – in 1994. In 2012 , he sold that company and went back into Freight Forwarding for 3 years and then created Logitalent in 2015. Today Logitalent has 17 people based throughout the United States and are considered the premier Recruiting company for International Freight Forwarding and Domestic Truck Brokerage, working closely as Talent Partners with many of the largest Freight Forwarders in the world. Bill is the most recommended Logistics Recruiter on LinkedIn and one of the Top 1% of all Recruiters on that platform.