If you watch shows about how things are made,
how machines work or the fascinating things people invent...
If a half-hour conversation about replacement
parts for your mountain bike is a good time...
If you are the go-to person when the instructions
for assembly are in a language no one recognizes...
If you are both a hands-on problem solver and a
people person...
Then you're the perfect candidate for a job
in industrial distribution!
Industrial distribution employs more than 3.3 million people in every state
and province across the United States and Canada. Not
only are there millions of jobs in industrial distribution, these jobs
offer interesting challenges, competitive pay, safe and stable working
conditions and countless career paths. And more than 1 million of
those jobs are in business-to-business sales positions -- providing
solutions, building relationships, offering products and valuable
services to industrial customers.
The more than 80,000 industrial
distribution companies contribute almost 6 percent to
the U.S. and Canadian GDP.
These big numbers describe a business sector that is the critical link
in industry--supplying industry with the parts, products, services and
solutions needed to serve the consumer and drive the economy.
You may not have noticed industrial distributors in your community
because they don't serve the general public or the retail
customer. Industrial distribution companies are there, employing
people and serving industry.
