Receiving · Picking · Shipping

Logistics application: show your workflows

“Worked in a warehouse” does not describe your skills. Explain your part from receiving to storage and shipping so the employer can compare your experience with its requirements.

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Separate tasks, equipment and qualifications

Incoming goods: What checks did you perform: quantity, condition or documents?
Storage: How did you assign locations and record goods movements?
Order picking: Did you use lists, scanners or a specific system?
Shipping: Which packing, labelling or handover steps did you handle?
Qualifications: Only name licences and certificates you hold, correctly. A vocational qualification and equipment licence are different.

Example without invented performance figures

General: “Did warehouse work.”

Checked deliveries against documentation, stored goods and picked orders from lists. Packed shipments and prepared collection.

Fictional example. Only use your real tasks and equipment experience. Qualifications must actually be held.

Explain accuracy with a real example

Describe a discrepancy spotted or a careful handover, explaining your own action. “Zero errors” or “highest productivity” require evidence.

Shift work and availability

State your actual availability against the advert. Do not claim “available anytime” if some shifts are impossible. Check your start date too.

Apply without a logistics qualification

Keep your real job title. Warehouse experience can matter without a logistics qualification. Separate practical experience, courses taken and future learning. Our career change guide helps explain the change.

Check before sending

Check dates, equipment knowledge and qualifications. Remove unintended leadership or qualifications. Attach certificates and licences yourself; no job is guaranteed.

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Our own sector examples. General reference: UZH Career Services on CVs. No collaboration with the university. Updated: 4 October 2026.