Argos is finding its new normal after an entire year of changes due to COVID-19. The week of April 23 saw Argos launch a total of seven hiring events for CDL drivers across the USA region. Over the course of the entire week, our team in the Carolinas hosted four virtual job fairs as a way to minimize any risk of infection of COVID-19. Both our Georgia and Texas markets were able to host live events outdoors, thanks to pleasant weather.

These events were also filled with precautions to help ensure everyone’s safety including, hosting the event outdoors, requiring masks, and thoroughly sanitizing high touch areas. These were the first of their kind since the pandemic, and our teams had to adjust their usual methods to help ensure the safety of all of those in attendance.

Each event required a rigorous interview process to ensure that each candidate that applied would be well suited for their position and had to go through three levels of interviews in order to be offered a position on the spot. To start each candidate’s process, they first had to meet with one of our hiring team members for a pre-screening to ensure they held all the proper licensing and experience required to drive one of our ready-mix trucks.

The next step of the process was comprised of a road test administered by one of our fantastic driver trainers. During this step, our candidates would get the chance to operate one of our trucks and demonstrate a number of feats the trainer asked them to perform. In order to help minimize the risk of COVID-19, masks and sanitizer were both employed during this exercise.

After passing the road test, our candidates would then begin the final interview with one of our hiring staff to ensure that they will be able to perform all their duties to the Argos standard. If our candidates were able to make it through all three levels of our hiring process, then they would be offered a position on the spot providing they were able to pass their physical and drug screening test. We are happy to announce that each and every one of our driver hiring events was successful! We are so happy to see our Argos family of workers grow again!