Need Help - Funeral Attendant Position

Dear ladies and gentlemen of the pro-car world and funeral industry:

I need your help!

A position has opened locally with (what I assuming is) a major, international funeral company. The position is listed as "funeral attendant." The details are very basic: help set up for the funerals, possibly driver the funeral cars, etc. I believe I have the abilities to do these things and more.

I see this as an excellent opportunity to possibly enter this field, which is obviously here to stay. It's a field that will only continue to grow and change as time goes on.

Many people wouldn't even THINK of going into the funeral industry. I've heard things like "dead people gross me out," which I'm sure is just a branching of the superstition a lot of people feel about death.

I am a sincere, empathetic, and caring person. I have tried to relate these qualities, as well as my years of experience in retail customer experience, in such a way that I will be considered for the position.

I would like to ask for your permission for me to send you my cover letter. As far as my resume goes, the experience I have that is most relative to the funeral industry is in customer service. I worked with my wife, who was employed in a past life as a placement agent at a temp service, to make it professional and appealing. But I've got this cover letter, and I need it to pop! I don't want to post it here publicly - so would you be kind enough to volunteer your time and allow me to send it to you privately?

If you can help me, thank you for doing so. If not, I still love ya anyways.
 
If it's an SCI operation you will need to go to SCI Careers, locate that funeral home in that town, then apply on-line. Get ahead of the game. Call the funeral home for an interview or how they would like for you to apply. Be patient it does not happen overnight.

It is a step in the right direction but also consider the educational requirement for your state to see how you match up to that.

Good luck!
 
Funeral Service Terminology 101

Just an FYI about a term that is very often misused:

The funeral INDUSTRY is made up of manufacturers, dealers, and sales (and service) personnel that supply goods and services to the funeral profession...hearses, caskets, register books, fluids, etc.

The funeral PROFESSION consists of firms and practitioners that provide funeral related goods and services to the public...funeral directors, embalmers, and so forth.

Unfortunately, many funeral service practitioners get this wrong in their conversations and advertising.
 
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If it's an SCI operation you will need to go to SCI Careers, locate that funeral home in that town, then apply on-line.

It is indeed an SCI operation - but I have no idea which funeral home. I guess I need to find out who it is. All I know is the job was posted on Monster, which led me to the SCI main webpage, at which I applied and submitted my resume.
 
Just an FYI about a term that is very often misused:

The funeral INDUSTRY is made up of manufacturers, dealers, and sales (and service) personnel that supply goods and services to the funeral profession...hearses, caskets, register books, fluids, etc.

The funeral PROFESSION consists of firms and practitioners that provide funeral related goods and services to the public...funeral directors, embalmers, and so forth.

Unfortunately, many funeral service practitioners get this wrong in their conversations and advertising.

Good to know!
 
I was reading reviews at glassdoor.com, which allows people to rate the place of business that they work at or worked at. Almost universally, SCI's employees disliked the company. Anyone here have any insights on working for them you'd like to share?
 
Someone told me something years ago I found interesting, that being corporately owned doesn't make you inherently bad, and being an independently owned firm doesn't make you inherently good... with that said, I think each firm usually stands on its on to some degree as to whether is a great place to work or not...
 
Someone told me something years ago I found interesting, that being corporately owned doesn't make you inherently bad, and being an independently owned firm doesn't make you inherently good... with that said, I think each firm usually stands on its on to some degree as to whether is a great place to work or not...

That does make sense!
 
I was reading reviews at glassdoor.com, which allows people to rate the place of business that they work at or worked at. Almost universally, SCI's employees disliked the company. Anyone here have any insights on working for them you'd like to share?

I've read Glassdoor but can say all businesses have disgruntled employees. I've been with SCI for a year starting out as a funeral director and within 4 weeks promoted to General Manager of two funeral homes and a cemetery. Keep in mind they put me in charge of a 350 annual call cemetery and I had no cemetery experience.

If one thing has been preached to me by everyone with SCI it is, "Run the business as if you owned it. ALWAYS do the right thing" and I do.

Best of luck and if I can help in anyway, please let me know.
 
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