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Argentus President Bronwen Hann Quoted in MarketWatch
A heads up for our network: Argentus President Bronwen Hann made the news! We’re always excited to speak on career issues for whoever’s listening, so we were thrilled last week when MarketWatch reporter Maria LaMagna reached out to Bronwen for her take on how...
The Quest for a Better Resume: Let’s Talk About Content
If you’re a professional in Procurement, Supply Chain, or any of their related fields, what exactly should go on a resume and what doesn’t belong there?
5 Tips for Achieving the Most Out of Your Supply Chain Analytics
This guest post comes from Fronetics, a boutique marketing firm focused on the Supply Chain and Logistics industries. Written by Katie Vazeos. In a recent study, MIT found that companies that focus on 5 key initiatives to improve their supply chain analytics can have...
The Quest for a Better Resume: Let’s Talk About Optics
Resumes are hard. Always have been, always will be. It’s hard to write and talk about yourself. It’s even harder to boil years – or even decades – of experience and accomplishments into a few short pages of text and visuals. You’re probably more focused on your job...
Why You’re Scaring Away Recruiters
Whether you’re actively looking for a new job and thinking about reaching out to a recruiter, or you’re a “passive” candidate who’s been approached by a recruiter with new opportunities, there are certain strategies and expectations that will help set you up for...
Infographic: Amazon & Uber’s Impact on Logistics
This Guest Post comes from TradeMachines. The logistics industry is worth over $8.1 trillion. Not only it is an incomprehensibly big market, there are countless factors shaping it. Globalization introduced a new level of complexity. International...
Talking About Procurement with Two Strategic Sourcing Pros: Outsourcing, Skills Challenges, Differences Between Markets
Over the years that we’ve been writing the Argentus blog, we’ve had the opportunity to interview a number of inspiring and accomplished leaders from within the fields of Procurement, Supply Chain Management, and Logistics. It’s always a great chance for us to talk...
An Optimist’s View of Blockchain in Supply Chain: Lessons from Bitcoin
Written by Dr. Madhav Durbha. This guest post first appeared on Kinaxis' industry blog, The 21st Century Supply Chain. These days, not a single supply chain conference I attend goes by without someone mentioning Blockchain. Given the growing chatter, I wanted to...
New Employee Surveillance Schemes are Taking Micromanagement to the Next Level
As part of our efforts to chronicle the ways the workplace is changing, we recently wrote about how more companies are adopting formal work from home policies. More organizations realizing that these policies – and other alternative working arrangements – can help...
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