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This guest post was written by Frank Cavallaro, CEO of Fronetics Strategic Advisors. Fronetics is a boutique marketing firm focused on the logistics and supply chain industries. Today’s hiring managers in the supply chain face a number of challenges, so making the...

    Any effort to reward and encourage the new generation of Supply Chain talent is important to us at Argentus. By now, everyone knows that the baby boomers’ retirement is creating a vacuum in terms of Supply Chain talent, and the industry needs to do...

    For the past few years, there’s been a glut of articles about the millennial generation in the workforce. These articles originally focused on how millennials’ perceived laziness and entitlement kept them from securing long-term employment....

  Here’s a quick post to draw your attention to a cool infographic that illustrates the rise of Logistics. NPR’s Planet Money (a great economics and business podcast you should check out) recently put together a featurette about the most common jobs in the U.S....

  Every once in a while, we like to take a step back and assess the state of the job market, as well as the state of how people feel about it. It’s clear that the world of work is changing. The workforce is becoming nimbler, and it’s less common than ever for...

      Contract (contingent) work has taken off as an employment model in Procurement and Strategic Sourcing. More companies are realizing the benefits of hiring contract professionals to build strategic improvements into their Procurement function, and...

Written by Alexa Cheater. This post first appeared on the Kinaxis industry blog, The 21st Century Supply Chain. It's Time for the Evolution of Supply Chain: Here are 4 Characteristics to Watch for with Supply Chain 2.0 The right product, at the right place, at the...

The tables have turned... Employment references are one of the oldest tools in the book. Companies rely on them to vet hiring decisions, and to assess the stability, competence and reliability of a possible employee. As a recruitment firm that conducts references on...

You can file this one under “tips for working with recruiters” – the advice that we post with the goal of helping you get the most out of the recruiter / candidate relationship. Our tip today revolves around candidates meeting with a recruiter upon first connecting,...