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Resume Spring Cleaning: How to Make Your Resume Tell a Story
Spring is right around the corner in Canada, and that means it’s time to conduct some spring cleaning on your resume! You might not be looking for a job right now, but you never know when a recruiter might approach you with a role, or when a great opportunity will pop...
Quick Resume Tip for Supply Chain: Don’t be Afraid of Metrics
Here’s another great resume tip from Argentus Senior Recruiter Rosanna Palermo - one that’s highly relevant for professionals in Procurement or other fields with quantitative impact on the bottom line: don’t be afraid to use metrics. And if you’re...
Infographic: How to Get a Job Using a Recruiter
Today, we’re going to jump into some advice for candidates about how to work with recruiters. We talk a lot about the world of recruitment – trends, career advice, etc. -- but it doesn’t hurt, once in a while, to directly speak to our network about what approach you...
Is LinkedIn in Trouble?
As a boutique recruitment agency, we at Argentus are huge proponents of LinkedIn. We love it as a tool for us to find the top professionals in Supply Chain (our area of specialty), as a platform for our content, and as a tool for professionals to network and...
Supply Chain Career Stalled? Get Motivated!
This guest post comes to us from Elaine Porteous, a freelance business writer with a focus on career management in Supply Chain and Procurement. Most people in supply chain go through a period of feeling that their career is in limbo. Great opportunities can be few,...
Quick Job Interview Tip: Don’t be Afraid to Research the Person Interviewing You
Here’s a great tip from Rosanna Palermo, one of Argentus’ senior recruiters: if you’re going for a job interview, don’t be afraid to research the individual who’s going to be interviewing you. It’s very common for Argentus’ recruiters (and any hiring experts,...

Argentus Search Stories: How to Avoid Risk in Contingent Staffing
The rise of a wave of high-skilled professionals working on contract (what Deloitte calls “the gig economy”) has led to an expanding gray area about the difference between a contractor and a permanent employee.
Is it Possible that Automation Will Actually Increase Hiring?
Last week, we posted an analysis of Deloitte’s 2016 Human Capital Survey that focused on the rising role Contingent Workers are playing in the 21st-century economy. As a brief aside in that article, we mentioned a surprising fact from the survey related to the issue...
What are Companies Looking for When Hiring in Procurement? (Infographic)
A few weeks ago, we offered an infographic aiming to answer the question: What are companies looking for when hiring in Supply Chain? That post clarified and condensed some of our recruiters’ most commonly-given advice to candidates into a...
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