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In Supply Chain, Applicant Tracking Systems MAY Filter out Best Qualified Candidates – WHY?
Representation through a very specialised Recruiter often gets better Consideration from Hiring Managers. We just read this great article from Forbes about how to get your resume scanned and accessed properly by automated Resume Tracking Systems. It’s a thorn in...
Rotman MBA Career Fair: Meeting the Next Generation of Supply Chain Leadership
Rotman MBA Career Fair: Meeting the Next Generation of Supply Chain Leadership On Monday, March 3rd Sam Manna and Rob Atherton, two of Argentus’ top recruiters, attended an event at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management. Aimed at approximately 150...
Supply Chain Talent Search – Direct Hire or Contingent Staffing: Two Powerful Weapons in Your Arsenal
Over the past year and a half, we’ve posted extensively about the benefits of the high-skillled Contingent workforce in Supply Chain, Procurement, Planning, Operations, Logistics/Transportation and Strategic Sourcing specifically. We've written about these advantages...
Winter Weather Illustrates the Importance of Supply Chain Flexibility
It’s March, so everywhere we go we hear the same refrain: people are sick of the winter weather. Statistically, this winter has been one of the coldest in the past few decades in Canada. The home stretch is always when winter seems like it’ll go on forever. Well,...
Back on the Millennial beat: Supply Chain experts tap Millennials to fill the talent gap in the coming years
It’s remarkable how quickly the tone of many ‘think pieces’ has morphed from portraying Millennials as incompetent, entitled and lazy to touting them as creative, tenacious and disciplined. That’s quite the eye opener. Back in December, we posted an article called...
This is so amazing. Thank you East York Bulldogs for doing us proud
Argentus’ Sponsored Hockey team, the East York Bulldogs, Supports a Local Hockey Mom Every once in a while, we feel the need to post about something that doesn’t have to do with our usual subject matter (you know, Supply Chain, Procurement, the Recruiting industry,...
The Traditional Job Description, a poor solution for the 21st Century for a more Entrepreneurial Business Culture
We posted a few months ago about how candidates shouldn’t use job descriptions to talk themselves out of a job. We’ve also posted about how companies should be flexible when considering candidates in comparison to job descriptions. Let’s face it, job descriptions will...
Looking to scale a startup? Supply Chain is Crucial
Startups have many great options for scaling their Supply Chain Startups have been huge the past few years. Everyone associates startups with Tech and Apps and Social Media, especially with stories in the news like Facebook’s $19 Billion acquisition of social...
Who is better to effect the Toughest changes in Strategic Sourcing? Your Permanent Team or Third Party Contractors?
Change better handled by Third Party Contingency Experts... We have some interesting thought leadership to share via one of our senior Strategic Sourcing professionals in our network concerning the role of Strategic Sourcing as it is today and moving forward. This...
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