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3 Tips to Make Your Supply Chain Resume Shine
I wanted to share something with our Global Supply Chain Management network which I read last year and wanted to pass through my network again. Thank you to Richard C. Wilson of Supply Chain Management Training.com who originally wrote about this in his blog. Today’s...
NICHE RECRUITERS SCORING TOP MARKS
Reaching out to a Third Party Recruiter, are you sure you’ve got the right one?? Sure, it easier for companies to directly hire the right talent for even the most demanding roles. At first glance it’s a bit like being a kid in a candy store. For the in-house Talent...
Great Advice From a Retail Hiring Manager
Thanks to Joshua Muir, Regional General Manager at Lenscrafters (BC) for this great reminder to our Retail Executives as well as Category Managers as well as other Operations Personnel. This is something we all know but boy, we really need to keep reminding ourselves...
BUSINESS RELATIONSHIPS DO MATTER MOST – THE $$$ COME
Thanks to Tim Mayeur (Argentus’ guest blogger TODAY), Ecommerce Operations Professional within the Retail Sector and with one of North America’s largest Big Box Retailers, for giving us some further insight about why Relationships with Customers is so very important....
CONTINGENT WORKFORCE – Strategic Sourcing & Supply Chain A Solution to Balance your Budget
One of the advantages of experience is that you get to see what’s old become new again. We cut our teeth on providing IT contingent/contract labor in the 80’s, and were part of and watched the growth of the industry into the monolith it is today, a worldwide...
want to be interesting…BE INTERESTED (networking better)
I would like to say a big thanks to Michael Marco who is in my network (http://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelmarco) for his LinkedIn posting recently reminding us avid one track networkers that “If you want to be interesting, be interested. Give before you get.” I was...
What’s in a TITLE? SCM & Purchasing Groups Putting Too Much Emphasis on Job Titles vs Role Content
A word of caution for everyone involved in the hiring process: Hiring Managers, Third Party Talent Acquisition Specialists & In-House Recruiters. This is an easy trap to fall into. A title shouldn’t be a deciding factor on whether a candidate’s resume gets on...
Recruiter’s Weekly Reflection
We know what the middle man feels like. So we have to try and tell a client what they think is a self serving message (on our part), which is, there are simply more jobs than people. Just do a search on any job board for Procurement and Senior Logistics or Planning...
Internal HR/Hiring Managers most DEFINITELY folding in LinkedIn profiles as part of Job Screening
How many interview opportunities for key roles are you missing out on simply because your LinkedIn profile is just way too THIN in content? Here’s a heads up, you are likely getting passed over way more often than you think. From the recruiting partner’s perspective,...
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