This guest post comes to us from Elaine Porteous, a freelance business writer with a focus on career management in Supply Chain and Procurement. In Supply Chain, there are job roles now that didn’t exist 5 years ago. In four years’ time there will be job...
One of the biggest areas of our recruitment practice at Argentus is helping companies leverage the high-skilled contingent workforce for their Procurement and Supply Chain functions. The world of work is changing, with more companies looking to leverage...
Written by Andrew Dunbar. This guest post first appeared on Kinaxis' industry blog, The 21st Century Supply Chain. It’s 2016, and data is everywhere. Alphabet Inc., owner of Google, has recently become the world’s most valuable company, in a large part due to its...
One of our missions on the Argentus blog is to stay up to date with trends in the world of recruitment – to educate ourselves and our readers about emerging issues and developments in hiring. In the fall, we wrote about why skilled immigrants are key to...
A few weeks ago, we offered an infographic that laid out key skills (hard skills + soft skills) that employers are looking for when hiring Supply Chain professionals. In that post, we condensed many discussions with hiring managers and senior...
It’s becoming harder than ever to find high-potential star performers in Supply Chain. That’s why it’s time to partner with Canada’s leading recruitment agency in the field. On the Argentus Blog, our number one mission is to be informative about what’s happening in...
One of the most popular posts in the Argentus blog archives is our 2014 comparison of Supply Chain salaries by gender. That post aimed to get at the heart of an issue we’d talked about quite a bit, which is the lack of women in Supply Chain...
Supply Chain talent is in higher demand than ever before. Baby boomers retiring is part of the picture, as is the fact that many young people aren’t aware of the field’s huge potential to drive business strategy, and strong compensation – plus the fact that it’s a...
It's a talent deficit in Supply Chain. How can organizations respond? For several years, we’ve been writing about the talent gap in Supply Chain. A combination of Baby Boomers moving towards retirement in the middle-to-upper echelons of Supply Chain Management,...