AND...THAT’S EXACTLY WHY A GREAT RECRUITER IN A NARROW SPECIALITY IS NEVER GOING TO BECOME OBSOLETE. For centuries, technology has been making jobs obsolete. And it seems that these days, people are eager to throw RECRUITERS onto the heap. These dire prognosticators...
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It’s your phone number – USE IT otherwise we can’t reach you!!!!
It occured to me today as I went to review the resume of a really fantastic Director, Strategic Sourcing who had just reached out to me to begin a career search (very confidential he is extremely passive and wants only to engage with ONE really experienced and well...
The Jobs are There, the Great Salaries are There, so Where are those SCM Candidates?
At Argentus Talent Acquisition, we know that Supply Chain Management is one of the hottest fields out there. How else could we focus our entire recruiting practice on such a narrow vertical? You don’t see entire recruiting firms dedicated to hiring in verticals like...
‘Super-Temps’, highly skilled Contingent knowledge workers for Strat Sourcing/SCM will help bridge the need for 80000 NEW jobs annually
Professionally,I am extremely happy to have chosen Supply Chain Management over the last few years as my area to become an intense specialist in. It amazes me how exciting it is and how it continues to be a growth area at the nucleus of competitive globalisation in...
Contingent Staffing is top productivity asset in Supply Chain Optimisation
Talk of OPTIMISATION is everywhere these days in business. So we give a lot of thought to BETTER AND MORE optimisation opportunities for the Supply Chain and Talent Acquisition. I read a very interesting article from PICS that suggests that Contingent/Contract workers...
WANT PEOPLE TO PAY ATTENTION TO YOU…THEN PAY ATTENTION TO THEM (learn to network better)
BE ENGAGED AND BE ENGAGING A few months ago a senior Finance Executive in my network reminded those avid one track networkers who are knee deep in Social Media (LinkedIn and Twitter…) that “If you want to be interesting, be interested. Give before you get.” It struck...
Video conferencing a game changer in Procurement/Supply Chain screening in 2013
One of the hottest trends in Strategic Sourcing – Procurement -Supply Chain Recruiting moving into 2013 is the rise of online video-conferencing. If your company hasn't already seriously checked this out, you need to do so now. Why? In today's chronically tight...
CAN WHAT YOU SAY ON SOCIAL MEDIA GET YOU IN THE……
- Facebook - Twitter - LinkedIn...Becoming a tangled web - Just in case you had any lingering doubt about the power of social media, consider the following: On July 3rd of this year, Netflix CEO Reed Hastings posted to his Facebook page that Netflix subscribers “had...
So How Come YOU Don’t have a Picture on LinkedIn Yet?
GET A PICTURE - A GOOD PICTURE - ON LINKEDIN NOW!!! This morning, as I was puttering around on LinkedIn – as I do every morning (it’s my time to give my endorsements, in response to those who have been so kind as to me their thumbs-up for my work), it occurred to me...