As professional recruiters, we deal all the time with Job Descriptions and Resumes. These are useful tools, and they always will be. But recruiting has changed, and so has employment. This is the 21st century here, and let’s be honest: Job Descriptions are dry and...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
- 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...