Posting open positions to job boards don’t work for job seekers, and they create more busy work for employers. So why do companies still use them? This guest post comes to us from Argentus Supply Chain Recruiting, a boutique recruitment firm specializing in Supply Chain Management and Procurement. Every year, recruitment technology evolves. Skype comes
Today’s hiring managers in the supply chain face a number of challenges, so making the right hire is more difficult, and more important, than ever. Finding the right person for a job opening is essential. Hiring the wrong candidate can be costly, not only in terms of team morale and productivity, but financially as well. The
A veteran recruiter explains where the supply chain talent shortage is headed and how companies can overcome the challenges. A recent report on the supply chain talent gap draws a sobering conclusion: The supply chain management profession finds itself in crisis. Unless you do it right, attracting and hiring skilled professionals can be challenging. Deloitte’s third annual
This is part two of a three-part series on LinkedIn for B2B businesses. See part one, LinkedIn for B2B: Getting Started, and part three, 10 Ways to Gain LinkedIn Followers. Use these tools to help you hire talent through LinkedIn. LinkedIn offers immeasurable opportunity for recruiting premium talent. But how do you begin weeding through
Seek out candidates with these skills and experiences when hiring new supply chain talent. Your business is growing, and it is time to hire. That means facing the challenge and overcoming the fact that there is a dearth of supply chain talent. Growth is very common right now, as job titles evolve and shift due
Recruiting and retaining top talent is one of the largest issues the supply chain faces today. Fronetics counts down the top talent articles of 2015.
When it comes to hiring it is important to get it right. This is especially true for small businesses. This is not only because of the significant financial implications of a bad hire, but also because, as Jeff Haden points out, “When employee No. 300 turns out to be a disaster, the impact on
Here’s why paying out actually pays off. Contract buyouts within the sports and business worlds aren’t exactly a novel approach to making personnel changes. But what about paying employees — employees who don’t have contracts and haven’t yet earned further compensation — to quit? It’s a move that’s finding ground in the business world. Take
Look across business, sports, entertainment, and the military, and identify the top performers. Next, take a step back at look at the characteristics of these individuals. What you will find is that there are at least three elements that they all have. They know how to maximize through self-knowledge. Top performers have intimate self-knowledge. They know themselves
Because great talent doesn’t look like Waldo, here is how to spot great great supply chain talent. Wouldn’t it be nice if great talent looked like Waldo? If great talent looked like Waldo we could simply look at the pool of candidates and be able to identify them by their telltale red and white striped
According to Supply Chain Insights 60 percent of companies within the supply chain industry have job openings and 51 percent of companies are seeing an increase in turnover of supply chain leaders. This is now. Looking ahead, the Bureau of Labor and Statistics predicts that the number of logistics jobs are expected to grow by
Hiring: Why you should try before you buy I just finished reading a great post on hiring by Matt Mullenweg, founder of Automattic and the creator of open source WordPress software. The post focuses on the company’s “unorthodox hiring system” and how it has enabled Automattic to hire great talent and realize high employee retention
