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What Are the Differences in Recruiting Men vs. Women?
Gender diversity in the workplace is more topical than ever, and its rise is being driven by more than just notions surrounding equality. Businesses are increasingly recognizing the soft skills women are known for, such as empathy and collaboration, are more necessary than ever for success in today’s workplace. Therefore, ensuring a proper gender balance,…
Read MoreHow Does Your Supply Chain Implement a Platform Life Cycle Management Culture?
Focused on reducing complexity with the intentions of better cost and asset investment management, Platform Life Cycle Management (PLCM) is a management concept that emerged a hundred years ago, but is becoming increasingly applied to supply chains today. Essentially, PLCM involves platform simplification and the standardization of the resulting simplified platform. Standardization cuts down on…
Read MoreHow Can You Learn About Your Candidate’s Personality?
More and more businesses are focusing on personality traits and prospective cultural fit when hiring by using interview tactics designed to uncover who applicants are, as opposed to simply what they are capable of doing. In fact, some companies will even prioritize a candidate with a “winning” personality over someone with the proper “hard skills”…
Read MoreWhich Trends Do We Expect in Transportation Management Systems?
Last year, transportation management systems (TMS) made substantial advances toward creating “end-to-end supply chain visibility.” With vendors including much more optimization abilities within their software solutions, logistics professionals were able to simplify their supply chains while making them much more efficient. Also in 2016, Oracle and other providers of enterprise resource planning (ERP) increasingly made…
Read MoreHow Can Your Supply Chain Prepare for the New Administration?
President Donald Trump made international trade a centerpiece of his campaign, and his early decisions have shown he will spend the early stages of his presidency acting on those campaign promises. The economics of globalization are intricate and prone to widely varying interpretations. Based on their collective interpretations, those in the Trump Administration have the…
Read MoreWhat Is the Latest Salary Data in Supply Chain?
During your supply chain job search, it’s helpful to know the latest salary trends as those will help determine a major portion of your negotiation, or even if pursuing a potential opportunity is worth your time and energy. A supply chain recruiter will provide some of the information but as a professional in the industry,…
Read MoreHow Should You Handle Workplace Bullying?
Workplace bullying has been defined by the Workplace Bullying Institute (WBI) as the recurring mistreatment of an employee by one or more co-workers that includes verbal abuse, intimidation, shaming or intentional disruption of work. Compared by some experts to domestic abuse, workplace bullying can be toxic to your company culture, increase turnover and lower productivity.…
Read MoreWhen You’re a Contract Worker, Where Is Your Loyalty?
For earlier generations, the question of employer loyalty was a simple one: Your loyalty was to the sole company that employed you. But now, things are much different. Many people work multiple jobs, and if you’re working through a staffing agency – you’re technically being employed by two different companies. So where should the loyalties…
Read MoreWant to Save Money in 2017? Don’t Make a Bad Hire!
For obvious reasons, most companies focus the majority of their attention on increasing revenue. However, one of the least complicated, and often disregarded, ways a company can lose revenue is by making bad hires. Poor hiring decisions are like a hidden tax on your company. Obviously, they cost a business in terms of wasted resources…
Read More3 Ways to Deal With Conflict With Another Employee
We all have that person at work who always seems to get the blood boiling; unfortunately, it’s a situation you must deal with as a professional. In the book Toxic Coworkers: How to Deal with Dysfunctional People on the Job, psychologists reported that approximately 80 percent of the people the authors surveyed described moderate to…
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