Don’t Rely on Luck to Find A Job: How ZDA Career Coaching Sessions Can Help

Career counselors are experts who can connect individuals’ professional interests to career success. ZDA provides this invaluable service to folks employed in the supply chain sector. If you’re not satisfied with your present job, it’s hard to talk about it with a boss or coworkers because doing so could put your job situation at risk.…

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How to Think Like A Hiring Manager and Land Your Dream Job

The process of finding a new job can be nerve-racking for applicants, but hiring managers often find their side of the equation to be stressful as well. When companies put out the hiring sign, they are most likely short-staffed. Maybe they have lost a popular employee, and now they’re looking at onboarding and getting a…

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Stop Thinking About “Job Security” and Start Thinking About “Career Security”

Job security isn’t what it used to be, even in the supply chain. Corporate America has long since said good-bye to the concept of long-term employment, so it’s very rare for a person to get a job and stay with the same company for decades. Since the employment model has changed, you have to change…

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Does Your Supply Chain Talent Want to Leave?

Globalism has created a whole new ballgame in supply chain. And technology can level the proverbial playing field. So having good supply chain employees matters more than ever. But there’s a shortage of good supply chain talent out there, and many of your competitors have access to the same resources you do. So if you’re…

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Top Supply Chain Companies in the U.S. and How to Work for One

Gartner, Inc., the world’s leading information technology research and advisory company, recently released its ninth annual list of the Supply Chain Top 25 companies. These companies earned the honor after being evaluated on how well they integrate demand, supply and product into a value network that creates a profit. While two of the Top 5…

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Mitigate Your Hiring Risk in 2013

Hiring is a fact of life in the business world. But any time you need to hire, you know you are opening yourself up to the prospect of risk: spending too much money during the process making the wrong hire and having to fire someone and start over again not finding the right person at…

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Overqualified? How to overcome this…

It’s frustrating but true: if you’ve been in the supply chain industry for awhile and have years of experience, it can actually work against you when you’re trying to find a new job. Why? Because you may be viewed as being overqualified. It also seems counterproductive. Shouldn’t a hiring manager want somebody with a lot…

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Are You Losing Your Best Players to the Competition?

Employee retention has become a top priority at many supply chain organizations, especially as competition for top employees heats up. When you lose your best employees, business-critical knowledge can walk out the door with them. So how can you keep them engaged and happy at your company? The Mathematics of Retention Many organizations ask the…

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Unemployment Rates Are Low! In Supply Chain, That Is…

Savvy supply chain executives know that their business success depends on the ability to attract and retain the right people. So the current—and growing—shortage of supply chain managers is a significant concern in the industry. Where does this shortage come from? Almost every industry currently faces an aging workforce, whose “bench knowledge” is not being…

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The Real Reason You Never Heard Back about that Supply Chain Job

One of the biggest frustrations of being on the job search is applying for jobs but not hearing back from employers—at all. Did they get your application? Did they read your resume? Do you have any chance of being considered for the job? Why haven’t you heard back? It’s difficult not to have the answers…

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