Posts Tagged ‘Procurement Recruiters’
A Supply Chain Recruiter Finds Great Talent in a Candidate Shortage
With the unemployment rate as low as it is, there are very few job seekers out there, and the top talent often isn’t actively looking for a new job. This can make finding skilled workers hard for companies. Working with a recruiter can help a company to reach passive candidates – those individuals who are…
Read MoreA Job Offer Isn’t a Mathematical Equation
Yes, the compensation part of a job offer is very important and no one would begrudge you for taking a job just for a dump truck of cash to be emptied onto your front lawn. However, a job offer features a lot of other components that are just as important as compensation, components that are…
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 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 More3 Ways to Make the Right Impact on Your Next Job Interview
Some people go into an interview thinking they just want to give all the right answers and not screw it up. Essentially, these people are playing defense, and there’s really nothing wrong with that. If, on the other hand, you want go on offense and take a pro-active approach to the interview, you have a…
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…
Read MoreSurvey: Supply Chain Security Needs More Attention
In a recent survey by the security company Tripwire, more than 56 percent of supply chain respondents said their company doesn’t currently conduct security audits of partner companies and suppliers. These survey results are alarming, given the fact that a security breach anywhere along a supply chain could have serious consequences for any other organization…
Read MoreWhat Does It Take to Be a Supply Chain Manager?
More than ever, businesses are getting raw materials, manufacturing and labor from around the planet, establishing a global supply chain. Through proper supply chain management, businesses facilitate sleek operations in their far-flung supply chains and reduce the impact of supply chain crises that pop up from time to time. Supply chain managers work in a…
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