Posts Tagged ‘Supply Chain Hiring’
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…
Read MoreDoes Your Internal Hiring Team Need Help?
Whether you’re an established supply chain company or department, or a startup, hiring the right people is crucial to success. But hiring the wrong people not only wastes time, it wastes money. How can you tell whether your hiring team is equipped for the job, or could use help? The hiring process takes too long.…
Read MoreHiring Under a Tight Deadline? Here’s What You Should Do.
How many times has this happened to you? An employee leaves unexpectedly. Demand explodes suddenly. Or a new project comes along that needs to meet an ambitious deadline. Suddenly, you need to hire one or more supply chain professionals, and you need them sooner rather than later. The problem with hiring in a hurry is…
Read MoreHave You Done Your Strategic Staffing Plan for 2013?
What would businesses be like if companies didn’t effectively manage their supply chains? What if they failed to line up the product parts they need in advance? Or if they simply waited for parts to run out, then scrambled to replace them, not knowing where to look? You can agree that would be a disastrous…
Read MoreWhat is Non-Negotiable At Your Business?
One of the most difficult challenges managers face is balancing the need for their employees to achieve certain results by a certain time, and avoiding the temptation to micro-manage to make sure those goals are reached. Employees need a certain amount of freedom and the ability to make choices. This can be a difficult line…
Read MoreAre You Attracting Fantastic Candidates?
When you sit down to write a supply chain job advertisement, your goal should be to attract talented and qualified candidates and get them to apply for your job opening. What’s the best way to do this? By grabbing their attention, sparking their interest, and creating the desire to work for your company. 1) Your…
Read MoreCan’t Fill Your Supply Chain Jobs? You’re Not Alone….
In today’s global market, companies are focusing more on their supply chain security as a way to prevent losses and ensure quality of their products. The hectic pace of global trade, coupled with the outsourcing of manufacturing around the world, has transformed delivering products into a complex engineering task. Companies need logistics professionals to untangle…
Read MoreHiring is About Pain Relief
Want to know one of the best ways to make your next supply chain job interview successful? Put yourself on the other side of the desk! In other words, try to understand where the hiring manager is coming from when you sit down for that interview. Let’s face it, we tend to think of the…
Read MoreHiring? Don’t ask for Facebook passwords!
By now, it’s pretty well known that recruiters and hiring managers often go beyond resumes and references to get a better picture of their prospective employees—by searching for publicly displayed information on the Internet. Lately, though, a disturbing new trend has emerged: a number of employers have taken the intrusive measure of asking job candidates…
Read MorePreparing for Generation Y’s Impact on Your Supply Chain
Generation Y is growing up and entering the workforce at a time when the marketplace is undergoing a major demographic shift. Recruiting Gen Y into supply chain and distribution jobs will require understanding a group with a whole new attitude toward work. Gen Y employees have been unfairly labeled as demanding, entitled, and self-serving. But,…
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