Author: Josh
Contract Staffing on the Rise in Supply Chains
Introduction Contract staffing offers the dynamic world of supply chain management solutions to problems that these organizations regularly struggle to solve by optimizing workforces to meet fluctuating consumer demands and disruptions. When you add in rapid technological advances and the need to quickly build capacity to handle these obstacles, rapid hiring practices become in-demand. Supply chain contract staffing emerges as a powerful solution to address these challenges efficiently. Understanding Supply Chain Talent Needs Supply chain contract staffing involves hiring temporary professionals on a contractual basis to fulfill specific roles and responsibilities within the supply chain function. These contract staff [...]
Quiet Quitting in Supply Chain: Blind Spots for Leaders
If your employees are "quiet quitting," if might be one of your blind spots as a leader.
Top Reasons Companies Prefer Specialized Recruiters
Specialized recruiters are experts in their field with deeper and broader relationships and better access to specialized talent.
Manufacturing Career Paths
Manufacturing career paths include jobs inside and outside the plant. In today’s supply chain environment, these positions are changing rapidly and providing a lot of career growth and opportunity. Manufacturing jobs produce goods and services across wide ranges of industries. Most every industry relies on manufacturing of some sort to produce, house, maintain, and repair goods or allocate services. While some of these careers can be attained via specialized job boards, the higher end leadership and c-suite positions should be sought with the help of manufacturing recruiters and executive search firms. Manufacturing Career Paths: Inside the Plant Career paths [...]
Why Your Supply Chain Recruiters Should Be Supply Chain Consultants
Sourcing top notch supply chain talent has become just as volatile as the supply chain itself and requires specialized recruiters who double as supply chain consultants and talent advisors for your organization. Disruption and volatility has become the norm in the world of supply chain. The field was wrought with archaic processes, aging workforce, and prone to delays from things like weather events and political whims. It now seems that geopolitical impulses and volatile externalities have had a permanent disruptive impact on the end to end supply chain world. Because of this, it has become ever more important to be able to rely on your specialized supply chain recruiter as a supply chain consultant.
Will Tech Layoffs Benefit Supply Chains?
Large scale tech layoffs could lead to a solution to the supply chain talent shortage. Companies like Meta, Tesla, Coinbase, Robinhood, google, Microsoft and Amazon hacked portions of their workforce in efforts to address what many believe to be an economic downturn coming down the pike. A lot of these job losses were in the technology and software sector. It is estimated that 200,000 tech employees have been laid off in reduction of force measures since the beginning of 2022. Meanwhile, supply chain organizations suffer from the opposite problem: not enough talent to handle a rapidly accelerating technology base. [...]
Recession Proof Jobs in Supply Chain
Recession proof jobs are a hot topic in the post-Pandemic world. Economic turbulence plagues much of the world, causing rippling effects on supply chains here at home. It is likely that there will be an economic downturn in the not too distant future, if not a recession. Indicators are hard to read and forecasts vary depending on which expert you engage. The clouds on the economic horizon have been accompanied by the thunder of layoffs and restructuring. And the lightning is getting closer to your desk. So, why not prepare for the worst and hope for the best? Here [...]
Challenges for Supply Chain Human Resources
Sourcing and finding talent in the Pandemic era has posed significant challenges in most every industry. Supply chain human resources partners have been tasked with an additional burden of finding top-tier talent that can adapt to a rapidly changing field and work place. What are some of the most common challenges facing supply chain HR partners and how can they overcome them without missing out on the best talent? Supply Chain Talent Shortage As the Pandemic settled upon the world, everything came to a halt. We all remember the twilight zone-esque feeling of not knowing what was going to [...]
Tips to Avoid Thanksgiving Supply Chain Disruptions!
Strategic Sourcing and logistics hurdles could easily disrupt your Thanksgiving supply chain! Here are some tips to navigate these pitfalls before they happen!
Top 5 Signs an Interview Went Well
It’s easy to wonder and consider all the possible ways in which you could have done better in your interview. Here are a few signs that an interview went well.
