Category: Hiring & Recruiting Talent
What Does Top Supply Chain Talent Look for in an Employer?
Is your organization struggling to retain top supply chain talent? If you have high turnover within your supply chain department, it may be time to take a look at how you can internally optimize aspects of your department in order to retain talent and create happier, longer-tenured employees. While a paycheck is extremely motivating, there are other important factors to consider that keep employees satisfied and more likely to stay within your supply chain organization: Potential for Career Growth Employees want to work for an organization where they can learn, grow and develop both personally and professionally. The ability [...]
6 Common Candidate Red Flags
Every company desires solid members on their supply chain team that can achieve desired results and possess professional attributes such as integrity, loyalty, and fits into the company’s work culture. How do you ensure you get that qualified candidate? One way to do this is to detect candidate red flags before you even interview them. It is critical to hire in a timely manner to get the candidate trained and up to speed. Spotting these red flags in advance can help to avoid mis-hires and ensures a better chance of the candidate working out long-term within your supply chain [...]
The Proper Way to Respond to Job Applications
Think about the last time you filled out a job application. The stressful process of perfecting resumes and cover letters, searching through job boards for open opportunities, hitting that submit button, and then waiting. Your inbox may look something like this or it’s chock-full of the typical canned auto-replies that most companies send which basically states “thanks, but no thanks.'' So what can companies do to better engage applicants applying to their online job vacancies? And WHY haven’t they been able to advance beyond those highly insensitive “thanks, but no thanks” cookie cutter auto-replies? Just because an applicant isn’t [...]
7 Strategies to Navigate the Trade and Tariff Volatility
Ever since the first tariffs were enacted on imports from China, many retailers, wholesalers and manufacturers have been in a panicked state. The tariffs have increased import prices on various products, leading to the choice for companies to absorb the costs themselves or pass onto consumers. This has also driven down consumer confidence as well, which is contributing to a slowing economy. Even with the talk of rollbacks, both economies have already suffered billions of dollars of losses. One recent study shows the tariffs threaten almost 1.5 million US jobs and more than $180 billion of nationwide economic activity. [...]
ASCM Career Coach Webinar: Best Practices for Hiring and Building Top Supply Chain Teams
Attend the upcoming "ASCM Career Coach Webinar: Best Practices for Hiring and Building Top Supply Chain Teams" presented by ASCM Career Coach and SCM Talent Group President Rodney Apple and take an indepth look at best practices for hiring and building top supply chain teams. Date: November 5th, 2019 Time: 12pm-1pm CT By attending this webinar, you will receive: Best practices for attracting the right talent for your job openings How to properly vet and assess candidates and mitigate a mis-hire Tips for partnering with your HR / Recruiting Partner to drive hiring success Top hiring mistakes and [...]
How to Kick Off a Supply Chain Search Assignment
What is the best process for kicking off a supply chain search assignment? Are you questioning if you’ve engaged with the right recruiting firm to fill critical supply chain hiring needs at your company? If your recruiting partner primarily focuses on the job description and fails to inquire about other key aspects of your business, especially the make-up of your unique supply chain, you could be setting yourself up for failure. To help you get there, we’re going to dive into SCM Talent Groups’ kickoff AKA intake process to provide insight on how to develop a highly accurate search profile [...]
Revamp Your Procurement Hiring Process
Is your procurement organization suffering because your hiring process is broken? Are your candidates dropping like flies because you’re requiring them to go through too many rounds of onsite interviews? If you answered yes to either of these questions, then it’s time to focus on optimizing your procurement hiring process. To stay on top of your procurement hiring demands, it’s imperative that you focus on doing whatever it takes to remove bottlenecks that delay your ability to make quick hiring decisions and can lead to a poor candidate experience. Here are a few ways you can streamline your procurement [...]
Improve Supply Chain Hiring Through Creative Sourcing Strategies & Recruitment Tools
Struggling to hire and retain supply chain talent? Be sure to check out SCM Talent Group’s 10 part blog series that covers the top strategies employers can implement to improve their ability to hire and retain supply chain talent. With today’s tightening labor market and talent shortage within the supply chain discipline, do your supply chain recruiters have the tools and resources in place to fill your hiring needs in a timely manner? Are your recruiters leveraging multiple sourcing channels to identify, attract and engage both active and especially passive supply chain candidates? If you’re having difficulties with sourcing and [...]
5 Benefits From Using A Supply Chain Recruiting Firm (INFOGRAPHIC)
Recruiting within the supply chain discipline is extremely challenging these days. Many companies simply aren’t equipped with the right internal resources to attract and source the right candidates for their job openings. Though engaging a recruiting partner that specializes in supply chain recruitment, you will have access to passive, qualified supply chain talent while partnering with experts who know exactly where to find the right candidates and how to thoroughly vet them against your most important criteria. Here are 5 benefits companies can gain from using a supply chain recruiting firm: Access Passive, Qualified Supply Chain Talent Passive candidates [...]
8 Channels to Find Sourcing & Procurement Talent Beyond the Job Board
If your primary recruiting strategy is “posting and praying”, you are basically fishing from a freshwater pond versus the ocean. There’s a sea of top performers that are typically content in their current roles and rarely surfing the job boards, so if you think you’re going to find strong procurement talent through a job advertisement, you’re setting yourself up for disappointment. To keep up with hiring demands in a tightening labor market, you’ll need to expand your candidate sourcing tactics beyond job postings in order to discover and land the strongest, most qualified individuals. Here are a few candidate [...]
