Category: Hiring & Recruiting Talent
Key Steps for Developing a Supply Chain Employer Branding Strategy
To keep up with hiring demands in a tightening labor market, it’s important to deploy creative marketing and employer branding strategies to help attract the right talent to your supply chain organization. Here are our top tips for developing or optimizing a supply chain employer branding strategy. Unify the Brand of Your Organization You’ll want to create career branding materials that accurately highlight your organization, culture, history, career paths and especially the benefits of working for your company and its supply chain organization. Many organizations neglect how important it is to have a consistent brand image across the entire [...]
Turn Your Supply Chain Organization into Talent Scouts
Looking to make the most of out of your association dues? Many organizations undervalue the importance of joining Supply Chain associations. Supply chain associations, such as APICS or CSCMP, can be a goldmine for finding supply chain talent, building brand awareness, and serving as a continuous educational source for your employees. To use associations and events to your advantage, consider using these simple techniques: Before the Event: Pay Supply Chain Association Fees and Conference Expenses for Employees You should consider paying supply chain association membership dues for your employees and encourage them to participate in local chapter meetings as [...]
Webinar: 10 Strategies to Hire & Retain Supply Chain Talent
Hiring in the supply chain discipline can be extremely challenging as the field continues to evolve and not enough experienced talent is coming up the ranks to replace retiring baby boomers, hence the supply chain talent gap. Luckily there are several low cost, high yield solutions that any employer can implement to improve their ability to hire and retain supply chain talent. SCM Talent Group conducted a webinar on “10 Strategies to Hire & Retain Supply Chain Talent”, presented by Rodney Apple that provides attendees the opportunity to dive deeper into the 10 part series on Supply Chain [...]
Right-Size Your Supply Chain Recruiting Team
Having worked on the corporate side of supply chain recruiting for half of my 23-year career in recruitment, which includes leading supply chain recruitment for major corporations such as The Home Depot, Kimberly-Clark, The Coca-Cola Company and Cummins, I have seen my fair share of supply chain recruiting team's talent acquisition programs that have ranged from good to great to poor. The most successful employers understand how to right-size their talent acquisition departments to allow for a proactive recruiting function versus a reactive, “the squeaky wheel gets the grease” function. They also view their recruiting departments as a strategic, [...]
Streamline Your Supply Chain Hiring Process
Is your supply chain organization suffering because your hiring process moves at the speed of molasses in January? 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 supply chain hiring process, as hiring within the supply chain management discipline is predicted to become more challenging in the years to come. To stay on top of your hiring demands, it’s imperative that you focus on doing whatever it takes to remove bottlenecks that [...]
Webinar: Strategies for Sourcing & Recruiting Top Supply Chain Talent
The Supply Chain discipline has been experiencing a talent shortage that many experts in the field are predicting will only get worse, before it gets better. Baby boomers are retiring in droves and the number of qualified candidates coming up through the ranks aren’t enough to close the talent gap. While there are a lot of solutions being implemented to help close the talent gap, such as more universities adding supply chain degree programs, these macro-level solutions will likely take years before we’ll see real progress. No need to panic, as SCM Talent Group has your back! [...]
