Category: Hiring & Recruiting Talent
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
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 hiring supply chain talent, check out our list of the sourcing channels and recruitment resources that you should consider adding to help drive better results. Expand Candidate Sourcing Channels It’s important to note that a successful recruiting program [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
