Category: Employers

Implementing a hiring strategy suitable for qualified talent can often be challenging, recruiters are increasingly posting their jobs online. In fact, Google has revealed that almost 30 percent of all searches on its platform, around 300 million per month, are job-related. While this news appears encouraging, it can also be a sign that job ads can quickly disappear amidst all the other postings.      When you use search engine optimization (SEO) as a recruiter, it is advisable to focus on Google as it has a page dedicated to job postings. Fortunately, SEO can make your hiring strategy and online recruitment [...]

One of the toughest challenges you can face when managing a supply chain is encouraging and finding supply chain talent to join your team. Now more than ever, competition for supply chain positions has skyrocketed. As universities adapt to onboarding more Supply Chain Management Programs, competition for this new talent has peaked. Additionally, the value of hiring the best executive supply chain leaders has become priceless in the wake of severe supply chain disruptions. Hiring managers would be wise to begin adapting to the new supply chain talent landscape and injecting flexibility into their hiring processes. Refine Your Pitch [...]

Is your logistics organization suffering because of a broken hiring and recruitment process? Tired of losing candidates because they are going 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 logistics hiring and recruiting process. To stay on top of your logistics hiring demands in today’s market, it’s imperative that you focus on doing whatever it takes to remove any sort of bottlenecks that delay your ability to make quick and successful hiring decisions and can lead to poor candidate experience.  Here are a [...]

Your company might have solid supply chain talent, but are your recruitment marketing strategies attracting the best possible workers? The truth is that the people in charge of a company’s supply chain can make or break a business's finances. Even paying upfront for a costlier, more experienced manager can save your company money in the long run -- and these results are proven. According to some reports, 79% of companies with high-performing supply chains have greater than average revenue growth and 15% lower supply chain costs. Optimized supply chains also come with cash-to-cash cycles that are three times faster. [...]

Attend the upcoming "ASCM Career Coach Webinar: How to Properly Vet and Assess Supply Chain Candidates" presented by ASCM Career Coach and SCM Talent Group President Rodney Apple, and take an indepth look at best practices to assess supply chain candidates. Date: March 5th, 2020 Time: 12pm-1pm CT By attending this webinar, you will receive: Common mistakes employers make when assessing talent, and how to course correct How to quickly, but accurately, screen resumes to find the most qualified candidates Best practices for interviewing candidates, from phone to video to face-to-face How to structure interview guides and other [...]