Category: Employers
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 [...]
Creating an Effective Procurement Leadership Development Program (PLDP)
PURPOSE OF A PROCUREMENT LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM (PLDP) - Market your procurement organization as an industry leader that provides its employees with the ability to accelerate learning, skills and leadership acumen. - Enhance employees thought leadership and critical thinking abilities so they begin to think and act like procurement general managers. - Provide employees a head start in different areas of your procurement organization after completing the program. - Attract top graduates from your targeted universities while enhancing employee loyalty and retention rates. - Promote within instead of looking outside your organization for [...]
Six Steps to Build an Employee Referral Program For Your Supply Chain Organization
A proven way to improve the quality and quantity of your applicant flow is to create an employee referral program for your supply chain organization. According to Dr. John Sullivan, an international HR thought leader, 88% of employers claim that referrals are the #1 source for hiring above-average candidates. A recent report by ERE found that after one year, retention of referred employees is 46% compared to 33% from career sites and 22% from job boards. On average, it only takes 5 referrals to make a hire, as with a job board it can take hundreds of applicants. Referral [...]
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 [...]
