Category: Employers

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, [...]

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 [...]

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! [...]