Category: Professionals
8 Avenues to Expand Your Supply Chain Network
Looking to experience new ways of thinking? Build beneficial business relationships? Find career opportunities available nowhere else? Network! Networking is one the most valuable career development strategies for any professional at any stage in their career. Job seekers and employers alike constantly ask: “How did you build your supply chain network? Where are some of the places I can go to find supply chain professionals?” While there are many answers to these questions, here are a few great places to expand your supply chain network: Supply Chain Associations Supply chain associations offer a wealth of advantages for supply chain [...]
APICS Career Coach Webinar: Understanding and Navigating the Various Career Paths in Supply Chain
APICS Career Coach Rodney Apple, the Founder and President of SCM Talent Group, is presenting another webinar with APICS: Understanding and Navigating the Various Career Paths in Supply Chain. Date: May 17, 2017 Time: 12:00pm-1:00pm CT In this webinar, you will learn: -Thought leadership success stories and key tips about how to maximize opportunities to accelerate your Supply Chain career -Best practices and key tips to cross reference throughout the Supply Chain industry -Identify the solutions that will help you accelerate your career If you can’t make the webinar, APCIS members can access the recorded version via https://www.apics.org/careercoach. [...]
5 Keys to Launch a Successful Supply Chain Career
The field of Supply Chain Management offers a very broad and diverse range of career options with many opportunities for growth, making it both an exciting and overwhelming place to begin a career. It’s very important to gain a baseline understanding of the supply chain career spectrum in efforts to set yourself up for success when launching a supply chain career. Understand your personal strengths, passions & talents The first step to launching a supply chain career is to understand your core strengths and the type of work you will likely be good at and enjoy doing. Many universities [...]
APICS Extra Live Webinar: LinkedIn Profile Optimization Tips for Supply Chain Management Professionals
In early 2017, SCM Talent Group Founder Rodney Apple, who serves as the current APICS Career Coach, joined the APICS magazine staff as author for the newly created Professional Development department. With this new role, he will be presenting in his first APICS Extra Live Webinar titled "LinkedIn Profile Optimization Tips for Supply Chain Management Professionals". APICS Extra Live webinars are designed to provide additional insight and information about recent articles from APICS magazine. Date: April 20th, 2017 Time: 1:00 pm CT (2:00 pm ET) Be sure to check out Rodney’s APICS Magazine article “Simple Steps for Optimizing Your LinkedIn Profile” before [...]
APICS Career Coach Webinar: Top Strategies for a Supply Chain Job Search Campaign
SCM Talent Group Founder & President, Rodney Apple, who also serves as the APICS Career Coach, will be presenting a webinar with APICS: Top Strategies for a Successful Supply Chain Job Search Campaign . He will discuss concrete steps to develop and execute an omni-channel job search strategy. In this webinar you will learn: Pinpoint the exposure of your professional social media profiles Identify the value of building a network portfolio and the process of going through the "back door" when applying to opportunities Locate online resources, apply best practices to your supply chain job search activity [...]
APICS Career Coach Webinar: Fast Track Your Supply Chain Career through Mentorship
SCM Talent Group Founder & President, Rodney Apple, who also serves as the APICS Career Coach, will be presenting another webinar for APICS members on Wednesday, August 17th from 2pm-3pm CST. He will be discussing his experience, wisdom and the importance of mentorship in supply chain. Learn: The advantages of using a mentor and how they can help accelerate your career How to identify the right mentor throughout each phase of your career The steps you need to take to get the most out of your mentor If you can’t make the webinar, you can always replay it after August [...]
The Keys to a Successful Supply Chain Job Search Campaign
Looking to launch a new supply chain job search? Don’t know where to start? Feeling lost, overwhelmed and unsure? A job search, like anything else in life that you’re striving to achieve, begins with creating and writing down your goals, developing corresponding action steps, tracking your results, and adjusting your action plan along the way. Treat your job search like a major project where your role is the Project Manager. In developing this plan, one great approach is to create a Job Search Tracking Template in Microsoft Excel, Google Docs, or a platform of your choice. Using this type [...]
Breaking into a Supply Chain Management Career
Supply chains are a key element to economic growth and stability around the globe. A career as a supply chain manager requires a detailed-oriented vision and a holistic understanding of the process that takes products from raw materials to a finished product. Within the field of supply chain management, there are numerous disciplines. In the modern workforce, there are not enough people to fill the positions within these disciplines. Finding qualified candidates has become an issue given the tight labor market, the retirement of the baby boomer generation supply chain management workers, and the fact that recruiting firms are [...]
Steps to Build an Effective Supply Chain Career Plan
Supply chain professionals that are coming up through the ranks today must create and proactively manage their careers by developing a solid career plan, seeking out opportunities to develop their skills and experience, growing and nurturing their networks, and positioning themselves for internal promotions or external career advances. If you're not proactively managing your career then you are reactively managing it. This isn't ideal for anyone striving to accelerate their career in supply chain. Let's take a look at the differences between proactive and reactive career planning: Proactive: Developing a long-term career plan that focuses on where they want [...]
APICS Career Coach Webinar: How to Evaluate and Negotiate a Job Offer
Our leader, Rodney Apple, who also serves as the APICS Career Coach, will be presenting another webinar for APICS members on Wednesday, December 17th from 1pm – 2pm CST. His newest white paper and webinar are titled "How to Evaluate and Negotiate a Job Offer" and will teach job seekers how employers calculate job offers and provide advice to help candidates improve their offer evaluation and negotiation skills. APICS members that are interested in participating in this webinar can click here to register. The white paper will be released in early January. If you can’t make the webinar you can always [...]
