Category: Professional Development
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 [...]
Top 6 Supply Chain Job Search Tips
As a veteran Supply Chain Recruiter, I am often asked by job seekers for my advice on how to develop and execute an effective supply chain job search strategy. Before I respond with my suggestions, I always ask the job seeker “what does your job search strategy look like now?” You would be surprised at the types of answers I have received. I’ve had job seekers tell me “my resume is on Monster and I'm waiting for the phone to ring” to even worse, “what job search strategy?”. After receiving one of these responses recently, I was prompted to [...]
Now Could be the Best Time to Launch a Supply Chain Job Search
Are you thinking about making a career move in 2013? I have been noticing a big spike lately with candidates reaching out to inquire about supply chain job opportunities, inviting me to connect on LinkedIn and other social media sites, seeking assistance with optimizing their resumes, etc. Likewise, many of my clients have stated that they're planning to add to their payrolls in 2013. From my vantage point, right now could be the best time to kick off your supply chain job search. Why? For starters, we are finally past this brutal, mind-numbing election season. Companies tend to pause or [...]
