Category: Hiring & Recruiting
Streamline Your Supply Chain Hiring Process
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. 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 [...]
How to Address Questions About Current And Desired Salary
The all-important “What’s your current and desired salary?” questions that are typically asked in a job interview can be challenging to address especially if you haven’t spent any time preparing your thoughts for how you would respond to these questions. I view these salary questions as a poker game where the goal of one party is to get the other party to lay down their cards first. The key to knowing how to address these questions is proper research and preparation. It’s important to understand that the primary goal for the employer is to simply find out if you’re within their [...]
APICS Career Coach Webinar: Top Career Tips from Top Supply Chain Leaders
APICS Career Coach Rodney Apple, the Founder and President of SCM Talent Group, presented another webinar with APICS: Top Career Tips from Top Supply Chain Leaders. Date: Wednesday, August 30th, 2017 Time: 12:00pm-1:00pm CT In this webinar, you will learn: Key career advancement tips that top Supply Chain Leaders have used to accelerate their careers The best advice on what Supply Chain Leaders wish they would have known early on in their careers Common career mistakes that you should strive to avoid & More! In addition, APICS Members can login and replay past [...]
Webinar: Top LinkedIn Profile Tips for Supply Chain Professionals
Is your LinkedIn profile working for you? How confident are you that your profile is well positioned to attract supply chain recruiters and hiring managers? No need to panic, as SCM Talent Group has your back! This webinar presented by both Rodney Apple, President of SCM Talent Group and APICS Career Coach and Scott Singer, President of Insider Career Strategies, discusses top LinkedIn profile tips for Supply Chain Professionals. Covered topics include: How supply chain recruiters & hiring managers look at your LinkedIn profile Top profile optimization tips to get noticed on LinkedIn from Certified Professional Resume Writer [...]
Webinar: Strategies for Sourcing & Recruiting Top Supply Chain Talent
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! [...]
Rodney Apple of SCM Talent Group to Present at APICS 2015 Global Conference
I am looking forward to participating in this year's APICS 2015 Global Conference which is being held October 5th - 7th at The Mirage Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, NV. I will be taking the APICS Career Coach program "on the road" to this year's conference. My first presentation will detail the top career development highlights and advice from past webinars and whitepapers I've developed for APICS over the last two years as their Career Coach. This session will take place at the beginning of Student Career Day on Tuesday, October 6th from 8am - 9:15am PST in the St. Thomas room. Afterwards I'll [...]
Rodney Apple to Serve as Career Coach for APICS, Kicks Off First Webinar on May 21st
I am very excited to be serving as the new Career Coach for APICS – the American Production and Inventory Control Society. For those not familiar with APICS, it is the leading professional association for supply chain and operations management and the premier provider of research, education and certification programs that elevate end-to-end supply chain excellence, innovation and resilience. As the APICS Career Coach, I will be responsible for developing a series of white papers and hosting corresponding webinars pertaining to career development topics. These white papers and webinars will be free of charge but can only be accessed by [...]
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 [...]
