It might be summer here in Canada, but many companies continue to freeze hiring to control costs either by department or region or across the company as a whole. Those who follow our Argentus’ blog know we have commented frequently on the reasons companies do and should consider engaging specialty-skilled...

We were working with a senior candidate recently in our Supply Chain space and as part of the on-going discussion, he indicated that he’s become accustomed to both HR as well as hiring managers and other interviewers asking him directly when he graduated from university. On the face of it...

Today we offer a guest post by Greg Uhrlen of the Next Level Purchasing Association, a U.S.-based Procurement Certification group.  Recently, Bronwen wrote a blog posted titled, “Take a chance on me.” – Hire Talent and Train some Skills for a Change.  Immediately, it caused me to have pleasant flashbacks...

 Utilising a Strategic combination of Direct Hire and Contingent Staffing can Satisfy critical Talent Shortages in Supply Chain As companies find themselves increasingly with their backs against the wall in the Supply Chain space – more Baby Boomers retiring and not enough talent coming up to fill those spots with...

We have quality QUALITY ASSURANCE leaders  Similar to our Market Intelligence post of last week about demand for Planning staff primarily in CPG, we wanted to highlight another area that’s seeing quite a bit of activity in Argentus’ recruitment practice: Quality Assurance. We’re seeing a number of new Quality Assurance...