In The Friday Round Up, we take a curated look back at the biggest insights and buzz about supply chain from the last week that are dominating the conversation in both national current events and global news coverage. Enjoy! The Halloween Supply Chain Happy Halloween! In honor of today’s October...

The rules may be changing, but smart talent attraction is more important than ever. Having an effective recruitment strategy can take many forms, but talent management in the right hands makes a big difference. Here’s a great quote: “Everyone thinks that recruiting is easy, and that choosing to do it themselves...

We’re launching a new weekly feature on the blog called The Friday Round Up. In these posts, we’ll take a curated look back at the biggest insights and buzz about supply chain from the last week that are dominating the conversation in both national current events and global news coverage....

Earlier this year, Argentus president Bronwen Hann wrote a post about the popular but frequently overrated role of retainer firms in the executive search process. In short, there’s a time and place for them, particularly at the C-suite or for discreet replacements. But opting for a specialty contingency firm is...

A great article in the Globe and Mail caught our attention this week with quite an eye-catching headline: A Third of Global Food Supply is Wasted. Wow. It’s a staggering proportion, especially given that there are huge issues of hunger abroad and even within Canada. According to the article, written...

A firm handshake. Eye contact. Smiling and positive body language. Follow-up questions at the end of an interview. In the course of your career, there are certain pieces of interview advice that you hear again and again, and HR and career websites are publishing new interview advice articles with these...

By Jonathan Lofton. Originally published on the Kinaxis industry blog, 21st Century Supply Chain. I recently read Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration and it got me wondering about creativity within supply chain management organizations. There’s obviously a level of magic at Pixar for...

Have you ever applied for a job, and in return received… well, radio silence? You’re ready to make a career move, perhaps you’ve been working with a specialty executive recruiter like us, and things feel good, like they’re on track. You put a lot of hard work into crafting a...