Whether you’re actively looking for a new job and thinking about reaching out to a recruiter, or you’re a “passive” candidate who’s been approached by a recruiter with new opportunities, there are certain strategies and expectations that will help set you up for...
Month: November 2017
Infographic: Amazon & Uber’s Impact on Logistics
This Guest Post comes from TradeMachines. The logistics industry is worth over $8.1 trillion. Not only it is an incomprehensibly big market, there are countless factors shaping it. Globalization introduced a new level of complexity. International...
Talking About Procurement with Two Strategic Sourcing Pros: Outsourcing, Skills Challenges, Differences Between Markets
Over the years that we’ve been writing the Argentus blog, we’ve had the opportunity to interview a number of inspiring and accomplished leaders from within the fields of Procurement, Supply Chain Management, and Logistics. It’s always a great chance for us to talk...
An Optimist’s View of Blockchain in Supply Chain: Lessons from Bitcoin
Written by Dr. Madhav Durbha. This guest post first appeared on Kinaxis' industry blog, The 21st Century Supply Chain. These days, not a single supply chain conference I attend goes by without someone mentioning Blockchain. Given the growing chatter, I wanted to...
New Employee Surveillance Schemes are Taking Micromanagement to the Next Level
As part of our efforts to chronicle the ways the workplace is changing, we recently wrote about how more companies are adopting formal work from home policies. More organizations realizing that these policies – and other alternative working arrangements – can help...
The Argentus Guide to Salary Negotiations
As part of our mission to share our decades of combined experience with recruiting, this week we’re offering some lessons about how to figure out the thorny question of negotiating a salary. Look around the internet and you’ll see a fair amount of...
New Survey Shows How Procurement Professionals are Taking Charge of Their Careers
Last week, we wrote about APICS’ survey of millennials in the Supply Chain industry. We delved into some of the survey’s insights about the way the field is changing, and the way that millennials’ Supply Chain careers are taking flight. Some of the most interesting...