Walk into any major company and you can see how contract staffing has transformed the employment landscape. Over the past 15 years, companies have increasingly adopted contingent staffing models not just for low-skilled “temps”, but also for more impactful,...
Month: June 2018
Survey Says: Supply Chain Management Compensation is on the Rise
This week saw one of the year’s most highly-anticipated releases in the Supply Chain industry: the Institute of Supply Management (ISM)’s annual salary survey. As a recruitment company specializing in the industry, we consider it part of our mandate to spread the word...
Reader Responses: What’s the Cost of Bad Leadership in Procurement?
Sometimes, we write a blog post and it’s instantly clear that it touched a nerve among our readers. While we get feedback on most of our posts, some posts generate a lot of discussion because we’ve hit on something close to what people are feeling out there in our...
Takeaways from the 2018 Gartner Supply Chain Executive Conference
Written by Dr. Madhav Durbha. This guest post first appeared on Kinaxis' industry blog, the 21st Century Supply Chain. Supply chain insights from leading industry experts Supply chain skills in high demand, digital twins, disruptive technologies, and other takeaways...
Why You Should Hire People for Their Superpowers
In people management and hiring, we might assume that we’re emphasizing what our employees are best at. “Play to your strengths” is one of the biggest truisms of business, and life in general. If the people we’re managing – or hiring – are talented, we might assume...