Common Supply Chain Interview Questions (and How to Answer Them to Get the Job)

Companies in just about every industry rely on some kind of supply chain, whether it’s to secure raw materials they use to make components and products or to coordinate the…

How to Launch a Successful Career in Supply Chain Management

A supply chain is essentially all of the steps involved in getting products and goods from the plant where they’re manufactured to the stores where customers buy them. One of…

Quiet Firing

Quiet Firing

Are you quiet firing an employee without realizing it?   There’s a lot of talk about quiet quitting right now, but have you ever heard of quiet firing? It’s a…

Hurricane Ian and Supply Chain

Hurricane Ian & Supply Chain Logjams In 800+ Florida Zip Codes

Brief Summary:   UPS, FedEx, and U.S Postal Service announce delays in Florida Hurricane Ian advancing northwards on the East coast with Georgia and North Carolina also hit, and warehouse…

Video Interview Preparation

Preparing for a Video Interview   Virtual interviews are a common part of the interviewing process and their popularity has only increased since the start of the Pandemic. There are…

Face-to-Face Interview Preparation

Prepare for your In-Person Interview   Preparing for an interview – the very thought of it can be intimidating or nerve-wracking. Even very experienced, senior executives feel a little insecurity…

Phone Interview Preparation

Prepare for your Phone Interview   It is common to go through one or multiple phone interviews prior to being invited for an in-person interview. So as a candidate, how…

Salary Negotiations for the Executive Level

Negotiate for your Best Offer   At the executive level, you have built the confidence and experience to where you fully understand your value to an organization. However, even the…

Avoiding Common Interviewing Mistakes

You might be competent in your chosen field, or maybe even excellent. However, if you don’t know how to conduct a winning interview, you may not land the job of…

Conducting a Confidential Job Search

You know the saying, a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. Well, when it comes to job hunting, never lose sight of the fact that the…

Things to Consider when Working with a Recruiter

4 Important Things to Know When Working With a Recruiter   Most professionals have dealt with several Recruiters over the course of our careers.  If you haven’t yet, just give…

Conducting a “Secret” Job Search

Managing a job search while you are still employed (without your employer finding out)   It is always easier to find a job when you already have one.  This is…

The Risks of Accepting a Counteroffer

The Ugly Truth about Accepting a Counteroffer Companies in the manufacturing industry often invest a lot in specialized training.  Because of this heavy investment in their workforce, not only do…

Managing Your Manager

Tips to Improve the Relationship with your Boss   One of the most important relationships you need to work on in your life is the relationship with your boss. There…

How to Handle a Bad Co-Worker

Dealing with arguments with co-workers   Arguments occur at work frequently, usually, it is due to communication problems or personality conflicts, and sometimes there are deeper issues.  Most of the…

How to Handle a Bad Boss

Tips for dealing with a difficult boss   Many people are faced with the daily dilemma of dealing with a manager or boss who just doesn’t seem to like anything…

Leadership Attributes that Shape Potential

Leadership attributes are the personal qualities in a person that constitute effective leadership abilities. These attributes exist in large quantities in some people and need development in others. These attributes…

Avoid Costly Hiring Mistakes

Hire Right the First Time   Probably the most important decision that you make as a hiring manager is hiring the right person for the right job. The consequences of…

Successful Onboarding Strategies

You’ve managed to successfully hire the top talent your company so desperately needed. That’s the first step – now comes the job of successfully onboarding the new talent so that…

The Dish on Onboarding

Success in Onboarding   Onboarding a new hire succesfully is one of the most important things a company can do to retain talent and build a great company culture. Once a…

Hiring Endeavor – Prefer Success or Failure?

Working With Headhunters A recruiter, or headhunter, is skilled in finding talent either currently employed or unemployed, matching them to a position description and facilitating the hiring process from A…

Upgrading Manufacturing Talent

What it Takes to Build a World Class Team…   The world economy takes strange twists and turns every now and then, throwing what we are comfortable with into disarray….

Don’t Let Good Talent Get Away!

Talent Retention Strategies   Retaining the best employees is a key ingredient to a successful corporation. It is one thing to hire the right talent but quite another to retain…

Understanding Innovation and Organizational Growth

Five Trends that Drive Innovation and Growth   The machine is constantly breaking down.  There is too much lead time in a process manufacturing system.  Costs of raw materials have…

Great Ways to be a Horrible Manager

Organizational Practices that create Unhappy Employees   The main objective of any effective executive is to set his or her team up for success.  This can only be done if…

Changes to Hiring Strategies

Managing Talent in an Evolving Manufacturing World   The manufacturing industry is continually evolving due to globalization, technological changes, the desire for more profitability, and efficiency in competition. These changes…

Keeping the Top Performers

How to Retain your Best Employees   Every organization needs passionate and committed employees to achieve their goals and achieve success. A+ employees are rare to find and therefore ensuring…

Onboarding New Employees

Top reasons to implement a formal onboarding strategy Onboarding is a mechanism in which new employees are welcomed and systematically oriented into their new workplace. Any successful manufacturing organization should…

Realizing Employee Potential and Increasing Productivity

One of the biggest questions facing companies today is how to get solid and consistent productivity from their employees.  How can we institute motivators that will work?   Most of the…

Salary Negotiations for the Executive Level

At the executive level, you have the confidence and experience to know your added value to an organization. However, even the most experienced executive might hesitate when it’s time to…