Last year, I blogged about how Alcoa was poaching top talent from other purchasing organizations. Specifically, I alluded to two extremely talented individuals in particular who had recently joined their team at the time.

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Well, apparently what comes around goes around.

I spoke with both of those individuals recently and, just one year later, they are with different companies!

And they weren’t the only ones to abandon Alcoa for greener pastures.

I think that this signals a good time to be pursuing a purchasing career. Talented and qualified people are seeming to have an easy time finding rewarding purchasing jobs.

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