{"id":2317,"date":"2007-07-11T11:58:00","date_gmt":"2007-07-11T11:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/2007\/07\/11\/supply-chain-talent-poaching\/"},"modified":"2023-06-27T04:25:57","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T08:25:57","slug":"supply-chain-talent-poaching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/supply-chain-talent-poaching\/","title":{"rendered":"Supply Chain Talent Poaching"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t miss updates on Procurement &amp; Supply Chain, Subscribe here!<\/p>\n<p>Well, apparently what comes around goes around.<\/p>\n<p>I spoke with both of those individuals recently and, just one year later, they are with different companies!<\/p>\n<p>And they weren\u2019t the only ones to abandon Alcoa for greener pastures.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recommended Reading<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"row-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/search-engine-added-to-this-blog\/\" aria-label=\"\u201cSearch Engine Added To This Blog!\u201d (Edit)\">Search Engine Added To This Blog!<\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"row-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/spend-analysis\/\" aria-label=\"\u201cSpend Analysis\u201d (Edit)\">Spend Analysis<\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"row-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/expert-purchasing-management-reviewed\/\" aria-label=\"\u201cExpert Purchasing Management Reviewed\u201d (Edit)\">Expert Purchasing Management Reviewed<\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"row-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/hiring-a-purchasing-friendly-cfo\/\" aria-label=\"\u201cHiring A Purchasing-Friendly CFO\u201d (Edit)\">Hiring A Purchasing-Friendly CFO<\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"row-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/top-three-purchasing-issues\/\" aria-label=\"\u201cTop Three Purchasing Issues\u201d (Edit)\">Top Three Purchasing Issues<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, I blogged about how Alcoa was poaching top [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":4005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-procurement"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.4 (Yoast SEO v19.13) - 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