{"id":2956,"date":"2010-10-15T20:48:00","date_gmt":"2010-10-15T20:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/2010\/10\/15\/procurement-professionals-who-is-coming-for-your-job\/"},"modified":"2023-06-15T07:17:21","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T11:17:21","slug":"procurement-professionals-who-is-coming-for-your-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/procurement-professionals-who-is-coming-for-your-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Procurement Professionals:  Who Is Coming For YOUR Job?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In my line of work, I get to observe a lot of changes that affect the procurement profession. And I\u2019ve noticed a certain trend developing lately.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t miss updates on Procurement &amp; Supply Chain, Subscribe here!<\/p>\n<p>While we have provided our training to both individual procurement professionals and corporate groups for 10 years and we continue to do so at a growing rate, I am noticing something a little different this year. This year, we are seeing a lot of students who have not been in procurement enrolling in our training because they want to get into procurement.<\/p>\n<p>While certainly someone with no procurement experience and little leadership experience is not an immediate threat to unseat a CPO at a Fortune 500 company, procurement professionals closer to the entry level might not be as safe. Macro-economic changes, such as the emergence from the recent recession, bring about restructuring.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRestructuring\u201d doesn\u2019t always mean downsizing. It means taking some people out and bringing other people in. Or, to paraphrase Jim Collins, \u201cgetting the right people on the bus and then getting the right people in the right seats.\u201d If a company is positioning itself to get back into growth mode, surely they will be reevaluating whether they have the right talent to support growth.<\/p>\n<p>As long as you\u2019ve kept your skills sharp and stayed up to date with the latest trends, techniques, and technologies in procurement, you should be able to stay where you\u2019re at. But if you\u2019ve let your skills and knowledge of modern procurement (and, by modern, I mean familiar with current practices of the past year, not the last five years) wither on the vine, someone is likely champing at the bit to unseat you.<\/p>\n<p>What are the warning signs that you\u2019ve let your skills wither on the vine? How about these:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>You\u2019ve felt you\u2019ve had to work harder because you were kept employed to do your work plus the work of others who were let go and, therefore, hadn\u2019t had time for training<\/li>\n<li>You\u2019ve deferred your career development to your employer who slashed the training budget<\/li>\n<li>You\u2019ve just been lazy and thought you\u2019d be certified when you got around to it<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If one or more of these items applies to you, you\u2019re not the only one. But the big question is: what are you going to do about it now that you know that the skill levels of the people gunning for your job aren\u2019t remaining idle?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recommended Reading<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"row-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/investment-flows-to-supply-chain-technology-vendors-whos-next\/\" aria-label=\"\u201cInvestment Flows To Supply Chain Technology Vendors:  Who\u2019s Next?\u201d (Edit)\">Investment Flows To Supply Chain Technology Vendors: Who\u2019s Next?<\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"row-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/free-procurement-finance-teleseminar-today\/\" aria-label=\"\u201cFree Procurement-Finance Teleseminar Today\u201d (Edit)\">Free Procurement-Finance Teleseminar Today<\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"row-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/the-best-of-whitepaper-wednesday-part-i\/\" aria-label=\"\u201cThe Best of Whitepaper Wednesday, Part I\u201d (Edit)\">The Best of Whitepaper Wednesday, Part I<\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"row-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/do-great-leaders-admit-mistakes\/\" aria-label=\"\u201cDo Great Leaders Admit Mistakes?\u201d (Edit)\">Do Great Leaders Admit Mistakes?<\/a><br \/>\n<a class=\"row-title\" href=\"https:\/\/www.certitrek.com\/nlpa\/blog\/outsourcing-vs-insourcing-simplified\/\" aria-label=\"\u201cOutsourcing vs. Insourcing\u2026Simplified!\u201d (Edit)\">Outsourcing vs. Insourcing\u2026Simplified!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In my line of work, I get to observe a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":4103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-procurement"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v19.13 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Procurement Professionals: Who Is Coming For YOUR Job? 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