Author: Sime Curkovic

College Students: Do NOT round up your GPAs, use a post script on your phones for email replies, take your email signatures VERY seriously, & use keywords on your resume.

College Students: Do NOT round up your GPAs, use a post script on your phones for email replies, take your email signatures VERY seriously, & use keywords on your resume. https://www.glassdoor.com/blog/lying-on-your-resume/ Resume advice, Do NOT round up your GPAs Students should not change their official GPA for their resume. Instead, I recommend they calculate their major GPA using the courses required for their major & also list their overall GPA (especially...

FYI: This is how Harvard thinks you should negotiate an internship or job offer (not bad). Do I think students should negotiate an INTERNSHIP or FULL-TIME offer (i.e., a higher salary)?

FYI: This is how Harvard thinks you should negotiate an internship or job offer (not bad). Do I think students should negotiate an INTERNSHIP or FULL-TIME offer (i.e., a higher salary)? Yes, since some orgs are offering students 20-30% below market value (but only if you know how to negotiate). The avg supply chain internship is $44,918/yr, or $21.6/hr. People on the lower end, bottom 10%, make $37K/yr ($17.80/hr), while the top 10% makes...

Big companies rescinding job offers to recruits. Ugghh, this comes after I just lectured my students on not reneging. Thank you Corporate America for setting a great example. Note, unemployment (3.6%) is at 50 yr lows. Good luck getting them back!

Big companies rescinding job offers to recruits. Ugghh, this comes after I just lectured my students on not reneging. Thank you Corporate America for setting a great example. Note, unemployment (3.6%) is at 50 yr lows. Good luck getting them back! https://www.wsj.com/articles/more-companies-start-to-rescind-job-offers-11655865283 ___Students are getting lots of job offers...In U.S., 28% accepted a job offer & reneged! 70% of grads are willing to renege? Reneging: Once you commit, quit! https://lnkd.in/e85beQ2 Amongst those grads...

Artificial intelligence can help manage the supply chain. So what’s the delay? The needed technology exists, but it’s not being used. 40% of employees at a company across all industries are using the data science & machine learning platforms their company provides. However, this number dips down to 21% when filtered for companies in the “logistics” industry.

Artificial intelligence can help manage the supply chain. So what’s the delay? The needed technology exists, but it’s not being used. 40% of employees at a company across all industries are using the data science & machine learning platforms their company provides. However, this number dips down to 21% when filtered for companies in the "logistics" industry. https://www.g2.com/articles/ai-and-analytics-in-the-supply-chain This reluctance to use available technology is evidenced in G2 review data for...

There are surprisingly few “great” books on family business & succession. Many show up on Amazon, but I have found them to mostly repeat the basics that I think are laid out well in the following 3 books.

*60% of the US workforce is employed by a family-owned business.*78% of all new jobs in the US are created by family-owned businesses. *30% of family businesses make it through the 2nd generation, 10-15% through the 3rd, & 3-5% through the 4th. https://lnkd.in/gJ5T8Tzc___I meet a lot of people involved in family owned businesses & they often ask me for material on succession. I reached out to my colleagues in this space &...

Some employers are giving students 3 days to make decisions on full time job offers several months before graduation? One student asked if that was ethical or even legal. Exploding job offers & do you want a full time job to begin in a job rotation?

Some employers are giving students 3 days to make decisions on full time job offers several months before graduation? One student asked if that was ethical or even legal. Exploding job offers & do you want a full time job to begin in a job rotation? https://lnkd.in/ervskG5 My students will be coming back to school from their summer internships soon. Many of them will have received full time offers from their internship &...

This is an Adjunct Professor job posting…Compensation: standard compensation for most undergrad courses is $2,200 per 8-week course & $2,500 for most 10-week grad courses. Adjuncts are paid bi-weekly & are considered W-2 employees of xxxx University.” Ugghh?

This is an Adjunct Professor job posting...Compensation: standard compensation for most undergrad courses is $2,200 per 8-week course & $2,500 for most 10-week grad courses. Adjuncts are paid bi-weekly & are considered W-2 employees of xxxx University." Ugghh? This is right in line w/ most adjunct faculty jobs at many universities. Depending on your situation/motives, I would recommend the tenure-track route... https://blog.prepscholar.com/how-to-become-a-college-professor-requirements "$ of Assoc Prof Supply Chain range $136-204K...

What if you are a student that wishes to learn both Power BI and Tableau, but your instructor only covers one? Unfortunately covering both in 1 single class will not give either one a fair coverage. In the end, students won’t have good skills in visualization.

Should we teach Tableau or Power BI or both? There are ONLY 500,000 unfilled SCM Data Science jobs on LI. In our CIS 3640 class we focus on three major areas: (1) Advanced excel functions, Power Query, Power Pivot , & Data Models, (2) Excel Macros, & (3) Visualization. https://lnkd.in/gXYSQKc7 https://www.datacamp.com/blog/power-bi-vs-tableau-which-one-should-you-choose?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIwPu5t4qs3AIVAQAAAB0BAAAAEAAYACAAEgJVzfD_BwE We do our best to go in-depth in all these three areas. Based on the feedback we received from students,...

Placement success of ISM Program – *Median salary was $60K-65K (10% of grads hired on w/ 1 auto OEM at $78K!).

Should college grads negotiate a higher starting salary? https://lnkd.in/gMJYNJkh. Salaries in SCM are going up & already average $10K-$20K higher than entry-level positions in other fields. https://lnkd.in/gCiYgwS2 There isn’t enough young people working in supply chain - https://lnkd.in/gtUcJpX7. People want more money & rewarding work (not paperwork). https://lnkd.in/g7BwX84c. Salaries per DC Velocity: 2022 https://lnkd.in/gESQFNZa vs 2021 https://lnkd.in/gW-U-KHK vs 2020 https://lnkd.in/gJquYyT4 Salaries per ASCM $: 2022 https://lnkd.in/gtYC5Cnw vs 2021 https://lnkd.in/gpMvehY5 vs 2020 https://lnkd.in/gcsrX6tr "The demand for logistics talent has never been greater. The low unemployment rate...

“2018” supply chain salary summary (see below from ISM). The salaries in “2022” are up (but I would have guessed WAY more 4 years later)…See 2018 (well before covid):

"2018" supply chain salary summary (see below from ISM). The salaries in "2022" are up (but I would have guessed WAY more 4 years later)…See 2018 (well before covid): https://lnkd.in/gV53aggX. 2020 (right before covid): https://lnkd.in/gz8WQEhr.2021 (deep into covid):https://lnkd.in/g-SfG93Ahttps://lnkd.in/gn5jM9xt. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/sime-curkovic-61617a115_2018-salary-report-are-salaries-way-up-since-activity-6957059992042577920-w4vX?utm_source=linkedin_share&utm_medium=member_desktop_web People want more money & rewarding work (not paperwork). https://lnkd.in/g7BwX84c. "The demand for logistics talent has never been greater. The low unemployment rate has created a supply/demand imbalance, spurring employers to raise salaries in...