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Perhaps delay graduation for work experience & stay specialized? Being job ready in the covid market & beyond.

Perhaps delay graduation for work experience & stay specialized? Being job ready in the covid market & beyond. https://lnkd.in/eZGZbkPMost good paying jobs are highly specialized (e.g., purchasing, operations, and logistics). Your degrees are highly specialized but you also have to get good practical work experience related to what you are majoring in. Quite simply, students without work experience in their major do not get good jobs in their major. That means...

Do you understand exchange rates & how it impacts Supply Chain Management? Many struggle with this. Let’s practice –

Do you understand exchange rates & how it impacts Supply Chain Management? Many struggle with this. Let's practice - https://lnkd.in/eHNiCXrm Let’s say you just graduated from a SCM program. You have accepted a job offer from Boeing as a Buyer in Seattle. You will help Boeing identify suppliers to help meet its material needs. You must immediately find a supplier which can supply Boeing with electrical wiring harnesses. You find a supplier in Japan by...

Do new college grads really need to participate in a 401K Retirement Savings Plan? Yes!

Do new college grads really need to participate in a 401K Retirement Savings Plan? Yes! I spend around 15-30 minutes on this in class because my students need it. When they get their job offers, I ask them to look over this part (they usually need help). Please watch this if you want career mobility & financial independence in your 40s & beyond. In order to achieve this, you will need to...

Better, Faster, Cheaper…and Cleaner?!

ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY IN MANUFACTURING Better, Faster, Cheaper ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY IN MANUFACTURING https://wmich.edu/business/curkovic The Dow Jones Sustainability Indices recently reported the results of its annual study tracking sustainability-driven companies worldwide. This year, one of the most notable companies to make the list was Bank of America Corp. Some companies, including Cisco Systems Inc. and PepsiCo Inc., were deleted from the list. In conjunction with the release of this report, Dr. Sime...

Click: My top rated SCM videos, over 1,000 views daily…

Over 30 hours of SCM content, 3,200 YouTube Followers, over 300,000 views total, & over 1,000 views daily... My latest interview with a group of students from the University of South Florida: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hQRVk3IcHE&t=760s Sourcing Strategy Part I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrBN_T9ogao&t=351s Sourcing Strategy Part II https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ay2orDXjP8o&t=62s Sourcing Strategy Part III https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5SD4ugLMks&t=4s Resume and Career Advice Part I https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RO4RLGskpBM&t=322s Resume and Career Advice Part II https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3phYBaiRn4&t=491s Resume and Career Advice Part III https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NsmpiJ-Vxg&t=105s Lean...

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Note, complete access to my blogs and job postings requires MEMBERSHIP ($25 lifetime)... Free View Sample: Does your resume make it obvious that you know how to solve problems? https://www.simecurkovic.com/2021/04/30/does-your-resume-make-it-obvious-that-you-know-how-to-solve-problems/ Blogs (or visit this link for the most current list which is updated monthly): https://www.simecurkovic.com/posts-page/ My students agree…Most GenZers ‘would not work five days a week in an office,’ researcher says, (BUTmoney is still the most important thing! Scheduling...

Click: Thousands of research publications & presentations (all copies available upon request, including from my library)

For some reason, this is my most viewed paper (over 20,000 reads): Using FMEA for Supply Chain Risk Management, click For some reason, this is my most cited research paper (over 500 citations): Toward a measure of the competitive priorities for purchasing, click SUPPLY CHAIN RESEARCH COLLECTION and INTEREST Operations and Sourcing Strategy, Environmentally Responsible Manufacturing, Total Quality Management, Environmental Cost Measurement Systems, Supply Chain Risk Management, Corporate Social Responsibility,...

Click: Laundry list of my top rated supply chain videos…

Over 40 hours of SCM content, 4,300 YouTube Followers, over 1,000 views daily, & over 400,000 views total... What is Supply Chain Management? Career talk w/Dr. Curkovic. Hot Major 2022. $70K & $100K+ by 30! Podcast: Supply Chain Skills Employers are Seeking- with Sime Curkovic, Professor at Western Michigan University https://scmtalent.com/podcast-sime-curkovic Recent Podcast/Video: Problem-Solving... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HCnsH5JPtss&t=93s Recent Podcast/Video: With supply chains constantly in the news, many people are making the decision...

ROI and Your Core Competency (i.e., SCM?)

In 1990 C.K. Prahalad and Gary Hamel published The Core Competence of the Corporation that to this day is the most reprinted article in the history of the Harvard Business Review (HBR). It keeps getting reprinted because its premise is still very relevant (perhaps more so today). This core competency article argues that every organization needs to focus all of its scarce, limited, and valuable resources (manpower, machines, money, management, and material – the 5Ms) on...

To stay competitive, companies are forced to outsource commodities and focus on their core competency

Today, to stay commercially competitive, companies are forced to outsource commodities and focus on their core competency and creative ways to increase product value. Traditionally, most buying organizations use a competitive bidding process to find a supplier for the selected commodities to outsource, whereas they will send out Request for Quotation (RFQs) to get bids from suppliers for the business. To get the lowest cost possible, typically, buying organizations will...

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