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Should I Stay or Should I Go? What Keeps You with Your Present Company?

February 1, 2023

Why do you stay with your present company? Why would you leave?

Talent acquisition goes digital, but does fast and efficient equal sure and effective? (Sourcing Solved excerpt)

January 27, 2020

Will AI improve your company's odds of hiring the best candidates in the shortest period of time?

People transformation before digital transformation and the role of executive search professionals (Sourcing Solved Excerpt)

November 27, 2019

Is procurement good at sourcing . . . strategic procurement people to lead in the digital era?

How to find the right job in procurement

April 25, 2019

As a writer, I have the opportunity to cover a diverse range of topics. While some of the articles I write for the various publications that employ my services do not have a direct tie-in to procurement, many of them do. This recent article I wrote for Sainoo titled Networking And Job Hunting: How To Find […]

The Face of Procurement’s Generation Next by Jon Hansen

January 23, 2015

I often talk about the old days of procurement when, speaking with an audience, I would ask the question; “how many of you chose purchasing as a career?” If one or two hands were raised, it was considered a big number. It seemed that the majority of “purchasing” people fell into the job (back then […]

According to most purchasing professinals, the job chose them rather than they choosing the job

June 11, 2012

Having had the opportunity to travel the globe and speak in front of audiences of all sizes, one of the most interesting points of commonality was the the response I would receive whenever I asked the question “how many of you in the audience fell into purchasing as opposed to consciously choosing it as a […]

What do George Bailey and you have in common . . .

May 17, 2012

NOTE: The following article was original posted on May 16th in the Remarkable Leaders Blog under the heading “Life is no longer sweet in the executive suite and its impact on your career (Part 2 of 2).” Nido Qubein, who wrote my introduction to Customize Your Career, SAID: “If you want to have success and […]

Career Exchange Post Notification

July 8, 2008

The following position has been posted on the Procurement Insights Career Exchange Page (http://www.procureinsights.wordpress.com/procurement-insights-career-exchange/). If you have a position that you would like to list, or would like to indicate your availability to pursue a position with another organization, please send your information in confidence to jwhansen@sympatico.ca. Vice President, Strategic Sourcing Post […]