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Optimize Your Food & Beverage Procurement Resume

November 16, 2015 in Career and Job Search Tips, Resume Tips

 

What do today’s food & beverage recruiters want to see on your resume as a Purchasing professional? Kinsa has the information you need. Today, we continue our series of resume optimization posts, each dedicated to a specific professional job category within the food & beverage industry. Earlier this year, our recruiters shared what they and their clients […]

 

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Separating the Wheat from the Chaff: 4 Ways to Identify Top Talent

November 2, 2015 in HR Best Practices

 

Every food & beverage employer wants to hire top professionals – people who make a real impact and consistently perform well above expectations. And with good reason. According to research cited in Harvard Business Review, the best performers are roughly four times as productive as average performers. Four times! In today’s employment market, however, exceptional […]

 

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The Big Payoff: Which Food & Beverage Categories See the Highest Pay Increases?

September 28, 2015 in Career and Job Search Tips, Food & Beverage Industry Information, HR Best Practices

How much do you need to offer to land a candidate in dairy? Bakery? Meats? What’s the standard pay increase job changers can expect in sales? QA? Supply chain? Great questions! Whether you’re a food & beverage employer that’s hiring, or an industry job seeker who’s negotiating salary or a raise, you need to know […]

 

Optimize Your Food and Beverage Sales Resume

September 14, 2015 in Career and Job Search Tips, Resume Tips

 

You’re an expert in landing new accounts. Retaining key clients. Increasing penetration within existing accounts. But how savvy are you in “closing the deal” with a hiring manager? The ability to effectively sell yourself is one of the most important skills a food & beverage sales professional can have – and the “sales cycle” starts […]

 

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You Should Reject Job Hoppers, Right?

August 31, 2015 in HR Best Practices

 

Everybody knows how tight today’s professional food & beverage talent market is. High performers are undoubtedly in the driver’s seat, and most won’t stick around nearly long enough to earn that once-coveted gold watch: According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, average employee tenure is at 4.4 years. High achievers (young managers in particular) […]

 

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If You Build it, Will They Come? How to Get More Recruiters to Look at Your LinkedIn Profile

August 17, 2015 in Career and Job Search Tips

 

You’re a LinkedIn All-Star. You’ve spent countless hours pouring over your profile: choosing a keyword-rich title honing your summary uploading project examples garnering recommendations joining groups following influencers You even added your volunteering experience. Now that you’ve created an amazing Profile, you can just sit back, relax, and wait for the food & beverage jobs […]

 

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Food & Beverage Interview Preparation: Are You Taking Things TOO Far?

August 3, 2015 in Career and Job Search Tips, HR Best Practices, Interview Tips

 

No matter which side of the interview desk you sit on, you absolutely MUST prepare with interview preparation to make a great impression. The employer has to be ready to explain why their organization and the position provide a great opportunity for the candidate; likewise, the candidate has to convince the potential employer why he’s […]

 

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