The UK recruitment market is growing. Fast!

I have spent a lot of time involved in the UK recruitment market. I have lived there, worked there, and owned and run recruitment businesses there, until very recently. For the past decade I have visited London at least twice a year, often more. So I speak from personal experience when I say there has […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On August 6, 2013
9 Comments

Hire more drinkers!

Yes, you read that right. Hire more drinkers! Oh, wait, slight typo… I mean, you have got to hire more D.R.I.N.C.K.A.E’s If I were building new recruitment company today, the only people I would hire, would be D.R.I.N.C.K.A.E’s. And I am pretty sure this is valid across all business in the modern age. Certainly those […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On July 23, 2013
25 Comments

Recruiters, this is how you destroy your own career.

Recruiters, you won’t like this. But this is the one trait that is ruining your career and negatively impacting your life. Wasted emotion. That is what is destroying your job satisfaction. That is what is leading an army of recruiters to burn out and fade into the sunset. Wasted emotion Don’t get me wrong. Being […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On July 9, 2013
26 Comments

14 signs you are a certified ‘Recruiting Tragic’

What is a recruiting tragic? A recruiting tragic is a person who just can’t help bringing most things in life back to… recruiting. I admit to being guilty. I know others in the sad club. We don’t want to be like this. We are not proud of the affliction. It’s just in our DNA. Think […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On June 25, 2013
34 Comments

The future of recruitment — explained in 30 minutes!

The fast-changing world of recruitment is broken into two camps; Recruiters who will survive and thrive, and those who will fail and die out. Which group are you and your company in? This 30 minute YouTube video will give you the answer.

Posted by Greg Savage
On June 11, 2013
18 Comments

This person cleans up your mess for $8.50

I had a vague understanding that we ‘had a cleaner’, but I took that service for granted, and certainly gave the person who cleaned up our mess little thought. I have always considered Australia a highly evolved industrial democracy, with many laws protecting people from exploitation, but as I dug deeper, the more shocked I became.

Posted by Greg Savage
On May 28, 2013
44 Comments

Suck it up princess. This is as good as it gets

I rarely ‘go to lunch’. But recently I did, with a group that included Geoff Morgan, the Founder of Morgan and Banks, and Talent2. We spoke about a lot that day, but one thing he said shook me and contains a lesson for all of us.

Posted by Greg Savage
On May 14, 2013
40 Comments

Into Africa. A recruiting safari.

Today is the last day of the ‘relaxing’ part of my trip to South Africa, and I write to you from the magnificent Delaire Graff estate just outside Stellenbosch, in the Cape Wine lands. But tomorrow it’s D-day. Day one of the Savage Truth Tour of South Africa, kicking off in Cape Town with a 3-hour seminar.

Posted by Greg Savage
On May 6, 2013
3 Comments

Recruiters! Stand Proud!

Recruiters get terrible press and everyone has a ‘terrible recruiter’ story. Every day brings more abuse and increasingly, gleeful predictions of the demise of the recruiter. Well, enough!

Posted by Greg Savage
On April 30, 2013
33 Comments

Recruiters are liars and scumbags. Google says so.

My entire working life I have been in this industry, and I have taken my fair share of criticism for just uttering the phrase “I am a recruiter”. But now it seems ‘the great search engine in the sky’ is predefining us as liars, scumbags, idiots and worthless.

Posted by Greg Savage
On April 16, 2013
73 Comments

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