Two upcoming events!

In conjunction with an Australia-wide speaking tour for the RCSA, I am holding a one-off Tele-seminar hosted by Mark Whitby of RecruiterTrainingOnline.com The theme is “Riding the Recovery” and we will be addressing questions from listeners on how to profit from the eventual upturn in recruitment demand The seminar is on August 11 th at […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On August 8, 2009
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Get ready for a whole new world as the recruitment market recovers

Increasingly it’s becoming clear that a real recovery in recruitment demand is looming over the horizon. In Australia we are seeing little surges of temp demand, and in Asia our job order flow at Aquent is strengthening slowly but surely. Europe is more problematical for the moment, but certainly the RCSA (Recruitment industry body in […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On August 4, 2009
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Join my (zero-cost) Tele-seminar, “Riding the Recovery”

In two weeks I will begin an Australia-wide series of presentations for the RCSA, where I will address the challenging issue of how consultants and recruitment business owners / managers need to prepare for the eventual staffing market recovery. How can we expect demand to re-emerge? What are the right investments to make, and when […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On July 29, 2009
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Your career. Invest in the ‘3Rs’

What can you do at an individual level to improve your chances of really thriving as your career evolves? The fact is, each one of us needs to improve our skills, aim higher and deliver more. So how do we maintain our high standards? How does an individual recruiter take some control over their professional […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On July 15, 2009
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Self-belief and creating ‘recruiter equity’.

Want to know why some recruiters forge long and successful careers and other struggle and fade away? Want to know why a handful of recruiters survive, even thrive, during a downturn, and generate bigger returns in the good times? Why some love this industry while others leave bitter and damaged? Recruiter Equity. I believe that […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On July 8, 2009
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‘Temp-to-perm’ fees. Are we absolutely stark raving mad?

This is one thing our industry has all wrong. We give away our temps at discount rates. Why, I have never understood. I know the market is tough. I appreciate a $ is still a $. I am aware clients are screwing us with all their might. But a temp on your payroll is a […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On July 2, 2009
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You tell me. How do we prepare for the recovery when it comes?

I am rather proud to be a Life Member of the RCSA in Australia, an accolade awarded to very few industry veterans who are judged to have made some contribution to the staffing industry in Australia and New Zealand. I often wonder how I sneaked in to this august group, and so I am delighted […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On June 30, 2009
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Are we there yet? Has the decline in hiring finally reached the bottom?

Perhaps the most common question I get asked these days is whether the dramatic decline in the staffing market has leveled off. My own staff, clients, candidates, even journalists want to know whether there really are any ‘green shoots’ in terms of employers venturing back into the labour market. As anyone in recruitment knows, the […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On June 21, 2009
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