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14 Agency Recruitment Metrics to run your business (Part 3)

My previous two blogs (Part 1 and Part 2) on this topic revealed seven of the critical metrics needed to run your recruitment agency efficiently and productively. Today, metrics eight through ten for your reading pleasure. All supported by the excellent data from my friend Nigel Harse at Staffing Industry Metrics, so I can provide you with updated […]
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On April 1, 2021
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14 Agency Recruitment Metrics to run your business (Part 2)

In the last blog on this topic, I shared the first four of the fourteen critical metrics you need to run your recruitment agency effectively. You need these ratios and benchmarks to help you drive excellence and to make sure you don’t drive your business into the ground. With brilliant data from my friend Nigel Harse at Staffing […]
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On March 11, 2021
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14 Agency Recruitment Metrics to run your business

I have highlighted the ‘Sacred Agency Recruitment Metrics’ before. But right now, they are more critical than ever. You need these ratios and benchmarks to help you drive excellence and to make sure you don’t drive your business into the ground. But now, here they are updated! With brilliant data from my friend Nigel Harse […]
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On March 2, 2021
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Thinking about starting your own Recruitment Agency?

You are thinking about starting your own recruitment agency? It could be exactly the right time. Huge opportunity. (Read how my Agency start-ups worked after a recession!) But you need a plan! And lots of moving parts can go wrong. Many who try are ill-prepared. Some have a chance of making it. All need help. […]
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On February 24, 2021
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Recruitment Agencies see massive job bounce-back!

We all know what happened to Recruitment demand from March onwards last year. It was disastrous. In Australia and New Zealand at least, we have seen massive improvements. Many Agencies are in growth mode. Anecdotally, despite everything, pipelines were filling up in the last Quarter of 2020. But where is the empirical data? Is it […]
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On February 23, 2021
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The best Recruiter Christmas party in the history of recruitment!

I don’t like recruitment Christmas parties. Mostly. And I have been to a few. At least 70 I would say. 70? How old are you Greg? 100? No, not quite. But 40 years in this biz, and many years where I went to several parties, across various offices of the businesses I ran, means I […]
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On December 22, 2020
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He gave his staff a 20% salary increase. In a pandemic!

Who gives their entire team a 20% salary increase in a pandemic? And why would you tell everyone on your team, ‘Hey we will pay you for five days work a week. But please, only work four days”? Precision Sourcing did this last week. Why would they do that? What is the thinking behind this […]
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On December 15, 2020
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My secret to a cracking start to 2021!

We all know it’s been the year from hell and many of us will have some kind of break in the next month or so. Christmas, New Year, summer holidays, Chinese New Year. You, your clients and your candidates are going to have some well-deserved downtime. But what about the cost? And the risk? We […]
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On December 8, 2020
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Why so many recruitment managers got fired in Covid.

Plenty of Agency recruitment managers were fired as soon as the pandemic hit. That was shocking at an individual level, but no surprise, because in every downturn companies unload expensive middle managers in droves. I have seen it countless times. Even in good times, many, many recruitment companies decimate their profit level because of this […]
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On November 4, 2020
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How much will Recruitment change Post-COVID? (Clue: F-All).

Every day, there are dozens of articles on how COVID will change Recruitment. Well, here is the news. It will not. And I have the scientific, irrefutable, undebatable proof! Let me explain; Most days, I walk around my leafy Sydney suburb in a pathetic attempt to ‘keep fit’. On those walks, I pass dozens of […]
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On October 27, 2020
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