Recession. Are you vulnerable?

I ask all my clients to consider this question at Board level. And it always shocks them. “What would happen if our permanent Gross Profit (Net fees) dropped by 50%, and temporary/contract GP by 25%? And the drop occurred in a month and did not recover for two years. Would we survive?” And I […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On November 5, 2018
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A recession is coming. And you will not survive.

This is a horror story. Unlike most horror stories, this one is true in every single detail. I was 29 years old. With a team of intrepid colleagues, we founded Recruitment Solutions, and we were going to take on the world. We were ambitious. We opened with ten people on day one. We had two […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On October 23, 2018
24 Comments

Some recruiters are history. Others will thrive. How about you?

My 250-word blog on Artificial Intelligence and its impact on recruitment and recruiters generated a lot of banter. So I decided to look more closely at how the job of the recruiter will change. Will they exist at all? Let me say right now I am very confident about our industry. I am investing in […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On July 17, 2018
6 Comments

Sixty Savage Seconds – You are a leader huh? Can you do this?

Here’s the next “Sixty Savage Seconds” from The Savage Truth A one minute video of the best ideas, tips and tactics for recruiters… sixty seconds to make you think. This Sixty Savage Seconds is titled ‘You are a leader huh? Can you do this’. Let me know what you think! View here.

Posted by Greg Savage
On June 13, 2018
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Recruitment. The best it’s been for a decade!

Three years ago, in response to a barrage of predictions that the recruitment industry was on the verge of destruction, I wrote a piece called ‘Agency recruitment is not dying. It’s growing.’ And it was. And it is now too. I have done a quick review of recent recruitment company results (mostly published in industry […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On May 8, 2018
3 Comments

I went to Dublin to talk ‘leadership’. And the craic was good!

I went to Ireland. A huge week of recording 20 hours of recruitment training for the Social Talent Training Platform (Look out for that. Speak to Richard Bromhead) But also two big presentations to the local recruiters on ‘Leadership’, and what that really means. The first was organised by my good friends at Social Talent, […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On May 1, 2018
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3 wrong responses to recruitment change. And one smart one.

It’s obvious. Much of recruitment is changing, very fast. We may not like it, but that is the fact. Technology most obviously, but also candidate behavior and client expectations. And of course the rapid onset of Artificial Intelligence and machine learning in recruitment. More than ‘on its way’. Here already. My observation is that most […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On February 13, 2018
6 Comments

The Future of Recruitment {Podcast}

Greg and Steve Walker of idibu talk about the future of recruitment, the necessity of change, the skills technology can replace, staying productive, and personal insights. Part 1 of this 5 part podcast focuses on the future of recruitment, asking Greg questions such as: How do you think the Recruitment industry will develop? What’s the […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On January 16, 2018
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He made $150k by changing the KPI

This is a story about innovation. It’s also about leadership, measurement and fresh KPI thinking. And it’s about making money. I learned the lesson in a Board Meeting with my client Donald Stout, MD of Now Careers in Sydney. (Now Careers has several offices in the UK and 2 in Australia) Donald and his management […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On December 19, 2017
3 Comments

No, actually, recruitment does NOT build character

I was chatting to a recruitment company owner the other day, and we were debating about how tough Agency recruitment is as an industry. He went on to say how the rigours of learning the recruitment business was excellent for ‘building character’. And of course he was half right. There is no doubt that Agency […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On October 24, 2017
11 Comments

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