What recruitment owners are doing right now!

My diary for last week shows 32 meetings (mostly phone and video) with recruitment agency owners. It does not show the dozens of ad-hoc calls, and the hundred-plus email and LinkedIn messages. Nor does it convey the panic and emotion in those meetings. I also made time to put out this message about how recruiters […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On March 24, 2020
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This is for OWNERS/MANAGERS of recruitment companies in Covid-19 crisis

This was an ’emergency blog’, put out as the severity of the COVID crisis was being first understood Still valid. I hope it helps you. I have had dozens of crisis meetings with owners in the past week, about how to respond to the current situation. Mostly those conversations start frenetically – ideas and fears […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On March 21, 2020
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Recruiters, this is our time to step up!

Now is the time for recruiters to support their clients, their candidates, and importantly, each other. My last three weeks has been taken up with emergency client meetings, planning a response to COVID-19. Working remotely is front and centre of most plans. However, there is a sense of “what can we really do from home […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On March 17, 2020
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Every Agency recruiter in the world must see these numbers.

Recruiters cop a lot of flak. Criticising agency recruiters seems like a global sport sometimes. Just peruse LinkedIn on any given day. And right now there is not much good news of any kind. Let alone for recruiters. Till now. Agency recruitment is booming. Forget those ignorant, clapped-out doomsayers sitting on the sidelines without a […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On March 10, 2020
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The final (ever) Savage speaking tour. UK & Australia & New Zealand.

“My biggest lessons, tactics and secrets from a lifetime in recruitment.” All the best bits from a 40-year recruitment experience. Combined with many real-life anecdotes, freely sharing my many mistakes, I plan to focus on these and much more: The key pillars of success as a recruiter, managing your recruitment career, the formula for recruiters […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On February 26, 2020
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Declining profits for your boss. No bonus for you. Here is why.

This blog is blunt. It’s about the commercial reality of making money in recruitment. If you run a business and are making no money, or if your revenues are growing, but your profit is declining, this will probably explain why. Or if you are a recruiter, it could explain why you can hardly scrape by […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On February 18, 2020
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This is where the Billing Manager goes wrong!

Why do so many great recruiters fail when asked to manage other recruiters? There are many reasons for that. The Billing Manager role is the hardest job in recruitment, although it can also be the most rewarding if you get it right. Let me count the ways it can go wrong. (3 minutes) • Wrong […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On February 12, 2020
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Recruitment is not Tinder. And this is why.

Technology and lack of skill are driving plenty of recruiters to treat recruitment like a dating app. Swipe left. Swipe right. Transactional, keyword matching, resume spamming recruiting drones take heed. (Please). This is what will differentiate the winners from the losers in recruitment. In the end, a recruiter is as good as the number of […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On February 4, 2020
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It was 40 years ago today… yeah, yeah, yeah

23rd January 1980. That’s the date I started as a recruiter. 40 YEARS AGO! TODAY! $10,000 per annum. Executive Recruiter. John P Young and Associates. Adelaide. South Australia What a journey since then. What adventures. What trials. What great people. But after four decades in this most demanding of businesses, there is one […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On January 23, 2020
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10 recruitment trends I predicted in 2010. A decade later, how foolish do I look?

A decade ago I was honoured to present a keynote address to the RCSA National Conference in Hobart. (The original here. August 2010) In that speech, I laid out 10 trends that I believed would impact the recruiting profession, and which I predicted we needed to factor into our strategies and business planning. Ten years […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On January 14, 2020
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