Recruiters. You CAN make placements in lockdown!

In most cases, recruiters, clients and candidates are all at home right now. And no one knows when that will change. How on earth do we engineer a permanent placement in that situation? Job spec. Interview. Second interview. Offer. Acceptance. Start date. Handover. I am not going to tell you it’s easy. But it can […]
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On April 7, 2020
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The Savage Crisis Toolbox for Recruiters

All my COVID-19 recruiter advice is here. For Recruitment Owners, Managers and Recruiters. (and others too maybe,  I feel.) None of us has all the answers in this unique and most challenging of times. Here is the best advice I can come up with in response to the COVID crisis. Also some ideas I gleaned […]
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On April 4, 2020
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30 tactics for recruiters to survive and thrive in the time of COVID-19

These are the toughest of times. I have been through many recessions, but this is different because of the health and isolation factors. We can’t meet clients or candidates face to face, they can’t meet each other, and most recruiters are working from home, in some cases mandated by the government. But we must be […]
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On March 30, 2020
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Free Recruiter business action plan in time of crisis

The world is spiralling down. Everything we believed is solid, is not. We need a plan. A structure. I made a start by providing you with this Matrix and planning structure on Sunday. But here is something much, much better. I stole it from my brother Chris Savage (Don’t feel sorry for him! He stole […]
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On March 26, 2020
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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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