10 recruitment trends I predicted in 2010. Right..or wrong?

Recently I was honoured to present a keynote address to the RCSA National Conference in Hobart.(August 2010) In that speech I laid out 10 trends that I believe will impact the recruiting profession and which we need to factor into our strategies and business planning. Expectations of clients are rising and will continue to rise. […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On August 31, 2010
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Coaching Recruiters. Shut up and let them talk!

This is the fifth blog in my series on great coaching for managers of recruiter teams. Previously I expanded on the importance of ‘live feedback’, ‘real life coaching’, as well as the tactic of ‘plugging in’ new recruits. Today we look at ‘role swapping’. Many managers I have worked with feel that if they are […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On July 27, 2010
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Coaching Recruiters. Doing your job while teaching them their job!

This is the third blog in my series on great coaching for managers of recruiter teams. Last week I expanded on the importance of ‘Live Feedback’ as a coaching tool, and today we turn our attention to the sadly under-utilised ‘Real Life’ approach to consultant coaching. One of the major learnings for me about effective […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On July 13, 2010
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Coaching Recruiters with ‘Live Feedback’

In my last blog post I explained how great coaching is built on two key functions – recognition and correction. Today I expand on one of the tactics I have found exceptionally helpful in mentoring and coaching recruiters to outstanding performance, ‘Live Feedback’. This may sound unusual, but a good leader who wants to have […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On July 6, 2010
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Recruiters only learn by being coached in ‘real time’

As anyone who has been in recruitment for a while knows, the subtle and varied skills of our industry are best learned ‘on the job’, and they are always best communicated with the help of a mentor or coach, usually your manager, who can show how things work in real life. There are stats on […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On June 28, 2010
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Recruiters please, shut up and listen!

We are often told that recruitment is a sales job. And it is. But the truth of selling is badly misunderstood. Selling in old-style recruitment means volume of calls, pleading for client visits, and pushing people into jobs where maybe the fit is dubious, at best. But in fact the real selling in staffing is […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On May 30, 2010
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Three brilliant recruitment lessons…learned in Japan!

People often ask me about staffing in Japan, and how “different “ it must be to the rest of the recruiting world. Well of course Japan can be a perplexing place to an outsider, but 10 years of running a recruitment business there has taught me that, at the very core, success in staffing in […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On May 21, 2010
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Recruiters! It takes more than raw aggression and low prices!

There is one word you will always find in any analysis or even casual discussion about the recruitment industry. Competition Get two recruiters or more together, in any setting, and I bet that 90 % of the conversation will be about how competitive its all become and how to beat the competition. A few years […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On April 30, 2010
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Two new Recruitment Conferences worth attending

Over the past week I have committed to presenting at two RCSA conferences in Australia, which by the sound of the program and the quality of the other speakers, will be well worth attending. Below are details of the two presentations I will be giving, in Sydney and in Hobart, as well as links to […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On April 23, 2010
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Talent management will be the key as the market recovers

As the market recovers, one of the first impacts on our industry will be a revival of the temp and contract market. Temp-to-perm will be huge. Employers will see increased work volumes as the economy recovers, but will “dip their toes” into the labour market at first, hiring flexible solutions initially. But then, as momentum […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On April 8, 2010
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