Something I wrote in 2009 just might save your career now.

I wrote this blog in 2009, just as we were emerging from what we then considered to be a bad recession. LOL (Yes, that’s right, I have been writing blogs for your reading pleasure, every week, for over 10 years. Thanks for asking.) It could not be more relevant for us now, even if I […]
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On July 14, 2020
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My post-COVID recruiting dream

As an industry, and as individuals, we have never had a better chance to change what we don’t like. To slaughter sacred cows. Smash our outdated, self- inhibiting paradigms. To configure our futures. Who is going to stop us? Who is even looking? The most significant waste of all will be to come back to […]
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On July 7, 2020
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Dump this recruitment baggage now!

Last week I delivered the opening session of the RCSA ReForm Conference with industry legend Geoff Morgan. (He founded Morgan and Banks and Talent2 and has done much more besides) The video is restricted to paying conference attendees, but here are some sound bites as quoted by Shortlist.net.au,  Australia’s leading source of recruitment industry news. […]
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On June 4, 2020
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Survive the Downturn. Ride the Recovery

The feedback on this webinar is that it helps recruiters who are running out of ideas. It gives them a plan and structure and specific action points Many recruiters find themselves paralysed by uncertainty and apprehension. But it’s time to act, and the webinar shares how. Run by my good friends at Videomyjob it covers; […]
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On May 28, 2020
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You can talk – but do you have anything to say?

Every day I am asked, ‘what skill do I need during this crisis’? ‘Many‘, is the trite answer. But this one, for sure. To shine in this crisis, and the subsequent recovery, you must build a compelling narrative. And this skill has implications far beyond our current situation. This goes to the heart of the […]
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On May 26, 2020
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Recruitment trends right now! The last 14 days!

These are the headlines from the past two weeks. Based on dozens of meetings with agency owners and recruiters, and hundreds of emails and messages I get – a day. (They don’t apply in every case. Some will not be the case for you, your agency or in your market.) They just represent the ‘trends […]
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On May 18, 2020
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Recruiters! ‘Conditions are perfect’ to land a new role.

In careers, as in life, a powerful gift is the ability to slow down in order to speed up. Thousands of Recruiters are today forcibly slowing down, casualties of the devastating impact the pandemic has had. The list will get longer. The recovery, when it comes, will be patchy.. Stay calm. Remember the words of […]
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On May 4, 2020
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12 hours of Savage video learning. Available now!

Thanks to the RCSA we are able to present Savage Online Streamable recordings from my last three speaking tours I am really grateful to the RCSA in Australia who have agreed to forgo commercial advantage and offer almost 12 hours of my recorded training modules at a heavily discounted price. Original price $1,100 for all […]
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On April 29, 2020
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Recruiters. Pivot NOW to ride the recovery!

It is bleak now. I know. I can’t predict the future, but I have been through many recessions and downturns, and there is always a recovery. How that recovery looks this time no one is sure, but I am confident there will be many great opportunities for recruiters. As long as you are prepared. In […]
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On April 28, 2020
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The one thing every recruiter MUST do in lock-down!

The biggest mistake a recruiter can make right now is to retreat into their ‘cave’. I hear it all the time. “I am going to sit this out”. No. A thousand times, no! You are not sitting anything out. You are diving in! Now is the time to be connecting and communicating and content-creating. Every […]
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On April 23, 2020
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