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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Sixty Savage Seconds – Great Recruiters Do Not Always Make Great Managers

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 ‘Great Recruiters Do Not Always Make Great Managers!’. Let me know what you think! View here. 
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On January 21, 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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12 crucial recruiter tips for 2020 (In 10 words or less!)

New year. Fresh dreams. We all want to get better. Achieve more. Just ‘working hard’ won’t do it and that’s not a real goal anyway. Here are 12 simple, actionable tactics for all the desk recruiters out there. Each no longer than 10 words. Will lead you to fun and money. Click on the hyperlinks […]
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On January 7, 2020
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