Can YOU help The Savage Truth?

Have you ever got some value from The Savage Truth? One of my blogs maybe (I have written over 300!)? Sixty Savage Seconds perhaps? My YouTube videos perchance? Then I am delighted! But they take a lot of work as you can imagine. And it’s taken 40 years to accumulate the knowledge to share 🙂 […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On July 3, 2018
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What I told the African headhunters!

I just got back from a speaking tour in South Africa. We spoke to 800 recruiters over six events in Cape Town and Johannesburg. The response was phenomenal, and it was fascinating to note that the issues they face on the southern tip of Africa, are for the most part very similar to the challenges […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On August 29, 2017
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The barista with the best recruiter talent I have ever seen

For about 5 years I worked out of a great office in Pitt Street, Sydney, when I was running Aquent and Firebrand Talent Search. I admit I am a coffee drinker. It’s my biggest vice (and I have substantial portfolio of those!). So at least two, maybe three times a day, I would need a […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On March 7, 2017
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27 secrets I told the recruiters of Europe

Last week I told you about the crazy, and cool, goings on at the Evolve Conference in Czech Republic. My European trip was primarily for work (no, really, the Rugby World Cup was just a coincidence, seriously…), and I spoke to 750 recruiters in total, in the Czech Republic and also in London and Manchester. […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On November 17, 2015
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Agency recruitment is not dying. It’s growing!

This has become a cause of great hilarity for me, to be honest. So many buffoons predicting the demise of recruiters. Tech-legend wannabees, internal recruiters with a barrow to push, disaffected clients, and a host of other misinformed or biased loudmouths, all spruiking the end of agency recruitment. Some of it is so simplistic to […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On April 14, 2015
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