• By Greg Savage
  • Posted June 20, 2022
  • In recruitment

Do you know what ‘normal’ is?

I went to school on a bus reserved for ‘whites only‘. This was normal. And that was just the tiny tip of the racist Apartheid Iceberg designed to secure white privilege and deny fundamental freedoms and opportunities for most of the population. When I turned 18 and ventured down to the pub in Cape Town, […]
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  • By Greg Savage
  • Posted June 15, 2022
  • In recruitment

Maybe the worst recruiter blunder ever?

I worked a desk as a recruiter for many years. And I was a pretty good recruiter too. Not great, mind you. Just good enough to have a lot of fun and make a bit of money. I also made some monumental stuff-ups. And I don’t mean the odd lapse of judgment. I mean enormous […]
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  • By Greg Savage
  • Posted June 6, 2022
  • In recruitment

Could you answer this client question?

One of my clients told me a fascinating story last week. It’s elementary, obvious even, but so revealing about one of the evolving dynamics in the agency recruitment market. One of his recruiters had a candidate right down to the wire with his client. In fact, after three interviews, the client made an offer to […]
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  • By Greg Savage
  • Posted May 30, 2022
  • In recruitment

Do this, or your placement dies

“Hey, how are you, young Brett,” I said to a recruiter that I know well recently. “Placed anyone in a job lately” was my next question, which is standard fare. Smiling, he affirmed that he had done precisely that, and it was a meaty salary. “Well done”, I beamed, “when does she resign”? Without missing […]
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  • By Greg Savage
  • Posted May 16, 2022
  • In recruitment

Five pieces of great recruiting news

Some brilliant things are happening in recruitment right now! I see them with my clients. I hear about them from recruiters daily. I hope you see them where you are. This should cheer us all up. 1. A new generation of recruiters is being born! Right before our eyes. The mass layoffs and defections from […]
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  • By Greg Savage
  • Posted May 9, 2022
  • In recruitment

Change how you define a ‘good client’

Quality candidates are hard to find. Candidates have a choice and can change their ‘job criteria’ in a moment. Every recruiter knows this. Many recruiters have more jobs than they can hope to fill. Credit to them, they are scrambling to fill them all. But they can’t. And they won’t. So that raises the critical […]
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  • By Greg Savage
  • Posted May 4, 2022
  • In recruitment

Will you be swimming n@ked when the market crashes?

The recruitment industry must take a longer-term view while the current boom rages. Thinking beyond the current cycle is not something we are famous for. Yes, it is a candidate-tight market. Yes, it seems ‘finding clients‘ is not the hard part of the job right now. Indeed, some agency recruiters have developed the view that […]
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  • By Greg Savage
  • Posted April 26, 2022
  • In recruitment

Think you can recruit worldwide? 🇦🇺 🇱🇷 🇿🇦 🇸🇬 🇬🇧 🇯🇵 🇫🇷 🇧🇷

  Is recruiting ‘different’ around the world? Do you think you can recruit worldwide? My recruitment career has allowed me the tremendous privilege of running and owning recruitment businesses all over the world. Literally. At Aquent, it was 30 offices in 17 countries (from 2001 to 2010). With Firebrand I owned a company that had […]
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  • By Greg Savage
  • Posted April 4, 2022
  • In recruitment

This is how to fill more jobs

  You can’t fill your jobs and it’s all because of  ‘no candidates‘, right? Wrong. It is also because you need to coach your clients on how to recruit in this market. This is a key recruiting skill right now. Start here (Click on video)   It is all in the video, but here is […]
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  • By Greg Savage
  • Posted March 30, 2022
  • In recruitment

You need a recruiting career boost?

When I wrote ‘The Savage Truth’, I was nervous Could I do it? I was intimidated by an empty word document, and 40 years of recruiting history to convey. Would it be any good? Yes, I write blogs, but who was I taking on this endeavour? I have a very supportive publisher who seemed confident, […]
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