• By Greg Savage
  • Posted September 5, 2022
  • In recruitment

Recruitment numbers to terrify us all

No matter how long you have been in recruitment, how junior or senior your role is, this chart is of compelling interest to you. We are in a recruiting boom, with tight labour markets, talent shortages, and a massive appetite for hiring. As a result, it’s an excellent time to be a recruiter, and most […]
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  • By Greg Savage
  • Posted August 22, 2022
  • In recruitment

A resilience lesson from a rookie recruiter

The last 18 months have been great for recruiters. Not easy, but great rewards for the hard-working. The market will turn, and fresh challenges will emerge. It’s likely to be a grind if the market declines. More work for less return. Older recruiting hands will know what I am referring to. I fear some recruiters […]
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  • By Greg Savage
  • Posted August 8, 2022
  • In recruitment

This one sign means a downturn

Everywhere you look, there is commentary and predictions about a downturn or a recession. Every day I ask my clients and other recruitment business owners whether they have felt any fall-off in job-order flow. Logically, that’s the first sign of a decline in demand, and perhaps a warning of a downturn (or worse). But the […]
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  • By Greg Savage
  • Posted July 25, 2022
  • In recruitment

The rise (and fall) of the $1,000,000 recruiter

  The incredible recovery of the recruitment market since the dark days of Covid has stunned us all. And there have been many other surprises that none of us could have predicted. There is one extraordinary development that I want to bring to your attention because it wraps up both good and bad news. Of […]
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  • By Greg Savage
  • Posted July 18, 2022
  • In recruitment

What will your tombstone say?

My life? 1958 – 2043. That’s what my tombstone will say. If the Shiraz does not get me sooner, and I last that long. It could easily say 1958 – 2022. (Although I sincerely hope not!) But that’s the point. The dates themselves are not that important – as long as they are a reasonable […]
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  • By Greg Savage
  • Posted July 13, 2022
  • In recruitment

On tomorrow! Savage UK Masterclass

‘Powering growth in 2023 and beyond’ Greg Savage Masterclass London August 31st 2022   150 signed up. Bigger room arranged! Grow your company value for exit This session focuses on what recruitment leaders should change now to take advantage of the current market, and prepare careers and businesses for long-term success and productivity, even when […]
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  • By Greg Savage
  • Posted July 11, 2022
  • In recruitment

Are you ‘client-flabby’ or are you ‘client-fit’?

Recruitment became more ‘remote‘ because of Covid. There was no alternative. But now, for many recruiters, it remains that way, ‘because it suits them!’. Add to this a candidate-tight market where plenty of recruiters have developed a one-sided skill-set that focuses only on candidate activities. You have an unhealthy situation where clients are being ignored, […]
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  • By Greg Savage
  • Posted July 4, 2022
  • In recruitment

16 questions every recruiter must answer

If you own or run a recruitment company, this list should be a discussion for the whole team and a strategy document for the leadership group. Individual recruiters must take control of their futures by asking these questions and being confident in the answers they come up with. What will happen when the market turns? […]
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  • 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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