14 Agency Recruitment Metrics to run your business

I have highlighted the ‘Sacred Agency Recruitment Metrics’ before. But right now, they are more critical than ever. You need these ratios and benchmarks to help you drive excellence and to make sure you don’t drive your business into the ground. But now, here they are updated! With brilliant data from my friend Nigel Harse […]
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Thinking about starting your own Recruitment Agency?

You are thinking about starting your own recruitment agency? It could be exactly the right time. Huge opportunity. (Read how my Agency start-ups worked after a recession!) But you need a plan! And lots of moving parts can go wrong. Many who try are ill-prepared. Some have a chance of making it. All need help. […]
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Recruitment Agencies see massive job bounce-back!

We all know what happened to Recruitment demand from March onwards last year. It was disastrous. In Australia and New Zealand at least, we have seen massive improvements. Many Agencies are in growth mode. Anecdotally, despite everything, pipelines were filling up in the last Quarter of 2020. But where is the empirical data? Is it […]
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  • By Greg Savage
  • Posted February 10, 2021
  • In recruitment

Driving growth in the Recruitment recovery. A Webcast Masterclass

Back by popular demand! The ‘THRIVE’ Webcast is available to stream for the month of February with an ALL-NEW final Q&A session. In late 2020 Greg and Chris Savage delivered a three-part web series to help agencies owners to seize the opportunities posed by the current recruitment landscape. As 2021 brings new prospects for agency […]
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Are you a sad, mad, ‘Recruiting Tragic’?

What is a ‘recruiting tragic’? A ‘recruiting tragic’ is a person who can’t help bringing most things in life back to… recruiting….or recruitment… or recruiters. I admit to being guilty. I know many others in the sad club. We don’t want to be like this. We don’t speak of our affliction. It’s just in our […]
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This new Recruitment Trend will hurt you!

The topic that launched a thousand blogs. How will recruitment change post-covid? A lot of gloomy predictions. And some overly dramatic ones. So here is mine. Not ‘post-covid’, because when is that going to be? But certainly 2021 It is happening already, and when it hits your market, you will be unprepared, unless you act, […]
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15 crucial recruiter tips for 2021 (In 15 words or less!)

The annus horribilis of 2020 is behind us! New year! Fresh dreams! None of us can predict what 2021 holds. It’s unlikely to be easy. We all want to get better. Achieve more. Just ‘working hard’ and ‘hoping for a better year’ won’t do it, and those are not real goals anyway. Here are 15 […]
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The best Recruiter Christmas party in the history of recruitment!

I don’t like recruitment Christmas parties. Mostly. And I have been to a few. At least 70 I would say. 70? How old are you Greg? 100? No, not quite. But 40 years in this biz, and many years where I went to several parties, across various offices of the businesses I ran, means I […]
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He gave his staff a 20% salary increase. In a pandemic!

Who gives their entire team a 20% salary increase in a pandemic? And why would you tell everyone on your team, ‘Hey we will pay you for five days work a week. But please, only work four days”? Precision Sourcing did this last week. Why would they do that? What is the thinking behind this […]
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