Inside the Crisis Plan of a UK Recruitment Owner

The COVID Crisis is obviously effecting recruiters (and everyone!) globally. I get 30 messages a day from recruiters all over the world, mostly asking for help. But this one offered some ideas Very kindly sent in by Daryl Williams, of Vadar Moss in the UK, this was her COVID plan. Useful for all I think […]
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Job hunting recruiter? The advice you need!

For the first time in a decade, I have been flooded with requests from recently unemployed recruiters looking for assistance. This was unthinkable a few months ago. My usual go-to action when I do get a recruiter approach me is to counsel them a little on clear career thinking, and then refer them to a […]
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Recruiters. You CAN make placements in lockdown!

In most cases, recruiters, clients and candidates are all at home right now. And no one knows when that will change. How on earth do we engineer a permanent placement in that situation? Job spec. Interview. Second interview. Offer. Acceptance. Start date. Handover. I am not going to tell you it’s easy. But it can […]
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The Savage Crisis Toolbox for Recruiters

All my COVID-19 recruiter advice is here. For Recruitment Owners, Managers and Recruiters. (and others too maybe,  I feel.) None of us has all the answers in this unique and most challenging of times. Here is the best advice I can come up with in response to the COVID crisis. Also some ideas I gleaned […]
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  • By Greg Savage
  • Posted April 3, 2020
  • In recruitment

The best recruiter ever to walk on God’s green earth

Graham Whelan is the best recruiter I ever met in 40 years, and one of the nicest human beings ever to walk on God’s green earth. We met in London in the early 80s, he was my boss at Accountancy Placements in the mid-’80s, and we started Recruitment Solutions together in the late 80s – and […]
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Free Recruiter business action plan in time of crisis

The world is spiralling down. Everything we believed is solid, is not. We need a plan. A structure. I made a start by providing you with this Matrix and planning structure on Sunday. But here is something much, much better. I stole it from my brother Chris Savage (Don’t feel sorry for him! He stole […]
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What recruitment owners are doing right now!

My diary for last week shows 32 meetings (mostly phone and video) with recruitment agency owners. It does not show the dozens of ad-hoc calls, and the hundred-plus email and LinkedIn messages. Nor does it convey the panic and emotion in those meetings. I also made time to put out this message about how recruiters […]
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  • By Greg Savage
  • Posted March 21, 2020
  • In recruitment

This is for OWNERS/MANAGERS of recruitment companies in Covid-19 crisis

This was an ’emergency blog’,  put out as the severity of the COVID crisis was being first understood Still valid. I hope it helps you. I have had dozens of crisis meetings with owners in the past week, about how to respond to the current situation. Mostly those conversations start frenetically – ideas and fears […]
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