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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Recruiters, this is our time to step up!

Now is the time for recruiters to support their clients, their candidates, and importantly, each other. My last three weeks has been taken up with emergency client meetings, planning a response to COVID-19. Working remotely is front and centre of most plans. However, there is a sense of “what can we really do from home […]
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Every Agency recruiter in the world must see these numbers.

Recruiters cop a lot of flak. Criticising agency recruiters seems like a global sport sometimes. Just peruse LinkedIn on any given day. And right now there is not much good news of any kind. Let alone for recruiters. Till now. Agency recruitment is booming. Forget those ignorant, clapped-out doomsayers sitting on the sidelines without a […]
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Are these the two dumbest recruiters in history?

Sometimes you have to wonder at how ignorant some people can be. I know, not a nice way to start, but wait till you hear this. This encounter happened a few years ago, but something similar happened last week and it is so common, I have to vent. I was coming back to Sydney from […]
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