• By Greg Savage
  • Posted January 26, 2014

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My universal hiring challenge to you.

This is simple. But powerful. When the time comes to make your next hire, simply ask yourself one key question, before you make an offer. ‘Will this person raise our average?’ That’s it. Ask yourself, and ask the other hiring managers involved. If we hire this person, will she raise the average across all our […]
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This is what clients REALLY want from a recruiter.

The truth is that clients are deserting the recruitment industry in droves.  In many cases they are cynical about our value and skeptical about our ability to deliver anything they can’t get themselves. As we are all aware, they are building sophisticated systems, and hiring internal recruiting experts, specifically to cut out third-party recruiters. And […]
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Can Internal Recruiters assist candidates as much as Agency Recruiters can?

Agency Recruiters will always beat Internal Recruiters. Always. Even great internal recruiters can never do as good a job for candidates as great agency recruiters do. Never. Ever. And that’s simply because internal recruiters are at a significant disadvantage when it comes to supporting candidates in their job search. Let’s examine the ways; Internal recruiters, […]
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Can we trust LinkedIn?

I love LinkedIn. But I do not trust LinkedIn. For recruiters, it’s obviously a key tool, and clearly a brilliant invention that is part of a seismic shift in the way recruitment works. I wish I had invented it. But I believe, that for agency recruiters, LinkedIn is not your friend. Don’t get me wrong, […]
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Why are recruiters so cavalier about hiring their own staff?

Ponder these 7 facts, please. Fact 1: Over the last 15 years I have had more than 1,000 people report to me, directly or indirectly. Over my working life, who knows how high that number is? Fact 2: 90% of those people are recruiters or recruiting managers. Fact 3: Just about the biggest issue owners and managers of […]
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Free pass to hear the best recruiters at the ‘Big Biller Summit’

Very soon, I am speaking at the global ‘Big Biller Summit’, and ‘The Savage Truth’ readers are invited to attend as my guest, for free. I am pleased that my presentation ‘Recruitment Reinvented’ is being showcased at the summit. And you can access it here, for free. Secure your free pass now! This event runs from October […]
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YOU own your career. No one else

Many people are advised that they should look for a company that ‘provides a career’. Often I hear candidates say they want to leave a job, because their current employer is not ‘looking after my career’. Sure, it’s important to work for a company where you can thrive, but you must above all understand this. […]
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How to ‘rev-up’ your sleepy recruiters!

The market for agency recruiters is relentlessly tough right now. Many are battling declining demand and skittish clients who are at best unreliable, and at worst openly aggressive and uncooperative. It’s hard to stay motivated in this environment. Yet here we are, with a job to do, overheads to cover, salaries to earn, and targets […]
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