Recruiters. Never forget. Followers are vanity – sales are sanity!

Anyone who has heard me speak, or read my blog, knows I believe social media has an important role to play in business development, attracting talent, and building brand. I have coached my recruiters how to do that, and now many companies pay me to teach them how to do it. But let’s get real […]
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Greg Savage would like to talk to you…

The Savage Truth ANZ Speaking Tour is on in October. This is the biggest event I have done for years, and I believe it will educate, motivate and stimulate. It’s an entire half-day Masterclass, with in-depth examination of how recruitment businesses, and recruiters, will need to work in the future. The response so far has […]
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What all recruiters WANT to say to their clients, and should – but don’t!

For agency recruiters, it often feels like clients are toying with them these days. It feels for all the world that some* Line Managers, Internal Recruiters and HR types have conspired to make life for recruiters as hellish as possible. Job briefs given out to 6 agents, ‘urgent’ orders postponed after weeks of work, interviews […]
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Hire more drinkers!

Yes, you read that right. Hire more drinkers! Oh, wait, slight typo… I mean, you have got to hire more D.R.I.N.C.K.A.E’s If I were building new recruitment company today, the only people I would hire, would be D.R.I.N.C.K.A.E’s. And I am pretty sure this is valid across all business in the modern age. Certainly those […]
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Recruiters, this is how you destroy your own career.

Recruiters, you won’t like this. But this is the one trait that is ruining your career and negatively impacting your life. Wasted emotion. That is what is destroying your job satisfaction. That is what is leading an army of recruiters to burn out and fade into the sunset. Wasted emotion Don’t get me wrong. Being […]
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  • By Greg Savage
  • Posted June 25, 2013
  • In Recruiting humour

14 signs you are a certified ‘Recruiting Tragic’

What is a recruiting tragic? A recruiting tragic is a person who just can’t help bringing most things in life back to… recruiting. I admit to being guilty. I know others in the sad club. We don’t want to be like this. We are not proud of the affliction. It’s just in our DNA. Think […]
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The future of recruitment — explained in 30 minutes!

The fast-changing world of recruitment is broken into two camps; Recruiters who will survive and thrive, and those who will fail and die out. Which group are you and your company in? This 30 minute YouTube video will give you the answer.
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This person cleans up your mess for $8.50

I had a vague understanding that we ‘had a cleaner’, but I took that service for granted, and certainly gave the person who cleaned up our mess little thought. I have always considered Australia a highly evolved industrial democracy, with many laws protecting people from exploitation, but as I dug deeper, the more shocked I became.
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