The Savage Truth gets even more Savage!

For several decades I have owned and run recruitment companies in Australia and elsewhere. In January this year I made a massive change to that situation. At the end of 2012 I sold my entire interest in Firebrand Talent Search, the global marketing and digital recruitment company that I founded with a like-minded group of […]
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  • By Greg Savage
  • Posted March 19, 2013
  • In recruitment, recruitment skills

8 secrets I got told by Australia’s best recruiter

Recently I was one of 4 judges asked to select “Australia’s Best Recruiter 2013”. The calibre was high, drawing responses from all over Australia and New Zealand. The judging panel interviewed a shortlist of 4, and Peter Murphy, from Davidson Recruitment in Brisbane, was selected as the worthy winner. Peter has an exceptional record in […]
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  • By Greg Savage
  • Posted March 18, 2013
  • In recruitment, recruitment skills

The Savage Truth Tour of South Africa

Hello all South African ‘Savage Truth’ Subscribers, I have great news! I am partnering with APSO on a speaking tour of South Africa in May 2013. I will be in Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban, and will have 2 separate seminars — one aimed mainly at recruiters (both agency and in-house), and the other definitely focused on Owners and Managers.
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Need to fire a deadbeat client? Here’s how. In 7 steps.

Last week I argued that service providers need to fire clients who are uncooperative or unprofitable. Plenty of 'The Savage Truth’ readers agreed, but many asked, “How do I actually do it?”. And the truth is that it is not easy. But there are two guiding principals I have found are fundamental for this to work out well.
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Fire these clients. Now!

I talk to a lot of recruiters. And it is tough for many of them right now. That we know. Everybody is scrambling for a dollar, chasing every client. A bit like that sad, desperate guy in the bar at 2 am, harassing every one of the last few women left standing. But there is […]
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  • By Greg Savage
  • Posted January 15, 2013
  • In hiring lesson, recruiting

Burma, tomatoes, and the hiring lesson that resonates globally

I admit it, I am a ‘recruiting-tragic‘. And a symptom of this condition is that I can’t help but think about the hiring implications of almost any situation. And so it was, travelling with my family in Myanmar (formerly Burma), one of the most isolated countries anywhere, that I was struck with a hiring lesson […]
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  • By Greg Savage
  • Posted December 18, 2012
  • In hiring lesson, recruiting

The very best of ‘The Savage Truth’ 2012

Farewell 2012. Another massive year in recruitment, with, if anything, even more challenges than the year prior. “The Savage Truth” clocked up dozens of blog posts during the year, trying to make sense of it all. And the readership has grown exponentially over that time, so I am grateful for the support from so many.  In […]
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Take the holiday. But keep the pipeline pumping!

Most of us will have some kind of break in the next month or so. Christmas, New Year, summer holidays, Chinese New Year. You, your clients and your candidates are going to have some well-deserved downtime. But what about the cost? We won’t bill while we are on the beach or in the pub. And […]
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