2011 was a tumultuous year in recruitment. Global financial turmoil, the impact of social media and the rise of internal recruitment teams and RPO.

‘The Savage Truth‘ clocked up close to 50 blogs during the year, trying to make sense of it all. For those who like this kind of detail, The Savage Truth received 235,000 page views in 2011 (so far) with average time on each page being 3 minutes 19 seconds.

Below is a list of the most popular 2011 posts largely in order of ‘views’, but also taking into account Re-tweets on Twitter and the most blog comments this year.

If you missed these posts, just click the links below:

1. Being a recruiter rocks! (255 RTs, 56 comments)
2. “God, I hate recruiters!” (108 ‘strongly worded’ comments)
3. Recruiters, toughen the f*** up! (Over 5,000 social media shares!)
4. Two killer questions great recruiters ask every time
5. Sorry guys, women are better recruiters than men (46 contentious comments)
6. Recruiters, at last! Social media for dummies (285 RTs)
7. HR and internal recruiters, YOU need to lift your game too (40 fascinating comments)
8. 15 reasons why ‘exclusivity’ is in your clients’ best interests
9. Don’t be a LinkedIn ‘tart’!
10. 15 sure signs your ‘client’ does not take you seriously
11. 5 signs your new recruiter is destined to fail!
12. Fun and money – The two reasons to come to work
13. Recruiters: 8 reasons why your client meetings suck
14. My biggest ever recruitment stuff up!
15. Stressed recruiter? Take a chill-pill
16. What George Clooney taught me about recruitment
17. Client or not, behaving like a jerk… means you are a jerk
18. Discrimination in recruitment. Not only good – essential!
19. Recruiters, everyone is a candidate – all the time
20. You take the holiday – not your business

I hope you have enjoyed The Savage Truth this year, and see you in 2012!

Cheers

Greg

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