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Another loudmouth ‘recruiter-hater’ falls from grace

I take zero pleasure when someone fails in business. I know too well the risk, stress and hard work it takes to start and build a business, and admire anyone who tries, regardless of the outcome. However it’s always important to be humble as you go about your work, focusing on what you can do […]
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On June 6, 2017
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The five biggest mistakes recruitment leaders are making now

It’s a tough time to be a recruitment leader. So many challenges, so much change. In my work across the globe, meeting and advising Owners and Managers of recruitment businesses, five key themes have emerged. Don’t make these mistakes as a recruitment leader, and if you work for a company that habitually falls into these […]
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On September 6, 2016
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Recruiters, your Job Board is going to eat you!

I have verbalised strong views on job boards over the years. An important part of the candidate acquisition mix, sure, but also increasingly becoming ineffective, geared only to active job-seekers, and in some cases price-gouging the very recruitment fraternity that allowed them to thrive in the first place. In Australia, Seek came onto the scene […]
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On August 11, 2015
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The biggest recruitment selfie… ever!

Friday 27th February 2015, Hilton Hotel, Sydney. 300 recruiters packed in for my recruitment master-class, ‘Will the new golden era of recruitment pass you by?’ And I mean packed in. Fully booked, not a spare seat, and dozens turned away (sadly). So what would any self-respecting conference speaker with a bit of digital marketing nous […]
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On March 3, 2015
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How I got to 30,000 (now 50,000) Twitter followers

If you are serious about building your business, you should be on Twitter. The benefits for all professionals looking to build brand, enhance their profile, and create relationships are exceptional. But if you are currently dabbling with Twitter, have few followers, and tweet inconsistently, then my advice to you is change your ways, or get off […]
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On May 13, 2014
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Modern business development. From cold-calling to ‘social ego’ stroking.

Some things in life are so obvious, we just can’t see them. And it shocks me how few people understand what the important part of ‘social media’ or ‘social networking’ actually is. The exciting aspect of the boom in social technologies is not the technology at all, (Sorry geeks). It’s the ‘social’ part. And the […]
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On May 29, 2012
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At last! Social Media for dummies

They call it ‘social media’ or ‘social networking’, and some might quibble at the word ‘social’ because a lot of it can be done alone, from the confines of a darkened room. And most recruiters don’t have the faintest clue how to get the best out of the digital social explosion. A cursory glance will […]
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On June 1, 2011
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Recruiters, don’t be sucked into competing on speed and price

Last week I blogged on why so many recruiters have a shallow understanding of what ‘competitive’ in our business actually means. And so how do we thrive in a competitive world? What is the way to differentiate in 2013 and beyond? Well it’s not cool to say it out loud, but as far as I […]
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On May 6, 2010
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Forget the hype. New Zealand Recruiters do not use Twitter!

Over the past week I have conducted RCSA seminars for over 150 New Zealand Recruiters in Auckland and Christchurch. The topic was “Riding the Recovery” and part of my session was on Social Media and how we need to build that technology into our talent sourcing strategies. Well, I grabbed this opportunity to conduct a […]
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On February 25, 2010
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