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Check out the coolest recruitment office ever!

I remember it vividly. It was the darkest hour of the Covid-apocalypse in Australia. Mid 2020. Collapsing revenue. Staff losses. Lockdowns. WFH. WTF! At people2people, the pain was severe, as with all recruiters. However, more than 1,000 temps and a robust consulting team with deep relationships, combined with intelligent and swift cost-reduction, kept the business […]
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On May 4, 2021
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Three Savage Recruiting Podcasts

Since Covid began I have done over 100 podcasts and webinars to help out friends and colleagues across the world. I housed a lot of them here for you to review when required. Recently I knocked off these three podcasts, which have been getting strong feedback. Lots of material to do with Covid business development […]
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On April 8, 2021
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Agency 2020 Permanent Placement Trends. The facts.

Recently, I shared the telling JobAdder data on new job-orders taken by Recruitment Agencies in 2020 in Australia and New Zealand. Today, actual permanent placements made. Empirical data gleaned from many thousands of recruiters across both countries. ( You can get the full JobAdder Report here!) Permanent placements are the definitive measure of permanent hiring […]
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On March 9, 2021
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He gave his staff a 20% salary increase. In a pandemic!

Who gives their entire team a 20% salary increase in a pandemic? And why would you tell everyone on your team, ‘Hey we will pay you for five days work a week. But please, only work four days”? Precision Sourcing did this last week. Why would they do that? What is the thinking behind this […]
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On December 15, 2020
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15 Stunning Recruitment Stats from 2020.

We all know it has been a cataclysmic year in recruitment. But do you realise how massively Agency recruitment has been impacted? And what about the recovery? Is it happening? Which countries are doing best? Here are 15 of the most jaw-dropping recruitment statistics from 2020. Taken from the recently released JobAdder report You can […]
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On October 22, 2020
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The future of recruitment in 127 words.

The coronavirus is not going to destroy Agency recruitment. It’s not even going to change it that much. But it is going to speed up the direction our industry was already heading. And if you are planning to continue your career in recruitment as we recover from this recession, you had better know where you […]
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On October 20, 2020
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Which is growing fastest? Temp or Perm?

Jobs are coming back for Recruitment Agencies as we saw in the JobAdder data released on Tuesday. The question I get asked a lot is which will come back first, and fastest? Temp/Contract or Permanent roles? Once again, I tapped JobAdder, and they have provided brilliant answers to that question. (Sign up for the JobAdder […]
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On October 15, 2020
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Recruitment smashed! Recovery underway. The facts.

The pandemic has wiped out a decade worth of recruitment industry growth, and sent employment and revenue in our industry back to 2010 levels. Figures from IBISWorld Australia suggest staffing industry revenue in Australia has dropped $4.4 Billion in the past financial year. (Four ‘point’ four billion dollars!) Profit margins have collapsed from 4.2% of […]
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On September 8, 2020
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Recruitment is not Tinder. COVID screwed that.

Let’s be honest about our industry for a moment. Prior to the pandemic, technology and lack of skill drove plenty of recruiters to treat recruitment like a dating app. Swipe left. Swipe right. Post-COVID, you have a choice. Go back to being what you always were. A keyword-matching, resume-flicking, in-box spamming, transactional recruiting hack. (Ouch! […]
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On September 1, 2020
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Dump this recruitment baggage now!

Last week I delivered the opening session of the RCSA ReForm Conference with industry legend Geoff Morgan. (He founded Morgan and Banks and Talent2 and has done much more besides) The video is restricted to paying conference attendees, but here are some sound bites as quoted by Shortlist.net.au,  Australia’s leading source of recruitment industry news. […]
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On June 4, 2020
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