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  • By Greg Savage
  • Posted May 16, 2022
  • In recruitment

Five pieces of great recruiting news

Some brilliant things are happening in recruitment right now! I see them with my clients. I hear about them from recruiters daily. I hope you see them where you are. This should cheer us all up. 1. A new generation of recruiters is being born! Right before our eyes. The mass layoffs and defections from […]
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  • By Greg Savage
  • Posted May 9, 2022
  • In recruitment

Change how you define a ‘good client’

Quality candidates are hard to find. Candidates have a choice and can change their ‘job criteria’ in a moment. Every recruiter knows this. Many recruiters have more jobs than they can hope to fill. Credit to them, they are scrambling to fill them all. But they can’t. And they won’t. So that raises the critical […]
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  • By Greg Savage
  • Posted May 4, 2022
  • In recruitment

Will you be swimming n@ked when the market crashes?

The recruitment industry must take a longer-term view while the current boom rages. Thinking beyond the current cycle is not something we are famous for. Yes, it is a candidate-tight market. Yes, it seems ‘finding clients‘ is not the hard part of the job right now. Indeed, some agency recruiters have developed the view that […]
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  • By Greg Savage
  • Posted April 26, 2022
  • In recruitment

Think you can recruit worldwide? 🇦🇺 🇱🇷 🇿🇦 🇸🇬 🇬🇧 🇯🇵 🇫🇷 🇧🇷

  Is recruiting ‘different’ around the world? Do you think you can recruit worldwide? My recruitment career has allowed me the tremendous privilege of running and owning recruitment businesses all over the world. Literally. At Aquent, it was 30 offices in 17 countries (from 2001 to 2010). With Firebrand I owned a company that had […]
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  • By Greg Savage
  • Posted April 4, 2022
  • In recruitment

This is how to fill more jobs

  You can’t fill your jobs and it’s all because of  ‘no candidates‘, right? Wrong. It is also because you need to coach your clients on how to recruit in this market. This is a key recruiting skill right now. Start here (Click on video)   It is all in the video, but here is […]
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  • By Greg Savage
  • Posted March 30, 2022
  • In recruitment

You need a recruiting career boost?

When I wrote ‘The Savage Truth’, I was nervous Could I do it? I was intimidated by an empty word document, and 40 years of recruiting history to convey. Would it be any good? Yes, I write blogs, but who was I taking on this endeavour? I have a very supportive publisher who seemed confident, […]
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  • By Greg Savage
  • Posted March 28, 2022
  • In recruitment

You must hire more drinkers

Yes, you read that right. Hire more drinkers! Every new recruiter brought into our industry should be a drinker. Oh, wait, slight typo! I mean, you have got to hire more D.R.I.I.N.C.K.A.E’s A whole new generation of recruiters are being employed across the world, as our industry fires up after the Covid disaster. It is […]
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  • By Greg Savage
  • Posted March 21, 2022
  • In recruitment

15 reasons your clients will work ‘exclusive’

Recruiters have been far too slow to react to this. Decades of kowtowing to ‘clients’ and focussing all metrics on ‘job orders in’ and ‘clients won‘ have taken the spotlight off the fundamental reality A job is not worth working if it’s not fillable or the chances of a ‘fill’ are too low. A client […]
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  • By Greg Savage
  • Posted March 14, 2022
  • In recruitment

Do not discount your fees.

“So let me just clarify your position on this, Mr Client”. You spend 30 minutes telling me all the recruiters you have used so far are hopeless, they provide zero value, they can’t find the talent you want, their service is pathetic, and they do not understand your business. You wax lyrical about how your […]
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  • By Greg Savage
  • Posted March 7, 2022
  • In recruitment

My 2-minute tip for every recruiter

This is quick – but good. I went down to Precision Sourcing and was bailed up by two of the team, and asked; “What tips would you give recruiters in this market?“ Great question! What do you think of the answer? (Click on video) Its all on the video, but here is the short version […]
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