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  • By Greg Savage
  • Posted September 4, 2023

Could you ‘out-recruit’ this barista?

For about five years, I worked out of brilliant offices in Pitt Street, Sydney, when I was running Aquent and then Firebrand Talent Search. I am a coffee drinker. It’s my biggest vice (and I have a substantial portfolio of those!). So, at least two, maybe three times a day, I would need a hit […]
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  • By Greg Savage
  • Posted August 30, 2023

Recruitment. Australia vs. UK. Who wins? 🇬🇧 v 🇦🇺

This is a colossal face-off! 🇬🇧 v 🇦🇺 No, I am not suggesting an international recruiting football or cricket World Cup. (Mind you, how cool would that be?) Nor am I trying to compare the recruiting skills of Australian and UK recruiters. No, this is a significant competition to see how many recruiters each country […]
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  • By Greg Savage
  • Posted August 28, 2023

Better recruiters always ‘stay paranoid’

The biggest threat facing most recruiters is not competitors, AI, in-house Talent teams, skills shortages or even a recession (although that will hurt!). The biggest threat for most recruiters is ‘complacency’. I can’t tell you how many promising recruiters have fallen off the rails because of early success, which they have mistakenly understood to mean […]
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  • By Greg Savage
  • Posted August 21, 2023

10 ‘Recruiter Rules’ to live by

Some (foolish) people think Agency recruitment is easy. The truth is this. Recruitment is very easy to describe. It is just very, very, very hard to do well. And there are many reasons for that. Not least of which is the fact that while recruitment needs to involve a strong process, it’s actually the ‘craft‘ […]
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  • By Greg Savage
  • Posted August 20, 2023

Why do UK recruiters burn out?

What causes ‘burnout’, and why do so many people fail in recruitment? Most recruitment owners somewhat understand the classic reasons for recruiter turnover. (But sadly, less often will they act to remedy them) 1) We hire the wrong people with the wrong mindset and attitudes. 2) We don’t offer enough training, mentoring and support in […]
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  • By Greg Savage
  • Posted August 14, 2023

17 selling tips for recruiters now

  The vast majority of recruiters have minimal business development skills. That is no exaggeration. Just ask the Agency recruitment leaders who are panicking as revenues decline, and the Agency recruiters who are being let go. (By the way, I have heard more of that in the past 21 days than since Covid started). The […]
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  • By Greg Savage
  • Posted August 7, 2023

In recruitment, everybody sells. Always.

In recruitment, everybody sells. It has ever been thus. During the ten-year recruiting boom that ended in March 2020 when COVID-19 hit, recruitment companies got away with squadrons of non-billing managers and platoons of people with sexy job titles and no discernible responsibilities. Productivity declined, and then the ship was only righted when businesses became […]
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  • By Greg Savage
  • Posted July 31, 2023

100 universal recruitment truths 💣 (Part 1)

Welcome to the 100 recruitment truths that will get you thinking; Do I agree? Do I actually do these in my work? Do I even understand them? How can I apply these ‘truths’ to make me a better recruiter And trust me, they will. I wrote a book based on my 44 years in recruitment. […]
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  • By Greg Savage
  • Posted July 26, 2023

Savage UK Masterclasses start next week

I arrive in the UK tomorrow! Sure, the first priority is a Premier League game on Saturday (COYI) My second priority is watching the Rugby World Cup from a pub in Richmond on Sunday. (Boks and Wallabies please) But then… the ‘Recruit’ speaking tour around the UK begins! I am excited to announce the release […]
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  • By Greg Savage
  • Posted July 17, 2023

Recruiters, do not trust ChatGPT.

I know AI will impact us all. And recruiting is no exception. But you need to see recent AI developments for what they are; The unfinished product. Still in the test phase. Prone to making massive errors   And also spreading total BS I have two great examples to show you. Don’t miss these. Let […]
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