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Into Africa. A recruiting safari.

Today is the last day of the ‘relaxing’ part of my trip to South Africa, and I write to you from the magnificent Delaire Graff estate just outside Stellenbosch, in the Cape Wine lands. But tomorrow it’s D-day. Day one of the Savage Truth Tour of South Africa, kicking off in Cape Town with a 3-hour seminar.

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The Savage Truth gets even more Savage!

For several decades I have owned and run recruitment companies in Australia and elsewhere. In January this year I made a massive change to that situation. At the end of 2012 I sold my entire interest in Firebrand Talent Search, the global marketing and digital recruitment company that I founded with a like-minded group of [...]

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A client in pain is a very good thing!

Every great recruiter knows how to triage their job orders, and understands the importance of prioritising. By and large, we only get paid for the people we place, so we have to work exclusively on committed clients and committed candidates. One thing I am fond of telling the recruiters at Firebrand, is that a client [...]

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So, you are in reception, waiting for your client…

If you enjoy the blog, check out The Savage Truth Facebook Page, for more recruiting tactics and ideas. *************************************************************** Success in recruiting is all about doing a lot of small things… very well. Pretty much all recruiters follow the same process. We screen, we interview, we match, we meet clients, and we engineer scores of [...]

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Client or not, behaving like a jerk… means you are a jerk!

The Savage Truth now has a Facebook page. ‘Like’ it now for fresh recruiting brain-food. ****************************************************************** Recently I was asked by one of our Sydney Talent Agents to join her on a client visit to a high profile Ad Agency group. I jumped at the chance because I love speaking with clients, and we were [...]

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Discrimination in recruitment. Not only good – essential!

Last week I blogged on the importance of “job order triage”. Great recruiters ruthlessly prioritise the briefs they work on, and put most effort into the highly fillable few. Well, what about the candidates to invest time in? Some recruiters take the view that as there is a talent shortage, every candidate needs equal help [...]

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