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The very best of The Savage Truth 2011

2011 was a tumultuous year in recruitment. Global financial turmoil, the impact of social media and the rise of internal recruitment teams and RPO.

‘The Savage Truth‘ clocked up close to 50 blogs during the year, trying to make sense of it all. For those who like this kind of detail, The Savage Truth received 235,000 page views in 2011 (so far) with average time on each page being 3 minutes 19 seconds.

Below is a list of the most popular 2011 posts largely in order of ‘views’, but also taking into account Re-tweets on Twitter and the most blog comments this year.

If you missed these posts, just click the links below:

  1. Being a recruiter rocks! (255 RTs, 56 comments)
  2. “God, I hate recruiters!” (108 ‘strongly worded’ comments)
  3. Recruiters, toughen the f*** up! (Over 5,000 social media shares!)
  4. Two killer questions great recruiters ask every time
  5. Sorry guys, women are better recruiters than men (46 contentious comments)
  6. Recruiters, at last! Social media for dummies (285 RTs)
  7. HR and internal recruiters, YOU need to lift your game too (40 fascinating comments)
  8. 15 reasons why ‘exclusivity’ is in your clients’ best interests
  9. Don’t be a LinkedIn ‘tart’!
  10. 15 sure signs your ‘client’ does not take you seriously
  11. 5 signs your new recruiter is destined to fail!
  12. Fun and money – The two reasons to come to work
  13. Recruiters: 8 reasons why your client meetings suck
  14. My biggest ever recruitment stuff up!
  15. Stressed recruiter? Take a chill-pill
  16. What George Clooney taught me about recruitment
  17. Client or not, behaving like a jerk… means you are a jerk
  18. Discrimination in recruitment. Not only good – essential!
  19. Recruiters, everyone is a candidate – all the time
  20. You take the holiday – not your business

I hope you have enjoyed The Savage Truth this year, and see you in 2012!

Cheers

Greg

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  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On December 13, 2011
  • 4 Comments

4 Comments

Anth
  • Dec 13 2011
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Thanks for the value mate.
Maree Herath
  • Dec 19 2011
  • Reply
Love the Best of as often don't have time to read so it's good to go with the top posts. Have read the top 5 and all very refreshing. In Christmas Card writing I looked at all my shortlisted candidates and asked ... how can it be we only placed so few of a bunch of what we saw as placeable candidates?? So, loved the candidate servicing spin - you're right ... amongst all our distractions to fill now the candidates represent the non-urgent, but hugely important quadrant we need to focus on. Thanks Greg
Recruitment Auckland
  • Dec 20 2011
  • Reply
Those are some fantastic posts my friend. Wish I had the time to blog more with informative content like this. Well done mate.
Carolyn
  • Dec 21 2011
  • Reply
Brilliant idea to list the most popular blog posts in case we've missed some crucial posts

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