Inside the Crisis Plan of a UK Recruitment Owner

The COVID Crisis is obviously effecting recruiters (and everyone!) globally. I get 30 messages a day from recruiters all over the world, mostly asking for help. But this one offered some ideas Very kindly sent in by Daryl Williams, of Vadar Moss in the UK, this was her COVID plan. Useful for all I think […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On April 16, 2020
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Job hunting recruiter? The advice you need!

For the first time in a decade, I have been flooded with requests from recently unemployed recruiters looking for assistance. This was unthinkable a few months ago. My usual go-to action when I do get a recruiter approach me is to counsel them a little on clear career thinking, and then refer them to a […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On April 14, 2020
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Grief is crippling recruiter crisis response to Covid-19

For many agencies, our response to COVID-19 is Ebne. Ebne is Edward de Bono’s invented word, so desperately right for today. EXCELLENT, But Not Enough. It’s understandable. We are all in ‘strategic grief’.

Posted by Greg Savage
On April 9, 2020
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Recruiters. You CAN make placements in lockdown!

In most cases, recruiters, clients and candidates are all at home right now. And no one knows when that will change. How on earth do we engineer a permanent placement in that situation? Job spec. Interview. Second interview. Offer. Acceptance. Start date. Handover. I am not going to tell you it’s easy. But it can […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On April 7, 2020
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The best recruiter ever to walk on God’s green earth

Graham Whelan is the best recruiter I ever met in 40 years, and one of the nicest human beings ever to walk on God’s green earth. We met in London in the early 80s, he was my boss at Accountancy Placements in the mid-’80s, and we started Recruitment Solutions together in the late 80s – and […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On April 3, 2020
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30 tactics for recruiters to survive and thrive in the time of COVID-19

These are the toughest of times. I have been through many recessions, but this is different because of the health and isolation factors. We can’t meet clients or candidates face to face, they can’t meet each other, and most recruiters are working from home, in some cases mandated by the government. But we must be […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On March 30, 2020
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Free Recruiter business action plan in time of crisis

The world is spiralling down. Everything we believed is solid, is not. We need a plan. A structure. I made a start by providing you with this Matrix and planning structure on Sunday. But here is something much, much better. I stole it from my brother Chris Savage (Don’t feel sorry for him! He stole […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On March 26, 2020
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What recruitment owners are doing right now!

My diary for last week shows 32 meetings (mostly phone and video) with recruitment agency owners. It does not show the dozens of ad-hoc calls, and the hundred-plus email and LinkedIn messages. Nor does it convey the panic and emotion in those meetings. I also made time to put out this message about how recruiters […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On March 24, 2020
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This is for OWNERS/MANAGERS of recruitment companies in Covid-19 crisis

This was an ’emergency blog’, put out as the severity of the COVID crisis was being first understood Still valid. I hope it helps you. I have had dozens of crisis meetings with owners in the past week, about how to respond to the current situation. Mostly those conversations start frenetically – ideas and fears […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On March 21, 2020
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Recruiters, this is our time to step up!

Now is the time for recruiters to support their clients, their candidates, and importantly, each other. My last three weeks has been taken up with emergency client meetings, planning a response to COVID-19. Working remotely is front and centre of most plans. However, there is a sense of “what can we really do from home […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On March 17, 2020
12 Comments

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