Free training audio recording from Greg Savage

Recently I was interviewed by Terry Edwards, from Drew Coaching. The audio recording is available, free, to all Savage Truth readers and can be accessed via the link below. http://recruitment-coach.com/asktheexpert/ During the interview we cover… The highs and low of recruitment and how to deal with them. The relationship between recruiters and internal HR. The […]
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On September 11, 2012
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My wrap up of the key insights from the RCSA Conference 2012

I was at the RCSA Conference in Fiji last week. As a speaker, but also as an attendee. And I took some notes, trying to capture the highlights. I share these with you today. Enjoy. (I, of course, also said dozens of fascinating things, but today, I shine the light elsewhere). 🙂 Mike Walsh Think […]
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On September 5, 2012
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The very best recruiter I have ever known

Graham Whelan is the best recruiter I’ve ever met. And he has been that way since before most of you reading this article got to high school. Recently, I went to lunch with Graham, and 2 other long-standing recruiting colleagues, all now competitors, all significant achievers in our industry. After the usual banter, and a […]
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On August 21, 2012
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Recruitment. Better to fail than be mediocre

You are a recruiter. Doesn’t matter where you work, or what you do. If you recruit, especially in an agency, you will end up with a future that looks like one of these three. 1: You are superb at it. You learn the skills, you earn the relationships. You enjoy high self-esteem, respect from your […]
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On August 7, 2012
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Look for clients in pain!

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 everywhere, is that a client in […]
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On July 24, 2012
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Dear Hiring Manager….

Dear Hiring Manager, So, just to make sure I clearly understand you. You consistently call our entire industry  ‘cowboys’, who add no value and who cannot, or will not, build relationships. You often warm to your theme by telling us we don’t understand your business or your briefs, fail to match appropriately, never provide insights, […]
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On July 10, 2012
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You don’t need a candidate care department. You need a candidate care ethos.

‘Candidate care’ in recruitment. “It’s like inviting 100 people to a party at your house and then leaving 95 of them outside in the rain” ‘Candidate care’ in our crazy industry normally means one of two things. Either it’s a series of platitudes and clichĂ©s on recruiter websites, or it is part of a grand […]
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On June 26, 2012
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6 strategies to improve your client meetings – while you are in reception!

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 mini interactions which stitch the whole thing together. So, experience has taught me that getting the best outcome depends […]
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On June 12, 2012
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Modern business development. From cold-calling to ‘social ego’ stroking.

Some things in life are so obvious, we just can’t see them. And it shocks me how few people understand what the important part of ‘social media’ or ‘social networking’ actually is. The exciting aspect of the boom in social technologies is not the technology at all, (Sorry geeks). It’s the ‘social’ part. And the […]
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On May 29, 2012
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