Sixty Savage Seconds – What It Means When Clients Reject Your Candidates

Here’s the next “Sixty Savage Seconds” from The Savage Truth A one minute video of the best ideas, tips and tactics for recruiters… sixty seconds to make you think. This Sixty Savage Seconds is titled ‘What it means when clients reject your candidates’. Let me know what you think! View here.

Posted by Greg Savage
On September 6, 2018
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The candidate response that nearly made me cry

A while back, I was sitting opposite a recruiter in Auckland, New Zealand. She had just called a candidate in response to her application. The candidate burst into tears. “I have applied for hundreds of jobs, and you are the first one to respond!” It almost had me in tears! All recruiters, corporate and agency, […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On September 12, 2017
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Your current candidate strategy is a catastrophe

The way both Agency and Corporate recruiters ‘attract’ and find candidates is, for the most part, an unmitigated disaster, costing a fortune and resulting in ‘B’ class hires, and an ever-increasing ‘time to hire’. And no one seems to care or even notice! I have written about other aspects of the dysfunction of the agency […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On July 12, 2016
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The big secret. Unique candidates

It is a scandal how much work recruiters do that they do not get paid for. And it’s getting worse. But there is a way to get a greater return on your efforts. Sadly, 90% of recruiters have no idea how. You can learn the secret now...

Posted by Greg Savage
On June 15, 2016
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Can Internal Recruiters assist candidates as much as Agency Recruiters can?

Agency Recruiters will always beat Internal Recruiters. Always. Even great internal recruiters can never do as good a job for candidates as great agency recruiters do. Never. Ever. And that’s simply because internal recruiters are at a significant disadvantage when it comes to supporting candidates in their job search. Let’s examine the ways; Internal recruiters, […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On November 12, 2013
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15 cool things you should do when you resign your job

You have got a new job! Well done. Now, don’t spoil it all by making a hash of your exit from where you are now. I know, you are excited. It’s hard to stay focused on the old gig, when everything is ‘oh so cool’ about the new one. But remember, the ‘old gig’ was […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On March 5, 2013
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Newsflash! There is no such thing as a ‘passive candidate’.

I have to admit I am sick and tired of hearing talk of ‘active’ and ‘passive’ candidates. Even though I admit to freely using the terms myself… until very recently. But I am going to stop doing that. People ramble on about ‘passive’ candidates, as if this is a totally fresh breed of human being, […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On May 1, 2012
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What great recruiters tell every candidate!

The biggest cause of placements going wrong, is people making assumptions. Placing a candidate starts with building a relationship with that candidate and establishing ‘terms of engagement’, if you like. Usually, it is essential to develop a rapport and a tight co-operation to ensure the right match is made. From a candidate point of view, […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On October 26, 2011
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Forget ‘passive’. Everyone is a candidate. All the time

Guess what? Not everyone is actively looking for a job. Yes, recruiters know that. But we often do not behave as though we know that. Research (and common sense) tells us that less than 10% of relevant talent are actively looking for a role at any given moment in time. That means that 90% of […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On September 14, 2011
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