Are these the two dumbest recruiters in history?

Sometimes you have to wonder at how ignorant some people can be. I know, not a nice way to start, but wait till you hear this. This encounter happened a few years ago, but something similar happened last week and it is so common, I have to vent. I was coming back to Sydney from […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On March 3, 2020
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Recruitment is a tough job. This is about 100 times tougher.

I went on a cruise. Not my normal ‘thing’, but it was pretty good. Saw lots of cool places and ate too much. The usual, I suppose. I also met some of the most fascinating, hard working and impressive people I have ever met. And none of them were passengers! You see I am fascinated […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On November 15, 2016
17 Comments

Calling a candidate to tell them there is no news IS news to the candidate.

I placed this status update on LinkedIn the other day. ‘Calling a candidate back to tell them there is no news IS news to the candidate.’ The response I got will shock you. Or, maybe it won't.

Posted by Greg Savage
On January 13, 2015
26 Comments

Somebody resigned? Don’t be a fool. Stay cool.

A while ago I wrote what proved to be a popular blog about how to resign with grace. But what about the manager who gets a resignation? How should they behave? Sad to say, the commercial world is rife with mind-blowing tales of how badly bosses react when an employee resigns. In the recruitment industry […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On August 26, 2014
22 Comments

Can we trust LinkedIn?

I love LinkedIn. But I do not trust LinkedIn. For recruiters, it’s obviously a key tool, and clearly a brilliant invention that is part of a seismic shift in the way recruitment works. I wish I had invented it. But I believe, that for agency recruiters, LinkedIn is not your friend. Don’t get me wrong, […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On October 29, 2013
45 Comments

What all recruiters WANT to say to their clients, and should – but don’t!

For agency recruiters, it often feels like clients are toying with them these days. It feels for all the world that some* Line Managers, Internal Recruiters and HR types have conspired to make life for recruiters as hellish as possible. Job briefs given out to 6 agents, ‘urgent’ orders postponed after weeks of work, interviews […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On August 20, 2013
52 Comments

This person cleans up your mess for $8.50

I had a vague understanding that we ‘had a cleaner’, but I took that service for granted, and certainly gave the person who cleaned up our mess little thought. I have always considered Australia a highly evolved industrial democracy, with many laws protecting people from exploitation, but as I dug deeper, the more shocked I became.

Posted by Greg Savage
On May 28, 2013
44 Comments

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
68 Comments

Beware the LinkedIn liar!

Don’t get me wrong. I use LinkedIn a lot. And so should every recruiter. But there are issues with LinkedIn. Flaws. One of the most obvious is that LinkedIn appears to have no system to monitor accuracy of data on their network. Indeed, they freely admit that many profiles are bogus, and that many people […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On March 27, 2012
60 Comments

Recruiters! It takes more than raw aggression and low prices!

There is one word you will always find in any analysis or even casual discussion about the recruitment industry. Competition Get two recruiters or more together, in any setting, and I bet that 90 % of the conversation will be about how competitive its all become and how to beat the competition. A few years […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On April 30, 2010
2 Comments

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