Wait! What? In-house recruiter turnover is worse than Agency?

Recently I published some confronting data from Staffing Industry Metrics where Recruitment Agency staff turnover in 2018 was estimated at 47%, an horrific number, and one that prompted this blog from me. However, we now have fresh data from recruitment technology firm JobAdder, who had their data analysts run reports from approximately 10,000 recruiters in […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On May 21, 2019
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30% of Agencies report a decline in profit. Here is why.

2018 was a great year for the recruitment agency industry in Australia and New Zealand. 95% of recruitment agencies reporting to Staffing Industry Metrics made profits in 2018, leaving just 5% of firms trading at a loss, the lowest and best result in 7 years. Of the 95% of recruitment agencies which made a profit […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On April 30, 2019
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Guess what? Recruiters are the worst recruiters!

Is it as we have always suspected? That recruiters are themselves, poor recruiters? Like the cobblers kid who had the worst shoes, do recruiters have the worst recruitment process? Especially when they recruit recruiters, for themselves? I asked that question in no uncertain terms a few years ago, when I bemoaned the fact that hardly […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On May 16, 2017
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New! Greg Savage in South Africa, 2017

Dear South African ‘Savage Truth’ reader, I am excited to invite you to my new South African Recruiter Masterclass Series – to be held in Cape Town and Johannesburg in August, 2017. We have two events, one aimed at Recruiters, the other at Owner/Managers. They will both be held in Cape Town and Johannesburg, Savage […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On May 9, 2017
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Think like an immigrant!

Modern Australia was built on immigrants. They came in clearly defined waves. The British. The Southern Europeans. The Asians. Many other countries are the same, and most pay homage to those immigrants now. I am an immigrant myself, arriving in Australia two weeks before my 21st Birthday. I am the son of an immigrant too. […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On April 27, 2016
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Always be recruiting. Even if you are not hiring.

If I had a dollar for every time a recruiting manager told me they cannot find high-quality consultants, I guess I would be a wealthy man. Equally, when I talk to corporate hiring managers, they constantly bemoan the shortage of quality talent. Yet, when I ask what they are doing about capturing the best staff […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On August 25, 2015
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Why are recruiters so cavalier about hiring their own staff?

Ponder these 7 facts, please. Fact 1: Over the last 15 years I have had more than 1,000 people report to me, directly or indirectly. Over my working life, who knows how high that number is? Fact 2: 90% of those people are recruiters or recruiting managers. Fact 3: Just about the biggest issue owners and managers of […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On October 15, 2013
51 Comments

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