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Are candidates ghosting you? Try CCCCF

So, candidates are ghosting you, letting you down, reneging on meetings, accepting counter-offers and a wide range of other behaviours that you ‘don’t understand’. The reasons are easy to decipher actually, but that is not what this post is about. Let’s talk about what to do about it! Firstly do not make any assumptions. Ask […]
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On June 1, 2021
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Who fills Agency jobs fastest? Australia, NZ, UK or USA?

This is powerful data at numerous levels from Jobadder. Firstly, how long have we been preaching that Agency recruiters need to realise the value of their database, extracting the gold buried with the many candidates locked within? I have said many times that for most Agencies, their database is like a candidate graveyard. It is […]
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On March 30, 2021
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14 Agency Recruitment Metrics to run your business (Part 2)

In the last blog on this topic, I shared the first four of the fourteen critical metrics you need to run your recruitment agency effectively. You need these ratios and benchmarks to help you drive excellence and to make sure you don’t drive your business into the ground. With brilliant data from my friend Nigel Harse at Staffing […]
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On March 11, 2021
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Agency 2020 Permanent Placement Trends. The facts.

Recently, I shared the telling JobAdder data on new job-orders taken by Recruitment Agencies in 2020 in Australia and New Zealand. Today, actual permanent placements made. Empirical data gleaned from many thousands of recruiters across both countries. ( You can get the full JobAdder Report here!) Permanent placements are the definitive measure of permanent hiring […]
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On March 9, 2021
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14 Agency Recruitment Metrics to run your business

I have highlighted the ‘Sacred Agency Recruitment Metrics’ before. But right now, they are more critical than ever. You need these ratios and benchmarks to help you drive excellence and to make sure you don’t drive your business into the ground. But now, here they are updated! With brilliant data from my friend Nigel Harse […]
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On March 2, 2021
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Recruitment Agencies see massive job bounce-back!

We all know what happened to Recruitment demand from March onwards last year. It was disastrous. In Australia and New Zealand at least, we have seen massive improvements. Many Agencies are in growth mode. Anecdotally, despite everything, pipelines were filling up in the last Quarter of 2020. But where is the empirical data? Is it […]
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On February 23, 2021
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Remember! The candidate is assessing you too.

Recruiters, Inhouse and Agency, sometimes lapse into hubris and complacency. This, we know. Don’t take offence. It’s a fact. I have been guilty myself. The candidate experience has been a disaster for decades, ironically made exponentially worse by all the Wizz-bang technology tools, added in to ‘enhance the process’. But now it’s potentially much worse. […]
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On November 10, 2020
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15 Stunning Recruitment Stats from 2020.

We all know it has been a cataclysmic year in recruitment. But do you realise how massively Agency recruitment has been impacted? And what about the recovery? Is it happening? Which countries are doing best? Here are 15 of the most jaw-dropping recruitment statistics from 2020. Taken from the recently released JobAdder report You can […]
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On October 22, 2020
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Which is growing fastest? Temp or Perm?

Jobs are coming back for Recruitment Agencies as we saw in the JobAdder data released on Tuesday. The question I get asked a lot is which will come back first, and fastest? Temp/Contract or Permanent roles? Once again, I tapped JobAdder, and they have provided brilliant answers to that question. (Sign up for the JobAdder […]
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On October 15, 2020
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Recruitment ‘bounce-back’ underway! The facts.

Today I help you peek under the covers of Agency Recruitment. Exactly how are recruitment agencies across the world performing, right now? The facts. Not the hype or the BS or the rumour. I am an Advisor to the world-leading Recruitment ATS/CRM. JobAdder has thousands of users, and they are going to let us see […]
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On October 13, 2020
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