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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Recession. Are you vulnerable?

I ask all my clients to consider this question at Board level. And it always shocks them. “What would happen if our permanent Gross Profit (Net fees) dropped by 50%, and temporary/contract GP by 25%? And the drop occurred in a month and did not recover for two years. Would we survive?” And I […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On November 5, 2018
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Some recruiters are history. Others will thrive. How about you?

My 250-word blog on Artificial Intelligence and its impact on recruitment and recruiters generated a lot of banter. So I decided to look more closely at how the job of the recruiter will change. Will they exist at all? Let me say right now I am very confident about our industry. I am investing in […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On July 17, 2018
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The Future of Talent. Free webcast

Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand recently launched a new paper on ‘The Future of Talent’, produced by the CA ANZ and PwC. The results were launched in Auckland to an audience of 350, and Greg Savage was the keynote speaker. Here is a recording of the event, with the MC introducing Greg at the […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On June 5, 2018
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Recruitment. The best it’s been for a decade!

Three years ago, in response to a barrage of predictions that the recruitment industry was on the verge of destruction, I wrote a piece called ‘Agency recruitment is not dying. It’s growing.’ And it was. And it is now too. I have done a quick review of recent recruitment company results (mostly published in industry […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On May 8, 2018
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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
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Is the recruitment industry dysfunctional? That would be YES!

I have written of the dysfunction in the recruitment industry before. And certainly the whole concept of taking non-exclusive, contingent job orders in competition is as rooted a business model, as I know. But now we are shooting ourselves in the foot yet again. I call it the ‘Cataclysmic Candidate Catastrophe’ and it’s so woven […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On October 18, 2016
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7 things every recruiter must do to thrive now!

You must be a better version of yourself to thrive as a recruiter in 2016. But how? Well, start with these seven crucial action points; Reincarnate yourself as a born-again ‘digital native’. Kill off all your fears, reservations and wimp-ish paradigms about being too old to learn new technologies. Go the other way. Enrol in […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On February 2, 2016
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If I started a new recruitment company tomorrow, I would…

I have started several recruitment businesses, and I invest in new start-ups right now too. But if I were to rush back into the main game, and start a business tomorrow that I intended to run, there are certain things I would do, and others I would not. I certainly would build a business that […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On September 8, 2015
16 Comments

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
8 Comments

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