The Crisis is a 42-kilometre marathon. You are at the 5-kilometre mark

Imagine this COVID Crisis is a marathon. It is 42 kilometres to get to the end. I estimate we are at the 5-kilometre mark. Please, be optimistic. I am. You will finish the marathon. But be realistic too. It’s a long, hard, painful journey. People are talking glibly about ‘green shoots‘. Green shoots are a […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On June 9, 2020
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The Recruiter Roadmap to Recovery (Webinar)

These are the hardest times recruiters have had to face. Your resolve will be tested, your resilience stretched and your ability to think positively, questioned. Some will falter, while others will flourish. The camp you fall into will depend on the actions you take now! I did this webinar for the UK audience of my […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On May 20, 2020
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Recruitment trends right now! The last 14 days!

These are the headlines from the past two weeks. Based on dozens of meetings with agency owners and recruiters, and hundreds of emails and messages I get – a day. (They don’t apply in every case. Some will not be the case for you, your agency or in your market.) They just represent the ‘trends […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On May 18, 2020
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Recruiters. Pivot NOW to ride the recovery!

It is bleak now. I know. I can’t predict the future, but I have been through many recessions and downturns, and there is always a recovery. How that recovery looks this time no one is sure, but I am confident there will be many great opportunities for recruiters. As long as you are prepared. In […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On April 28, 2020
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Grief is crippling recruiter crisis response to Covid-19

For many agencies, our response to COVID-19 is Ebne. Ebne is Edward de Bono’s invented word, so desperately right for today. EXCELLENT, But Not Enough. It’s understandable. We are all in ‘strategic grief’.

Posted by Greg Savage
On April 9, 2020
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Recruiters. You CAN make placements in lockdown!

In most cases, recruiters, clients and candidates are all at home right now. And no one knows when that will change. How on earth do we engineer a permanent placement in that situation? Job spec. Interview. Second interview. Offer. Acceptance. Start date. Handover. I am not going to tell you it’s easy. But it can […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On April 7, 2020
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The Savage Crisis Toolbox for Recruiters

All my COVID-19 recruiter advice is here. For Recruitment Owners, Managers and Recruiters. (and others too maybe, I feel.) None of us has all the answers in this unique and most challenging of times. Here is the best advice I can come up with in response to the COVID crisis. Also some ideas I gleaned […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On April 4, 2020
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What recruitment owners are doing right now!

My diary for last week shows 32 meetings (mostly phone and video) with recruitment agency owners. It does not show the dozens of ad-hoc calls, and the hundred-plus email and LinkedIn messages. Nor does it convey the panic and emotion in those meetings. I also made time to put out this message about how recruiters […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On March 24, 2020
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Recruiters, this is our time to step up!

Now is the time for recruiters to support their clients, their candidates, and importantly, each other. My last three weeks has been taken up with emergency client meetings, planning a response to COVID-19. Working remotely is front and centre of most plans. However, there is a sense of “what can we really do from home […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On March 17, 2020
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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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