Declining profits for your boss. No bonus for you. Here is why.

This blog is blunt. It’s about the commercial reality of making money in recruitment. If you run a business and are making no money, or if your revenues are growing, but your profit is declining, this will probably explain why. Or if you are a recruiter, it could explain why you can hardly scrape by […]
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On February 18, 2020
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This is where the Billing Manager goes wrong!

Why do so many great recruiters fail when asked to manage other recruiters? There are many reasons for that. The Billing Manager role is the hardest job in recruitment, although it can also be the most rewarding if you get it right. Let me count the ways it can go wrong. (3 minutes) • Wrong […]
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On February 12, 2020
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Recruitment Agency owners are spilling profits on the floor

I have warned before of the mistakes made chasing revenue growth without a corresponding surge in profit. Sometimes it’s ego. More often it’s just poor management. And in Australia, right now, it’s happening in epidemic proportions.(and I suspect the very same thing is happening elsewhere) The excellent data produced by Staffing Industry Metrics show that […]
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On November 12, 2019
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People don’t leave ‘companies’. They leave leaders. (Hint: You)

You don’t get a team of great recruiters, led by a mediocre manager. The manager sets the pace in all things, and good people will rise to match that pace. However, if that pace is too low or too slow, that’s when it can get very ugly indeed. (90 seconds) The team sinks to a […]
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On October 22, 2019
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What happens to non-billing middle managers in a downturn?

I am not predicting a downturn. But it wouldn’t be a shock, would it? And many companies will be badly hurt if it comes. Especially now after the long golden run we have had. The danger is creating a fat layer of middle management who are no longer involved in sales or billing. What are […]
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On October 1, 2019
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The best recruitment book (I have) ever written…

I admit it. I am actually proud of this… My book, The Savage Truth, covering 40 years in recruitment, is on pre-sale now (over 4,000 copies sold already) And no, it’s not the best recruitment book ever written, but I gave it my very best shot! It’s all there. The many cock-ups, the lessons learned, […]
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On September 3, 2019
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Recruitment unplugged (40 minute podcast)

I enjoyed doing this 40-minute podcast with Shaun McCambridge, MD of Stellar Recruitment. If you are a recruiter, recruitment leader, recruitment owner, or even a client of recruiters, I believe there are some helpful insights. We cover a lot in 40 minutes including: – The effect of AI on recruitment. Scaling and selling various recruitment […]
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On August 20, 2019
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The best recruiter is not always the best manager!

Perhaps the most common mistake in Agency recruitment. The biggest biller is promoted to lead other recruiters. It can work, but mostly it is a disaster because the skills and competencies required for success are so different! VIEW VIDEO. Short and strong.(2 minutes) • The Billing Manager is without a doubt the toughest job in […]
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On May 14, 2019
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New! Greg Savage Masterclass. ‘The Billing Manager’.

Billing. Managing. Leading. Secrets of the Successful Billing Manager This is the big one. An all-new masterclass for Billing Managers, the hardest job in recruitment. That is, any recruiter who has to juggle personal targets and managing consultants. It’s often a disastrous transition for a good recruiter who is thrust into Team Leadership. The skills […]
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On November 21, 2018
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Nothing is tougher than leading in a downturn.

My previous two blogs were on the theme of ensuring your company is recession-proof. The first, ‘A recession is coming. And you will not survive’, told tales of recessions past, and how we rode them out when many others did not. Last week in ‘Recession. Are you vulnerable?’, I provided a checklist of warning signs, […]
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On November 20, 2018
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