7 ways recruiters will learn to love their KPIs!

KPIs! Metrics! Hit your numbers! Micro-Management! These are some of the dirtiest words in the recruitment lexicon. Yet, it’s a universal truth that all recruitment relies on certain activities, being done well, consistently. In my experience, managers of recruitment teams adopt one of three approaches to KPIs. Two of them are disastrous, and then of […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On May 20, 2014
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How I got to 30,000 (now 50,000) Twitter followers

If you are serious about building your business, you should be on Twitter. The benefits for all professionals looking to build brand, enhance their profile, and create relationships are exceptional. But if you are currently dabbling with Twitter, have few followers, and tweet inconsistently, then my advice to you is change your ways, or get off […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On May 13, 2014
19 Comments

Three massive recruitment ‘people-blunders’

Recruitment is a ‘people business’ in more ways than one. If you own or run a recruitment business, you will know that staff salaries absorb 60% of your costs. That percentage can be even higher with under-performing businesses. So obviously solving the ‘people-puzzle’ is critical. You will never grow a sustainable business without the right […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On April 15, 2014
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Greg Savage Speaking Tour. Back in the UK.

After the outstanding success of my November 2013 speaking gigs in the UK (he said, modestly), I am delighted to be invited back, by REC this time, for the ‘Business Brains’ Masterclass. The topic is ‘Remake. Remodel. Future Proof Recruitment’, in Manchester (3rd April) and London (4th April). In this Masterclass I will cover: What […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On February 18, 2014
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Greg Savage wants to speak to you – in London

The Savage Truth Tour is making its way to the UK in November, 2013. The event, hosted by Elite Recruitment Network is titled “The Future of Recruitment: New Kool vs. Old Skool” and takes the form of a half-day Masterclass, to be held in London on November 22nd, 2013. Click on the morning or afternoon […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On September 24, 2013
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The Savage Truth gets even more Savage!

For several decades I have owned and run recruitment companies in Australia and elsewhere. In January this year I made a massive change to that situation. At the end of 2012 I sold my entire interest in Firebrand Talent Search, the global marketing and digital recruitment company that I founded with a like-minded group of […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On April 5, 2013
13 Comments

2012 – A User Guide for Recruiters

No doubt you have been overwhelmed with high-level forecasts from wise recruiting soothsayers about 2012 being the year of mobile recruiting, the critical importance of building talent communities, the rise of employer branding… and many other trends that, truthfully, you hardly understand and definitely have little control over. These people are smart, and much of […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On January 17, 2012
18 Comments

Recruiters – tentative language is destroying your cred!

We don’t mean to be tentative, do we? We want to be bold, strong and confident when dealing with clients. Yet time and again, we use words that are stumbling blocks. Our fear takes over. And we use tentative language. Words that offer the client a reason to doubt us. Phrases that reduce our credibility. […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On March 31, 2011
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10 golden rules of communication for leaders

I find managing a business really difficult. Seldom a week goes by that I don’t think I could have done something better. And of course as a leader, communicating the vision, communicating change, communicating expectations – these are subtle skills, which I don’t think any of us truly master. However, developing these skills is fundamental […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On February 9, 2011
3 Comments

10 massive blunders I have made in recruitment

Running a great recruitment business is difficult. The competition, the compliance, the cash flow issues and most of all, the people complexity creates an ideal environment to screw up. Here are 10 of my biggest blunders, some of which I have made several times. I offer them up as a guide on what NOT to […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On December 14, 2010
32 Comments

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