You want my one ONE BIG tip on recruitment success?

Do you want a tip on your recruitment career? The most important one I can think of? And the tip that has amplified in importance as a result of Covid? Don’t mess with your reputation. It’s the only thing you will take with you when you leave. Every contact with candidate, client or colleague is […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On April 6, 2021
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Job hunting recruiter? The advice you need!

For the first time in a decade, I have been flooded with requests from recently unemployed recruiters looking for assistance. This was unthinkable a few months ago. My usual go-to action when I do get a recruiter approach me is to counsel them a little on clear career thinking, and then refer them to a […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On April 14, 2020
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The final (ever) Savage speaking tour. Book now!

“My biggest lessons, tactics and secrets from a lifetime in recruitment.” My last national speaking tour. Don’t miss this one! All the best bits from a 40-year recruitment experience To celebrate the 40 th anniversary of starting my first job in recruitment, the RCSA is proud to present a new 2.5-hour keynote where I outline […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On December 12, 2019
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Great recruiting is great recruiting. Anywhere!

My recruitment career has allowed me the tremendous privilege of running and owning recruitment businesses all over the world. Literally. At one stage it was 30 offices in 17 countries (while I was at Aquent, from 2001 to 2010). I made some almighty cockups while doing that, but I also learned at least one golden […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On September 17, 2019
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‘Burn-out’ – and why recruiters really leave Agencies.

What causes ‘burn-out’ and why people fail and leave. The management skill that will reverse high staff turnover and drive retention and productivity. (Less than three minutes) • Why we have high staff turnover in recruitment. • People leave because they feel they stop learning. • Coaching and mentoring and developing people.. is in fact […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On June 11, 2019
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Great recruiters live on the ‘edge’.

Today’s recruiter is never ‘done‘. You are never ‘trained’, ‘expert’, or ‘finished with learning’. It’s constant renewal, up-skilling and starting again. That is your challenge from today on. I like the concept of ‘living on the edge’ because it suggests being alert, being dexterous, being nimble. I encourage you to adopt as your mantra, from […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On August 1, 2017
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Guess what? Recruiters are the worst recruiters!

Is it as we have always suspected? That recruiters are themselves, poor recruiters? Like the cobblers kid who had the worst shoes, do recruiters have the worst recruitment process? Especially when they recruit recruiters, for themselves? I asked that question in no uncertain terms a few years ago, when I bemoaned the fact that hardly […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On May 16, 2017
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Only hire recruiters from ‘Generation C’.

Forget Millennials, Gen X and the Baby Boomers. The only group of recruiters that have any chance of success as we enter a brave new world of recruiting, will be most certainly be from ‘Generation C’. Yes indeed, there is only one group of recruiters that will thrive in a world where talent shortages get […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On February 7, 2017
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Starting your first job as a recruiter? Do this!

Every week I get a request from a newbie to the recruitment industry asking for guidance on how to succeed. It’s a tricky one because it’s a bit like asking the meaning of life, or the secret to being a brilliant parent. There is no easy, short, answer. However, here is my best road-map for […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On November 2, 2016
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Think like an immigrant!

Modern Australia was built on immigrants. They came in clearly defined waves. The British. The Southern Europeans. The Asians. Many other countries are the same, and most pay homage to those immigrants now. I am an immigrant myself, arriving in Australia two weeks before my 21st Birthday. I am the son of an immigrant too. […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On April 27, 2016
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