Maybe the worst recruiter blunder ever?

I worked a desk as a recruiter for many years. And I was a pretty good recruiter too. Not great, mind you. Just good enough to have a lot of fun and make a bit of money. I also made some monumental stuff-ups. And I don’t mean the odd lapse of judgment. I mean enormous […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On June 15, 2022
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Could you answer this client question?

One of my clients told me a fascinating story last week. It’s elementary, obvious even, but so revealing about one of the evolving dynamics in the agency recruitment market. One of his recruiters had a candidate right down to the wire with his client. In fact, after three interviews, the client made an offer to […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On June 6, 2022
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Five pieces of great recruiting news

Some brilliant things are happening in recruitment right now! I see them with my clients. I hear about them from recruiters daily. I hope you see them where you are. This should cheer us all up. 1. A new generation of recruiters is being born! Right before our eyes. The mass layoffs and defections from […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On May 16, 2022
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Change how you define a ‘good client’

Quality candidates are hard to find. Candidates have a choice and can change their ‘job criteria’ in a moment. Every recruiter knows this. Many recruiters have more jobs than they can hope to fill. Credit to them, they are scrambling to fill them all. But they can’t. And they won’t. So that raises the critical […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On May 9, 2022
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Will you be swimming n@ked when the market crashes?

The recruitment industry must take a longer-term view while the current boom rages. Thinking beyond the current cycle is not something we are famous for. Yes, it is a candidate-tight market. Yes, it seems ‘finding clients‘ is not the hard part of the job right now. Indeed, some agency recruiters have developed the view that […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On May 4, 2022
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Think you can recruit worldwide? 🇦🇺 🇱🇷 🇿🇦 🇸🇬 🇬🇧 🇯🇵 🇫🇷 🇧🇷

Is recruiting ‘different’ around the world? Do you think you can recruit worldwide? My recruitment career has allowed me the tremendous privilege of running and owning recruitment businesses all over the world. Literally. At Aquent, it was 30 offices in 17 countries (from 2001 to 2010). With Firebrand I owned a company that had […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On April 26, 2022
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This is how to fill more jobs

You can’t fill your jobs and it’s all because of ‘no candidates‘, right? Wrong. It is also because you need to coach your clients on how to recruit in this market. This is a key recruiting skill right now. Start here (Click on video) It is all in the video, but here is […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On April 4, 2022
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You need a recruiting career boost?

When I wrote ‘The Savage Truth’, I was nervous Could I do it? I was intimidated by an empty word document, and 40 years of recruiting history to convey. Would it be any good? Yes, I write blogs, but who was I taking on this endeavour? I have a very supportive publisher who seemed confident, […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On March 30, 2022
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You must hire more drinkers

Yes, you read that right. Hire more drinkers! Every new recruiter brought into our industry should be a drinker. Oh, wait, slight typo! I mean, you have got to hire more D.R.I.I.N.C.K.A.E’s A whole new generation of recruiters are being employed across the world, as our industry fires up after the Covid disaster. It is […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On March 28, 2022
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15 reasons your clients will work ‘exclusive’

Recruiters have been far too slow to react to this. Decades of kowtowing to ‘clients’ and focussing all metrics on ‘job orders in’ and ‘clients won‘ have taken the spotlight off the fundamental reality A job is not worth working if it’s not fillable or the chances of a ‘fill’ are too low. A client […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On March 21, 2022
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