Greg Savage would like to talk to you…

The Savage Truth ANZ Speaking Tour is on in October. This is the biggest event I have done for years, and I believe it will educate, motivate and stimulate. It’s an entire half-day Masterclass, with in-depth examination of how recruitment businesses, and recruiters, will need to work in the future. The response so far has […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On August 27, 2013
2 Comments

What all recruiters WANT to say to their clients, and should – but don’t!

For agency recruiters, it often feels like clients are toying with them these days. It feels for all the world that some* Line Managers, Internal Recruiters and HR types have conspired to make life for recruiters as hellish as possible. Job briefs given out to 6 agents, ‘urgent’ orders postponed after weeks of work, interviews […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On August 20, 2013
52 Comments

The UK recruitment market is growing. Fast!

I have spent a lot of time involved in the UK recruitment market. I have lived there, worked there, and owned and run recruitment businesses there, until very recently. For the past decade I have visited London at least twice a year, often more. So I speak from personal experience when I say there has […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On August 6, 2013
9 Comments

Hire more drinkers!

Yes, you read that right. Hire more drinkers! Oh, wait, slight typo… I mean, you have got to hire more D.R.I.N.C.K.A.E’s If I were building new recruitment company today, the only people I would hire, would be D.R.I.N.C.K.A.E’s. And I am pretty sure this is valid across all business in the modern age. Certainly those […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On July 23, 2013
25 Comments

Recruiters, this is how you destroy your own career.

Recruiters, you won’t like this. But this is the one trait that is ruining your career and negatively impacting your life. Wasted emotion. That is what is destroying your job satisfaction. That is what is leading an army of recruiters to burn out and fade into the sunset. Wasted emotion Don’t get me wrong. Being […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On July 9, 2013
26 Comments

The future of recruitment — explained in 30 minutes!

The fast-changing world of recruitment is broken into two camps; Recruiters who will survive and thrive, and those who will fail and die out. Which group are you and your company in? This 30 minute YouTube video will give you the answer.

Posted by Greg Savage
On June 11, 2013
18 Comments

Suck it up princess. This is as good as it gets

I rarely ‘go to lunch’. But recently I did, with a group that included Geoff Morgan, the Founder of Morgan and Banks, and Talent2. We spoke about a lot that day, but one thing he said shook me and contains a lesson for all of us.

Posted by Greg Savage
On May 14, 2013
40 Comments

Into Africa. A recruiting safari.

Today is the last day of the ‘relaxing’ part of my trip to South Africa, and I write to you from the magnificent Delaire Graff estate just outside Stellenbosch, in the Cape Wine lands. But tomorrow it’s D-day. Day one of the Savage Truth Tour of South Africa, kicking off in Cape Town with a 3-hour seminar.

Posted by Greg Savage
On May 6, 2013
3 Comments

Recruiters are liars and scumbags. Google says so.

My entire working life I have been in this industry, and I have taken my fair share of criticism for just uttering the phrase “I am a recruiter”. But now it seems ‘the great search engine in the sky’ is predefining us as liars, scumbags, idiots and worthless.

Posted by Greg Savage
On April 16, 2013
73 Comments

8 secrets I got told by Australia’s best recruiter

Recently I was one of 4 judges asked to select “Australia’s Best Recruiter 2013”. The calibre was high, drawing responses from all over Australia and New Zealand. The judging panel interviewed a shortlist of 4, and Peter Murphy, from Davidson Recruitment in Brisbane, was selected as the worthy winner. Peter has an exceptional record in […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On March 19, 2013
18 Comments

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