He gave his staff a 20% salary increase. In a pandemic!

Who gives their entire team a 20% salary increase in a pandemic? And why would you tell everyone on your team, ‘Hey we will pay you for five days work a week. But please, only work four days”? Precision Sourcing did this last week. Why would they do that? What is the thinking behind this […]
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On December 15, 2020
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My secret to a cracking start to 2021!

We all know it’s been the year from hell and many of us will have some kind of break in the next month or so. Christmas, New Year, summer holidays, Chinese New Year. You, your clients and your candidates are going to have some well-deserved downtime. But what about the cost? And the risk? We […]
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On December 8, 2020
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Agency Recruiters and Talent Acquisition. New era – better outcomes

I have done over 100 webinars since COVID struck. This one drew almost 1,000 attendees. The feedback was probably the best too. The topic was the drawcard. How can Agency Recruiter and Internal Talent Acquisition work better together? As I so classily say in the webinar, it is currently so often a ‘ vicious cycle […]
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On December 1, 2020
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A Savage ‘Christmas Special’. Australia, NZ & the U.K.

The Savage Truth Book is closing in on 10,000 copies sold. I have no idea if that’s any good, but it’s about 9,500 more than my pre-publishing estimate. More importantly, it really seems to have helped a lot of people judging by the hundreds of notes I have received, and the many shout-outs on LinkedIn […]
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On November 24, 2020
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What ‘The Dark Ages of Recruitment’ can teach us post-COVID

Every second article I see is about how recruitment will change post-COVID. Mostly it’s BS as the majority of recruiters will go back and do exactly as they have always done. I explained that here. Of course, the opportunity to make changes has never been better, and the smart ones in our industry are working […]
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On November 17, 2020
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Remember! The candidate is assessing you too.

Recruiters, Inhouse and Agency, sometimes lapse into hubris and complacency. This, we know. Don’t take offence. It’s a fact. I have been guilty myself. The candidate experience has been a disaster for decades, ironically made exponentially worse by all the Wizz-bang technology tools, added in to ‘enhance the process’. But now it’s potentially much worse. […]
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On November 10, 2020
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Why so many recruitment managers got fired in Covid.

Plenty of Agency recruitment managers were fired as soon as the pandemic hit. That was shocking at an individual level, but no surprise, because in every downturn companies unload expensive middle managers in droves. I have seen it countless times. Even in good times, many, many recruitment companies decimate their profit level because of this […]
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On November 4, 2020
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How much will Recruitment change Post-COVID? (Clue: F-All).

Every day, there are dozens of articles on how COVID will change Recruitment. Well, here is the news. It will not. And I have the scientific, irrefutable, undebatable proof! Let me explain; Most days, I walk around my leafy Sydney suburb in a pathetic attempt to ‘keep fit’. On those walks, I pass dozens of […]
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On October 27, 2020
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15 Stunning Recruitment Stats from 2020.

We all know it has been a cataclysmic year in recruitment. But do you realise how massively Agency recruitment has been impacted? And what about the recovery? Is it happening? Which countries are doing best? Here are 15 of the most jaw-dropping recruitment statistics from 2020. Taken from the recently released JobAdder report You can […]
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On October 22, 2020
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The future of recruitment in 127 words.

The coronavirus is not going to destroy Agency recruitment. It’s not even going to change it that much. But it is going to speed up the direction our industry was already heading. And if you are planning to continue your career in recruitment as we recover from this recession, you had better know where you […]
  • Posted by Greg Savage
  • On October 20, 2020
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