Agency Temp demand nosedives. Then soars!

In most downturns, we can rely on temporary and contract demand to hold up better than permanent hiring. Indeed, we usually see it come back much earlier than permanent. My experience is you can grow a robust Temp/Contract business long before the recession is officially over. The figures from JobAdder showing temporary & contract demand […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On March 23, 2021
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Agency 2020 Permanent Placement Trends. The facts.

Recently, I shared the telling JobAdder data on new job-orders taken by Recruitment Agencies in 2020 in Australia and New Zealand. Today, actual permanent placements made. Empirical data gleaned from many thousands of recruiters across both countries. ( You can get the full JobAdder Report here!) Permanent placements are the definitive measure of permanent hiring […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On March 9, 2021
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14 Agency Recruitment Metrics to run your business

I have highlighted the ‘Sacred Agency Recruitment Metrics’ before. But right now, they are more critical than ever. You need these ratios and benchmarks to help you drive excellence and to make sure you don’t drive your business into the ground. But now, here they are updated! With brilliant data from my friend Nigel Harse […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On March 2, 2021
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Recruitment Agencies see massive job bounce-back!

We all know what happened to Recruitment demand from March onwards last year. It was disastrous. In Australia and New Zealand at least, we have seen massive improvements. Many Agencies are in growth mode. Anecdotally, despite everything, pipelines were filling up in the last Quarter of 2020. But where is the empirical data? Is it […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On February 23, 2021
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This new Recruitment Trend will hurt you!

The topic that launched a thousand blogs. How will recruitment change post-covid? A lot of gloomy predictions. And some overly dramatic ones. So here is mine. Not ‘post-covid’, because when is that going to be? But certainly 2021 It is happening already, and when it hits your market, you will be unprepared, unless you act, […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On February 2, 2021
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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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Which is growing fastest? Temp or Perm?

Jobs are coming back for Recruitment Agencies as we saw in the JobAdder data released on Tuesday. The question I get asked a lot is which will come back first, and fastest? Temp/Contract or Permanent roles? Once again, I tapped JobAdder, and they have provided brilliant answers to that question. (Sign up for the JobAdder […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On October 15, 2020
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Recruitment smashed! Recovery underway. The facts.

The pandemic has wiped out a decade worth of recruitment industry growth, and sent employment and revenue in our industry back to 2010 levels. Figures from IBISWorld Australia suggest staffing industry revenue in Australia has dropped $4.4 Billion in the past financial year. (Four ‘point’ four billion dollars!) Profit margins have collapsed from 4.2% of […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On September 8, 2020
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The sun will shine on recruitment again!

Recessions end (Note, this article was written in June 2020. Think what you were doing and feeling then!) This one will too. It will be a long, hard road, but we will recover. As a species. Economically. And the recruitment industry will bounce back too. I have been through five recessions. While I have no […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On June 16, 2020
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Every Agency recruiter in the world must see these numbers.

Recruiters cop a lot of flak. Criticising agency recruiters seems like a global sport sometimes. Just peruse LinkedIn on any given day. And right now there is not much good news of any kind. Let alone for recruiters. Till now. Agency recruitment is booming. Forget those ignorant, clapped-out doomsayers sitting on the sidelines without a […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On March 10, 2020
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