“Greg, I am an honest man, but business is business”

I have been in business a long time. And all of that time has been in the rough and tumble world of recruitment and staffing. Having worked as a recruiter, manager, and owner of recruitment businesses all over the world, I have seen my share of dubious business practices. Indeed I have, sadly, been witness […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On January 4, 2010
19 Comments

Yes Twitter and Face Book are cool…but recruiters, get real!

This year, in my capacity of International CEO of Aquent, (the only global staffing company dedicated to marketing and design) I was very excited to help launch our new website, which specifically promotes the ability of our talent and clients to connect with our Agents, via social networks, if preferred. (Note. The permanent and Search […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On December 7, 2009
12 Comments

Forget the hype. Australian Recruiters do not use Twitter!

Last year I conducted an RCSA seminar for over 500 Australian Recruiters in Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane. The topic was “Riding the Recovery” and part of my session was on Social Media and how we need to build that technology into our talent sourcing strategies. Well, I grabbed this opportunity to conduct a little mini-survey […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On November 25, 2009
7 Comments

Job Boards don’t find people jobs. People find people jobs

We are recovering from this downturn, and when we do, the talent shortage is going to be more severe than anything we experienced a year or two ago. Finding talent, connecting with those talent and building talent communities is going to be what separates the winners from the losers in the recruitment industry, in my […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On November 2, 2009
12 Comments

Why clients give out orders in competition… and why it’s wrong for everybody!

There is an elephant in the room when it comes to the basic business model of our industry. People don’t talk about it much, yet it’s a fundamental flaw in the relationship between client and recruiter, and it drives poor service and lack of satisfaction for all parties. Multi-listing of job orders across multiple agencies, […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On October 29, 2009
16 Comments

What a total jerk on Twitter taught me about online brand

I have been reading quite a bit lately about creating a personal brand online. The subject fascinates me, not least because I see so many people making a total hash of it by the inane things they post on Facebook, Twitter, blog replies, and to a lesser extent, LinkedIn. But recently I had such a […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On October 19, 2009
26 Comments

It’s not ALL about you. How will your clients be feeling?

As the talk of a recovery in the hiring market gains momentum, recruiters are gearing up for how they might take advantage. But before we think about us, let’s talk first about the mindset of clients as the market recovers. We need to remember that clients will be bruised from layoffs and cutbacks too. They […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On September 3, 2009
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Social media – it’s a tool, not a strategy

I was very reluctant to write this post initially. There has been so much noise about social media, and how it’s going to impact our industry, do we really need another blog on the topic? Probably not. But the rhetoric and hyperbole about social media has been bugging me lately, and it will make me […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On August 19, 2009
2 Comments

Get ready for a whole new world as the recruitment market recovers

Increasingly it’s becoming clear that a real recovery in recruitment demand is looming over the horizon. In Australia we are seeing little surges of temp demand, and in Asia our job order flow at Aquent is strengthening slowly but surely. Europe is more problematical for the moment, but certainly the RCSA (Recruitment industry body in […]

Posted by Greg Savage
On August 4, 2009
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