• By Greg Savage
  • Posted May 14, 2025

What are big recruitment companies doing?

How are the big recruitment companies dealing with the market slowdown? What are their results? What are they doing to combat the decline? What strategies do they have for the future? Here is some empirical data that gives you an insight into these questions.
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  • By Greg Savage
  • Posted May 12, 2025

Automation without accountability is a liability!

There is plenty of optimism about AI's positive impact on recruitment. They say AI will unlock productivity, free up recruiters' time, and drive profitability. However, making those assumptions is a dangerous fallacy. AI can bring those rewards, but it is not an automatic fix. There needs to be a plan and a structure. You can't manage what you do not measure.
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  • By Greg Savage
  • Posted May 7, 2025

Global staffing market forecasts downgraded

Forecasts for staffing activity in many countries have been downgraded. The downside risk is escalating, and some markets will be impacted by tariffs and declining GDP growth. But it is not all bad news! At least seven countries are expected to grow their staffing and recruitment markets, two by over 10% How does your country rate?
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  • By Greg Savage
  • Posted May 5, 2025

Use ChatGPT like a recruiting champ

Serious recruiters know they need to evolve. Understanding new technology is going to be pervasive in our work lives. It can be daunting because sometimes tech is not our jam. ChatGPT, for example. We all use it - or should. But do we know how to get the best out of tools like this? Here is a simple, proven process to master ChatGPT
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  • By Greg Savage
  • Posted April 28, 2025

Recruiters, let’s go to McDonald’s!

Many say that AI will not replace human recruiters. And I believe that statement remains true, overall. But this is not true in every case. It is increasingly clear that AI is taking over some types of recruitment at specific levels. Let’s go to McDonald's, shall we? Not for the fries this time. For a lesson on using AI for hiring.
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  • By Greg Savage
  • Posted April 22, 2025

Recruitment. Australia up 🚀 UK down 🔻

I just got back from the UK, and the recruiters I spoke to were subdued and, in many cases, worried. In Australia, where the market has been challenging for two years, the tone of the Board meetings I have attended since my return has been varied, but at least a third were upbeat, reporting improving demand and results.
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  • By Greg Savage
  • Posted April 14, 2025

Scale your recruitment business fast 🚀

Here is the hard, cold truth. 80% of recruitment and staffing agencies in Australia, the United Kingdom, the USA, and indeed worldwide, never grow beyond 10 staff. The vast majority stay with five staff or fewer. They're lifestyle businesses. Although they may earn the owner a decent income, they have no asset value and can never be sold. But there's a solution, read on...
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  • By Greg Savage
  • Posted April 7, 2025

What it really takes to be a leader 🥇

Being a great recruiter does not mean you will be an effective leader. It is a different job requiring different skills, competencies and temperament. Here is the cold, hard truth. It takes many things to be a great leader, but high on that list is one trait that so many lack. Do you have this trait?
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  • By Greg Savage
  • Posted March 31, 2025

AI will replace these recruiters soon ☠️

AI will not replace ‘agency recruitment’. The industry will change but continue to thrive. But it will take the jobs of many thousands of agency recruiters. Going forward, two significant segments of the ‘Agency’ recruitment market will thrive with AI augmentation. AI will destroy one colossal sector. Done, Finished. Kaput. Gonski. Let’s look at the two winners. Then, the biggest loser! Which group are you in?
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  • By Greg Savage
  • Posted March 24, 2025

18 ways you screw up placements

It’s not ‘luck’. It’s not the client or the candidate. Placements go wrong because you make assumptions.Flawed assumptions. We think we don’t. But we do. Experienced recruiters are often most guilty. Information drives success in recruitment. And the ‘information’ is fluid and dynamic. So next time your ‘dead cert’ placement goes belly-up, it’s almost certainly your fault because you assumed something -wrongly.
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