The Savage Truth
  • By Greg Savage
  • Posted January 20, 2021
  • In Coaching recruiters, coronavirus management, Management Skills, Recruiter coaching, recruitment, recruitment careers
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15 crucial recruiter tips for 2021 (In 15 words or less!)

The annus horribilis of 2020 is behind us! New year! Fresh dreams! None of us can predict what 2021 holds. It’s unlikely to be easy. We all want to get better. Achieve more. Just ‘working hard’ and ‘hoping for a better year’ won’t do it, and those are not real goals anyway. Here are 15 […]
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  • By Greg Savage
  • Posted December 22, 2020
  • In Leadership, recruitment, recruitment humour
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The best Recruiter Christmas party in the history of recruitment!

I don’t like recruitment Christmas parties. Mostly. And I have been to a few. At least 70 I would say. 70? How old are you Greg? 100? No, not quite. But 40 years in this biz, and many years where I went to several parties, across various offices of the businesses I ran, means I […]
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  • By Greg Savage
  • Posted December 15, 2020
  • In coronavirus management, Employee engagement, future of recruitment, Leadership, Management Skills, recruitment
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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 […]
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  • By Greg Savage
  • Posted December 8, 2020
  • In client skills, Coaching recruiters, coronavirus management, Leadership, recruitment
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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 […]
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  • By Greg Savage
  • Posted December 1, 2020
  • In recruitment, recruitment careers
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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 […]
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  • By Greg Savage
  • Posted November 24, 2020
  • In recruitment, recruitment careers, recruitment skills
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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 […]
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  • By Greg Savage
  • Posted November 17, 2020
  • In client skills, Coaching recruiters, coronavirus management, Recruiter coaching, recruitment, recruitment skills
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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 […]
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  • By Greg Savage
  • Posted November 10, 2020
  • In candidate care, Coaching recruiters, coronavirus management, Hiring Trends, recruitment
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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. […]
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  • By Greg Savage
  • Posted November 4, 2020
  • In coronavirus management, Leadership, Management Skills, recruitment
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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 […]
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  • By Greg Savage
  • Posted October 27, 2020
  • In coronavirus management, Leadership, recruitment, recruitment careers, recruitment skills
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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 […]
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