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  • By Greg Savage
  • Posted July 3, 2023

Hire recruiters with the ‘100-coffees’ secret

I have a crucial goal for anyone running a recruitment business. I call it the ‘100 cups of coffee challenge.‘ And it’s nothing to do with coffee, but stay with me. The post-Covid hiring surge drove agency recruitment to new highs. It also meant a massive scramble to hire recruiters. I would be a wealthy […]
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  • By Greg Savage
  • Posted June 26, 2023

What clients want from Temp recruiters?

Building a temp desk is critical to recruitment company success. It’s also an excellent recruiter career, with more stable earnings and better job security than most. The new ‘Temp and Contract Masterclass’ on the Savage Recruitment Academy delivers over 15 hours on effectively doing this. One of the critical planks of success (which we go […]
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  • By Greg Savage
  • Posted June 21, 2023

A better recruiter will eat your lunch

How is Agency candidate sourcing changing? Martin Herbst addresses the elephant in the room in this punchy, informative video from JobAdder. During the extreme post-covid candidate shortage, JobAdder data show that recruitment agencies across the globe moved to more proactive sourcing of candidates, including using their existing database and targeted candidate outreach. That’s the good […]
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  • By Greg Savage
  • Posted June 19, 2023

How to be a great recruiter

I am excited to announce the release of my new book ‘Recruit – The Savage Way‘, which covers ‘everything I have learned about excellent agency recruitment‘. I am grateful to APSCo, who are supporting the book launch across Australia with a series of entertaining and informative masterclasses. Every attendee will also get a copy of […]
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  • By Greg Savage
  • Posted June 13, 2023

10 key recruiter skills no-one mentions.

There is much banter and some hysteria about how ‘Generative AI‘ will change recruitment, and it’s true, it will. Unfortunately, that loud noise drowns out the equally important conversation of how current and emerging recruiter skills that have nothing to do with technology are soaring in importance. This blog will be worth reading again in […]
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  • By Greg Savage
  • Posted June 7, 2023

9 cool recruiter resources

The market has shifted. And it will change again.

But opportunities still abound for those who are nimble and can adapt to the circumstances as they arise.

But you have to work at it and be open to learning!

Here are nine resources for recruiters that I believe...

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  • By Greg Savage
  • Posted June 5, 2023

30 lessons from a ‘lost job’

Losing a job after a lot of hard work is a real bummer. Some recruiters are too quick to write this off as ‘bad luck’ or part of a ‘numbers game’. It is not. It’s because you did something or did not do something. Great recruiters do not have a ‘win some/lose some‘ mentality. They […]
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  • By Greg Savage
  • Posted May 31, 2023

128 recruiting lessons to really thrive

My new book, ‘Recruit. The Savage Way‘ is available now everywhere. Released globally online and in bookshops today! This is my best effort at sharing everything I know about being a great recruiter. Attitude, mindset, activities, behaviours, client, candidate and selling skills, and how to manage your recruitment career. I learned it on the job […]
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  • By Greg Savage
  • Posted May 29, 2023

13 mind-blowing Temp/Contract market facts

  The Temp and Contract market is a missed opportunity for many recruitment companies. To be plain, it’s enormous and growing very fast. A strong Temp/Contract business will give you annuity revenue to drive extra profit in the good times and provide resilience and protection in the bad markets. That’s why The Savage Recruitment Academy […]
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  • By Greg Savage
  • Posted May 22, 2023

You are a ‘rejecter’, not a recruiter

We think of ourselves as ‘recruiters’ but what is the ratio of candidates we actually do recruit into roles, compared to the number we screen, interview, or even submit? Our industry is obsessed with the number of placements we make. (Of course. I have run a recruitment business all my life. I am most guilty) […]
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