• By Greg Savage
  • Posted July 18, 2022

What will your tombstone say?

My life? 1958 – 2043. That’s what my tombstone will say. If the Shiraz does not get me sooner, and I last that long. It could easily say 1958 – 2022. (Although I sincerely hope not!) But that’s the point. The dates themselves are not that important – as long as they are a reasonable […]
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  • By Greg Savage
  • Posted July 13, 2022
  • In recruitment

On tomorrow! Savage UK Masterclass

‘Powering growth in 2023 and beyond’ Greg Savage Masterclass London August 31st 2022   150 signed up. Bigger room arranged! Grow your company value for exit This session focuses on what recruitment leaders should change now to take advantage of the current market, and prepare careers and businesses for long-term success and productivity, even when […]
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  • By Greg Savage
  • Posted July 11, 2022
  • In recruitment

Are you ‘client-flabby’ or are you ‘client-fit’?

Recruitment became more ‘remote‘ because of Covid. There was no alternative. But now, for many recruiters, it remains that way, ‘because it suits them!’. Add to this a candidate-tight market where plenty of recruiters have developed a one-sided skill-set that focuses only on candidate activities. You have an unhealthy situation where clients are being ignored, […]
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  • By Greg Savage
  • Posted July 4, 2022
  • In recruitment

16 questions every recruiter must answer

If you own or run a recruitment company, this list should be a discussion for the whole team and a strategy document for the leadership group. Individual recruiters must take control of their futures by asking these questions and being confident in the answers they come up with. What will happen when the market turns? […]
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  • By Greg Savage
  • Posted June 20, 2022
  • In recruitment

Do you know what ‘normal’ is?

I went to school on a bus reserved for ‘whites only‘. This was normal. And that was just the tiny tip of the racist Apartheid Iceberg designed to secure white privilege and deny fundamental freedoms and opportunities for most of the population. When I turned 18 and ventured down to the pub in Cape Town, […]
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  • By Greg Savage
  • Posted June 15, 2022
  • In recruitment

Maybe the worst recruiter blunder ever?

I worked a desk as a recruiter for many years. And I was a pretty good recruiter too. Not great, mind you. Just good enough to have a lot of fun and make a bit of money. I also made some monumental stuff-ups. And I don’t mean the odd lapse of judgment. I mean enormous […]
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  • By Greg Savage
  • Posted June 6, 2022
  • In recruitment

Could you answer this client question?

One of my clients told me a fascinating story last week. It’s elementary, obvious even, but so revealing about one of the evolving dynamics in the agency recruitment market. One of his recruiters had a candidate right down to the wire with his client. In fact, after three interviews, the client made an offer to […]
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  • By Greg Savage
  • Posted May 30, 2022
  • In recruitment

Do this, or your placement dies

“Hey, how are you, young Brett,” I said to a recruiter that I know well recently. “Placed anyone in a job lately” was my next question, which is standard fare. Smiling, he affirmed that he had done precisely that, and it was a meaty salary. “Well done”, I beamed, “when does she resign”? Without missing […]
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  • By Greg Savage
  • Posted May 16, 2022
  • In recruitment

Five pieces of great recruiting news

Some brilliant things are happening in recruitment right now! I see them with my clients. I hear about them from recruiters daily. I hope you see them where you are. This should cheer us all up. 1. A new generation of recruiters is being born! Right before our eyes. The mass layoffs and defections from […]
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  • By Greg Savage
  • Posted May 9, 2022
  • In recruitment

Change how you define a ‘good client’

Quality candidates are hard to find. Candidates have a choice and can change their ‘job criteria’ in a moment. Every recruiter knows this. Many recruiters have more jobs than they can hope to fill. Credit to them, they are scrambling to fill them all. But they can’t. And they won’t. So that raises the critical […]
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