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10 recruitment trends I predicted in 2010. A decade later, how foolish do I look?

Greg Savage

August 2010) In that speech, I laid out 10 trends that I believed would impact the recruiting profession, and which I predicted we needed to factor into our strategies and business planning. A decade ago I was honoured to present a keynote address to the RCSA National Conference in Hobart. The original here. Ten years […].

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Recruitment smashed! Recovery underway. The facts.

Greg Savage

The pandemic has wiped out a decade worth of recruitment industry growth, and sent employment and revenue in our industry back to 2010 levels. Figures from IBISWorld Australia suggest staffing industry revenue in Australia has dropped $4.4 Billion in the past financial year. Four ‘point’ four billion dollars!) of […].

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Great recruiting is great recruiting. Anywhere!

Greg Savage

At one stage it was 30 offices in 17 countries (while I was at Aquent, from 2001 to 2010). My recruitment career has allowed me the tremendous privilege of running and owning recruitment businesses all over the world. I made some almighty cockups while doing that, but I also learned at least one golden […].

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Think you can recruit worldwide? ???? ???? ???? ???? ???? ???? ???? ????

Greg Savage

At Aquent, it was 30 offices in 17 countries (from 2001 to 2010). My recruitment career has allowed me the tremendous privilege of running and owning recruitment businesses all over the world. With Firebrand I owned a company that had […]. The post Think you can recruit worldwide? ???? ???? ???? ???? ???? ???? ???? ????

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What To Think About When Recruiting Recruiters

Proactive Talent

A lot has changed since my earlier career as a recruiter, and to prove that I looked at a 2010 job description for a recruiter and speculated on what could be automated and what new duties should be added. restricted the results to the year 2010. I found the old job description via a Google search for “recruiter jobs” and?

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A Decade of Recruiting Recruiters – Rice Consulting Turns 10

The Whiteboard

Ever the optimist, I was certain the post-recession green shoots of recovery were stretching and flexing, ready to propel the NZ economy back into a good place in 2010. My wife was also expecting our second by this point, with our daughter arriving in 2010, and so despite the economic conditions, I basically had to make it work.

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4 Ways to Decrease Your Time to Hire

Lever

It’s been steadily increasing since 2010, when it took half as long to fill a role. Time to hire was 29.2 working days in August, just shy of the all-time high of 30.3 working days in April of this year. This is, no doubt, spurred by the high demand for—and shortage of—skilled talent.

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