Greg Savage

JULY 13, 2020

I wrote this blog in 2009, just as we were emerging from what we then considered to be a bad recession. LOL (Yes, that’s right, I have been writing blogs for your reading pleasure, every week, for over 10 years. Thanks for asking.) It could not be more relevant for us now, even if I […].

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MARCH 15, 2021

I have blogged about how you […]. Under the flawed impression that ‘recruiting is easy now’ and ‘there are lots of candidates because of Covid’, some employers will try to leverage recruiters on fee, and they will use both old tactics and new.

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Greg Savage

MARCH 20, 2020

This is an ’emergency blog’ being put out on a Sunday to assist with conversations you will be having this week. I hope it helps you. I have had dozens of crisis meetings with owners in the past week, about how to respond to the current situation. Mostly those conversations start frenetically – ideas and […].

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Rally Recruitment Marketing

JULY 18, 2021

Read more about ADP’s approach and results in our blog: What Does an Award-Winning Careers Social Media Presence Look Like? This is the opening of a blog post by Meisha-Ann Martin , Workhuman’s Director of People Analytics, published on Workhuman’s 2021 Rally Award-winning Best Careers Blog.

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Greg Savage

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The topic that launched a thousand blogs. How will recruitment change post-covid? A lot of gloomy predictions. And some overly dramatic ones. So here is mine. Not ‘post-covid’, because when is that going to be?

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Rally Recruitment Marketing

JUNE 19, 2023

This blog post will help you learn how to lay out the benefits of an employer branding strategy, teach you ways to gain leadership support and show you what should be included when you start developing an employer brand strategy for your organization. But there are no secret channels – we all know about the same recruiting channels.

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Rally Recruitment Marketing

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Blog] 4 Talent Nurture Campaigns to Start Right Now. Read the blog > 4. Blog] How to Build a Talent Pipeline from Your Careers Site. Read the blog > 5. Blog] How Giant Eagle’s Careers Blog Increased their LinkedIn Followers by 85%. Featuring examples and pro tips from: MongoDB and Gem.

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Rally Recruitment Marketing

MARCH 14, 2021

Today, our Qualtrics Life blog contains an extensive library of employee stories that do just that. A great example of a purpose-driven blog is our TACOS blog. Our data shows that people are spending an average of 6 minutes on this blog post and then actually going to apply for a role.

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Rally Recruitment Marketing

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

That’s a lot of pressure to create employee stories, videos, blogs and social media posts — week after week! The Content That Matters to Candidates in 2021. The more recruiting channels you have, the more Recruitment Marketing content you need.

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Rally Recruitment Marketing

JANUARY 10, 2021

Increase organic traffic with a careers blog. Creating a careers blog is a free or low-cost opportunity for you to improve your organic website traffic through search engine optimization (SEO), which helps your blog posts to be found when candidates are searching online. Looking for an example of an excellent careers blog?

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Greg Savage

MARCH 30, 2022

Yes, I write blogs, but who was I taking on this endeavour? When I wrote ‘The Savage Truth’, I was nervous Could I do it? I was intimidated by an empty word document, and 40 years of recruiting history to convey. Would it be any good? I have a very supportive publisher who seemed confident, […]. first appeared on Greg Savage.

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Rally Recruitment Marketing

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Careers blog. If you have a blog, posting a press release highlighting a new award you’ve just won is a great content idea. Distribute it to an industry press list to get picked up by other blogs and news sources. Another way to point attention to a new award on your blog is with a Q&A.

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Greg Savage

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Hey, half my blogs touch on the same theme! Everyone is telling recruiters they need to change. So, you might be thinking, “OK, I get it. Change is key. But specifically, in what areas is this change meant to take place?” Good question! Well, luckily, we have The Savage Truth here to tell you

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Greg Savage

MAY 20, 2019

Recently I published some confronting data from Staffing Industry Metrics where Recruitment Agency staff turnover in 2018 was estimated at 47%, an horrific number, and one that prompted this blog from me.

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Rally Recruitment Marketing

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

social media, career site, career blog, talent newsletter, etc.). . One blog post , in particular, addressed a topic on many candidates’ minds at the moment: what it’s like to change jobs during an uncertain time. . An example of a blog post from Vanguard addressing candidate concerns. Content engagement.

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Rally Recruitment Marketing

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

To really help candidates envision themselves at the company, Liz and her team also created dedicated pages for each of their innovation centers around the world, complete with hyper-localized messaging, blogs and videos. Sharing blog content is another way that ADP promotes their tech talent brand.

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Greg Savage

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

This blog is blunt. It’s about the commercial reality of making money in recruitment. If you run a business and are making no money, or if your revenues are growing, but your profit is declining, this will probably explain why. Or if you are a recruiter, it could explain why you can hardly scrape by […].

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Rally Recruitment Marketing

JUNE 14, 2021

Careers blog. According to Symphony Talent, 23% of the Fortune 500 host a careers blog. While a well-organized careers site with EGC can take you a long way, a careers blog opens up all kinds of new ways for candidates to learn more about the employee experience at your company. Social media.

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Greg Savage

JUNE 13, 2023

This blog will be worth reading again in […] The post 10 key recruiter skills no-one mentions. 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. first appeared on The Savage Recruitment Academy.

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APRIL 26, 2021

My previous three blogs (Part 1 and Part 2 and Part 3) on this topic revealed ten of the critical metrics needed to run your recruitment agency efficiently and productively. Today, the final four!

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Rally Recruitment Marketing

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Maybe a blog post you were working on fell through or an employee you were planning to spotlight left your company. For instance, you could: Take a video and turn it into a blog post (or series of blog posts). Create an infographic that sums up a blog post or video. Create a “best of” blog post or eBook.

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Rally Recruitment Marketing

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Contact us for the opportunity to add your work to this blog post and share your DEI commitments with the Rally community. And if you’d like to learn more about how to support women in the workplace, check out our blog post Navigating the Shecession: Bringing Women Back to Work.

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Greg Savage

MARCH 5, 2018

I have talked about it a lot on this blog […]. More than 1,400 recruiters attending. It’s a masterclass in sophisticated selling, and one topic we will hammer is the ability to secure exclusive job orders.

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APRIL 10, 2021

In the coming weeks, we’ll share examples of their winning work on the Rally blog, so that everyone in the Rally community can learn from these strategies. Best Careers Blog. There were so many exceptional submissions that this year we have multiple 1st and 2nd place winners in nearly every category.

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Greg Savage

JUNE 10, 2024

Indeed, I posted a very popular blog on the best way to ‘use the LinkedIn algorithm’ (which was all the work of Richard van der Bloom), and now it’s clear that many […] The post What is going on with LinkedIn? Every regular LinkedIn user has felt it. Fewer views of your posts. Likes’ and ‘shares’ are a fraction of what they were before.

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Rally Recruitment Marketing

APRIL 9, 2023

In this blog post, I’ll focus on what we learned specifically about LinkedIn to help you know what types of content (and literally what words) actually work better to engage talent through your organic LinkedIn feed. If you’re treating the organic feed of LinkedIn like a job board, you won’t be successful. You got this!

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Rally Recruitment Marketing

MARCH 19, 2023

The rally template CTA was “Join us” and clicked to the careers site homepage or a job description, whereas other users used a CTA such as “Learn more” or “Read X’s story” and clicked to a careers blog with the fuller employee story. They’re clogging your social recruiting channels, and we recommend against them.

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Rally Recruitment Marketing

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

To honor Black History Month, Microsoft is using its blog to amplify the stories of its Black employees and highlight those who are making their mark within their company and industry. Microsoft highlights stories of its Black employees in blog posts that are focusing on real life experiences in a raw and vulnerable way. .

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Rally Recruitment Marketing

NOVEMBER 21, 2021

The Life at Wix Blog has emerged as another hotspot for conveying company culture. A blog post from senior managers at Wix explaining their commitment to hiring only quality employees. . This creates a more personal feel, and helps candidates get a clearer picture of the company culture and role they’re applying for. .

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Greg Savage

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Building a sustainable business is the theme of many of my blogs and speeches, and also runs through the lessons I learned over 40 years, spelled out in my first book, The Savage Truth. Protecting your business in a downturn or recession starts long before the tough times hit.

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MARCH 31, 2021

My previous two blogs (Part 1 and Part 2) on this topic revealed seven of the critical metrics needed to run your recruitment agency efficiently and productively. Today, metrics eight through ten for your reading pleasure.

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Rally Recruitment Marketing

JANUARY 2, 2020

All those ads, blogs, emails, social posts, news stories, podcasts, videos are coming at us faster than our brains can consume it. How many times have you written an employee spotlight blog or shared a company culture video only once or twice before putting it on the back burner in favor of creating new content? So, we miss a lot.

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Rally Recruitment Marketing

JULY 19, 2020

Salesforce ’s Virtual Interview Guide takes the form of a blog that they can then share with candidates who land a remote interview with the team. Salesforce. Salesforce provides a very detailed Virtual Interview Guide to help improve the candidate experience.

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Rally Recruitment Marketing

JUNE 19, 2019

Application automation provider Zapier, which is another fully-remote company, communicates their remote training through a blog post written by a remote employee — who has already been through the training program so they know better than anyone else! to provide support to new remote employees.

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Greg Savage

MARCH 10, 2021

In the last blog on this topic, I shared the first four of the fourteen critical metrics you need to run your recruitment agency effectively. You need these ratios and benchmarks to help you drive excellence and to make sure you don’t drive your business into the ground. With brilliant data from my friend Nigel Harse at Staffing […].

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