Greg Savage

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

In Australia and New Zealand at least, we have seen massive improvements. We all know what happened to Recruitment demand from March onwards last year. It was disastrous. Many Agencies are in growth mode. Anecdotally, despite everything, pipelines were filling up in the last Quarter of 2020. But where is the empirical data?

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Greg Savage

MARCH 8, 2021

Recently, I shared the telling JobAdder data on new job-orders taken by Recruitment Agencies in 2020 in Australia and New Zealand. Today, actual permanent placements made. Empirical data gleaned from many thousands of recruiters across both countries. ( You can get the full JobAdder Report here!)

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SmartRecruiters

OCTOBER 9, 2018

When the three-month-old daughter of New Zealand Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, accompanied her mother to the UN General Assembly in New York last month, the pair made history – Neve being the youngest person ever to attend the GA summit – but they also started a public debate… a consequence which seems inevitable where Ardern is concerned.

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The Whiteboard

JANUARY 21, 2016

And still we hear of more and more circling the New Zealand runway, weighing up whether to abort, or to come in and land. New Zealand recruitment process moves at breakneck speed, so don’t be be dissuaded from representing that downy-lipped grad to your client. Happy Friday and have a good weekend one and all.

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Greg Savage

APRIL 29, 2019

2018 was a great year for the recruitment agency industry in Australia and New Zealand. 95% of recruitment agencies reporting to Staffing Industry Metrics made profits in 2018, leaving just 5% of firms trading at a loss, the lowest and best result in 7 years. Of the 95% of recruitment agencies which made a profit […].

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The Whiteboard

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

It was on LinkedIn that I spotted this update from Chandler Macleod’s young GM Oscar Dunn ; Introducing Peoplebank New Zealand! Peoplebank is the leading technology recruitment specialist in Australasia, and is now proudly in New Zealand. Specialist technology & digital recruitment.

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Linkedin Talent Blog

DECEMBER 1, 2017

If you are working on a recruiting video, here are a few tips from the New Zealand Police (trust them, they are pros at this): Include an action sequence worthy of a Michael Bay movie (aka Bad Boys 2). Make sure you have at least one cute pet (preferably in an outfit, uniform is even better). Not sure how all this could possibly work?

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Linkedin Talent Blog

MARCH 10, 2017

When we think of New Zealand, many of us think of its majestic beauty - a place to climb glaciers, kayak, hike, and enjoy nature. What we don’t often think of New Zealand having is a major tech hub. The chosen 100 will be flown to New Zealand May 8-11 for job interviews, and much more.

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The Whiteboard

JANUARY 12, 2023

Call me a curmudgeon , but by the week after New Year, I’m pretty much done with turkey, ham, camping, lime milkshakes and roadies, and am itching to get some deals on the board. For those new to the game, or just a bit sh*t, they limp into January like Heather McCartney. Anyway, Happy New Year everyone! ^SW.

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Greg Savage

APRIL 3, 2017

The massive #SavageSprint Recruitment Masterclass Tour of Australia and New Zealand is over!

 1,300 recruiters flocked to nine events, and paid good money to hear 4 hours of tactics to prepare for a new recruitment future.

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The Whiteboard

MARCH 23, 2023

Heavily reliant on Government recruitment work, our new Prime Minister has come along and torpedoed a bunch of policies and projects, massively reducing spend on Contractors and generally derailing the sweet, sweet gravy train so beloved of our Capital’s snazzy-suited recruiter brethren. New Zealand is beautiful.

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Greg Savage

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Savage Sell Sophisticated selling for the Modern Recruiter This series of half-day master classes will be held in March 2018, in nine cities in Australia and New Zealand. 400 recruiters have booked in the first week! These will be sold out, so please – book now! And it’s sharply priced so Agencies can send entire […].

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Greg Savage

JANUARY 29, 2018

Savage Sell Sophisticated selling for the Modern Recruiter EARLY BIRD DISCOUNTS CLOSE TOMORROW BIG SAVINGS This series of half-day master classes will be held in nine cities in Australia and New Zealand. 1,100 recruiters have booked already! Many of these will be sold out, so please – book now!

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Greg Savage

DECEMBER 17, 2017

Savage Sell Sophisticated selling for the Modern Recruiter This series of half-day master classes will be held in March 2018, in nine cities in Australia and New Zealand. 600 recruiters have booked already! These will be sold out, so please – book now! And it’s sharply priced so Agencies can send entire teams. You must […].

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The Whiteboard

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Since the peak of the pandemic, although complain as we do, us New Zealand-based Recruitment firms have been on easy street. If, however, the recession in New Zealand is as shallow as many expect/hope for, then they have a problem. This, however, is not a blog about what tickles the pickle of a 65 year old woman.

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Greg Savage

JUNE 25, 2018

Presenting the full Savage SELL Masterclass in 7 easy to absorb videos In March 2018, Greg and Chris Savage travelled around Australia and New Zealand presenting the acclaimed Savage SELL Masterclass. Now by popular demand, the RCSA is pleased to present the full session in an easy to digest video format.

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The Whiteboard

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

To give some context, I have lived in New Zealand for over 11 years. In this time, I’ve placed hundreds of candidates, with many of them being new arrivals to Aotearoa. This woman took it to a new level however. Not once have I ever thought “Oh thank f*ck this candidate has an immigration advisor.

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The Whiteboard

JULY 6, 2023

I then persuaded an IT recruitment company to hire a business support recruiter with no New Zealand experience. Luckily for you, this month sees the return of New Zealand’s premier Recruitment networking booze-up, the Rice PowWow. I’ll give you some examples.

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The Whiteboard

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

The online job board market here in New Zealand is set to get more congested than Auckland’s Southern Motorway at rush hour any time of day. As mentioned last week NZME are set to launch their new job board YUDU next year in a bid to challenge the dominance of SEEK and Trade Me Jobs. This week we were told by Stuff.co.nz

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The Whiteboard

MAY 17, 2023

Then there was ZUDU who were going to topple SEEK and Trade Me Jobs in New Zealand by linking a boring job advert to an equally boring news article about the company. New ideas in recruitment are nothing new. Are there really that many people writing that many articles about such a minor New Zealand-based scandal?

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The Whiteboard

MAY 25, 2023

It was with some surprise then when I arrived in New Zealand in 2011. Find me someone new to the industry who prefers calling a prospective candidate over messaging them, and I’ll bare my arse in Countdown’s window. Sophisticated stuff. I worked for many years in recruitment in the UK before I ever wrote a job ad.

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The Whiteboard

JUNE 4, 2020

It’s now been a whole two weeks since we identified a new case of COVID 19 in Aotearoa! This return also brings new life! In a ‘circle of life’ kind of way once the salmon has birthed new life, completing its purpose, it dies. Convincing a new client to use your brand? Job postings on Seek NZ are up 92.7%

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Greg Savage

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

In Australia, New Zealand and the UK, 90% […]. I read recently some ‘recruitment expert’ advising owners of recruitment companies to phase out ‘billing managers’ and to allow a team of ‘dedicated managers’ to simply ‘run’ the business’. Now, how should I put this as calmly as I can? OK, this will have to do.

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VideoMyJob

DECEMBER 5, 2023

She’s joined PPD Search as their Resourcing Consultant to continue her recruitment journey, moving into white-collar recruitment, to identify, attract and engage candidates for clients in the pharmaceutical & medical device industries, across Australia & New Zealand.

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JobAdder

OCTOBER 27, 2021

As seen in previous quarterly reports, job growth has continued to rise, demonstrating strong job growth across Australia, New Zealand, the UK, the US and Canada. This result must be seen in the context of severe lockdowns in both Victoria and New South Wales, two states which account for more than half of the Australian economy.

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Greg Savage

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

“My biggest lessons, tactics and secrets from a lifetime in recruitment.” All the best bits from a 40-year recruitment experience.

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Greg Savage

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

We are about to enter a new golden era for recruitment in Australia and New Zealand. Lots of growth to be had and money to be made. Mostly all we hear about is the death of agency recruitment, but to me it’s clear that conditions are just about right for a revival of […].

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VideoMyJob

AUGUST 23, 2023

Skout Solutions provides innovative talent solutions in solving People and Project requirements for any organisation across Australia and New Zealand. Australian-based, Skout Solutions, is a joint venture under the partnership of Ventia and Randstad respectively.

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The Whiteboard

JUNE 22, 2017

” The jobseeker on the receiving end of this appalling tirade had the foresight and courage to make a recording of the encounter and sent it into the New Zealand Human Rights Commission, who released it onto their Facebook page. If anyone knows who this is, please let me know. I’d like to do whatever I can to help.

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The Whiteboard

JULY 6, 2017

The winners this week are, of course, the Emirates Team New Zealand who delighted huge crowds in Auckland parading the America’s Cup yesterday, including our team here at Rice and vRPO. Perhaps this is one job ad that is definitely worth ad-chasing for any of you recruiters out there short on vacancies just now!

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Lever

JULY 26, 2017

We’re pumped to showcase the innovative tips, tricks and strategies used by talent leaders at companies like Medallia, Illumination Entertainment, KPMG New Zealand, Lyft, Bazaarvoice, Cirque du Soleil and HotelTonight , to name a few.

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The Whiteboard

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

This week saw the resignation of Leader of the Opposition and former Prime Minister of New Zealand, Bill English. For those outside of New Zealand, Bill English inherited the leadership of the National Party from then Prime Minister John Key. This is a tried and tested format to political resignations the world over.

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The Whiteboard

AUGUST 19, 2021

As New Zealand is thrust back into lockdown, all channels seem full of people with advice on surviving the Delta Blues (one of mine, ithankyou). Unless this support involves no-questions-asked cash donations, I’m not really sure what the good people of Ray White New Lynn can offer me. Do not look to me for lessons.

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The Whiteboard

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

One month ago Handley was offered and accepted the position as the first Chief Technology Officer for New Zealand. Following that he and his family left New York, their home for more than 10 years, to return to New Zealand, a process no doubt expensive, emotional, tiring and not undertaken without huge consideration.

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The Whiteboard

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

Yep, a decade of rec to rec (and more besides) in the amazing #NZRec community of New Zealand! As it happens, the timing is quite providential, as this is the last of our weekly blogs before Rice Consulting turns 10 years old next week.

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PowerToFly

JULY 24, 2023

Sharmila Rama's great-grandfather was likely the first Gujarati (Indian) to settle in New Zealand — a sacrifice that impacted generations to come. There was a movement against the Chinese and Indians in New Zealand in the early 1900s. Sharmila remembers stories of Indians leaving home with nothing but a suitcase of saris.

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The Whiteboard

MAY 26, 2016

The fact they specialised in the burgeoning IT market, had a strong presence in Government clients, and a few other key accounts, saw them come out stronger than ever, re-branded with a fresh new logo and website and large contractor offering. Be prepared to innovate and try out new things.

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