Posts Tagged ‘Firebrand’
Hail the unsung heroes of the recruitment industry: the non-billers
One of the things I am most ashamed of in my whole career is an event from about 15 years ago. The temp accounting team I was leading had set our sights on having 300 weekly temps working. The week we achieved it, I shouted the whole team out for a night of expensive cocktails…
Read MoreWhat’s your candidate strategy?
Anybody that has been to a Greg Savage presentation over the past 18 months or so, wouldn’t have missed one of Greg’s core messages; ‘Not everybody is looking for a job … but everyone is available to change jobs if the right job is presented’. This message was again, front and centre when I watched Greg…
Read MoreLow performers are team focused extraverts (and other surprises)
The Recruiters’ Hub Conference produced plenty of A1 content. I have already written about Bill Bartee’s profit formula of LTVC + CCA, Greg Savage’s compelling dissection of how social media is the engine room of Firebrand’s generation of new candidates and clients and how RPOs are changing the game for agency recruiters. Towards the end of day two of the Conference, we heard three…
Read MoreThe Duncan Cunningham Family Fund Appeal
Seven years ago in Sydney I ran a small group coaching session for three senior leaders of multi-national recruitment agency, Aquent . In that session I met Duncan Cunningham , a likeable, cheerful English ex-pat who was responsible for the Aquent business in Hong Kong. We stayed in irregular contact for a year before he…
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