Greg Savage FRCSA (Life)
Greg is the founder of leading recruitment companies people2people, Firebrand Talent Search, and Recruitment Solutions. He is an established global leader of the recruitment industry and a regular keynote speaker worldwide. Greg provides specialised advice for Recruitment, Professional Services & Social Media companies.
Greg, an early adopter of social media for recruiting, has an industry blog, The Savage Truth, that attracts over one million visitors annually and is a must-read for the recruitment industry.
Greg's first book, 'The Savage Truth', was instantly successful, selling over 12,000 copies. As a result, the book was made mandatory reading for the first Recruitment degree in the world at the National College of Ireland, which now offers a BA (Honours) in Recruitment Practice.
In 2021, Greg founded the Savage Recruitment Academy, a niche Learning Management System for the recruitment industry, which has seen outstanding success and growth, with thousands of subscribers worldwide.
Greg now acts as a Non-Executive Director and Advisor for 12 recruitment and HR Tech companies in several countries His latest book 'Recruit. The Savage Way', is aimed at helping agency recruiters excel. In its first 12 weeks since launch, it has sold 8,000 copies.
Greg is still actively interested in founding and growing recruitment businesses, investing in recruitment start-ups in Australia and the UK.
Speaker Session
Top Billers Corner - 10:30 am - 11:00 am
Six Actions Great Recruiters Are Taking Right Now
Greg Savage presents six crucial actions he sees great recruiters focusing on right now. With the benefit of 40 years’ experience and exposure to many big billers via his 15 recruitment board appointments, and his international consulting and speaking, Greg has distilled it down to 30 minutes of crucial tactics and attitudes you want to thrive in the fast-changing recruitment world.
Included in the session is a short demo of AI-driven tech and Greg's thoughts on how AI will affect your career. A taste of the content includes the right attitude and mindset, the secret power of a focus on quality activity, the crucial need to hone influencing skills, run towards tech, not away, actively developing sales ethos and getting closer to candidates than ever before.
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