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Online Premiere: The Recruiter AI can't Replace | 3 December 2026

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Online Premiere: The Recruiter AI can't Replace | 3 December 2026
Greg Savage, Andrew Banks, Charles Cameron

The recruiter
AI can't replace.

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An honest industry conversation for recruitment agency leaders on what AI has really changed, and where recruiters earn their fee now.

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Thursday 3 December · 11am AEDT · Exclusive online premiere

Agencies are squeezed
from every side.
Now AI has joined in.

The squeeze
Their own talent teams
Clients hiring in-house
Fees under pressure
Margins getting thinner
Every CV looks like a 10
AI floods every role
LinkedIn and job boards
Clients sourcing direct
The hard part has moved
A client's real culture
Reading what is never in the brief.
The candidate who fits
Wrong on paper, right for the team.

Clients have LinkedIn, job boards and their own talent teams.

Fees are under pressure.

AI is flooding every role with applications that all look the same,

While agencies rush to automate whatever they can.

When every CV looks like a 10, the hard part of recruitment hasn't gone away.

It has moved.

Reading a client's real culture.

Spotting the candidate who looks wrong on paper and is right for the team.

That's the work AI can't do, and it's where the best recruiters still earn their fee.

Between them, Greg and Andrew have built some of Australia's best-known recruitment businesses and worked through every shift the industry has seen since the 1980s.

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The conversation

Five parts.
From the pressure to the plan.

Exclusive online premiere An honest industry conversation
01

The state of play

What agency leaders should be looking at right now, and what's left that only an agency can do when clients have LinkedIn and their own in-house teams.

02

What AI has actually done

Whether agencies are automating the right things, what's at risk for owners who get it wrong, and how anyone tells who's right for the job when every CV looks like a 10.

03

What's being lost

What the best recruiters did in the Morgan & Banks days that you see less of now, and whether AI screening is throwing out the candidate who looks wrong but is right.

04

The shift, and how

How a recruiter finds out what a client's culture really is, what to do with the time automation frees up, and how fee models need to change.

05

Why it matters

Why recruiters still matter, to their clients and to society, and what Greg and Andrew would tell agency leaders to do next.

Greg Savage and Andrew Banks,
with Charles Cameron.

Greg Savage

In conversation

Greg Savage

Founder of Recruitment Solutions, people2people and Firebrand Talent Search

Greg has been a recruiter since 1980. Today he sits on the boards of recruitment and HR tech businesses in several countries, and writes The Savage Truth, one of the most-read blogs in the industry. His books, The Savage Truth and Recruit. The Savage Way, are written for agency recruiters.

Bringing the agency leader's read on what AI has changed, and what to do about business models, hiring, skills and tech.

Andrew Banks

In conversation

Andrew Banks

Co-founder of Morgan & Banks and Talent2

Andrew built two of Australia's largest HR and talent businesses, with combined annual revenues of more than A$1 billion. Today he mentors and invests, and many Australians know him from Shark Tank Australia.

Bringing why recruiters still matter, and how a recruiter who understands a client's culture and team becomes an advisor rather than a supplier.

Charles Cameron

Facilitator

Charles Cameron

CEO, RCSA

Charles has led the Recruitment, Consulting and Staffing Association Australia & New Zealand (RCSA) as Chief Executive since 2016, and is Vice President of the World Employment Confederation. He brings more than 20 years in the workforce solutions industry, and the voice of the audience, to the conversation.

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from the industry's leading voices.

Watch the premiere

The conversation premieres exclusively online on Thursday 3 December at 11am AEDT.

Hear it straight

Greg and Andrew on their own experience, with Charles bringing the industry view and the audience's voice.

Made for agency leaders

For owners, directors and senior leaders in agency and outsourced recruitment, RPO included, across Australia and New Zealand.

Greg Savage x Andrew Banks

The recruiter
AI can't replace.

A conversation with Greg Savage and Andrew Banks, facilitated by Charles Cameron, CEO of the RCSA.

Exclusive online premiere

Thursday 3 December

11am AEDT

Facilitator Charles Cameron, CEO, RCSA
For Agency and RPO leaders across Australia and New Zealand
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Is the conversation live?

Greg, Andrew and Charles record the conversation together in Sydney on Tuesday 17 November. It premieres exclusively online on Thursday 3 December at 11am AEDT.

Who is it for?

Owners, directors and senior leaders in agency and outsourced recruitment, RPO included, across Australia and New Zealand.

Who is hosting the session?

Compono is producing and hosting the session, and registration runs through compono.com. Charles Cameron, CEO of the RCSA, facilitates the conversation.

The Recruiter AI Can't Replace. Produced and hosted by Compono.

 

 
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