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Carruthers Executive

Carruthers Executive is a Melbourne based executive search and leadership advisory firm that connects organisations with best fit top talent across Australia. The business focuses on executive search and complementary executive coaching, combining deep role expertise with rigorous assessment to ensure both organisational and cultural alignment. Drawing on SHL, Hogan, Birkman and RMP insights, its directors act as trusted ambassadors in the market, representing clients with integrity and discretion while building diverse shortlists that elevate capability and performance. Founder and CEO Stuart Carruthers brings the discipline and high performance mindset of an Olympic medal winner together with senior corporate leadership experience to shape a coaching framework that strengthens self awareness, accelerates onboarding, and sustains results, including ongoing candidate placement coaching post hire. The firm specializes in senior appointments across Sales, Marketing, HR, Finance, Strategy and the C suite, and leverages a curated network to provide swift access to proven leaders. Sector expertise spans consumer goods and FMCG, retail and hardware, liquor and hospitality, automotive and adjacent industries, light industrial, and sport, where the team has placed executives with responsibility for growth, transformation and operational excellence. Whether building out a commercial leadership bench, appointing a CFO, or securing a transformational CEO, Carruthers Executive delivers a tailored, high touch process from brief to successful placement. Clients value the firm for straight talk, market intelligence, and commitment to finish, underpinned by values of performance, trust, integrity, knowledge and diversity. By pairing search with practical coaching and measurement, Carruthers Executive helps clients de risk critical hires, accelerate time to impact, and retain leaders who can deliver enduring results.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentTotal Talent MgmtFashion & ApparelFood & BeverageConsumer ElectronicsIndustrial AutomationGamingPerforming Arts (Music, Theatre)

HQMelbourne, Australia

Axon recruitment

Axon Recruitment is an Australian staffing and recruiting firm based in Richmond, VIC, focused on connecting top talent with the right opportunities across technical, healthcare, and commercial functions. The firm supports employers with permanent recruitment, scalable contract staffing, and targeted search for senior specialists, drawing on industry-specific insight to deliver shortlists that balance hard skills, culture fit, and long-term impact. Its expertise spans engineering disciplines such as structural, civil, mechanical, fire, and facade, alongside building services and infrastructure, as well as health services and pharmaceuticals and clinical research. Axon Recruitment also works across sales, business development, retail, and marketing roles, giving clients access to talent that can drive market expansion and brand growth. For candidates, Axon provides tailored career consulting that includes resume optimization, interview coaching, and strategic career planning, helping professionals stand out and secure roles aligned to their goals. The firm publishes a salary guide to keep clients and candidates informed on market trends and compensation benchmarks, and it offers a straightforward process for submitting positions and CVs to accelerate hiring outcomes. Typical assignments range from early career to near senior and associate level appointments, enabling businesses to hire specialists for project delivery and growth, and enabling professionals to progress into roles where they can take ownership and contribute measurable value. With a responsive, consultative approach and a commitment to clear communication, Axon Recruitment aims to reduce time to hire, improve candidate fit, and provide flexible workforce options that scale with business needs.

Permanent RecruitmentContract StaffingExec Search & Interim MgmtAutomotiveAerospaceDefenseMedical DevicesHealthcare AdministrationMental Health Care

HQMelbourne, Australia

Cirql

Cirql is a people solutions and recruitment partner that builds smarter teams by aligning talent, technology, and strategy. Founded by recruitment specialists and industry leaders, the firm blends hands-on market knowledge with a customer-first mindset to solve real business challenges. Cirql specializes in finance, technology, transformation, and executive appointments, and also supports HR and marketing functions. Its model prioritizes depth of relationship over speed alone, maintaining an engaged network of specialists so hiring does not start from scratch; this enables delivery of top candidates in as little as 5 to 10 days. Beyond hiring, Cirql provides project and change advisory for organizations navigating transactions, growth, turnaround, systems modernization, and regulation. The team helps define scopes, design organizational structures, map integration and 100 day plans, manage budgets and resourcing, and orchestrate onboarding to turn disruption into progress. Its approach to talent covers strategic workforce planning and salary guidance grounded in real time market insight, role design and process ownership that attracts the right mindset as well as skills, and facilitated interviews that remove friction while keeping stakeholders informed. Cirql Search serves confidential, senior, executive, and specialized mandates that require discretion and deep insight. The firm partners with businesses that value expertise and long term outcomes, from private equity backed engineering and manufacturing groups to retail and distribution companies and technology firms with global ambitions. Treating clients and candidates as customers equally, Cirql focuses on meaningful, lasting impact, investing in quality training for its consultants and operating as an extension of each customers network. The result is a transparent, high engagement process that balances speed with fit, helping organizations evolve, scale, and future proof their teams with confidence.

Permanent RecruitmentExec Search & Interim MgmtSOW/ProjectsSoftware DevelopmentCybersecurityData ScienceChemical ManufacturingElectrical EngineeringIndustrial Automation

HQMelbourne, Australia

Platinum Staffing

Platinum Staffing is an Australian staffing specialist focused on hospitality, events, exhibitions, and promotional activations, trusted by leading venues and organizers since 2014. Headquartered in Melbourne with teams in Sydney and Brisbane, the company delivers end to end labour hire solutions that cover high volume temporary rosters, temp to perm pathways, and targeted permanent recruitment. Clients rely on Platinum Staffing for meticulously presented front of house and event personnel, including waitstaff, bar and beverage teams, supervisors, concierge and VIP hosts, brand ambassadors, registration and crowd teams, as well as behind the scenes event crew, site labourers, and licensed forklift drivers to support bump in, operations, and logistics. Known for a family owned, people first culture, Platinum Staffing invests heavily in training, onboarding, and presentation standards so each team member represents the client brand with confidence and consistency. A strong compliance framework underpins delivery, including labour hire licensing where required, right to work checks, workplace safety, and accurate payroll, supported by digital scheduling, timesheets, and transparent reporting. The agency curates the right team rather than simply filling shifts, combining a deep casual talent network with proactive account management and 24x7 responsiveness to meet demand spikes across race days, festivals, conferences, retail pop ups, and large venue service. Their track record spans premium experiences such as the Melbourne Cup Carnival, major arena and convention centre programs, and marquee events like the Formula 1 Australian Grand Prix, alongside brand activations and retail campaigns. For employers, Platinum Staffing offers flexible resourcing to scale operations, improve service quality, and control costs, plus permanent search for venue management, operations, and head office roles. For candidates, it provides varied assignments, fair pay, supportive coaching, and clear progression. The result is a reliable, polished, and agile workforce that elevates guest experiences and helps businesses perform at their best.

Temporary StaffingPermanent RecruitmentPayrolling/EORHotel ManagementCulinary ArtsTravel & Tourism OperationsBroadcastingPublishingOnline Media

HQMelbourne, Australia

Max Executive

Max Executive is an Australian executive search and HR consultancy founded in 2014 that delivers people solutions with tangible outcomes for clients and candidates. Drawing on more than two decades of recruiting experience, the firm focuses on mid to senior level and C suite appointments and applies a research led, network driven approach that emphasizes targeted market mapping over advertising. Its consultants conduct structured, behavior based and targeted selection interviews, producing comprehensive shortlists that include market intelligence on backgrounds, compensation indications, location, motivation, and interest levels to support better hiring decisions. Max Executive has developed deep specialisation across FMCG and consumer goods, sport and entertainment, multi site retail and franchising, and leisure and hospitality, frequently appointing CEOs, COOs, general managers, sales and marketing leaders, customer and category managers, insights and analytics specialists, and human resources professionals. Within FMCG, the team understands the impact of channels to market and sources talent with experience across grocery, liquor, foodservice, mass merchants, route and convenience, pharmacy and OTC, hardware, medical, industrial B2B, and emerging retail formats. Beyond search, the firm supports leadership effectiveness and retention through executive coaching and leadership development delivered with qualified partners, and can unbundle components of its service to align with client planning and budgets. Built on humility, trust, and long standing relationships in a tight knit professional community, including strong roots in the Melbourne market, Max Executive operates as an extension of each clients brand to position them as an employer of choice while guiding individuals toward roles where they can thrive. Its philosophy, Maximising Possibilities, reflects a commitment to transparent communication, resilience, and service that positively impacts business performance and careers, ensuring every engagement adds measurable value.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentSOW/ProjectsFashion & ApparelFood & BeverageConsumer ElectronicsPerforming Arts (Music, Theatre)Visual ArtsMuseums & Galleries

HQAdelaide, Australia

Kite Recruitment Group

Kite Recruitment Group is a Melbourne based recruitment specialist established in 2023 that partners with businesses across Australia to deliver talent solutions for manufacturing, supply chain, fast moving consumer goods, transport and logistics, and skilled trades. As a boutique team, Kite focuses on practical, fast, and quality delivery across permanent, contract, and temporary hiring, combining sector knowledge with hands on search to connect production, maintenance, operations, warehousing, planning, procurement, and transport professionals with employers from growing SMEs to national enterprises. The firm maps local talent markets, proactively networks across shop floors and distribution centers, and maintains curated candidate communities spanning trades, technicians, supervisors, schedulers, planners, coordinators, and frontline and middle management. Clients engage Kite to fill single niche roles or build entire teams during periods of expansion, new site launches, seasonal demand peaks, and transformation programs, confident in a process that balances speed with rigor through targeted sourcing, competency based screening, and transparent communication. Candidates value the straightforward guidance, market insight, and feedback that help them navigate opportunities safely and confidentially, whether they are seeking stable permanent careers or flexible contract assignments. With Melbourne roots and Australia wide reach, Kite understands the demands of safety, compliance, shift environments, and time critical service levels that define industrial and logistics operations, and tailors shortlists and onboarding timelines accordingly. By aligning hiring plans with production schedules and logistics cycles, Kite enables clients to reduce downtime, improve fill rates, and strengthen retention. The group brings a collaborative, results oriented approach grounded in responsiveness and accountability, aiming to become a long term partner of choice for employers and professionals in manufacturing, FMCG, and transport and logistics.

Permanent RecruitmentContract StaffingTemporary StaffingAutomotiveAerospaceDefenseSupply Chain ManagementFreight ForwardingAirlines & Aviation

HQMelbourne, Australia

LeaderFit - Executive Search and Coaching

LeaderFit is a boutique Australian executive search and coaching firm founded in 2011 by Anthony Youds to help organizations identify, attract, onboard, and develop effective leaders. Built on a value over volume philosophy, the firm undertakes a select number of retained mandates and applies rigorous, research based talent mapping to uncover high caliber, often passive candidates who align with each client’s strategy, culture, and future potential. LeaderFit combines the discipline of executive search with deep leadership coaching expertise through its integrated offering, LeaderFit Synergy, which extends support beyond hire to onboarding and development so new executives reach full productivity sooner and contribute more sustainably. Its coaching approach draws on practical business experience and proven methodologies to build clarity of thinking, balanced people and commercial judgment, and decisive action, supporting executives through transitions, performance lifts, and career development. LeaderFit partners directly with boards, CEOs, and HR leaders to fill pivotal roles such as CFO, Sales Director, and other senior appointments, and to strengthen leadership teams through targeted coaching that reinforces culture and accelerates results. While the firm has notable experience with consumer goods and technology companies, it operates across a wide variety of industries in Australia, bringing firsthand corporate and consulting insight to every engagement. Clients value LeaderFit’s confidential, precise, and ethical process, its ability to position opportunities compellingly to top talent, and its commitment to long term success for both the employer and the candidate. With a small, experienced team and a hands on principal, LeaderFit delivers tailored search and coaching programs that reduce hiring risk, improve time to impact, and build stronger, more resilient leadership benches for future growth.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentSOW/ProjectsFashion & ApparelFood & BeverageConsumer ElectronicsIT InfrastructureTelecommunicationsCloud Computing

HQAdelaide, Australia

BeautyConnections Australia

BeautyConnections Australia is a boutique recruitment and talent advisory firm dedicated to the beauty and personal care sector across Australia, with a presence in Melbourne and Sydney. Founded in 2016 and led by managing director Erica Oroszlany, a senior beauty marketing executive with more than 25 years of global experience, the firm leverages deep industry knowledge, an insider network, and a practical understanding of category dynamics to connect brands, manufacturers, and distributors with high caliber professionals. BeautyConnections focuses on head office roles such as brand and consumer marketing, product development, digital, field sales, and related commercial functions, and partners with clients ranging from emerging labels to established multinationals. The team offers permanent recruitment and executive search solutions complemented by on boarding support and industry first orientation that helps new hires navigate the first months in role, accelerating time to productivity and improving retention. Employers value the flat fee structure, transparent process, and thoughtfully curated shortlists; testimonials consistently cite the quality of candidates, speed, and a collaborative approach that feels like an extension of the in house team. For job seekers already in beauty, BeautyConnections provides confidential career guidance and market insight, while those considering a move into the industry benefit from clear explanations of role types, expectations, and pathways. The firm places across Australia and draws on experience spanning ANZ, Asia Pacific, the Americas, and Europe to inform search strategies and talent evaluation. With a commitment to long term relationships and service excellence, BeautyConnections Australia helps companies secure, retain, and develop executive and professional talent that drives brand growth.

Permanent RecruitmentExec Search & Interim MgmtContract StaffingFashion & ApparelFood & BeverageConsumer ElectronicsConsumer Goods ManufacturingIndustrial MachineryChemical Manufacturing

HQMelbourne, Australia

ProQuest Recruitment

ProQuest Recruitment is an Australian privately owned recruitment and labour hire firm that delivers agile workforce solutions across logistics, warehousing, manufacturing and production. With operations spanning Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland and Western Australia, the company places more than 5,000 people each year into short to medium term assignments and temp to perm pathways, supporting national distribution centers and leading consumer brands. ProQuest provides a full spectrum of services including temporary, contract and permanent recruitment, backed by ISO 9001 2015 quality certification and ISO 45001 2018 occupational health and safety accreditation. Its methodology is built on taking the time to understand each clients operational environment and job requirements, engaging candidates through targeted marketing, rigorous vetting and candidate care programs, and maintaining alignment between hiring managers and placed talent through consistent feedback and follow up. The firm is highly active in high volume and shift based environments, supplying roles such as high reach forklift operators, pick packers, storepersons, dockhands, drivers and warehouse supervisors, while also supporting white collar needs in administration, customer service, planning, procurement and site operations. ProQuest emphasizes safety leadership and compliance, reflected in documented safety and quality policies and a strong focus on site inductions and adherence to client procedures. Clients value its reliable rosters, rapid response times and technology enabled processes, including electronic timekeeping and streamlined payrolling that reduce errors and administrative burden. Combining experienced consultants with quality assured systems, ProQuest aims to be a trusted partner that scales quickly for seasonal peaks, projects and backfill, and delivers consistent service whether sourcing a single specialist or mobilizing large teams across multiple locations. At its core, the business believes great people make great companies and works to match the right person to the right role for enduring results.

Permanent RecruitmentTemporary StaffingContract StaffingSupply Chain ManagementFreight ForwardingAirlines & AviationIndustrial MachineryChemical ManufacturingElectrical Engineering

HQMelbourne, Australia

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