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Next Recruit

Next Recruit is a specialist headhunting and recruitment agency dedicated to connecting organizations with high performing talent that delivers measurable impact. Operating as a boutique partner in Australia, the firm focuses on proactive search methods rather than relying solely on active applicants, enabling clients to reach top performers who are not currently on the market. Their approach blends rigorous market mapping, targeted outreach, and structured evaluation to identify candidates with the right blend of competencies, values, and leadership capabilities. Next Recruit delivers executive search for critical leadership roles, permanent recruitment across key business functions, and flexible contracting solutions when organizations need specialized skills on demand. Every engagement begins with thorough discovery to clarify role outcomes, success metrics, and cultural context, followed by transparent progress reporting and data informed recommendations on talent availability, compensation, and hiring timelines. The team emphasizes ethical practices, confidentiality, and a respectful candidate experience, ensuring that both clients and candidates are supported throughout search, selection, offer management, and onboarding. With a commitment to precision and accountability, Next Recruit tailors each assignment to the objectives of the hiring organization, from succession critical leadership placements to urgent specialist hires that drive initiatives forward. Clients value the firms ability to surface passive talent, reduce time to hire, and improve quality of hire through calibrated shortlists and evidence based assessments. As a nimble partner, Next Recruit scales resources to meet demand while maintaining the high touch service, clear communication, and integrity that underpin lasting relationships. Guided by the principle of connecting talent with opportunity, the firm provides a focused, methodical, and outcomes driven recruitment experience designed to help organizations secure the people who will move their business ahead.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentContract StaffingAll industriesGeneralist - white collar professionalsSenior Executives

HQMelbourne, Australia

Liana Taylor

Liana Taylor is the Mindful Luminary behind the Mindfulness Centre, a boutique psychology and leadership development practice based in Adelaide that partners with high performing leaders, entrepreneurs, and creative professionals to cultivate clarity, wisdom, and joy. For over two decades she has worked at the intersection of Western psychology, mindfulness, and embodied enlightenment, founding the Australian Institute of Applied Mindfulness and pioneering practical frameworks that translate inner awareness into outward impact. As a Clinical Psychologist and Executive Advisor, Liana synthesizes positive psychology, neuroscience, leadership theory, NLP, functional medicine, and contemplative traditions, even drawing on Argentine tango and music as living metaphors for presence, attunement, and influence. The Mindfulness Centre delivers intensive, bespoke programs for a small number of clients who seek meaningful transformation, from one to one advisory and private group immersions to curated retreats in extraordinary locations such as Uluru, the Great Barrier Reef, and Tasmanian rainforests. Signature offerings include The Resonant Leader, The Leadership Threshold, Relational Wisdom, The Art of Influence, and the Vision and Impact Masterclass, a nine month integration journey that turns insight into instinct and anchors lasting change. Bespoke experiences such as the Mindfulness Adventure Day, Epic Blueprint strategy sessions, and Deep Immersion Retreats help seasoned founders and executives resolve complex challenges, expand creative range, and build legacies without burnout. Clients include innovators, social entrepreneurs, humanitarians, and ethical business leaders who want to show up with emotional courage, relational wisdom, and embodied presence in the moments that matter. Emphasizing integration over inspiration, the work blends rigorous psychology with somatic practice and health optimization to sustain high performance and deep wellbeing. Through a trusted, confidential partnership, Liana helps accomplished people reconnect with purpose, elevate influence, and design the next chapter of an inspired, joyful life while creating outsized positive impact in their organizations and communities.

SOW/ProjectsTotal Talent MgmtExec Search & Interim MgmtManagement ConsultingLegalAccounting (Audit, Tax)PhysiciansPharmaceuticalsBiotechnology

HQWayville, Australia

Wise Recruitment and Consulting

Wise Recruitment and Consulting is an Australian staffing partner that connects employers with job ready talent across both white collar and blue collar roles. Established in 2025, the firm delivers flexible labour hire for peak periods, fast turnaround temporary and contract staffing, and targeted permanent and executive appointments. Clients engage Wise for end to end hiring support that spans sourcing, screening, onboarding, and ongoing workforce management, with a focus on compliance, safety, and quality. The business supports nationwide needs with dedicated coverage across logistics and warehousing, food manufacturing and processing, retail operations, healthcare environments, events, administration, finance, and IT. For employers, Wise provides scalable teams on short notice, fills casual and shift based requirements, and builds pipelines for critical skills, while also running confidential executive search for senior leadership and hard to find specialists. For candidates, the team offers clear communication, quick access to suitable roles, and guidance through onboarding and placement. Services include labour hire and temp resourcing, contract and project based staffing, permanent recruitment, executive search, payroll and contractor management, and talent acquisition consulting to improve in house hiring processes. Backed by experienced recruiters who blend smart technology with relationship driven delivery, Wise focuses on accuracy of match, speed without compromising standards, and long term fit. Their industry specialised approach enables them to staff roles ranging from pick packers, drivers, and general laborers to nurses, finance professionals, software developers, engineers, HR practitioners, and department heads. With transparent workflows, compliant documentation, and a candidate pool curated for reliability and readiness, Wise Recruitment and Consulting helps growing businesses reduce hiring friction, control workforce costs, and secure talent that performs from day one.

Permanent RecruitmentTemporary StaffingExec Search & Interim MgmtSupply Chain ManagementFreight ForwardingAirlines & AviationChemical ManufacturingElectrical EngineeringIndustrial Automation

HQMelbourne, Australia

Nursing Australia

Nursing Australia is a national healthcare staffing agency connecting nurses and care professionals with opportunities across Australia while helping hospitals, aged care facilities, community services, and disability providers address critical workforce needs. With more than 45 years of experience and offices in Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Perth, and Melbourne, the agency combines deep clinical understanding with recruitment expertise to deliver fast, reliable staffing across acute, subacute, and community settings. Formerly known as Programmed Health Professionals, Nursing Australia supplies registered and enrolled nurses, midwives, assistants in nursing and personal care assistants, technicians, and support workers for roles ranging from single shifts to longer assignments. Its hospital capability spans specialties including ICU, mental health, theatre, and paediatrics, and extends into aged care and disability support, ensuring continuity of care and patient safety. As an approved provider to most State and Territory Health Departments and many major public and private healthcare organisations, Nursing Australia operates with robust quality systems, comprehensive compliance and credentialing, and an allocations team that understands local service demands. For candidates, the agency offers flexible, rewarding work with dedicated onboarding, ongoing check ins, and practical assistance when challenges arise, including interstate relocation support designed to minimise gaps between assignments. A mobile app powered by Entire OnHire streamlines shift notifications, availability, timesheets, and pay, while curated CPD resources encourage continuous professional development. For clients, Nursing Australia provides scalable temporary and contract workforce solutions that meet surge demand, cover unplanned absences, and support planned projects, with a focus on speed, consistency, and respectful collaboration. Guided by values of honesty, integrity, and compassion, the team builds long term relationships and delivers dependable outcomes that help clinicians thrive and healthcare services maintain safe, high quality care.

Temporary StaffingContract StaffingPermanent RecruitmentHospital & Health Care (Nursing)Mental Health CareHealthcare AdministrationHealthcare & Life SciencesGeneralist - white collar professionals

HQMelbourne, Australia

GH Talent

GH Talent is a people centric recruitment agency based in Melbourne, Australia, dedicated to connecting exceptional HR professionals with workplaces that truly value them. Founded and led by director Tiarne McDonald, the firm brings more than fifteen years of HR recruitment experience and a deeply nurtured network across the HR community. Small by design, GH Talent ensures every search receives focused care, clear communication, and genuine partnership, taking time to understand what great looks like in HR functions and leadership. The team specializes in hiring across the HR spectrum, from business partners and talent acquisition specialists to senior HR leaders, and prioritizes alignment on values, culture, and purpose to create enduring matches. GH Talent delivers permanent recruitment, executive search for senior and critical HR appointments, and contract staffing solutions for project driven needs or urgent gaps, always through a human first approach that centers meaningful conversations and long term relationships. Acting as coach, advisor, and confidant to both clients and candidates, the firm looks beyond resumes to uncover motivations, growth drivers, and the conditions where people thrive. Its process combines attentive discovery, market insight, proactive sourcing, and rigorous assessment, with reference and suitability checks conducted transparently and with consent. Known for kindness, authenticity, and practical results, GH Talent partners with organizations of all sizes and sectors that see HR as a strategic lever for performance and culture. Candidates experience thoughtful guidance and honest feedback, while clients gain access to a high quality HR talent network, curated shortlists, and a recruitment experience that is efficient, respectful, and aligned to business goals. Grounded in Australian privacy standards and a commitment to positive experiences for every interaction, GH Talent helps good humans and great teams find each other so both can flourish.

Permanent RecruitmentContract StaffingExec Search & Interim MgmtAll industriesManagement ConsultingLegalTechnical WritingProject ManagementHuman Resources

HQMelbourne, Australia

Careerkind

Careerkind is a Melbourne based, Australia wide talent advisory that makes recruitment and career development more human for small to mid sized businesses and mid career professionals. The firm partners with organisations as an embedded, flexible extension of their team or on a project basis to design and deliver end to end hiring, from talent strategy and sourcing for hard to fill roles through to offers and background checks. For busy or overstretched HR teams, Careerkind provides on demand recruitment support, implements practical tools and technology to streamline processes, and runs hiring training and workshops that lift interviewer capability, improve inclusivity, reduce risk, and enhance candidate experience. When change impacts people, the team also delivers tailored, human centric outplacement support. For individuals navigating a next step, Careerkind combines recruitment know how with coaching to clarify goals, map viable pathways, and build confidence, offering 1:1 career coaching and a jobseeker toolkit that refines professional branding, optimises CVs, refreshes LinkedIn profiles, and strengthens interview and job search strategy. Founded by Natalie Colton, whose background spans talent acquisition and leadership hiring across large organisations such as RMIT University, Telstra, and the Department of Justice, as well as startup and scaleup environments in fractional Head of Talent roles, Careerkind blends empathy with rigor to deliver transparent, structured processes and clear communication. Engagements range from a single critical hire to ongoing recruitment partnership, always tailored to values, culture, and business goals. Clients value measurable outcomes like faster time to hire, stronger quality of hire, consistent and inclusive assessments, and lower overall cost of recruitment, alongside the intangible wins of clarity, calm, and a better experience for every candidate. Above all, Careerkind brings clarity, care, and kindness to every interaction so teams can grow sustainably and people can build work that fits real life.

Permanent RecruitmentRPOSOW/ProjectsAll industriesManagement ConsultingLegalTechnical WritingProject ManagementHuman Resources

HQMelbourne, Australia

GCC - Global Corporate Challenge

Global Corporate Challenge, widely known as GCC, is a corporate wellbeing initiative that joined Virgin Pulse in 2016, becoming the Virgin Pulse Global Challenge and expanding its reach as part of Sir Richard Bransons Virgin Group. Now delivered within the broader Virgin Pulse platform, the program helps organizations elevate employee engagement, health, and performance through a technology driven experience that combines behavior change science, gamification, and social connection. Employees participate in team based challenges that encourage daily movement, healthy habits, mindfulness, sleep improvement, and resilience, with progress tracked via connected devices and mobile apps that make participation simple and inclusive for a diverse workforce. For employers, the Global Challenge provides a turnkey engagement engine supported by communications toolkits, executive sponsorship playbooks, and intuitive dashboards that track registration, participation, and outcomes to demonstrate measurable impact. The solution integrates with existing HR, benefits, and wellbeing ecosystems, aligns with culture, safety, and productivity objectives, and scales across geographies and languages to support hybrid and distributed teams. Backed by Virgin Pulses global client success resources and enterprise grade security, the Global Challenge offers a reliable, repeatable program cadence that energizes culture, builds community, and reinforces long term healthy routines rather than one off events. Organizations across industries use it as a flagship seasonal activation within a year round wellbeing strategy, leveraging its data insights to refine programs, recognize champions, and sustain momentum over time. As part of the leading provider of employee engagement and wellbeing technology, GCC continues to deliver a compelling, science based experience that helps companies foster healthier, more connected, and higher performing teams at scale.

Total Talent MgmtSOW/ProjectsMSPAll industriesManagement ConsultingLegalData ScienceIT InfrastructureTelecommunications

HQSouth Melbourne, Australia

Foley Durham

Foley Durham is a privately owned, independent executive search and board advisory firm based in Melbourne and serving clients across Australasia. The firm is known for optimizing the composition of C suite executive teams, boards and organizations, acting as a trusted advisor to CEOs and Boards across ASX listed companies, private equity backed businesses and SMEs. Foley Durham partners closely with a select number of clients to deliver succession planning, senior talent acquisition, retention strategies, leadership and executive coaching, and tailored advisory around board and executive team design. Their consultants run bespoke, insight led search and attraction campaigns that reflect each client’s markets, customers, operations, strategy and values, ensuring shortlists are tightly aligned to role requirements and cultural fit. The team has a deep track record appointing Board members, CEOs and C suite leaders such as CFOs, CIOs, CMOs, COOs, CHROs, General Counsel and critical functional heads including finance, operations, commercial, human resources, enterprise architecture and business development. Foley Durham maintains strong relationships with Australia’s private equity, corporate advisory and equity capital markets communities to support board and C suite appointments through periods of growth, transformation, M&A and capital events. Sector experience spans health and aged care, energy and utilities and transportation, among others, with notable work for organizations in airlines and public transit, regulated infrastructure, and technology enabled services. With a philosophy centered on discretion, candor and long term relationships, Foley Durham provides senior search execution, board appointment advisory and talent sourcing strategy, combining rigorous assessment with market connectivity to identify leaders who can accelerate performance and governance outcomes. The firm’s approach is personalized, innovative and results focused, delivering senior appointments that are aligned to client strategy and built to endure.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentSOW/ProjectsHospital & Health Care (Nursing)PhysiciansPharmaceuticalsUtilitiesSupply Chain ManagementFreight Forwarding

HQMelbourne, Australia

Frontline Education Melbourne

Frontline Education Melbourne is a specialist division of Frontline Recruitment Group dedicated to connecting schools across Melbourne and greater Victoria with outstanding teachers and education leaders. Drawing on deep networks across Australias Eastern Seaboard and a substantial national candidate database, the team partners with independent, faith based, and state schools in both metro and regional communities to solve hiring needs quickly and accurately. Their consultants focus on hard to fill and high impact roles across primary and secondary classrooms, early childhood, student and learning support, and key leadership appointments such as heads of department and school executive positions. Frontline Education Melbourne delivers permanent recruitment and fixed term contract solutions, including maternity leave and other short to medium duration assignments, giving schools the flexibility to maintain continuity of learning while securing long term talent. The team provides market insights and hiring guidance informed by active job flow across Melbourne and by Frontlines broader resources hub, helping clients refine selection criteria, benchmark compensation, and plan ahead for peak demand terms. Candidates benefit from a responsive, consultative experience that aligns skills and values with the right school culture, with clear communication on role expectations, timelines, and next steps. Clients value a partnership approach that emphasizes speed without compromising quality, shortlists that reflect true classroom readiness and leadership impact, and a transparent process designed to reduce administrative effort for busy school teams. Whether the requirement is a classroom teacher for Term 2, a specialist in STEM or English, or a senior leader to shape whole school outcomes, Frontline Education Melbourne brings focused sector knowledge, proven processes, and a people first mindset to every brief so schools can find the right person, and educators can find the right place to thrive.

Permanent RecruitmentContract StaffingTemporary StaffingGovernment AdministrationLaw EnforcementMilitary & DefenseEducation AdministrationGeneralist - white collar professionalsSenior Executives

HQMelbourne, Australia

ESE Recruitment

Founded in 2002, ESE Recruitment is a boutique Australian recruitment agency headquartered in Ivanhoe, Victoria, that partners with employers and jobseekers across Australia and New Zealand. The firm positions itself as professionals recruiting professionals and is known for simplifying and humanising recruitment through tailored, high touch delivery. ESE Recruitment provides end to end recruitment solutions spanning permanent recruitment, executive search, and temporary and contract staffing, supported by robust HR and payroll capabilities including contractor payrolling, timesheet administration, compliance reporting, and cross border hiring for interstate and New Zealand needs. Clients benefit from consultants who bring real domain backgrounds in science, sales, human resources, construction, and engineering, enabling deeper role understanding and credible engagement with hiring managers and candidates. Beyond core sourcing and selection, the team offers value added services such as salary benchmarking, structured reference checking, psychometric appraisals, interview training, and post placement follow up to ensure retention and performance. ESE Recruitment serves a broad mix of industries with particular traction in construction and engineering as well as professional services functions, and is trusted for supplying both office based professionals and field based casual staff on short and long term assignments. For jobseekers, the agency provides a responsive experience with an active job board, resume upload to a curated talent bank, and career support designed to improve search efficiency and outcomes. The firm embraces diversity, equity and inclusion and promotes a safe, respectful environment where every individual has equal opportunity to succeed. With strong systems, an extensive network, and a values led ethos of integrity, professionalism, and getting the job done with little fuss, ESE Recruitment delivers dependable results and long term relationships for clients and candidates alike.

Permanent RecruitmentTemporary StaffingExec Search & Interim MgmtManagement ConsultingLegalAccounting (Audit, Tax)Chemical ManufacturingElectrical EngineeringIndustrial Automation

HQSouthbank, Australia

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