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SJB:search

Founded by Simon Blowman, SJB:search is an Australia wide recruitment practice focused on transformation through talent, operating two complementary practices that serve clients across Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, Brisbane and Perth. The Business Transformation practice partners with ASX listed companies, SMEs, private equity portfolio businesses, consulting firms and public sector entities undergoing strategy shifts, mergers and acquisitions, divestments, finance and technology upgrades, and large scale programs of change. It places senior professionals across strategy, product management, program and project management, business analysis and change management, with coverage that spans supply chain, IT and finance. The Insurance and Legal practice supports general insurers, specialist insurance law firms, underwriting agencies, brokers, third party administrators and in house corporate teams, recruiting for underwriting, broking, claims, risk management and insurance legal roles from Associate to Special Counsel, as well as IT and systems professionals who keep insurers operationally resilient. Clients value a founder led model that provides direct access from first conversation to placement and beyond, candid market counsel on role fit and career moves, and a delivery approach that combines speed in communication and administration with rigor in understanding the business, assessing cultural and technical fit, and getting it right. SJB:search offers flexible solutions tailored to need, including permanent recruitment, fixed term contracts and day rate arrangements, and delivers searches across commerce and industry, consulting and financial services, with additional experience in education, healthcare and the broader public sector. With more than a decade of Australian recruitment experience and deep sector knowledge, SJB:search commits to confidential, consultative execution, strong shortlists and transparent process management that match senior professionals and leaders to critical roles that drive transformation, strengthen insurance operations and legal capability, and create measurable business impact nationwide.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentContract StaffingBankingInsuranceInvestment ManagementProject ManagementGovernment AdministrationLaw Enforcement

HQSydney, Australia

Blake Oliver Legal

Blake Oliver Legal is a specialist legal recruitment firm focused on connecting exceptional legal professionals with leading destinations across Australia and beyond. Led by recruiters with first hand legal industry knowledge, the business partners with Top tier, Mid tier and Boutique practices, taking time to understand each firm’s unique brief and culture so every short list is precise and relevant. Candidates benefit from informed, confidential guidance at every stage, from market mapping and CV preparation to interview coaching and offer negotiation, while clients gain access to deep networks built over years in the profession. Operating nationally across Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, Blake Oliver Legal delivers search and selection solutions for lawyers at all levels, including associates, senior associates, special counsel and partners, as well as key legal support and operations roles. The firm is committed to thought leadership and community engagement, sharing practical insights on topics such as legal salary trends, performance reviews, onboarding and career development through its blog and events. It also invests in early careers through its Talent Pathways program for law students, helping the next generation of lawyers navigate opportunities and build professional readiness. Known for a collegiate, high touch approach, Blake Oliver Legal emphasizes long term relationships and discretion, aligning candidate aspirations with client strategy to achieve durable, high quality placements. Whether a practice is scaling a new team or a lawyer is exploring a pivotal move, the firm applies rigorous search methodology, market intelligence and authentic communication to create outcomes that stand the test of time.

Permanent RecruitmentExec Search & Interim MgmtContract StaffingManagement ConsultingLegalAccounting (Audit, Tax)Project ManagementLegal & ComplianceSenior Executives

HQMelbourne, Australia

Team Executive Consultants

Team Executive Consultants is a full scale recruitment consultancy established in 1989 and based in South Yarra, Victoria, dedicated to matching exceptional people with exceptional businesses across permanent, temporary, and contract engagements. With over three decades of experience, the firm operates with a clear focus on detail, professionalism, honesty, and integrity, aligning candidate skills, attributes, and behavioral strengths with the culture and expectations of employers while keeping the long term goals of both parties in view. Their core practice areas span accounting and finance, engineering specialties such as civil, structural, electrical, and environmental, construction and property including commercial, industrial, and residential builders and developers as well as commercial agency and advisory, legal professionals and support staff, and sales and marketing roles. For clients, Team Executive Consultants provides tailored search, market insight, and efficient shortlisting supported by a robust network and salary guides, delivering candidates who fit quickly and effectively; for flexible workforces they manage compliant processes and timesheets that support smooth temporary and contract assignments. For candidates, the consultancy offers practical support through job search access, resume writing guidance, interview techniques coaching, and confidential advice aimed at lifting careers to the next level. Their nimble, relationship led approach has earned repeat business and recognition over many years, with testimonials citing strong communication, fast turnaround, and genuine care for candidates. Combining local market knowledge with a consultative methodology, Team Executive Consultants serves SMEs through to larger professional services and construction led organizations, partnering closely with hiring managers to secure talent across white collar and executive levels. The result is a dependable recruitment partner known for consistency, accountability, and results across Victoria and beyond.

Permanent RecruitmentTemporary StaffingContract StaffingManagement ConsultingLegalAccounting (Audit, Tax)AutomotiveAerospaceDefense

HQMelbourne, Australia

The Search Firm

The Search Firm is an Australian boutique recruitment practice known for its leadership in executive search and professional recruitment across multiple industry sectors. Founded in 2019, the firm operates from Sydney and Melbourne with a senior team that appoints talent from early career through to board and C suite. Their practice is organized around four markets referenced in their public materials and activity: legal, professional practice, commerce and industry, and not for profit and government. The team brings deep functional expertise spanning C suite leadership, law, accounting, marketing, sales, digital, procurement and supply chain, and people and culture, and delivers tailored solutions that include executive search, permanent recruitment, and contract appointments. Clients engage The Search Firm for rigorous market mapping, proactive headhunting, and thorough assessment designed to identify high impact leaders and specialist professionals for critical roles, while candidates value their transparent guidance, interview preparation, and discreet career advice. The firm partners with professional services firms and in house legal teams on complex legal and regulatory mandates, supports corporate functions across finance, HR, marketing, sales, digital and procurement, and works closely with government and not for profit organizations to secure leaders who can navigate public accountability and mission driven outcomes. Their consultants emphasize a collaborative, data informed approach, combining sector insight, structured search methodology, and a commitment to diversity and inclusion to widen pools and reduce bias. With an active jobs platform and thought leadership on the future of work and the role of AI in recruitment, The Search Firm provides current market intelligence and pragmatic hiring advice. Whether building an executive bench, scaling specialist teams, or securing interim leadership, they focus on long term relationships and measurable results, delivering shortlists that align capability, culture, and strategic objectives.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentContract StaffingManagement ConsultingLegalAccounting (Audit, Tax)Education AdministrationFundraisingSocial Services

HQMelbourne, Australia

Bastion Group

Founded in 2021, Bastion Group is an Australian recruitment consultancy that champions the power of human centered conversation to deliver stronger hiring outcomes. The firm partners with employers and job seekers across specialist and corporate disciplines, combining rigorous search practices with an authentic, rapport driven approach that uncovers real motivations, capability, and fit. Bastion Group supports permanent recruitment, executive mandates, and contract engagements for roles spanning technology, engineering, legal, construction, property, defence related functions, banking and financial services, healthcare administration, and broader corporate services. Employers can submit vacancies and engage the team for confidential search assignments, while candidates can explore live roles, set job alerts, and submit resumes for consideration. The team emphasizes discovery led briefings, clear expectation setting, and proactive market mapping to shorten time to shortlist without compromising quality. Consultants focus on translating business objectives into talent strategies, advising on workforce planning, interview structure, assessment, and offer design to secure long term value. For candidates, Bastion Group provides coaching on resumes and interviews, transparent feedback loops, and guidance on culture, growth pathways, and role expectations. Their operating philosophy is simple: better conversations lead to better decisions, higher retention, and more productive teams. With coverage across leadership, corporate, and technical profiles, the firm works with startups scaling their first functions through to established enterprises refining high performance teams. Throughout each engagement, Bastion Group prioritizes tailored communication, accountability, and measurable outcomes, aiming to become a trusted, repeat partner that understands the nuances of each client environment. By balancing data and due diligence with genuine, human interaction, Bastion Group connects the right people with the right opportunities and helps careers and businesses grow in the way they want to grow.

Permanent RecruitmentExec Search & Interim MgmtContract StaffingSoftware DevelopmentCybersecurityData ScienceTechnical WritingProject ManagementResidential Development

HQMelbourne, Australia

Jacinta Fish Legal

Jacinta Fish Legal is a specialist legal recruitment and search firm known for excellence in connecting law firms and corporate legal departments with high caliber talent across Australia and overseas. The team focuses on permanent appointments, interim legal solutions, and executive search, covering key profiles such as solicitors, in-house counsel, company secretarial professionals, and compliance and risk executives. They partner with leading local and global law firms and a broad range of corporate clients, including well known household brands, leveraging deep networks and market insight to open doors to rewarding opportunities. Founded in 2002, the firm has built a reputation for honesty, professionalism, and a friendly, consultative style, with clients and candidates frequently citing their ability to assess cultural fit and deliver a smooth, confidential process. Complementing their legal recruitment offering, Jacinta Fish Legal runs a dedicated director search practice that appoints board directors for ASX listed and privately held companies, with a particular commitment to improving board diversity. They actively support governance outcomes by expanding the pipeline of capable women directors and ensuring balanced shortlists that reflect a diverse range of skills and experiences. The firm shares practical guidance with both clients and candidates on interview preparation, hiring best practices, and market insights, and provides a job search and registration platform to ensure swift engagement. Their interim practice enables organizations to secure agile legal resourcing for projects, parental leave coverage, and peak workloads, while permanent search delivers enduring talent for specialist, mid senior, and executive roles such as General Counsel, Head of Legal, Company Secretary, and Chief Risk and Compliance. Jacinta Fish Legal prides itself on long term relationships, transparent communication, and consistent delivery, combining sector knowledge with rigorous assessment to achieve lasting placements that advance both business performance and individual careers.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentContract StaffingManagement ConsultingLegalAccounting (Audit, Tax)Project ManagementAll industriesLegal & Compliance

HQMelbourne, Australia

SMC Executive

SMC Executive is a boutique executive recruitment and advisory firm based in Melbourne, serving clients across the Australasian market with a strong presence in the Melbourne and Sydney corridors. Founded in 2009, the firm focuses on mid to senior management appointments and delivers a blend of executive search, permanent recruitment, and contract solutions tailored to financial services, professional services, and broader corporate sectors. Its consultants each bring at least fifteen years of executive recruitment experience and combine strong research capability, disciplined process, and an advanced recruitment database to consistently deliver shortlists that balance technical capability, cultural fit, and leadership potential. The team is known for long standing relationships, transparent communication, and practical advisory support that clients and candidates trust, underpinned by the core principles of Quality, Integrity, Partnership, and Delivery. SMC Executive manages careers and assignments across accounting and finance, banking and capital markets, risk and compliance, IT and operations, and sales and marketing, reflecting the firm’s deep understanding of the regulatory and operational demands common to the financial services landscape and corporate enterprises. Operating as a high touch specialist, the firm offers discreet executive search for critical leadership and specialist roles, permanent recruitment for key team hires, and interim or contract talent for transformation, remediation, and peak workload needs. Clients value the market knowledge the firm has built over many years and the access it provides to well qualified, referenceable talent networks, while candidates benefit from honest feedback, clear guidance through each stage of the process, and representation by consultants who know how to navigate complex corporate hiring environments. From first briefing to successful placement and beyond, SMC Executive aims to be a trusted partner that delivers consistently.

Exec Search & Interim MgmtPermanent RecruitmentContract StaffingBankingInsuranceInvestment ManagementHuman ResourcesTechnical WritingProject Management

HQMelbourne, Australia

Legal People

Legal People is a specialist legal recruitment firm headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, with a heritage dating back to 1973. Celebrating more than 50 years of operation, the business is widely recognised as a market leader and trusted legal recruitment advisor, built on a philosophy of personalised service and enduring relationships with clients and candidates. The firm focuses exclusively on the legal industry and adjacent corporate functions, delivering recruitment solutions across three core practices: Lawyer Recruitment, Legal and Office Support, and Management and HR. Leveraging unrivalled legal connections and a deep referral network developed over decades, Legal People partners with top tier, mid tier and boutique law firms as well as corporate legal teams and not for profit organisations to secure talent from entry level through to senior leadership. The team offers permanent, contract and temporary solutions supported by a streamlined digital experience that includes CV submission, job alerts and resources with interview tips and FAQs. For employers, services extend to tailored search strategies, shortlisting, candidate care and outplacement support during periods of transition. For candidates, Legal People provides consultative guidance, career planning and access to a broad range of roles spanning legal secretarial, paralegal, executive assistant, human resources, people and culture, practice management, marketing and business development, and lawyer opportunities across multiple practice areas. The firm is active in industry and community networks, including professional associations such as ALPMA and the Victorian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, reflecting a commitment to the broader legal community. With hands on senior leadership and experienced consultants who have long standing ties to the sector, Legal People combines market insight, rigorous process and genuine care to deliver consistent, high quality outcomes across the Australian legal market.

Permanent RecruitmentTemporary StaffingContract StaffingManagement ConsultingLegalAccounting (Audit, Tax)Project ManagementLegal & ComplianceHuman Resources

HQMelbourne, Australia

Burgess Paluch Legal Recruitment

Founded in 2005, Burgess Paluch Legal Recruitment is a boutique specialist agency focused exclusively on the legal profession, partnering with law firms, corporates, and government to deliver permanent, contract, and executive appointments across Australia and key international markets. With offices in Melbourne and Sydney and reach across all Australian capitals, the firm supports lawyers at every career stage, from articled clerks and junior solicitors through senior associates, partners and equity partners, as well as in house counsel and company secretaries. Its team is comprised of former lawyers who bring first hand insight into practice demands, culture and career paths, enabling rigorous assessment and nuanced advice that leads to lasting placements. Burgess Paluch manages assignments that span private practice, in house legal teams for listed companies and large corporations, and public sector legal departments, and is adept at confidential partner and team moves, launching new practice areas and offices, and sourcing contract lawyers and paralegals for short term and project needs. Beyond search and selection, the business offers law firm HR consulting, graduate recruitment projects, salary guidance and benchmarking, CV resources, interview preparation and expert reporting, helping employers and candidates make well informed decisions. Internationally, the consultancy assists Australian and New Zealand lawyers to move between markets including the United Kingdom and London, Asia such as Singapore, Tokyo and Hong Kong, the Middle East, the Channel Islands and Cayman Islands, and the United States, and provides advice on requalifying and working abroad or returning to Australia. A strategic, relationship driven approach underpins its model, emphasizing deep understanding of client needs, direct and proactive engagement with talent, and transparent communication. Recognized as one of Australia's most experienced and successful legal recruitment consultancies, Burgess Paluch focuses on fit, performance and long term outcomes, freeing clients and candidates to focus on what matters.

Permanent RecruitmentContract StaffingExec Search & Interim MgmtManagement ConsultingLegalAccounting (Audit, Tax)Government AdministrationLaw EnforcementMilitary & Defense

HQMelbourne, Australia

Hampton Consultancy Group

Founded in 2019, Hampton Consultancy Group is an established consulting and recruiting partner dedicated to the unique needs of registered training organizations and the broader learning and development ecosystem. The firm focuses on three integrated pillars of value for RTOs and training providers: recruitment, quality, and compliance. On the talent front, Hampton Consultancy Group delivers permanent recruitment, contract solutions, and executive search tailored to roles that drive program delivery, governance, and student outcomes. Its consultants understand the operational realities of the sector, from curriculum and assessment to learner support, data integrity, and continuous improvement, and they translate that understanding into precise role scoping, competency mapping, and selection. Typical appointments include trainers and assessors, instructional designers, compliance officers, quality managers, student administration specialists, business development professionals, operations leaders, and senior executives. The team applies a rigorous process that combines targeted sourcing, structured behavioral interviews, capability and credential verification, and thorough referencing to ensure candidates align with organizational goals and sector standards. For clients navigating growth, audit cycles, or program changes, the firm provides flexible contract staffing to manage peak workloads and mission critical projects, and it conducts discreet executive assignments for leadership posts that shape culture, compliance maturity, and performance. Beyond placement, Hampton Consultancy Group supports quality and compliance initiatives by aligning talent solutions to policy frameworks, internal audit rhythms, and improvement plans, helping organizations strengthen systems and reduce risk while building resilient teams. Its consultative approach emphasizes discovery, transparent communication, measurable milestones, and post placement care, enabling providers across classroom, workplace based, and online learning models to scale with confidence. By uniting deep sector knowledge with specialized recruitment capability, Hampton Consultancy Group helps RTOs and training providers secure the right people, elevate quality, and meet compliance expectations, so they can focus on delivering meaningful learner outcomes.

Permanent RecruitmentContract StaffingExec Search & Interim MgmtCorporate Training & CoachingE-Learning & Online EducationLegal & ComplianceSenior ExecutivesGeneralist - white collar professionals

HQMelbourne, Australia

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