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Sharp People

Sharp People is an Australia and New Zealand focused recruitment and talent acquisition consultancy founded in 2019 by industry practitioner Lauren Sharp. The firm specializes in innovative tech recruitment and executive search, combining hands-on delivery with advisory expertise to help organizations build high performing teams with longevity and purposeful culture. With more than 18 years of ICT market experience embedded in its network, Sharp People recruits across core technology domains including software and digital, data analytics and business intelligence, cybersecurity, SAP and ERP, solution and enterprise architecture, project and program management, business analysis, networking, and technical support. Complementing its technology depth, the firm also delivers commercial hiring in sales, from business development and account management to channel, inside sales, and senior sales leadership. For executive mandates, Sharp People conducts searches for C suite and functional leaders such as CEO, CIO, CTO, CDO, Managing Director, General Manager, Head of Department, Country Manager, Professional Services Director, and Program and Transformation Director. Services span permanent and contract recruitment, talent acquisition consulting, and embedded resourcing solutions tailored to client maturity and hiring velocity. Known for a relationship driven approach, the team immerses in role specifics and company culture, centering ethical practice, candidate experience, and diversity, equity and inclusion to reduce bias and improve retention. Operating across Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane, Adelaide and New Zealand, Sharp People partners with startups, scale ups, and enterprise clients in technology, professional services and adjacent sectors, aligning process design, market mapping, and assessment with business outcomes. The firm also contributes to industry thought leadership through the TaPod podcast, reinforcing current insights and community engagement, while maintaining a simple promise to clients and candidates alike: consistent communication, respect, and delivery that turns todays candidates into tomorrows clients.

Permanent RecruitmentContract StaffingExec Search & Interim MgmtSoftware DevelopmentCybersecurityData ScienceHuman ResourcesTechnical WritingProject Management

HQMelbourne, Australia

Appetency Recruitment Services

Appetency Recruitment Services is a specialist IT and digital recruitment and HR consulting firm headquartered in Melbourne with a strong presence in Sydney, serving clients across Australia. Trusted by the local tech ecosystem, the firm helps managed service providers, SaaS vendors, systems integrators, professional services firms, and growing SMBs build high performing teams quickly and cost effectively. Appetency delivers end to end hiring solutions spanning permanent recruitment, contract and fixed term staffing, and scalable recruitment process outsourcing models, complemented by HR advisory. Their domain expertise covers information technology support and infrastructure, cloud engineering, cybersecurity, software and app development, DevOps, BI, data and analytics, ERP and CRM implementation, project and service delivery, as well as IT sales and digital marketing. A proven process underpins every engagement: discovery to align on role context and culture, targeted sourcing through deep networks in Australias tech community, rigorous assessment and reference checks, and seamless placement with offer management and post placement care. Quality outcomes are a hallmark, with a 90 percent plus call for interview rate, most roles filled with just two to three shortlisted candidates, and typical time to hire of four to six weeks. Appetency supports startups and SMBs through affordable packages and ongoing RPO options, including Vision Driven Services that streamline sourcing, screening, scheduling, and feedback loops. Candidates benefit from transparent communication, resume guidance, interview preparation, and access to curated opportunities across software engineering, cloud and infrastructure, data science and analytics, project management, and go to market roles. Positioned as executive recruiters for technology as well, the team provides leadership search for critical hires while maintaining the responsiveness and ownership that clients value. Appetency publishes practical hiring insights and market trends to help employers stay competitive and attract the right talent in a fast moving Australian IT market.

Permanent RecruitmentContract StaffingRPOSoftware DevelopmentCybersecurityData ScienceLegalAccounting (Audit, Tax)Human Resources

HQMelbourne, Australia

Overdrive Recruitment

Overdrive Recruitment is a boutique Australian talent partner founded in 2023 with a simple mission: listen, connect, and keep recruitment human. Based in Victoria, the firm helps organizations secure high quality permanent staff while offering a level of personalization that larger agencies often cannot match. With a small, experienced team, Overdrive Recruitment focuses its efforts on roles in Sales, Banking, and Financial Services, aligning each search to the unique needs, culture, and growth goals of every client. The companys process begins with a thorough discovery conversation to surface must have skills, success outcomes, and stakeholder expectations, followed by targeted market mapping, proactive outreach, and structured, values based interviews. Candidates are briefed clearly on role realities and career trajectory, and only those who demonstrate both capability and cultural alignment are shortlisted. Clients benefit from transparent communication, thoughtfully prepared shortlists, and advice on market conditions, salary benchmarks, and selection best practices. Overdrive Recruitment brings care to every interaction and goes the extra mile to ensure matches stick, prioritizing long term relationships over quick wins. The firm works with established financial institutions and growing businesses across Victoria that rely on sales performance and customer centric teams, as well as with candidates ranging from emerging sales talent to seasoned relationship managers and financial services specialists seeking their next step. By combining agility, discretion, and a high touch approach, Overdrive Recruitment delivers results without complexity, acting as a trusted extension of its clients brands and an advocate for candidates. The outcome is a simple, authentic recruitment experience that saves time, reduces hiring risk, and creates lasting value for both sides of the market.

Permanent RecruitmentExec Search & Interim MgmtContract StaffingBankingInsuranceInvestment ManagementFinTechSales & Business DevelopmentFinance & Accounting

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

BT Recruitment

Founded in 1990, BT Recruitment is a professional recruitment consultancy that connects employers with permanent, contract, and temporary talent across accounting and finance, sales and marketing, technical and operations, warehousing, manufacturing, and business support. Acting as a people first partner, the firm focuses on meaningful conversations, building relationships, and aligning expectations so each hire fits role requirements and workplace culture. Clients rely on BT Recruitment to supply what matters most, the right people for the right jobs, whether they need longstanding additions to core teams, project specialists for a defined period, or flexible workers to cover peaks in activity. Its reach spans both office based and hands on environments, with strength supporting manufacturing floors, warehouses, and operational functions alongside corporate disciplines such as finance, sales, marketing, and administration. Drawing on decades in the recruitment market, the team listens carefully to business objectives and candidate ambitions, offers clear guidance throughout the search, and maintains momentum from initial brief to acceptance. Because the consultancy works across multiple functions, it can present balanced shortlists that blend skill, experience, and attitude, helping organizations improve capability while controlling risk and time to hire. By serving manufacturing and logistics heavy operations as well as broader commercial teams, the consultancy understands the different rhythms of shift based environments and corporate calendars and adjusts sourcing and screening accordingly. Its service model is adaptable, scaling up for volume hiring in warehousing or production and tailoring searches for specialist accountants, marketers, and operations staff. Equally, candidates benefit from honest feedback, practical career advice, and access to opportunities suited to their background across both white collar and blue collar paths. Across every engagement, BT Recruitment aims to keep the process simple, responsive, and human, delivering results by treating recruitment as a relationship driven craft.

Permanent RecruitmentContract StaffingTemporary StaffingAutomotiveAerospaceDefenseAirlines & AviationMaritimeRailroad

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

Linea Talent Group

Linea Talent Group is an Australian recruitment agency that brings more than 50 years of combined experience to clients and candidates across Real Estate, Property, Construction, Manufacturing, Automotive and Professional Services. Founded by directors Peter Dais and Daniel Italia and headquartered in Melbourne, the firm supports hiring needs nationwide across VIC, NSW, QLD, SA, WA and ACT, with activity spanning Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Perth, Adelaide, Canberra and beyond. Linea delivers permanent recruitment, executive search and selected temp solutions from junior through to C level, grounded in market insight, transparent communication and long term relationships. In residential and commercial real estate, the team recruits Property Managers, Assistants, Receptionists, Leasing Consultants, Sales Agents, BDMs, EAs and PAs, Trust Accountants, Department and Sales Managers, General Managers, Asset Managers and Lease Administrators. In strata and development, they place Strata Managers, Assistants and Accounts staff, as well as Project and Development Managers and Channel Sales specialists. Construction coverage spans commercial, civil and residential, including Managers, Surveyors, Engineers and skilled trades, plus joinery and shopfitting roles such as Project Managers and CNC Programmers. Manufacturing and logistics expertise covers general engineering and FMCG, recruiting Production Managers, Boilermakers, Welders, Forklift Operators, Schedulers, Warehouse and Logistics Managers, Coordinators, Customer Service Consultants and Assemblers. Professional services hiring includes marketing, account management, sales, accounting, payroll, insurance, office management and business support. Backed by a track record that includes more than 1,000 career permanent placements and 150-plus long term client relationships, Linea Talent Group focuses on understanding goals and culture to secure the right fit, whether building a team or advancing a career. The firm is a member of RCSA and operates with a people first approach to deliver efficient processes, consistent service and results that are always in line with you.

Permanent RecruitmentExec Search & Interim MgmtTemporary StaffingResidential DevelopmentCommercial Real EstateConstructionElectrical EngineeringIndustrial AutomationManagement Consulting

HQMelbourne, Australia

Smart Staffing Australia

Smart Staffing Australia is a Melbourne based outsourcing and staffing company that helps Australian businesses scale with virtual assistants and specialist offshore teams. Founded in 2023, the firm blends recruitment, outsourcing, and talent advisory to deliver fast, affordable and reliable support across critical business functions. Clients can outsource mortgage broking and financial planning support, bookkeeping and accounting, real estate back office and conveyancing assistance, general administration and customer service, inbound and outbound sales, digital marketing and web development, and software development and consulting, as well as broader business process outsourcing. Smart Staffing streamlines hiring with a simple process: they shortlist and line up interviews, often within 72 hours; the client chooses the talent; Smart Staffing then provisions the workstation, tools and systems access so the new team member is ready to work from day one. Agreements are flexible with no lock in contracts, giving organizations room to adjust engagement as needs change. The company emphasizes measurable results such as significant cost efficiencies, advertising savings of up to 70 percent on staffing, and time back to core teams, supported by a global talent network and round the clock support. With a strong focus on security and risk management, Smart Staffing protects client data and operations while maintaining smooth delivery. Their Virtual Coworker Team culture centers on collaboration, responsiveness and practical problem solving, creating an experience that feels like an extension of the client workforce. Serving real estate, financial services, technology driven teams and growing SMEs, Smart Staffing provides affordable staffing solutions for businesses ready to grow, uniting domain trained professionals with robust processes to improve accuracy, compliance and customer outcomes for over 200 businesses across Australia.

Permanent RecruitmentContract StaffingRPOBankingInsuranceInvestment ManagementCybersecurityData ScienceIT Infrastructure

HQMelbourne, Australia

Spencer Lane

Spencer Lane is a Melbourne based recruitment firm dedicated solely to marketing and communications talent. Often referred to as The Marketers Recruiter, the boutique agency focuses on building deep understanding of clients and roles so that every introduction is informed, transparent, and aligned. Founded in 2019 and supported by more than 25 years of hands on experience recruiting across marketing and sales, the team has refined a detailed process that starts with time spent on site with each client to absorb culture, expectations, and growth paths. That immersion, combined with video introductions and a marketing led approach to candidate attraction, helps organizations reach a wider pool of qualified marketers and gives candidates a clear, realistic view of opportunities before they meet. Spencer Lane operates with a values led philosophy that prioritizes engagement and trust; as evidence, its social content consistently reaches more than 6,000 candidates each week, creating ongoing conversations with active and passive talent across Melbourne. The firm partners with businesses seeking specialists across the marketing and comms spectrum and supports candidates at all career stages with honest insight and practical guidance so they can make well informed decisions. Clients value the clarity, speed, and quality that come from the teams niche focus and market immersion, while candidates appreciate the authentic representation of roles and the support offered throughout the hiring process. This focus on relationships and results has contributed to Spencer Lane being regarded as one of Australias most sought after marketing recruitment agencies and a trusted connector between ambitious marketing professionals and growth minded organizations across Melbourne.

Permanent RecruitmentContract StaffingTemporary StaffingDigital MarketingContent CreationPublic RelationsBroadcastingPublishingOnline Media

HQMelbourne, 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

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