THE BEST NEVER APPLY.
The person you need is not reading your ad.Recruitment across Australia, trades to executives.
They are already employed, doing your job for someone else, and they will not answer an ad. They do answer their phone. Give us the role in sixty seconds and a screened shortlist, rates locked, comes back by text.
Every week that seat stays empty is work you turn down, or work you end up doing yourself on a Saturday.
Prefer to talk? We answer the phone, Monday to Saturday, 9am to 6:30pm. 0485 853 926
Australia's talent, mapped.
Every state, every capital, every region, and the same four checks wherever the role sits.
Most of the market is not right for your role.
That is our problem, not yours. We do the looking, and only the people who fit the brief reach your shortlist.
Every name passed the Skilled Screen: licences verified, screened against your brief, history checked, rate locked.
See who fits your roleEvery name passed the Skilled Screen.
Our four-step check runs before you ever hear a name. A name only reaches you once all four are done.
Licences verified
Tickets and quals sighted, not taken on faith.
Screened against your brief
We go through their own account of the work, job by job, against what you actually need.
History checked
Gaps and patterns explained before they meet you.
Rate locked
The rate on the shortlist is the rate. No surprises at offer.
Four steps, every name, every time. No exceptions, not when the role is urgent and not when the name came recommended. That is the whole system. References are checked at the final stage, just before the hire, to confirm you are taking on a good person.
How the Skilled Screen works, step by step and see an example shortlist.
See who fits your briefWe publish what these roles actually pay.
The award floor and the current market band for 17 roles, each with its classification, its source and the date we checked it. Updated every 1 July. It is the same data we price your shortlist against, so the rate you see is not a guess.
What is the empty seat costing you?
Your numbers, straight arithmetic.
The role
$4,250
a week of work not getting done.
Four weeks unfilled: $17,000.
Based only on the day rate you set. Your margin maths will differ.
This is the whole process.
One text starts it. We are open Monday to Saturday, 9am to 6:30pm.
Recruitment, across every Australian state.
Skilled Hiring is an Australian recruitment agency covering New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, Western Australia, South Australia, Tasmania, the Northern Territory and the ACT, city and regional. We find, screen and shortlist the people who never answer job ads: the ones already working.
Roles we fill
Trades and civil. Transport and logistics. Manufacturing and operations. Office and administration. Supervisors and managers. Executives. If it is hard to fill, it is ours.
Free while you are here: the empty seat calculator and the pay checker.
Pay rates by role
Questions
How does Skilled Hiring charge?
You pay nothing until your hire starts. No fee for the search, no fee for the shortlist, and no fee if you do not hire. The fee is set out in writing in the terms before any work begins, so there is nothing to discover later.
What if the person does not stay?
If your hire leaves inside the first 90 days we replace them free. That sits in the terms, not in a goodwill conversation after the fact.
What is checked before I see a name?
Four things, every time. Licences verified, screened against your brief, work history checked, and the rate locked. The rate on the shortlist is the rate at offer. References are checked at the final stage, just before the hire, to confirm you are taking on a good person.
How selective is the shortlist?
14 in 100 make our list. The filter is the Skilled Screen: licences verified, screened against your brief, work history checked, rate locked. All four are done before a name is put in front of you.
What does the process look like from my side?
You brief us on the role, you sign the terms, and a screened shortlist is texted to you with rates already locked. Then we offer a call to walk you through the names. Text or ring and you get a person, not a queue.
Recruitment, without the noise.
Leave your brief
The right hire pays for themselves in the first month. Jobs out the door, quotes you stop declining, weekends handed back.
We do not take every brief. If we cannot back ourselves to fill yours, you hear a straight no inside two business days. Two days, not three weeks of silence with the seat still empty.
What you get
- Screened against your brief before you see anyone. We go through their own account of the work, job by job, against what you actually need.
- Licences and tickets sighted, not taken on faith.
- Work history checked, with the gaps and the patterns explained before you meet anyone.
- The rate on the shortlist is the rate at offer. No creep.
- 14 in 100 screened make our list. You see the ones who cleared it.
- References checked at the final stage, just before the hire, to confirm you are taking on a good person.
- Every state and territory, trades to executives.
- Monday to Saturday, 9am to 6:30pm. Your week does not stop on Friday and neither does ours.
What it costs you to find out
- Nothing until your hire starts. No fee for the search, no fee for the shortlist.
- The 48 Hour Straight Answer. If we look at your brief and do not back ourselves to fill it, you will know inside two business days, not after three weeks of silence.
- The 90 Day Replace. They leave inside the first 90 days and we replace them free.
- Terms first, always. No names are released without them.
Why nothing until they start: if we do not deliver, we should not get paid. The terms go first for the same reason, so both sides know exactly what happens before anyone spends a day on it.
Brief received. We come back to you on that number: terms first, then your shortlist, then they start.
Get on the list the good jobs come from.
You get a person, not a queue.
Tell us the trade and your number. Text first or email your resume straight away, either works.
Got you. We come back to you on that number, or email your resume now and jump the queue.