Seeking Staff - Australia

In today's market place, there is a shortage of available and skilled candidates as opposed to position vacancies. This makes the job of recruiting the best candidates expensive, time consuming and often unsuccessful. As a business owner or manager, you are often too busy to organise recruitment campaigns, shortlist candidates, take phone calls and arrange advertisements across a selection of multi-media. After all of this process, there is still no guarantee that you will find the right candidate.  This is where you need us. 

There are many recruitment agencies operating in Australia across a broad spectrum of professions, however very few cover just a select group such as Allied Health. When using a recruiter, it is important that the agency you use has a working knowledge of your profession and practice. This way, you can be sure they can shortlist for you and advertise in the correct locations to find that right staff member.  

Permanent Desk: Our permanent desks are very busy and we place a high volume of skilled professionals into employment with our Australian clients. Some larger clients have even contracted their employment services to our organisation and we recruit for them on an ongoing basis. This saves them both time and money. If this is an option you could consider for ongoing staffing, contact us to discuss what we can offer for you in this regard.

International Candidates: A growing section for our agency is the recruitment of skilled international candidates from countries such as New Zealand, The UK, Ireland, Canada and South Africa. We advertise continually in journals, on the internet and overseas newspapers for staff. We can also arrange target advertising for clients internationally as well for a service fee. 

Visa Sponsorships: With Australia's skills shortage, this is a way many clients now recruit and retain skilled staff. If you are interested and would like to enquire about whether your organisation should consider visa sponsorships feel free to contact us. We can assist you with the registration process with DIMIA, find a suitable candidate for you and assist with the visa processing and relocation of the candidate to Australia to work for you. 

For permanent recruitment, some of the details we will cover include:

• Advertising and Marketing

• Dissemination of information regarding your position

• Telephone contact with candidates

• Collation of resumes for suitable applicants

• Scheduling of interviews

• Reference checking if required

• Assistance with the formulation of employment contracts for new staff

• We will see that all staff are qualified and registered to work in the relevant state of their placement

• For international candidates we will ensure they have a valid working visa to enter and work in Australia

Guarantee: For our permanent placements, we will offer you a guarantee should the person not be suitable or should they resign during a certain period after commencement. Contact us for further details.

Locum Desk: Locum and temp staff are our speciality and where we forged our initial recruitment reputation. At any one time we have a strong database of locum staff. These are skilled professional individuals and perform locum work for various reasons, holiday, travel, money etc etc. Any prospective locum employees will be presented to you, you can check their resume and referees and interview as well if you so choose.  The decision as to who you hire is up to you.

Locum staff can assist you with the following

• cover for staff holidays

• cover for sick leave

• building your practice

• cover for time off while you are at conferences or training

• filling a gap after a resignation and while you wait for the right permanent candidate to come along.

Locum staff are crucial to Private and Public institutions alike, they allow you to function as normal, provide a service and retain your patients with your practice.

Allied Health Contractors: For all our professions with the exception of Dentists, we can offer a contractor service. With this, the locum employee works for us and we cover the following

• wages

• superannuation

• insurance

• payroll tax

We will charge you an hourly rate that covers the above and is also inclusive of our operating costs. This is a very popular method and many clients like to use our contractor service. Let us take care of all the recruitment and HR paperwork so you can get on with what you do best, running your business.

Locum Commission Basis

If you want a locum but don't want to use our contractor service, we can arrange a locum to work for you directly on your own payroll and you can cover the above. In this case, we charge a commission or daily fee for their placement.

Should you be interested or like to find out more, please complete the form below and send to us. A dedicated consultant covering your profession will contact you to discuss in detail  what we can offer.