Recruitment for Australian SMBs
Owner-led. 98% fill rate. 96% retention at 12 months. Pay nothing until they start.
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The problem with hiring today
Most agencies operate the same way. Take a brief. Send CVs. Move on. The consultant who took your call is likely gone in six months — recruitment agencies run 43% annual turnover. You end up with the wrong people, unclear feedback, and hiring that feels like a gamble.
You are screening CVs late at night. Interviews are winged. Shortlists are not really shortlists. SEEK generated 200 applications with three worth interviewing. And a bad hire on an $80K role costs you $30K–$50K — not in salary, but in time, culture, and missed growth.
Average hiring produces average talent, average outcomes, and high fees. Alignr was built to invert that — a systematised hiring framework that fixes the structure, not just the next placement.
How this works
Every engagement runs all three. Hiring breaks when any one is missing.
Clarity & Role Architecture
Before we source anyone, we build your role avatar with you — what "good" actually looks like, the must-haves, the red flags. Most agencies skip this. It's why they miss.
Engagement & Attraction
We position the role in the market to attract the right people — not whoever's available. Active candidates and passive ones alike. Every outreach is specific to your avatar.
Structured Decision Making
Scorecards, structured interviews, a live dashboard. You walk into every interview fully briefed. No gut-feel decisions. No chasing status updates.
Receipts
Metrics every recruitment agency should publish — and almost none do.
Case studies
What the three pillars look like in real engagements.
Manufacturing · Adelaide + regional · CEO + HR combined
Taso was wearing two hats — CEO and HR — with roles open across sales, ops, HR and finance. Hiring had gone slow and reactive. Previous agencies had missed the mark completely.
Six months later — Vue de Monde celebration dinner. Levelling up again.
Moving & financing · South Yarra · Founder-led
Planning 12 months of growth but unclear on which roles, when, or how to structure the team. Plus ER noise and interviews being winged. Signed on to the VIP growth offer — we deployed immediately.
Hiring became planned, clear, and actually supports growth.
Two ways to start
For SMBs in manufacturing, construction, FMCG, logistics, wholesale, and B2B services. Placing HR, sales, operations, finance, admin, and leadership roles.
Best for first engagements or businesses testing the model. Exclusive engagement on a single hire. Pay nothing until the candidate walks through the door on their first day.
For SMBs hiring 3–6 roles per year. Pre-purchase hiring credits at 40% below market rate. Standing avatar library, quarterly planning, prioritised turnaround.
The timeline
A great hire in your business in six weeks. Senior roles in eight to ten.
Deep dive with you. Role, success profile, comp, target companies. We do not open LinkedIn until the avatar is signed off.
Targeted outreach to the 40–80 highest-fit candidates. Active and passive market. Structured vetting against the avatar.
4–6 vetted candidates delivered via shared portal, with video pre-screens. Structured interviews scored against the avatar.
Offer negotiation. Acceptance. Counter-offer defence. Pre-start onboarding. Fee invoiced on first day — not before.
Pay on first day
No retainer. No fee on offer acceptance. You only pay when they walk through the door.
6-month replacement
If they leave inside six months, we replace them, completely free. Twice the industry standard.
30-day savings guarantee
Don't see 30% savings in the first 30 days? We keep working until you do.
Before you book
If yours isn't here, ask Alex on the call.
Book the 30-minute call. We diagnose your hiring setup, show you what a first engagement looks like, and if it is a fit we move. If not, you still walk away with clarity. No sales call — a working conversation.
Most clients go from first call to signed engagement in 1–2 weeks. Avatar work starts the day you sign. First shortlist usually delivered inside two weeks after that.
That is exactly the problem. Most agency models are transactional — take a brief, send CVs, move on. Okay might work here and there, but okay does not cut it when hiring impacts your revenue, team, and growth. What you need is someone running a system, not a tick-box process.
That is why alignr exists — to give you time back. Screening, vetting, interview structure, logistics, time management — all handled. You step into structured interviews with pre-vetted candidates, fully briefed. No chasing CVs or second-guessing decisions.
Per-placement fees sit around 30% below market. Trial engagements are pay-on-first-day with no retainer. The VIP growth partnership prepays hiring credits at 40% below market. Exact numbers depend on scope — discussed on the call.
Two things. First: pay nothing until the candidate starts. No retainer, no fee on acceptance. Second: 6-month guarantee — twice the industry standard. If they leave inside six months, we replace them free. Plus, if you do not see 30% savings in the first 30 days, we keep working until you do. Skin in the game, past where agencies stop caring.
White-collar corporate services only — HR, sales, operations, finance, admin, leadership, executive assistants, office managers. Across manufacturing, construction, FMCG, logistics, wholesale, and B2B services. Not IT/tech, not trades, not healthcare, not government.
Yes. For SMBs and scale-ups building out their hiring function — process design, scorecard builds, team training, and ongoing execution on open roles. Priced by scope. Ask on the call.
Yes. Australia-wide. Strong Melbourne presence; regularly work across Adelaide, Sydney, Brisbane, Geelong, and regional sites. Not viable for very remote locations.
Book the call
Tell me what you are hiring for. I will tell you whether I can help, what a first engagement looks like, and whether I think you would be better off doing it yourself. No sales call — a working conversation.
Book a 30-minute callPick a time that works for you. Takes about a minute.
