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Candidates sourced and longlisted, ATS kept clean, references and compliance documents chased, and placement paperwork completed — so your consultants spend their day on conversations, not the database.
Recruiters bill on conversations and spend their day on admin
A recruitment consultant's value is entirely in relationships and judgement — knowing which candidate suits which client, and being trusted by both. Everything around that is administration: searching, longlisting, formatting CVs, chasing references, collecting compliance documents, keeping the ATS honest.
It is the same problem an agency solves for its own clients, unsolved internally. Consultants routinely spend more than half their week on work nobody pays a placement fee for.
A dedicated offshore assistant takes the administration and the sourcing groundwork. The calls, the client relationships and the placement judgement stay with the consultant.
What comes off the consultant's desk
- Candidate sourcing — Searches run across your job boards and databases against the brief, with a longlist built and formatted before the consultant starts calling.
- ATS hygiene — Records complete and current, duplicates merged, candidates correctly tagged and statuses accurate enough to search reliably.
- CV formatting — Candidate CVs reformatted to your template and client-ready standard, with the detail your clients expect.
- Reference checking admin — References contacted, scheduled and chased, with responses recorded to your template.
- Compliance documents — Right-to-work, licences, tickets, police checks and insurances collected, verified against registers and tracked to expiry.
- Job posting — Ads posted across your boards, refreshed on schedule, and applications processed into the ATS daily.
- Interview coordination — Interviews scheduled between candidates and clients, confirmed and rescheduled without the consultant chasing.
- Placement and onboarding admin — Contracts prepared, timesheet setup completed, and onboarding paperwork tracked to completion.
The work that comes off your desk
A consultant's billable work is client conversations and candidate conversations. Everything wrapped around it fills the week instead: reposting the ad, reformatting the CV to template, chasing a referee for the third time, following up timesheets on Monday morning. Compliance paperwork is the heaviest part, because it cannot be skipped and it never finishes.
Writes the ad from the client's brief and posts to SEEK, Indeed and LinkedIn from inside JobAdder or Bullhorn so applications land against the right job record. Sets the screening questions, monitors application flow, and refreshes or reposts ads that have gone quiet.
Runs Boolean searches across the ATS database, SEEK Talent Search and LinkedIn Recruiter against the brief, builds the longlist inside the job's pipeline with a note on why each person was included, and re-engages people already in the database before paying for new reach.
Books and runs first-pass screening conversations against a fixed question set: notice period, salary expectation, work rights, licences and tickets, location and shift availability. Writes the answers into the candidate record so the consultant is not asking the same questions again.
Coordinates diaries across the candidate, the consultant and multiple client interviewers in different states, sends invites and Teams links, confirms the day before, and quietly rebooks the ones that fall over without the client hearing about it twice.
Builds the client-facing shortlist: reformats the CV to the agency template, strips contact details where the client requires blind submission, writes the summary against the brief's criteria, attaches screening notes, and submits through the ATS or the client's vendor management portal.
Collects passport, visa and identity documents, runs the VEVO check with the candidate's consent, and records exactly what VEVO returned — visa subclass, work conditions and expiry — against the candidate record, then diarises a reminder before expiry. What the result means for a candidate's options or pathway is never interpreted; anything ambiguous is escalated.
Runs the administration around screening without performing the check: collects the identity documents the candidate provides and passes them to the agency's ACIC accredited body, which verifies identity and obtains informed consent under its own accreditation, then tracks the check through to result. Records Working with Children Check and Blue Card numbers and expiry dates, and confirms cards are linked to the correct organisation before a start date is confirmed.
Sends Xref or Referoo requests, chases referees who have not responded, verifies the referee's role and contact details independently rather than accepting the candidate's mobile number, and files the completed report against the candidate before an offer is issued.
Verifies credentials at the source rather than from a CV claim: the candidate-shared USI transcript, which only the candidate can grant access to or send, plus training.gov.au for the issuing RTO, white card, forklift and heavy vehicle licence classes, and AHPRA registration where relevant. Records the document number and expiry, not just a tick.
Keeps JobAdder or Bullhorn usable: merges duplicate candidate and company records, corrects job statuses so pipeline reporting means something, applies skill and location tags consistently, chases consultants for missing placement fields, and actions candidates who have asked to be removed.
Prepares the pack once an offer is accepted, populating each document from the rates, terms and classification already decided onshore: client terms of business, candidate or contractor agreement, rate and margin confirmation, superannuation standard choice form, TFN declaration, bank details and induction material. Sends for e-signature and chases what is outstanding before the start date.
Chases missing timesheets in Astute Payroll or FastTrack360 ahead of the cut-off, checks approvals came from the client's authorised approver, queries hours that do not match the roster or the purchase order, and prepares the billing file so pay and invoice run off the same numbers.
Runs the weekly expiry report across the active contractor base — visas, licences, tickets, insurances and screening cards — and notifies the consultant and the contractor ahead of time, flagging anyone whose documents will lapse partway through an assignment.
What stays with you
We are a staffing company, so this list argues against our own interest. It is also the part that matters: the work below is reserved, and no amount of supervision moves it. Get the line written down before anyone starts in a recruitment agency.
- Immigration and visa adviceOnly a registered migration agent or Australian legal practitioner may give immigration assistance, including advising on a visa pathway, preparing a nomination or lodging an application. A coordinator may run a VEVO check with the candidate's consent and record what it returned, and nothing beyond it.OMARA, Migration Act 1958
- Holding the labour hire licenceSupplying workers in Queensland, Victoria, South Australia or the ACT requires a licence in that jurisdiction, held by the provider with a nominated fit and proper officer. The licences are not reciprocal, so a provider supplying into more than one of those jurisdictions holds one in each. South Australia's scheme now covers all industries, having expanded from 29 January 2026 with the transition period closing 29 July 2026. NSW and WA have no scheme and there is still no national one. Reporting and responsible-person obligations sit with that named individual onshore.Labour Hire Licensing Acts (Qld 2017, Vic 2018, SA 2017, ACT 2020)
- Employment decisions and liabilityAward classification, pay rates, casual conversion and termination are employer decisions. Getting them wrong exposes the agency and its officers to accessorial liability under s 550, so those calls stay with the person who carries the consequence.Fair Work Ombudsman, Fair Work Act 2009
- Submitting worker screening checksOnly an ACIC accredited body may submit a nationally coordinated criminal history check, and identity verification and informed consent are obligations that body must discharge itself under its own accreditation — they cannot be pushed to a coordinator. Weighing a disclosed record against the role is the agency's or the client's decision.ACIC, National Police Checking Service
- Candidate data sent offshoreThe agency remains accountable for candidate personal information disclosed overseas. It decides what an offshore coordinator can see in the ATS, and its privacy collection notice must disclose that offshore handling to candidates.OAIC, Australian Privacy Principle 8, Privacy Act 1988
Roles for recruitment agencies
What stays with your consultants
Sourcing and administration travel. Placement judgement, client relationships and anything a candidate or client relies on do not.
- Placement decisionsWhich candidate to put forward, and how they are positioned, is the consultant's judgement.
- Client relationshipsThey coordinate; the consultant owns the client and the brief conversation.
- Rate and fee negotiationNever delegated.
- Candidate suitability adviceScreening to your criteria is fine. Advising a candidate on their prospects is the consultant's.
Specialist roles for recruitment agencies
Three dedicated roles that give consultants their calling time back.
Candidate sourcing specialist
Longlists built overnight, formatted and screened to criteria.
Explore →Compliance & onboarding admin
Right to work, tickets, checks and placement paperwork.
Explore →Interview coordinator
Scheduling, confirmations and candidates kept informed.
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