Admin & Executive Support ✦ Dedicated & full-time

Appointment
Setter

Outreach, qualification and booked meetings that keep your closers' calendars full — from $14/hr + GST.

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$14/hrFrom, + GST · full-time
70%Average saving vs a local hire
14 daysBrief → first day
Fully managedWe hire, you lead

What an Appointment Setter does

Your closers should be closing, not prospecting. An appointment setter runs the top of the funnel — outreach, qualification and booking — so every calendar slot is a real opportunity.

Every StaffingSolutions.io appointment setter is recruited, hired and managed by us — reference-checked for your tools, working your business hours, and backed by our zero-risk promise: no placement fee, money-back first week, and a free replacement if the fit isn't right.

What they handle

  • Outreach — email, LinkedIn and phone.
  • Qualification — real fit, not noise.
  • Meeting booking — and confirmation.
  • CRM logging — every touch recorded.
  • Follow-up — sequences that convert.
  • No-show recovery — rebooked.
The actual work

A week in the role

An appointment setter exists to get qualified people into a salesperson's calendar and keep them there. The day is a dial list, a qualifying conversation, a booking, then the confirmation and reminder work that decides whether the appointment actually holds. Everything gets logged so the rep walks in knowing the story.

The taskWhat that actually involves
Working the daily call list

Builds the day's call list out of HubSpot, Pipedrive or GoHighLevel, ordering by lead source and how long since first contact, and works it in blocks so calling happens in the hours the target market actually answers.

Calling new enquiries first

Picks up new website, Facebook and Google enquiries as they land and calls before the prospect has moved on, then follows with an SMS and email if the call isn't answered, logging every attempt against the record.

Qualifying against the brief

Runs the client's qualifying questions on the call: what they need, the timeframe, the budget range, the service area postcode, and whether the decision maker will be there — then politely closes out anyone outside the criteria.

Booking into the rep's diary

Books the appointment into the sales rep's calendar through Calendly or the CRM's booking tool, respects travel time between sites and territory boundaries, and converts times correctly between the prospect's state and the rep's.

Running the confirmation sequence

Sends the calendar invite immediately, then a confirmation the day before and again on the morning, restating the time, the address or meeting link and what the prospect should have ready, and calls anyone who hasn't acknowledged.

No-show and reschedule recovery

Calls a no-show while the slot is still warm, finds out what happened, offers two specific alternative times rather than asking when suits, and returns the lead to the nurture sequence if it doesn't rebook.

Reworking aged and dormant leads

Calls back old enquiries, quoted-but-not-proceeded leads and lapsed clients with a real reason for the call ready — a new offer, a price change, a follow-up on the original quote — instead of a generic check-in.

Logging outcomes in the CRM

Records a disposition on every dial, writes notes the rep can actually use — what the prospect said, what they care about, the objection raised — and updates the lifecycle stage so pipeline reporting reflects reality.

Warm transfers to the closer

Where the client works that way, holds the prospect on the line, briefs the sales rep in a few sentences before connecting, and introduces both parties so the handover doesn't feel like starting the conversation again.

Objection handling and call review

Listens back to their own recorded calls, works with the client's sales manager on the openings and objection responses that are landing, and updates the script when the questions coming back from the market change.

Do Not Call and consent hygiene

Suppresses opt-outs immediately, honours the Do Not Call Register washing done on the lists the client supplies, records the consent source against each contact, and refers any complaint straight to the client rather than handling it.

Call list data hygiene

Marks disconnected numbers, wrong contacts and duplicate records as the list is worked, updates names and mobile numbers heard on the call, and flags whole list segments that are producing dead numbers.

Daily activity reporting

Reports the day's dials, conversations, appointments booked and appointments held, along with the reasons appointments fell over, so the client can see which lead sources and time slots are worth more calling effort.

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Questions

Frequently asked

How much does an appointment setter cost?
From $14/hr + GST for a full-time, dedicated team member — roughly $29K a year against $95K–$115K all-in for the local equivalent once you add super, leave, payroll tax, software and a desk. No placement fee, no setup fee, no recruitment retainer: you pay from the day they start, for hours worked, and interviewing candidates costs nothing. Specialist roles sit a little higher. Run your numbers →
How fast can they start?
Typically 14 days from your discovery call to day one. In the first week we source and screen against your brief; you get three matched profiles and interview whoever you like. Once you choose, we handle the offer, the contract, equipment and connectivity checks, and induct them on our side before they reach you. Specialist roles — developers, NDIS claims, anything needing niche software — can take a week longer, because we won't pad a shortlist just to hit a date.
What if the fit isn't right?
You're covered twice over. If it's clearly wrong by day five, your first week is refunded in full. After that, a free replacement any time — new shortlist, new interviews, no second fee, because there was never a first one. Before it gets that far, talk to us: our HR manager will work through it with you and the team member, since most problems turn out to be an unclear process rather than the wrong person, and a fortnight of coaching usually fixes it. Replacing someone is the last resort, not the first move.
Is there a minimum term?
Three months, then month to month. It's the same runway you'd give a new local hire to learn your systems, your clients and your standards — and the team members who get a fair run are the ones who stay for years. There are no exit penalties at any point, and if the issue is the person rather than the role, the first-week refund and free replacement cover that separately.
How do you handle confidentiality?
The same way you'd treat any remote team member. Every placement signs an NDA and a confidentiality clause before day one, and they work inside your systems — your email, your CRM, your file storage — so you control what they can see and can revoke access instantly. No client data is stored on our side.
What stays with you, and what goes to them?
They take the recurring, process-driven part of the appointment Setter role — the work that happens the same way every week and eats your day. Judgement calls, client relationships, anything requiring your licence, sign-off or authority stay with you. The clients who get the most out of an appointment Setter hand over a defined process and keep the decisions, rather than handing over the whole function and hoping. On the discovery call we'll map which tasks fall on which side of that line before you commit to anything.
How do I hand the work over without losing weeks to training?
Record yourself doing the task once and talk through it as you go — a fifteen-minute screen recording beats a written manual every time, and your appointment Setter will turn it into a documented process you both work from. Expect the first fortnight to be shadowing and checking, then steadily less. If you have nothing documented, that's normal and it's not a blocker: we'll help you decide what to record first, and your account manager checks in through the whole ramp-up.