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Talent Acquisition
Specialist

Sourcing, screening and interview coordination that fill your roles faster — from $14/hr + GST.

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$14/hrFrom, + GST · full-time
70%Average saving vs a local hire
14 daysBrief → first day
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What a Talent Acquisition Specialist does

Hiring slows when sourcing and screening pile up. A talent acquisition specialist keeps the pipeline moving — finding, screening and coordinating candidates so roles close faster.

Every StaffingSolutions.io talent acquisition specialist 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

  • Sourcing — active and passive candidates.
  • Resume screening — to your criteria.
  • Interview scheduling — coordinated.
  • Candidate comms — timely and warm.
  • ATS management — clean pipeline.
  • Reporting — funnel and time-to-hire.
The actual work

A week in the role

A recruitment admin keeps roles moving between the hiring manager's good intentions and an actual start date. Most of the week sits inside JobAdder or the client's ATS — writing ads, screening applications, running phone screens, booking interviews, chasing referees and ordering pre-employment checks. The hiring manager decides who gets hired.

The taskWhat that actually involves
Write and post the job ad

Drafts the ad to SEEK's structure with the right classification, sub-classification, work type and location, publishes to SEEK, Indeed and LinkedIn from JobAdder, and refreshes or rewrites ads that stop pulling applications.

Screen the application inbox

Works through applications in the ATS applying the knockout criteria agreed with the hiring manager — work rights, licence, tickets, location, salary band — moves candidates to shortlist, and sends regret emails to the rest promptly.

Source through SEEK Talent Search

Builds boolean searches in SEEK Talent Search and LinkedIn Recruiter, saves matching profiles into the ATS, sends the approach message, and logs every response so the same candidate isn't approached twice.

Run structured phone screens

Works the client's screening script — availability, notice period, salary expectation, work rights, licence, why they're looking — and writes it up on the candidate record in the ATS so the hiring manager reads one consistent format.

Build the shortlist pack

Reformats CVs into the client's branded template, writes a short summary against the selection criteria for each candidate, releases the shortlist through the JobAdder hiring manager portal and chases ratings and feedback.

Coordinate interviews and panels

Finds slots across panel calendars, books Teams or Zoom links, sends candidate confirmations with address, parking, interviewer names and what to bring, and reworks the whole schedule when someone reschedules.

Run reference checks

Sets up requests in Xref or Referoo, chases referees who stall, follows up by phone where the client prefers a conversation, and attaches the completed report to the candidate record for the hiring manager to assess.

Order pre-employment checks

Orders National Police Checks, confirms work entitlements through VEVO with the candidate's written consent, and records Working with Children Check, NDIS screening and licence numbers with their expiry dates against the candidate file.

Keep the pipeline honest

Maintains accurate statuses in JobAdder, closes filled and abandoned requisitions, re-engages silver medallists from earlier processes, and builds talent pools by role type so the next brief starts with a warm list.

Prepare offer paperwork

Populates the offer letter and contract from the client's template with the agreed rate, classification and start date for the hiring manager to approve and issue, then tracks acceptance, start date and onboarding handover.

Manage the careers inbox

Answers applicant questions about the process and timing, keeps unsuccessful candidates informed rather than ghosted, and routes speculative applications into the right talent pool instead of letting them sit.

Report on the hiring funnel

Pulls open roles, time in each stage, applications by source, interviews booked and offers out of JobAdder into the weekly hiring meeting pack, and flags roles that have stalled at the same stage.

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Questions

Frequently asked

How much does a talent acquisition specialist 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 talent Acquisition Specialist 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 a talent Acquisition Specialist 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 talent Acquisition Specialist 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.