Recruitment / Recruitment Consultant
Your Team, Your Way
Candidate managementDedicated, not shared

Recruitment Consultant

Support end-to-end recruitment delivery for assigned roles, from shortlist preparation to placement handover.

This role · right now Screenshot Monitor
On shift · preparing shortlist for role #REQ-551
Active today6h 48m of 8h
ATS/CRM
40%
LinkedIn Recruiter
28%
Phone/email
22%
Microsoft 365
10%
Timestamped screenshots
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Illustrative sample — actual report via screenshotmonitor.com
Stage 01 · Sourcing

Candidate Sourcing

Search, screen and build talent pipelines for active roles.

Stage 02 · Management

Candidate Management (Delivery support)

Manage candidate relationships through the process.

Stage 03 · Coordination

Coordination & Compliance

Schedule interviews and complete compliance checks.

Stage 04 · Account

Client & Account

Own account health and client relationship day to day.

Stage 05 · Payroll

Payroll & Timesheets

Process contractor payroll and timesheets.

Recruitment delivery engine shown left to right — this role's stage is highlighted above.
Why Virtual Team

Five reasons clients stay past the first hire

Dedicated

One resource, only yours

No shared queue, no rotating cast. Your dedicated resource works exclusively for you and stays.

Leadership

25 years of Australian market experience

Founder Rohit Sahdev's 25 years in the Australian market, including senior leadership at Telstra, shape how every dedicated team is managed.

Transparent

You always know what your team is doing

Every dedicated resource works behind Screenshot Monitor — auditable activity and reporting, not a black box.

Flexible

No more "That's not my job."

Your dedicated outsourced resource adapts to what your business needs, takes ownership and grows their career by stepping up to new challenges.

Built for now

Capacity without the hiring squeeze

Skilled and reliable operational talent is harder to hire locally right now. A dedicated resource adds capacity without adding to that pressure.

The outcome this role is built for

Faster shortlist delivery and cleaner handover to senior consultants — because recruitment delivery has dedicated bandwidth behind it.

Role scope

What this role owns day to day

Core responsibilities

  • Support end-to-end recruitment delivery for assigned roles
  • Shortlist candidates against job briefs
  • Coordinate interviews and gather structured feedback
  • Maintain accurate pipeline reporting for consultants

Works inside

ATS/CRMLinkedIn RecruiterPhone/email

Reported on weekly

Time to shortlistSpeed from brief to shortlist delivered
Interview show rateCandidates attending scheduled interviews
Pipeline accuracyReporting matching actual pipeline status
Client update cadenceUpdates provided on schedule
Flexibility

Works your hours. Picks up the work.

Australian business hours

Aligned to your primary time zone and holiday calendar for day-to-day coverage.

9am–5pm style coverage, matched to your roster

Extended coverage

Stretch shift start/end times around candidate availability and urgent briefs.

Early-start or late-finish shifts, by agreement

Peak-volume scaling

Additional dedicated resources during high-volume hiring campaigns.

Scale up seats for campaigns, scale back down after

What "no that's not my job" looks like in practice: a brief has unusual requirements not in the standard shortlist criteria — it still gets researched properly instead of using a generic search.

What stays with your authorised staff

Final candidate selection, client negotiation and offer terms remain with authorised senior consultants.

Why this role is hard to scale locally

The market backdrop for recruitment delivery hires

329,500 vacancies

job vacancies were recorded across Australia in May 2026 — 293,800 of them in the private sector.

Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, May 2026
3.3% wage growth

Australian wage growth over the year to the March quarter 2026 (3.2% in the private sector), raising the cost of hiring locally.

Source: ABS Wage Price Index, March quarter 2026
46% rising costs

of Australian businesses reported rising operating expenses in June 2026 — 65% citing overheads, 40% citing staffing costs.

Source: Australian Bureau of Statistics, June 2026

Statistics checked in July 2026 from the Australian Bureau of Statistics and ServiceNow. See our Challenges We Solve page for full sourcing and context.

Not exclusive to recruitment

The same skillset, wherever candidates or cases need managing

Strip away the ATS-specific tools and this role is a recognisable shape: search, qualify, coordinate, and keep a pipeline moving against a deadline.

Common today

Doing this in-house with stretched staff, or paying a third party

  • Delivery work competes with business development
  • Shortlists take longer to prepare
  • Pipeline reporting is inconsistent
The alternative

A dedicated recruitment consultant support, outsourced to us

  • One resource whose only job is delivery support
  • Reports to your own senior consultant, not a third party
  • Same Screenshot Monitor transparency, direct to you
Where this shape of role also fits

Mortgage Broking

Client pipeline management through a multi-step process mirrors candidate management closely.

Aggregator CRM

Real Estate & Property Management

Applicant and tenant relationship management follows the same communication cadence.

Property CRM

Financial Services & Insurance

Case management through defined stages needs the same coordination discipline.

Policy/claims systems

Professional Services & Consulting

Client engagement coordination shares this role's relationship-management shape.

CRM
Transparent reporting, on this role too
Screenshot Monitor active
Daily
Activity & app-usage log
Weekly
Reviewed with your team lead

No guessing what this role worked on. Full sample report on the Recruitment page →

How it works

Discovery, role design, and a candidate you interview yourself.

You define outcomes, tools and work hours. We source, screen and put forward candidates you interview and approve. Once live, your resource follows your systems, escalation model and reporting cadence — reviewed together on a schedule you set.

See the full onboarding model
Common questions

Questions about hiring a dedicated Recruitment Consultant

Cost depends on experience level, working hours and specific responsibilities. Tell us your requirements and we'll put together a proposal for a dedicated Recruitment Consultant.
Yes — working hours are agreed during setup to align with your operational needs, whether that's standard Australian business hours or extended coverage.
A dedicated Recruitment Consultant works exclusively for your business, inside your own systems, reporting to your nominated manager — not a shared resource split across an agency's other clients.
We shortlist candidates against your actual role requirements, you interview and approve before anyone starts, and your dedicated resource is trained on your specific systems and processes from day one.
Your Team, Your Way

Ready to add this role to your team?

Tell us your role volumes and delivery process — we'll shortlist candidates against your actual task list.

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