Manoeuvre Recruitment

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High Flow Hiring

My name’s Michael Sharpe.

I have 15 years of agency recruitment experience for Hays and Robert Walters.

I started Manoeuvre Recruitment as a way to elevate the professionalism of our industry with creativity and passion at it’s heart.

I don’t believe in hard-selling shortlist on day 1 or floating candidates around the market.

I believe in understanding your commercial performance challenges and crafting jobs with performance outcomes to match.

I believe in crafting and orchestrating sourcing campaigns across top tier platforms like Seek and Linkedin Recruiter.

I believe in using technology to efficiently engage with job applicants to gather market data and insight into their motivations and capability.

You need capable, passionate people that make your company sustainably better off.

I’ve got the experience, methodology and capability to deliver that.

Methodology

My Performance-Based Methodology

At Manoeuvre Recruitment, I specialise in solving your commercial problems by finding high-performance talent. Unlike the contingent market, I don't believe in cutting corners or pressuring candidates. I believe in a professional, considered approach. My unique, four-step methodology ensures every hire is a strategic move, not a roll of the dice.

In 24 hours

You’ll get

  • A performance based job brief with clear performance objectives

  • A market map of target candidates from LinkedIn Recruiter

  • Creative Campaign Assets and a Campaign Plan

  • Blind job ads in market that protect your brand

In 7 days

You’ll get

  • Every candidate acknowledged within 24 hours

  • Qualification questions to isolate the capable and motivated

  • Captured salary data from your direct job applicants

  • Your first shortlist of candidates for interview.

  • My assessment of their capability and motivation

In 14 days

You’ll get

  • Briefed and prepared candidates to interview

  • Completed Referencing and psychometric testing as required

Within 30 days

You’ll get

  • A signed employment agreement

$2,500 +GST including advertising costs over 5 payments. 10% placement fee.

We can get started today for $500 +GST

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Sourcing Campaigns

I believe in professionally crafted creative campaigns across top tier sourcing platforms like Seek and LinkedIn Recruiter, amplified over social media for the full 30 days.

This gives agency to the jobseeker and generates interest that we can turn into sustainable motivation.

$2,500 +GST including advertising costs over 5 payments.

We can get started today for $500 +GST

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Response Management

Every job applicant deserves the dignity of a quick response, but we also need to figure out who has the capability and motivation to solve our business problems.

I set up dedicated email funnels for every job in JobAdder to efficiently process and gather high quality information.

I then interview everyone who meets your criteria and provide you with weekly shortlist recommendations.

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Placement Fees

Campaign briefs 10% of salary package + GST
Competitive briefs 15% of salary package + GST

90 day replacement guarantee

Frequently Asked Questions

Why shouldn’t I advertise on Seek myself?

I understand the temptation to do recruitment yourself. Recruitment can be seen as an expensive grudge purchase to be avoided. My goal is to show you that recruitment can be a high quality service that makes you permanently better off, and not a frustrating transaction.

Why shouldn’t I go to a specialist agency?

Permanent specialist recruitment has become a foot-race. Specialist agencies have every incentive to sell you the candidates they have on day 1, without running campaigns.

I don’t manage candidate pools, so I won’t sell you candidates on day 1. I can provide a market map within 24 hours, but the real value in recruitment is matching passion and capability with your commercial problems.

Advertising every role gives more dignity to the job-seeker and generates interest that you can turn into passion.

Other agencies charge 17-21%? Why do you charge 10%?

Contingent agencies in competitive markets have a lower probability of success than I do with my campaign model. I would rather have a higher probability of a lower fee than a low probability of a high fee. I also structure my campaign fees as 5 payments of $500 + GST so managers can pay on their credit cards. I don’t want price to be a barrier to work with me.

What is your specialisation?

I am a commercial recruiter with deep knowledge in marketing. In my career I have probably placed 300 marketing people, 50 sales people, 50 in accounting and finance and 30 Data Analysts.

Contact me

Interested in working together? Fill out some info and I will be in touch shortly. I can’t wait to hear from you!