Senior Recruiter

About the Role

We are seeking an experienced and proactive Senior Recruiter to join Outsourced Staff, supporting the end-to-end recruitment of high-quality talent for our Australian clients.

This role plays a critical part in managing vacancies from sourcing through to placement — working closely with Australian clients to understand their requirements, identifying and qualifying candidates, coordinating interviews, and ensuring a smooth recruitment process through to offer and onboarding.

You will be working within a structured, fast-paced remote recruitment environment, managing multiple concurrent vacancies while representing Outsourced Staff and its clients professionally at every stage of the process.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end recruitment processes across multiple vacancies, from job briefing and sourcing through to candidate placement.
• Maintain accurate candidate and vacancy records in the ATS and recruitment trackers.
• Monitor recruitment activity, pipeline progress and sourcing metrics.
• Work closely with Australian clients to understand their role requirements, priorities, expectations and candidate preferences.
• Gather and communicate client feedback and keep candidates updated throughout the recruitment process.
• Provide regular recruitment updates, pipeline reports and vacancy status reports to management and clients.
• Assist with preparing and reviewing pricing calculations and recruitment/client scorecards where required.
• Conduct candidate sourcing through LinkedIn, job boards, ATS databases, recruitment platforms and outbound campaigns.
• Build and maintain strong candidate pipelines through proactive sourcing and talent mapping.
• Use our core recruitment tech stack day-to-day, including Lever (ATS/CRM), LinkedIn, Noon, Brainner, Expandi, Instantly, Million Verifier, Juicebox and 3CX for candidate/client calls.
• Support recruitment campaigns and job advertising across relevant online platforms.
• Conduct initial phone/video screening and qualification interviews to assess candidate suitability.
• Assess candidates against role requirements, including technical skills, industry experience, Australian market experience, systems knowledge, communication skills, availability, salary expectations and cultural/team fit.
• Prepare concise and professional candidate summaries, scorecards and recommendations for clients.
• Coordinate candidate interviews with clients and manage the recruitment process between candidates and hiring managers.
• Manage candidate negotiations around salary, notice periods, availability, working arrangements and other offer considerations.
• Coordinate references, background checks, documentation and pre-employment requirements.
• Work collaboratively with other recruiters and provide support with sourcing and candidate screening when required.
• Continuously review sourcing strategies and identify opportunities to improve candidate quality, response rates and time-to-fill.
• Help develop and improve screening questions, interview processes, recruitment scorecards and candidate assessment methods.
• Ensure candidates are presented professionally and that the recruitment experience reflects positively on Outsourced Staff and its clients.

Key Skills & Experience

• Proven experience in end-to-end recruitment, preferably within an agency, outsourcing or high-volume recruitment environment.
• Strong candidate sourcing and headhunting capabilities.
• Experience using LinkedIn Recruiter or LinkedIn sourcing/outreach.
• Strong understanding of Boolean/search techniques and proactive candidate identification.
• Experience working with an ATS, recruitment CRM or candidate database (we use Lever as our ATS/CRM).
• Excellent phone and video interviewing skills.
• Strong written and verbal English communication skills; confident communicating with Australian clients and hiring managers.
• Strong stakeholder and relationship management skills.
• Ability to manage multiple vacancies and priorities simultaneously.
• Strong negotiation and influencing skills.
• Genuinely into AI tools and quick to pick up new ones — we rely heavily on AI-powered platforms for sourcing, outreach and candidate research, so this isn't optional for the role.
• Strong problem-solving skills and a proactive approach to recruitment challenges.

Ideal Candidate Attributes

• Highly organised and detail-oriented
• Commercially aware and client-focused
• Confident, proactive communicator
• Comfortable working independently in a remote, fast-paced environment
• Quick learner, especially with new tools and AI-powered platforms
• Resilient and adaptable when priorities shift
• Personable, with genuine warmth when engaging candidates and clients

Join Our Team

This role is a key part of Outsourced Staff's recruitment team, directly responsible for finding, qualifying and placing high-quality candidates with our Australian clients.

The successful candidate will contribute directly to strong client relationships, fast and accurate placements, and a recruitment experience that reflects well on Outsourced Staff — becoming a trusted, senior voice within the recruitment team.

Ready to join us? Apply today and one of our recruiters will be in touch.