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May 27, 2026Hiring isn’t just about filling a seat; it’s about bringing the right person into your business. Yet, too many businesses rely on outdated methods, rush the process, or put blind faith in AI. The result? Wasted time, lost productivity, and thousands of dollars down the drain.
In this 45-minute masterclass, Natasha Hawker (Founder, Employee Matters) breaks down the reality of hiring in today’s market and shows you exactly how to get it right.
What You Will Discover:
- The hidden costs of getting recruitment wrong (and why gut-feel hiring is a liability).
- The 5 biggest mistakes managers make when recruiting and how to avoid them.
- Why AI can be a hindrance, and how to successfully harness and outsmart it.
- Smarter, proven strategies that save you time, money, and stress.
- What a truly effective hiring process looks like.
Bonus 🎁 The Employee Matters Recruitment Guide: When you access the recording, you will also receive our exclusive Recruitment Guide, featuring practical tools, templates, and takeaways you can implement in your business immediately to start hiring smarter.
Meet Your Host:
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Natasha Hawker Founder & Managing Director of Employee Matters Natasha Hawker is the Managing Director of Employee Matters, a leader in the Australian HR space and a sought-after speaker, author, podcaster and media commentator. Natasha's insights on HR news and trends have been featured by ABC Radio, 7+ Sunrise, The Financial Review, and the Sydney Morning Herald, to name a few. Natasha’s book “From Hire to Fire & Everything In Between” is an Amazon best-seller, based on over 30 years of experience helping businesses around the world Hire, Manage and Exit thousands of employees. A graduate of Australian Institute of Company Directors, Natasha leads Employee Matters, a business that provides HR and Recruitment support to businesses great and small. Employee Matters was a 2023 State Finalist in the Telstra Best of Business Awards. |
Employee Matters offers two modes of engaging with our flexible, end-to-end recruitment services:
- Tiered Recruitment Packages – a fixed-price solution ideal for helping you source and hire for one or several current known job vacancies.
- Recruitment Partner Service (RPS) – we deliver your end-to-end recruitment needs by embedding an Employee Matters Recruitment Expert into your team.
This page details our Recruitment Partner Service (RPS):
Recruitment Partner Service (RPS)
What is Outsourced Recruitment?
Hiring isn’t just about reviewing resumes and conducting interviews — it’s about understanding people. The psychology behind recruitment plays a significant role in hiring success. Every candidate brings their motivations, biases and expectations to the table, just as hiring managers do.
By understanding psychological principles such as cognitive biases, behavioural assessments, and decision-making patterns, hiring managers can make better, data-driven hiring choices. Our training helps managers:
- Recognise and mitigate unconscious bias in hiring
- Improve candidate engagement through personalised communication
- Assess cultural and role fit effectively
- Make objective, evidence-based hiring decisions
With these strong foundations, managers can make better hiring decisions, reduce turnover, improve job satisfaction and build high-performing teams.
Why Choose Outsourced Recruitment?
Hiring the right talent is one of the biggest challenges for any business. Traditional recruitment agencies can be expensive and often operate on a transactional basis, focusing on filling roles rather than ensuring long-term success. This is where outsourced recruitment comes in — a smarter, more integrated, and cost-effective solution.
At Employee Matters, we don’t just fill roles. We embed ourselves in your business, working as an extension of your team to find the best candidates efficiently and affordably.
The Employee Matters Difference
Our clients report high satisfaction with our Recruitment Partner Service (RPS). We are your in-house outsourced recruitment partner, embedding ourselves into your organisation to truly understand your hiring needs.
Benefits of choosing Employee Matters include:
Traditional recruitment agencies charge hefty placement fees, often 15% of a candidate’s annual salary. This adds up quickly, especially if you have multiple hires.
Our outsourced recruitment model eliminates these high commissions, offering flexible pricing that helps you control costs while still accessing top-tier talent. Our recruitment services typically cost a third of what an agency would charge!
We become a part of your organisation, learning your culture, values and hiring needs. This deep understanding allows us to attract and select candidates who not only have the right skills but also align with your company’s mission and long-term objectives.
Whether you’re hiring one role or scaling up your entire team, we tailor our services to your specific needs. Our flexible approach means you can increase or decrease the support we provide based on your changing hiring demands, giving you ultimate control and agility.
Many recruitment agencies focus on volume, burying you in resumes and/or prioritising quick placements to secure their commission. We take a different approach. Our goal is to find the right candidates – candidates who will thrive in your business and contribute to its success for the long haul.
Agency recruiters are often junior and lack the years of experience our Employee Matters Recruitment Experts have. With all our experts having at least 10 years of experience in recruitment, we have knowledge and expertise that far surpasses many agency recruiters.
If you’re looking for a way to improve your internal employee recruitment processes, Employee Matters can deliver the training you need for your hiring managers to find the best candidates. We can conduct recruitment training, including strategy workshops for your hiring managers and interview training.
We provide strategic advice and planning, imparting lasting knowledge that will help your organisation with future employee recruitment.
ACT NOW: Get in touch today to tell us about your recruitment needs, and to learn more about how we can help you hire better talent, faster and more cost-effectively.
What Our Clients Say
How We Work:
Recruitment Partner Service (RPS)
Our recruitment model is tried and tested, with advanced processes in place to ensure a smooth and satisfactory hiring experience. We offer a total end-to-end service including:
- Discovery and Planning
- Job Profiling and Market Research
- Candidate Sourcing
- Screening and Interviews
- Employer Branding and Candidate Experience
- Offer Management and Onboarding Support
Learn more about How We Work here:
Who Can Benefit from Outsourced Recruitment?
Our outsourced Recruitment Partner Service (RPS) is ideal for businesses of all sizes and industries, including:
- Startups and Scale-ups – Need to grow your team quickly without the burden of high recruitment fees? We’ve got you covered.
- SMEs – Don’t have an internal HR or recruitment team? We act as your in-house hiring partner.
- Large Enterprises – Need additional recruitment support for high-volume hiring or specialised roles? We integrate seamlessly with your existing HR team.
- Project-Based Hiring – Expanding into new markets or launching a new project? Our flexible recruitment solutions ensure you get the right talent when and where you need it.
Why Choose Employee Matters?
At Employee Matters, we’re passionate about helping businesses build high-performing teams. Our outsourced Recruitment Partner Service (RPS) is designed to provide:
Cost Savings
No hefty recruitment agency fees and commissions. Our services cost a third of agency fees on average!
Tailored Support
We embed ourselves into your business, allowing us to craft a customised recruitment solution that aligns with your business strategy and needs.
Faster, Smarter Hiring
Our streamlined processes reduce time-to-hire and secure top talent efficiently.
Long-Term Fit
We prioritise quality hires that will thrive in your business in the long-term.
End-to-End Recruitment Management
From job descriptions to onboarding, we handle the whole recruitment process.
Recruitment Training
We provide training for your hiring managers, including interview training and strategic workshops which help your team make better hiring decisions in the future.
Which Industries Does Employee Matters Recruit For?
Employee Matters has a wealth of recruitment experience across many industries. These include:
- Aged Care
- Agriculture
- Construction
- Consulting
- Disability
- Education
- Energy & Renewables
- Finance
- Government
- Healthcare
- Hospitality
- I.T.
- Insurance
- Legal Services
- Manufacturing
- Marketing/Advertising
- Media/Entertainment
- Not-For-Profits
- Pharmaceutical
- Real Estate
- Retail
- Start-Ups
- Telecommunications
- Transportation
Get in Touch
Tell us a bit about your business and we’ll be in touch to:
- Understand the challenges that are holding your team or growth back
- Show you how our embedded HR and Recruitment Experts can solve problems faster, without the overheads
- Identify high-impact areas where HR and Recruitment support could save you time, stress and money
- Map out a tailored approach based on your goals, industry and internal capabilities
Alternatively, you can call us on (02) 8021 4206.