Recruitment fees and guarantee: straight answers

The fee table is published before the search starts. $800 of your fixed fee starts the search. The rest is invoiced on your new hire’s start date, payable within 14 days. If the package you hire at lands in a different band than briefed, the fee follows the table, up or down. The full fee table and a worked example are set out on the pricing page.

Yes: 20% off repeat hires, in any band. Your first hire, or any hire after a 6-month gap, is the fixed fee for its band. Every repeat hire made within 6 months of the start date of your most recent placement is 20% off the fee for its own band, taken off the amount invoiced on the start date, and each qualifying placement resets the 6 months. The $800 to start applies once per search, not per hire. There are no retainers and no monthly fees. A worked repeat example is on the pricing page.

Most agencies charge a percentage of the salary: typically 15–20%, and up to 25% for harder roles. Ours is a fixed fee by salary band: $8,300 for a package of $60,000 – $75,000, up to $16,300 for $130,001 – $150,000. Every band is on our page of recruitment agency fees in Australia.

Yes. Each hire is a flat fee set by the salary band of the package they accept, not a percentage of salary.

Across every published band, yes, against any fee of 15% or more. On a $100,000 package, our fixed fee is $12,300. At 15–20%, the same hire costs $15,000 to $20,000.

Our target for the first shortlist is 72 hours from the ad going live. From there, we target a fill within 17 days.

If your hire resigns within 120 days, or you let them go within 90 days, we re-run the search and replace them at no further fixed fee. The full conditions are on our pricing page.

We do. We write the ad, run it under the Talyn name, and manage every response. The work belongs to the engagement.

Yes. Applications are read by technology we built and host locally. It doesn’t decide who we put forward: every shortlist is reviewed by a senior recruiter.

Send them in. They’re assessed against the brief like everyone else, and if they’re right, they go on the shortlist. If anyone is hired into the role while it runs, the standard fee applies however they were found: reading them against the brief and running the process is the work the fee buys. The exceptions are someone who had already accepted your written offer before the search began, if you showed us in writing before it began, and someone you have employed for at least 3 months who moves into the role.

Then we tell you that, with the evidence, and go search instead of shortlisting the least-bad. And if the shortlists we submit within 30 days of receiving your $800 give you no one worth interviewing, you’re free to end the engagement: tell us in writing that you are ending it and your $800 comes back in full.

We offer that too: Screening Plus runs the ad and sends you the best matches for one flat fee, however many you hire into the advertised role. The difference is that we read every applicant against your brief and show you why each person made the list. When you want the whole process run and guaranteed, that’s a full search.

Applicant and CV screening for a role you’re running yourself: we read every applicant against your brief and send back a shortlist with the reasoning, $950 per role, or $2,950 with Screening Plus, where we write the ad and post it on a job board. No placement fee. How screening works.

We don’t take every role. Tell us what you need, and if we don’t believe we can fill it properly, we’ll say no rather than take a fee to skim.