Recruit Shop

What Recruit Shop does

Recruit Shop is an Australian-headquartered recruitment services firm founded around 2010, headquartered in Brookvale, Northern Beaches Sydney, with parallel operations in New Zealand. The company targets small businesses across Australia and New Zealand that cannot absorb the 8-15% percentage-based fees charged by traditional recruitment agencies, and sells a full-service permanent placement offering at a flat fee of A$2,995+GST per successful hire, backed by a money-back guarantee if the hire does not work out. The core service bundles consultation, job ad creation, multi-channel promotion, candidate screening, and shortlisting, with an average time-to-hire of under 30 days. Named SMB and nonprofit customers span real estate (Ray White, LJ Hooker, First National), finance (Mortgage Choice), construction, manufacturing, healthcare, hospitality, education, and indigenous services, indicating a deliberately horizontal segmentation approach.

The product surface has expanded beyond the core recruitment service into modular add-ons: an AI Phone Screen product using speech/audio processing and natural language processing for automated candidate pre-screening; a Digital Headhunting add-on for proactive passive-candidate sourcing; and Reference and Police Checks for background verification. Supporting content assets include a recruitment blog and e-guides, with marketing distributed across LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and direct phone and email sales channels. The company's technology stack appears to be a combination of an in-house candidate database, third-party job board distribution, and off-the-shelf or API-based AI for the phone screening feature, rather than a proprietary ML platform.

The revenue model is straightforward transactional services: one-time flat fees per successful hire, supplemented by optional add-on module purchases. Recruit Shop is privately held, has no disclosed institutional investors, no disclosed funding history, and a headcount of 11-50 employees. The firm has accumulated multiple regional awards (Australian Small Business Champion Awards 2020 Finalist and 2026 Winner; National Business Awards 2024 and 2025) and maintains a 4.7/5 rating across 182 verified Google reviews, which together form the primary intangible assets supporting customer acquisition in a competitive SMB segment.

Name

Recruit Shop

Legal name

Recruit Shop

Website

https://recruitshop.com.au

Company type

Private

Founded year

2010

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Recruit Shop is an Australian and New Zealand recruitment firm that places permanent staff for small businesses at a flat fee of A$2,995+GST per hire, offering an AI-powered phone screening add-on and money-back guarantee.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Brookvale

HQ country

Australia

HQ region

Oceania

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Operations

Revenue model

1. Flat-fee Recruitment Service: One-time flat fee of $2,995 + GST per successful hire. The service includes consultation, job ad creation, multi-channel promotion, candidate screening, and shortlisting. The money-back promise indicates risk-reversal for employers.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Recruit Shop provides a flat-fee end-to-end recruitment service for small businesses in Australia and New Zealand at $2,995 + GST per successful hire, delivered with a money-back guarantee and an average time-to-hire of under 30 days. The service covers consultation, tailored job ad creation, multi-channel promotion across job boards and social networks, candidate screening and shortlisting, and is supported by AI-powered phone screening and optional add-on modules for reference/police checks and digital headhunting.

Product overview

Recruit Shop offers a single unified recruitment service platform designed for small businesses in Australia and New Zealand. The core offering is a flat-fee recruitment service ($2,995+GST) that includes job ad creation, candidate screening, and shortlisting. This core service is complemented by add-on modules including AI Phone Screen (AI-powered initial candidate screening), Reference and Police Checks (background verification), and Digital Headhunting (proactive talent sourcing). Additional supporting resources include Recruitment E-Guides and a Recruitment Blog for employer education.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Recruitment Services End-to-end flat-fee recruitment solution for small businesses in Australia and New Zealand, priced at $2,995 + GST per successful hire. Includes consultation, tailored job ad creation, multi-channel promotion across database and job boards, candidate screening, shortlisting, a money-back promise, and an average time-to-hire of less than 30 days.
• AI Phone Screen Standalone add-on service that uses AI-powered speech and natural language processing to conduct automated phone-based candidate screening and pre-qualification, reducing time-to-hire and helping employers shortlist quality candidates.
• Reference and Police Checks Standalone background verification service providing reference checks and police clearance verification for candidates as part of the hiring process.
• Digital Headhunting Add-on Standalone proactive candidate sourcing service using digital methods to identify and approach passive talent candidates who are not actively job-seeking.

Quantifiable outcome

• Average time to hire less than 30 days
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers14 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability4 records

Feature1 record

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Market position

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/RecruitShop
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/recruit-shop
• Instagraminstagram.com/recruitshop/?hl=en

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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