More than your average recruitment agency, we’re here to best-connect people and businesses.
How we approach recruitment
Taking a human-centred approach to recruitment means our consultants build a deep understanding of the people and professions they recruit. Our personalised and professional service is designed to create valuable outcomes for clients and candidates alike.
Using competency-based interviewing, we focus on the competencies and capabilities required and find alignment between individual qualities and business goals and values.
Blackbook recruitment
Engaged and invested
We take a human-centred approach: delivered collaboratively and with humility, to create a rewarding recruitment experience.
Helpful and resourceful
We’re problem solvers. With meticulous attention to detail, we work to navigate nuances, resolve complexities, and forge new pathways.
Mindful of the big picture
More the immediate job at hand, we foster lasting connections and build relationships to harness potential – now and in the future.
Informed and insightful
We leverage data, evidence, research and technology for methodical recruitment, systematic search, and reliable results.
Mutual trust and respect
We do the right thing by people to cultivate reciprocity and respect. We listen, ask the right questions, and facilitate feedback.
About Blackbook Executive
Our Purpose
To provide enterprising recruitment solutions that enrich lives and livelihoods.
We connect companies and professionals with mutually valued opportunities – enabling beneficial partnerships to realise collective potential.
Encompassing divergent perspectives, we’re committed to each individual and organisation – to uncover holistic alignment and unite shared purpose.
As career facilitators, our correlated networks and knowledge give our clients and candidates a competitive edge.
Our Mission
Every day, we endeavour to be the go-to recruiters for our fields of focus – exceptional service and rewarding experiences for employers and professionals.
Creating shared trust and engendering mutual respect – we practise with integrity to enrich outcomes and exceed expectations.
Responsive, reliable recruitment – currency through specialist savvy. Facilitators with functional fluency, insight and perspective – experience, knowledge, networking nous and proficiency to advance business and careers.
Our People
Our teams take pride in being knowledgeable specialists who understand the people and professions they recruit, thriving on the shared success that comes from getting it right.
We know that a flexible and fulfilling environment flows forward, so our personal approach starts in our workplace: respecting and supporting each other to be good humans. By fostering an equitable, inclusive workplace where people can be themselves and feel they belong, we permeate this into our recruitment approach – we focus on individuals, recognise every situation is different, ensure people get a fair go and can thrive at work.
Our Values
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Working with people and lives, we understand the difference diversity makes and the impact of equitable recruitment.
Core to recruitment – appreciating diversity, fostering inclusion, and promoting equity are fundamental values for Blackbook that permeate our people and processes.
We know diverse teams are more innovative, creative, and effective, so we cultivate inclusivity – for all individuals, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, religion, age, disability, or any other characteristic, to feel valued, respected, and empowered.
Intentional not to ‘judge a book by its cover’ – we apply open-mindedness to acknowledge more than first impressions and ‘good on paper’ and gain an unbiased understanding the story.
Continuously learning, challenging bias, and promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion underpin our recruitment approach.
Ethics and Social Responsibility
Dedicated to equal opportunities, equitable representation and advancement, Blackbook embodies an ethical approach to recruitment and active role in the wider community.
We understand our privileged position, and the precariousness life can bring. Interacting daily with the diverse human-sense, we understand the bigger picture and appreciate the difference care and consideration makes.
Our values encompass more than our everyday recruitment focus – as a citizen of the broader community and team of good human beings. Blackbook supports its people to be well-rounded individuals and give back to the community, including charitable company initiatives and volunteering leave.
Our foundational philosophies and shared values help bond our team and guide our role in recruitment and in life.
The Blackbook Story
Founding Directors Matt Simpson and Clinton Holmes joined forces in 2011, with an idea for a new recruitment venture – conceiving Blackbook Executive as a way to provide more meaningful recruitment solutions.
Tapping into common perspective and insight, the pair set out to turn the page on transactional style recruitment. The proposition was simple: combine truly targeted knowledge with specialist networking nous, for a more exclusive recruitment experience – valued by businesses and professionals.
Establishing a role as specialists, Blackbook built its reputation recruiting key functional roles. Taking the processes and proficiencies of larger agencies, with the advantage of flexibility and focus, Blackbook embraced its niche position and forged a way forward.
Feedback and Recognition
Today, Blackbook comprises a team of talented individuals who share and sustain the vision – serving a growing client base and talent pool.
Along the way, we are pleased to be acknowledged with a few accolades:
- LinkedIn’s Most Socially Engaged Boutique Staffing Agency APAC 2017 & 2018
- Recruitment International “Rising Star” 2016
- LinkedIn’s Most Socially Engaged Boutique Staffing Agency ANZ 2016
- BRW’s “Fast Starters” Number. 77, 2015
- BRW’s “Fast Starters” Number. 90, 2014
