2. One of Australia’s most renowned financial services organisations had a requirement for a senior client facing predictive modeler with a solid background in end-to-end customer model building using SAS technology. After 7 months of looking for the role, Bluefin Resources was engaged as a specialist recruiter to offer a fresh approach. Within 4 weeks Bluefin had shortlisted 3 candidates and filled the role.

1. An Australian software development company was contracted to provide a development team for a project in New Zealand, in a technical environment requiring extremely rare skills. Bluefin Resources was engaged to provide staff, and realised quickly that an international search would be necessary to attract candidates with the appropriate skills.

Bluefin Resources implemented this campaign and also networked through existing candidates, and was able to place one senior specialist and two developers. A local campaign sourced other candidates who were subsequently trained in the appropriate technology.

2. A major consulting firm won a significant project and required over 120 permanent and contract staff for both their Sydney and Melbourne offices including Technical, Solutions and Enterprise Architects, Business Analysts, Developers, Testers, Implementation Account Managers and Network Analysts.

Bluefin Resources was engaged as one of the main suppliers for this project, and undertook a rapid, aggressive advertising campaign involving a significant increase in advertising spend, a candidate referral scheme, custom made web banners, key word sponsoring on web sites and creation of “hot jobs” to attract candidates. Within one month, Bluefin Resources had been judged one of the top performers in terms of its resume to placement and resume to interview ratios. In addition, Bluefin’s candidate identification for the harder to fill roles was considered particularly strong.

A major Australian bank was struggling to recruit and retain skilled individuals within their risk management division. Bluefin Resources was engaged to conduct a salary benchmarking exercise, and the resulting information was presented at board level. As a result, salary bandings were adjusted in accordance with what Bluefin found to be the current market salary levels within this area of speciality. Bluefin Resources subsequently partnered with the organisation’s group risk management division to successfully recruit over 15 positions. These roles ranged from analysts / junior BA’s through to senior management positions and business areas included credit, market, and operational risk as well as compliance, and quantitative research.

A leading media company with an excellent reputation in the international market had been struggling for several months to find a Research Manager using their existing panel of recruiters. Bluefin Resources were approached to assist them in recruiting for this role and by actively speaking to candidates in the market we successfully managed to find a senior candidate and filled the role in less than two weeks.

After winning a new major account this IT and Business Consulting organisation needed to quickly recruit a new Marketing and Campaign Consultant to account manage the solution delivery of their new client. Bluefin Resources were chosen as one of three recruiters to work on these roles and managed to secure all six submitted candidates interviews and eventually represented the successful candidate.