Job Description
Talent Acquisition Specialist - Construction
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Some people are drained by talking to 40 strangers a day. You're the opposite.
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Job Play places labourers and tradespeople on construction sites across Australia. At 6am a site manager rings short three carpenters. By smoko, three carpenters are on site with the right tickets in hand. That's the job — and when you're the one who pulled it off, it's a genuinely good feeling.
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We're looking for a Talent Acquisition Specialist (Recruitment Resourcer) who loves the finding, not the selling. If the best part of your day is a good conversation, a fast match and a worker who says "yeah, I can start Monday," you'll fit here.
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About you
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You're deeply passionate about people and about the construction industry — you find both genuinely engaging, and it shows in how you talk about them.
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You're enthusiastic on the phone from the first call to the fortieth. Eager to learn a market you might not know yet. Excited by a hard role that no one else can fill, and energetic enough to still be moving at 4pm on a Friday.
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You're dedicated to your candidates — you follow up, you call back, you remember names. Committed to getting the details right, because a missing ticket stops a worker at the gate. Driven to build the best talent pool on the Gold Coast, and inspired by the idea of being the person hundreds of workers call first.
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What you'll be doing
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Sourcing labourers and trades across job boards, databases and referrals
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Screening candidates and running phone interviews
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Registering candidates and verifying licences, tickets and right-to-work
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Building and maintaining a strong pipeline of ready-to-work labourers
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Reconnecting with past candidates and keeping the talent pool warm
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Coordinating workers for site placements alongside the recruitment team
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Flagging opportunities you hear on the phones and passing them to the consultants
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What we're looking for
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Strong phone communication — you'd rather call than email or text
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You genuinely like people and can talk to anyone, on any site, in any trade
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Highly organised with sharp attention to detail — tickets and licences aren't negotiable
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Comfortable speaking with candidates all day and energised, not exhausted, by it
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Someone who wants to become the person who owns the talent pool, not the person chasing the sale
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No recruitment experience required. If you've served, coached, hosted, sold or hustled and you're good with people, we'll teach you the rest.
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Where it goes
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This isn't a stepping stone to a sales desk. It's the start of a specialist track.



There are avenues for sales for those that want it but often we find someone passionate about resourcing doesn't want to go into a sales position.
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As you grow, you'll take ownership of the candidate pool itself — workforce planning, redeployment, retention, and becoming the person hundreds of workers call first. That's the Talent Manager path, and we'd rather build it internally than hire it in.
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What's in it for you
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Variety by default — trades, labour, transport, warehousing, five states
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Real ownership of your talent pool, not a script and a call list
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Training from a leadership team that's built desks from scratch
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Modern Gold Coast office, a team that celebrates wins, and no two days the same
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No one works on their birthday!
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Well remunerated, salary pending on experience
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Commission structure and rewarded for effort that contribute to team goals
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About Job Play
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We're a national labour hire and recruitment business working with construction companies across QLD, NSW, VIC, SA and WA. Our site managers need reliable workers quick; our contract administrators need paperwork that's clean the first time. We deliver both — and we're growing quickly enough that the right person will grow with us.
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Sound like you?
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Hit Apply and send us your resume, plus a short note on the best conversation you've had with a stranger. We move quickly — shortlisted candidates will hear from us within 48 hours.
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📌 Talent Acquisition Specialist - Construction (Gold Coast)
🏢 Job Play
📍 Gold Coast