Recruiter Talent Acquisition Partner

Join a High-Performance, People-First HR & Recruitment Team

Full-Time | Melbourne | Fast-Paced | Impact-Driven

Are you an experienced recruiter who loves the hunt, builds genuine relationships and gets a kick out of finding the right person for a hard-to-fill role?

At NextGen HR, we’re looking for a Recruiter Talent Acquisition Partner to join our growing Melbourne team and deliver end-to-end recruitment across our established and diverse client portfolio.

This isn’t a desk where you’ll recruit the same roles on repeat.

One day you might be headhunting a Network Engineer for an MSP, the next sourcing for a blue-collar role, and then shifting gears into accounting, finance or corporate recruitment.

If you love variety, thrive in a fast-moving environment and know how to take ownership of a vacancy from brief to placement, we’d love for you to apply.

About the Role

As our Recruiter Talent Acquisition Partner, you’ll take ownership of the full recruitment lifecycle, partnering closely with our clients and hiring managers to find great people who genuinely fit their business.

At NextGen HR, recruitment isn’t simply about filling vacancies. We work as an embedded partner to our clients, taking the time to understand their business, team, culture and what success actually looks like in the role.

Our purpose is to elevate the role and impact of people in every business, and recruitment is a big part of how we make that happen.

What You’ll Be Doing

End-to-End Recruitment

- Manage the full recruitment lifecycle including sourcing, screening, floating candidates, interviewing, offer negotiation and reference checks

- Partner with clients and hiring managers to understand their business, team and recruitment needs

- Create engaging job advertisements aligned with role briefs and Success Profiles

- Conduct thorough candidate interviews assessing capability, experience, values and genuine fit

- Present high-quality shortlists and provide clear, practical market feedback

- Manage candidate communication and experience from first contact through to placement

- Coordinate pre-employment requirements including reference, police and medical checks where required

The role is genuinely end-to-end, with responsibility across sourcing, assessment, offers and pre-employment activity.

Proactive Sourcing

- Proactively source talent through LinkedIn, SEEK, Employment Hero, Indeed and other channels

- Headhunt passive candidates rather than relying solely on applications





- Build and maintain talent pipelines for current and upcoming vacancies

- Develop a strong understanding of different candidate markets

- Manage multiple active vacancies across different clients and industries

Client & Candidate Partnerships

- Become a trusted recruitment partner to our clients and hiring managers

- Build genuine, long-term relationships with candidates

- Provide regular, proactive updates throughout the recruitment process

- Confidently manage expectations and offer negotiations

- Deliver an experience that represents NextGen HR at every touchpoint

- Keep recruitment systems, records and reporting accurate and up to date

The Variety

This is one of the best parts of the role.

NextGen HR works with growing businesses across industries including MSP & technology, automotive, transport & logistics and professional services.

That means your recruitment portfolio could include:

IT & MSP: Service Desk, Systems, Infrastructure, Network, Cloud and technical roles

Blue Collar: operational, trade, automotive and field-based positions

Finance & Accounting: accounting, finance and administration roles

Corporate & Professional: sales, operations, customer service, administration and leadership roles

You won’t be expected to know every market on day one. What matters is that you know how to recruit how to understand a role, learn the market, find the right people and confidently manage the process.

What Success Looks Like For us, great recruitment isn’t measured by how busy you look. It’s about:

- Quality candidates progressing through the recruitment process

- Strong offer acceptance

- Placements that go on to succeed in the business

- Efficient time-to-fill

- Clients who trust your advice

- Candidates who have a outstanding experience — whether they get the job or not

- Taking ownership and keeping your vacancies moving

What We’re Looking For

Experience & Background:

1–2 years’ experience in recruitment or talent acquisition

- Proven experience managing multiple vacancies simultaneously

- Strong end-to-end recruitment capability

- Confidence proactively sourcing and approaching candidates





- Experience using ATS platforms, job boards and LinkedIn sourcing tools

- Experience recruiting across multiple industries or role types will be highly regarded

- MSP, IT or technical recruitment experience is highly desirable

If you’ve recruited roles such as Infrastructure Engineers, Systems Engineers, Service Desk, Help Desk or Desktop Support, that will be a strong advantage.

Professional Strengths

- Exceptional verbal and written communication

- Confident and credible with hiring managers and candidates

- Strong interviewing and candidate assessment skills

- Commercially minded, with the confidence to provide advice rather than simply take an order

- Solid negotiation and stakeholder management skills

- Highly organised and able to juggle competing priorities

- Proactive, resourceful and comfortable picking up the phone

- Strong attention to detail and follow-through

The Person We’re Looking For

Skills matter, but so does how you show up.

Our values are Courageous, Collaborative and Innovative. NextGen HR Northstar

We’re looking for someone who takes ownership, asks questions and genuinely cares about doing great work.

Someone who will speak up when they see a better way.

Someone who enjoys working as part of a team but doesn’t need to be micromanaged.

Someone who can build relationships quickly, adapt when priorities change and keep things moving when recruitment gets busy.

And importantly, someone who genuinely enjoys recruitment.

Why Join NextGen HR?

You’ll have the opportunity to work across different businesses, industries and recruitment markets while being part of one supportive internal team.

And we’ve built our employee benefits around something pretty simple: great work comes from people who feel supported, energised and valued.

You’ll have access to

- Birthday Day Off

- Employee Wellbeing Day

- Life Admin Day

- Passion & Purpose Day

- Plus more

You’ll also have flexibility and autonomy we trust our people and focus on outcomes along with access to our Employee Assistance Program.

Ready for Your Next Move?

If you’re an experienced recruiter who loves finding great people, enjoys the challenge of a hard-to-fill role and wants the variety of recruiting across IT/MSP, blue collar, finance and professional roles, we want to hear from you.

Come help us elevate the role and impact of people in every business.

This role is fully remote with the occasional onsite client visit

Apply now to join NextGen HR.

📌 Recruiter | Talent Aquistion Partner (Melbourne)
🏢 NextGen HR
📍 Melbourne