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What's different in the Hive?
Specialist Canberrability® in the ICT sector.

Over 11 years in business we have well over 300 currently employed on-hired ICT Legends. Our team of 10 long-tenure recruiters work more than 1500 ICT roles per year issued to us from 40+ active Federal Government Clients throughout all Australian states

  • 100% focused on the permanent and contracting recruitment of ICT Legends for Federal Government and related industries.
  • Experts at filling the full range of technology roles from Cloud Platform Solutions Architect to ICT Service Desk and a Machine Learning Engineer, or even an ICT Project Manager or Business Analyst, we are across all of them.
  • Fair and proactively disclosed rate structure to banish opportunism from our fee-setting. It underpins our ethical, respectful and value-driven approach
  • Bringing back the public trust! We’re fully compliant with employment legislation and Case Law. We recognise ICT Contractors as our employees whom we provide as on-hired workers to our Federal Government Host-Clients. No contractual smoke and mirrors to obfuscate our employer obligations and deny ICT Legends of their legislated rights here!
  • 0.6% gender wage gap among the ICT Contractors we provide to Federal Government (confirmed within our most recent Workplace Gender Equity Agency report). Australian average gender wage gap, for Professionals, was 21% during the same reporting period.

If you’re looking to fill a role with an ICT Legend, as a permanent or contractor, send us your details below and one of our Hive ICT Recruitment Consultants will be in touch.
If you’d prefer to speak immediately with an expert ICT recruiter you can contact us here.
Or you can find us on BuyICT.

Our fair and transparent fee structure

*Total client charge rates also include: Payroll Tax & 5% On-costs (covering legislated insurance and employer obligations, such as paid long service and family & domestic violence leave)

Our Self-Find Contractor Fee Structure

The Recruitment Hive’s Self-find fee structure is designed to allow our Federal Government clients a recruitment mechanism to leverage their most powerful recruitment advantage: the professional networks of their incumbent teams of technology specialists.
Internal hire recommendations produce better outcomes and, when coupled with The Recruitment Hive’s Self-Find fee structure, are acquired at a lower cost to the Federal Government.

Our Self-find fee structure is designed specifically so client-recommended ICT contractors can be considered, at a reduced rate, as a part of a formal, competitive and merit based tender process.

Higher quality at lower costs. Now that’s a significant benefit for the Australian economy.

Permanent Recruitment

Recruitment Hive offers a high-quality permanent recruitment service, tailorable to individual client needs. It features:
1. Principal of Merit expertise & coaching, recruitment project planning and comprehensive key decision support documentation delivered by professional scribes with extensive federal government recruitment experience
2. Design, development and execution of an innovative advertising campaign, candidate search and targeted head-hunting strategy

  • Our permanent recruitment services can run your entire recruitment project, or Clients can choose only certain elements to be charged as an hourly rate service to assist in:
  • Principal of Merit coaching
  • Job description, selection criteria, interview questions & referee report development
  • Decision support documentation template development
  • Candidate sourcing/advertising/head-hunting
  • Scribes
  • Advertising copy-writing
  • Applicant shortlisting

Canberrability.® We've got it.

Since 2012 we’ve worked hard to ‘bring back the trust’ in our efforts to make Federal Government ICT contracting in Canberra more cooperative, empathetic and respectful.

In 2018, we were the first to banish opportunism from contractor fee margins by proactively disclosing our contractor rate card. We sought to build trusting and mutually beneficial professional relationships to assist the Federal Government deliver technology solutions that improve the lives of all Australians while making heroes out of the ICT Legends whom we represent.

In 2022, we established fully paid Long Service Leave as ‘best-practice’ for long-term Federal Government ICT contractors. This is in accordance with legislated employer obligations. By recognising our employer obligations to long-term Federal Government ICT contractors we are committed to ensuring that Australia’s most valuable workers are not denied their legislated rights.

So, you want access to the best ICT Legends available?

  • Recruitment Hive can deliver them, because many ICT Legends in your market feel significant goodwill towards Recruitment Hive and actively support us in our endeavors to improve their industry by:
  • Proactively disclosing fees
  • Establishing paid Long Service Leave as best practice
  • Donating to local charities that support their communities
  • Our Hive people stay with us long term. They recruit their friends and siblings to work for us too. Long tenure, close knit teams have stronger capabilities and attract greater trust and loyalty from ICT Legends.
  • Recruitment Hive spends over half a million dollars each year on candidate advertising. This spend is significantly focused within the Canberra region and is market leading.
  • Since 2015, our own unique High-Quality Candidate process has identified, profiled, qualified, and tracked the highest quality ICT Legends in our market. We know who they are and we know where they are.

Security clearances.

In a recent snapshot of our currently employed ICT Contractors, 93% held AGSVA security clearances (51% BASELINE, 26% NV1, 12% NV2, 4% other). Recruitment Hive is a current member of the Defence Industry Security Program (DISP) and able to sponsor AGSVA security clearances.

Why does Recruitment Hive provide paid Long Service Leave to ICT Contractors?

We see casual employment, and long service leave (LSL), as ‘best recruitment (labour-hire) practice’ for long-term federal government ICT contractors.

What, me worry? A few reasons why you don’t have to when you work with from Recruitment Hive

  • Compliance with the Defence Security Principal Framework (DSPF) requirements
  • 2022 Cyber Security Assessment Report assessed Recruitment Hive’s cyber security maturity level as Embedded
  • All DISP Security Principles Framework (and authoritative documentation) membership requirements implemented and compliant with DISP Cybersecurity better-practice guidance
  • Comprehensive Work Health and Safety policies, processes and protocols confirmed to be compliant by WorkSafe ACT
  • Employee Assistance Program available to all contractors providing access to professional psychologists. Significantly assisting to mitigate psycho-social WHS risks and improve the well-being (and productivity) of our ICT Contractors
  • ICT Contractor employment agreements that include:
  • At all times when delivering services within the Commonwealth’s premises or facilities, ICT Contractors, engaged by The Recruitment Hive, must ensure that they comply with all federal government policies, guidelines and procedures relating to workplace harassment, occupational health (including the smoke free work place policy), APS and the Commonwealth’s Codes of Conduct, safety and security, including the Commonwealth’s Internet access and usage guidelines, in effect at those premises or in regard to those facilities, as notified by the Commonwealth.
  • At all times when delivering services within the Commonwealth’s premises or facilities, ICT Contractors engaged by Recruitment Hive ensure that they comply with Legislative Requirements, particularly the Crimes Act 1914 (Cth), the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cth), the Sex Discrimination Act 1984 (Cth), the Disability Discrimination Act 1992 (Cth) and the Workplace Gender Equality Act 2012 (Cth) (the Gender Equality Act).

Client charge rate charts

Need to hire a new ICT Contractor into your team and not sure what the current Market Client Charge Rate is? These charts will help you understand the evolution of Market Client Charge Rates across standard role types (and rate trajectory of the wider market). They’ve been created from actual client charge rate data from working Federal Government ICT Contractors and collated by business quarter over time.

Architect charge rates

Business Analyst charge rates

Developer charge rates

Project Manager charge rates

Test Analyst charge rates

Client testimonial

I’ve learned so much from your experience, advice, and guidance over the past 11 months… Even though our time working together is coming to a close, I’d still love to keep in touch.