Talent acquisition consultancy · Melbourne · Australia-wide
Marque Talent is the smarter way for growing businesses to hire: senior recruitment expertise on demand, around half the cost of an agency, with every hour itemised and no lock-in.
The problem
Most businesses believe they have two options when a role opens up. Both were designed around someone else's margin.
Option one: the agency
of first-year salary, per hire
On a $100k role that's a fee of $0, for a few weeks of work, priced against your candidate's salary rather than the effort involved. And the more the candidate costs you, the more the agency makes.
Option two: hiring in-house
a year in salary and on-costs
A dedicated recruiter is wonderful, if you hire constantly. Most growing businesses don't, so the desk sits quiet between roles while the salary, super and software keep running.
There is a better way. Pay a senior talent partner for the hours worked, and nothing else.
See how it works ↓The Marque model
Marque Talent runs your recruitment the way an in-house talent lead would: scoped up front, tracked to the task, and billed only for time actually worked. Take the whole search or just the stages you need.
Side by side
| Traditional agency | In-house recruiter | ◆ Marque Talent | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cost | 15–25% of salary | Full salary + on-costs | Hourly. Pay for time used |
| Commitment | Per hire | Permanent headcount | None. Scale up or down |
| Incentive | Close the placement | Fixed | Great work & honest advice |
| Transparency | Opaque fee | n/a | Every hour itemised |
The fee calculator
Drag the sliders. The difference is your money.
How hard is the role to fill?
Estimated effort: 35 hours at our blended rate of ~$220/hr
Typical agency fee
$20,000
Marque estimate
$7,700
You keep
$12,300
62% less than the agency route
Estimates only. Every engagement is scoped with an estimate and a cap up front. You approve before we ever exceed it.
Engagement tiers
Same partner, same process. Choose how you'd like to buy the hours.
Flex
$250/hr
For occasional, one-off hires
Most popular
Partner
$200/hr
For regular hirers
Embedded
$180/hr
Your ongoing talent function
◆ New clients begin with a one-off $750 establishment fee, credited in full against your first work, so it costs you nothing to commit properly.
What we do
Brief to onboarding: ads, search, screening, interviews, references and the close, all run like your own talent team would.
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Only need the ad written? A shortlist screened? Final interviews run? Buy exactly the stages you need, nothing more.
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Talent roadmaps, workforce planning, retention strategy and employee value propositions, so you keep the people you've got.
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Branded job descriptions, Seek ads and reference-check templates: flat-priced, yours to keep and reuse forever.
Enquire →How an engagement runs
We define the role, agree exactly which stages you're buying, and set the estimate and cap.
Sharp, honest advertising plus direct search, not just the people who happen to apply.
Structured screening against the brief. You see a shortlist worth your time, with clear notes.
Interviews, references and the checks that matter, verified before you commit.
Offer managed, start date locked, and a follow-up rhythm so your new hire actually stays.
Every stage is logged and itemised. Your invoice reads like a story of the work, and you'll get a clear update every single week.
About Marque
Marque Talent was built on a simple frustration: recruitment fees that punish businesses for growing. After years inside the industry, our founder saw the same story on repeat: great companies paying $20,000+ per hire, without ever seeing where the money went.
So Marque does it differently. You work directly with a senior talent partner, not a junior juggling thirty roles. You see every hour. You get advice that's genuinely on your side, because we're paid for good work, not for closing the priciest candidate.
◆ A mark of great hiring.
Meet us over a coffeeFair questions
They can't. You get an estimate and a cap up front, and we flag it before ever exceeding it. You approve any extension first, so you will never get a surprise invoice.
You can, and you'll usually pay two to three times more, to someone whose fee grows with your candidate's salary. We're paid for the work, not the placement, so our advice doesn't have a commission behind it.
No, and that's deliberate. Guarantees are how agencies justify percentage fees. You pay for expertise and a rigorous process at roughly half the cost. If a hire doesn't work out, you re-engage at the same hourly rate, and you're still ahead.
You get a senior partner, personally accountable for every role, not a desk of thirty jobs fighting for attention. Behind that sits a streamlined delivery system, so nothing waits and nothing gets dropped. Most clients find it faster than the agency they left.
It's a one-off for new clients that confirms commitment on both sides, and it's credited in full against your first work. In effect it costs you nothing; it just means we both take the engagement seriously from day one.
A free, no-obligation chat about the role you're trying to fill. Worst case, you leave with better questions. Best case, you never pay a percentage again.
