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Our Mission

Design and deliver innovative solutions to identify the right talent, grow your people, and improve your organisation’s performance.

Our Values

We are a values-driven business. We are strongly committed to understanding the needs of our customers, exceeding expectations, and building long-term partnerships.

We demonstrate integrity through being fair, honest, and maintaining confidentiality.

Who we are

Our team holds extensive experience in identifying and matching talent for careers in mining, energy, utilities, manufacturing and finance sectors.

Our People

We employ professional consultants. Our people understand your sector and possess the maturity to manage any potential challenges. We have a track record of providing best practice, tailored, management, and organisational development solutions.

Our team actively engages with our networks, sharing information, and collaborating with each other to ensure optimal outcomes for both clients and candidates. We continuously maintain our profile and industry knowledge by attending conferences specific to our sector focus.

Alain Etchegaray - Managing Director

Alain has worked in Australia and in New Caledonia as trainer, recruiter, HR consultant & quality management auditor and manager of companies operating in the same fields in the last 25 years. His main focus is the design of tailored learning solutions to develop local competences in management and quality management.

Alain is a federal board member of the Australia Pacific Islands Business Council and the French Australian Chamber of Commerce – FACCI. He is also the French Honorary Consul in Brisbane.

Scott Roberts - Principal Advisor

Scott has 20 years Recruitment experience leading international Search and Selection firms focused on Mining, Utilities, Manufacturing and Oil and Gas sectors. He joined the recruitment industry after a 15 years in mining in Australia and Papua New Guinea. His mining role include an array of support, operational management and General Management positions.

He has also had his own consultancy business and the focus for his consulting has been on the enhancement of Organisation and People performance. Scott is a Fellow of the Recruitment Consulting Staffing Association, a Member of the Australian Psychological Society, a Registered Psychologist and Vice President of the Australia Papua New Guinea Business Council.

Ivan Lean - Principal Consultant – Organisational Development

Ivan is an AHPRA endorsed Organisational Psychologist with an interest that diverges into both clinical and organisational realms.

Having both the experiences in the employee assistance industry as well as in the organisational development consulting arena over the last decade; Ivan is able to bring balance into his practices by utilizing the precision of technical business management and combining it with the savoir-faire of treating organisations as a people. His interest gravitates towards leadership development, individual wellbeing and organisational performances and will comfortably venture into the use of unconventional solutions for his clients.

Margaret O'Malley - Principal Consultant – Recruitment

Margaret has 20+ years experience specialising in talent acquisition and executive search.  She has successfully completed confidential search assignments from Executive Leadership down to senior management and technical leadership roles across a range of functional disciplines including operations, projects, exploration, asset management, engineering, finance, and human resources (locally, nationally & internationally).

She has led a national research team and developed expertise in placing senior operational women in the areas of resources, energy and construction.

Margaret has a focus on increasing the diversity of senior leadership teams and is able to provide top tier clients with talent mapping across all level of roles whilst engaging with gender equality groups globally.

Throughout her career Margaret has developed strong networks via her voluntary positions with NAWIC (National Association of Women in Construction), IWiM (International Women in Mining), IWIMRA (Indigenous Women in Mining & Resources Australia), WIS (Women in Safety) WIMARQ (Women in Mining & Resources Qld) and Women in Energy.

Rani Fouladoux - Marketing & Office manager

Versatile professional with experience spanning across various roles in five countries. From starting as a junior biology researcher at an Indian NGO to working as an event coordinator in Australia, and progressing to roles as a brand ambassador and office manager, her career journey has been anything but conventional.

Rani’s diverse career path coupled with extensive studies have equipped her with unusual adaptability, resilience, multitasking skills, the faculty to integrate knowledge from different areas and strong interpersonal abilities. Most recently, her studies in graphic design have unlocked her creative potential, enabling to combine creativity and problem-solving, and to communicate ideas visually.

Bringing concepts to life and knowing they can inspire or influence others is a deeply rewarding aspect of her work.

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