Rec-to-rec in Sydney.
Recruitment to recruitment in Sydney: placing recruiters into Sydney agencies, rookie desks through GMs. Nearly a decade of mapping who's hiring, who's growing, and who to swerve.
Our home market since 2018 and the largest agency-recruitment market in Australia, and the one we know desk by desk.
Financial services · Technology & SaaS · Professional services · Construction & property · Executive search
- The deepest concentration of recruitment agencies in the country, from global brands to single-desk boutiques.
- Financial services, technology and professional-services desks dominate the CBD; construction and property run hot across Greater Sydney.
- Where Start Group is headquartered, most of our placements, and our sharpest market map, are here.
- The first stop for most UK and Irish recruiters relocating to Australia.
A recruiter who places other recruiters.
A rec-to-rec consultancy (also written rec2rec or rec 2 rec) moves recruitment professionals between agencies, consultants, billers, team leads, managers and GMs, not the candidates they place. In Sydney, that means knowing the agency landscape desk by desk.
Good rec-to-rec means knowing the market cold: which Sydney desks are warm, which comp plans pay out, and which agencies are about to grow or contract. We've spent ten years learning it.
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Which Sydney desks are worth your move.
Sydney is the deepest agency market in Australia, and the desks worth joining differ sharply by vertical. Here's our honest read on each, with a full Sydney market guide for your specialism. Advertised Sydney bases currently run about $80 to 90k for a consultant and $130 to 140k for a manager (SEEK, June 2026, base only; commission sits on top).
Technology.
Sydney is Australia's deepest tech recruitment market, enterprise, fintech and a dense scale-up scene concentrated around the CBD, Surry Hills and North Sydney. Contract desks run hot on cloud and data; perm search is competitive for senior engineers and product.
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Finance & Banking.
As the financial-services capital of Australia, Sydney has the country’s richest finance recruitment market, the major banks, asset managers and insurers are headquartered here, so front-office and risk/compliance desks are deepest in the CBD.
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Construction & Property.
A relentless pipeline across Greater Sydney, metro and motorway infrastructure, commercial towers and residential, keeps construction recruitment busy from tier-1 contractors to boutique developers.
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Healthcare & Life Sciences.
Sydney combines large public health districts, major private hospital groups, and the commercial HQs of most pharma and medical-device companies in Australia, so the vertical spans clinical locum desks through to pharma sales recruitment.
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Legal.
Sydney is the largest legal recruitment market in Australia, top-tier and global firms, a deep in-house market across corporates and financial services, and active partner/lateral movement.
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Executive Search.
As the corporate headquarters market for Australia, Sydney has the densest executive search scene, board, C-suite and PE-backed mandates, with global search firms and local boutiques competing.
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"Sydney is home. Most of our placements happen here, and our sharpest read on who's hiring, who's growing and which agencies to avoid is the Sydney one."
From John · Founder · Start Group
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