The Ignite recruitment agency story

Our story

Recruiters that make it happen

For 40 years, Ignite has been the experts in specialist recruitment, for public and private sectors across Australia.

But just because we are 40 years old doesn’t mean we operate the way we did back then. Today, we ensure efficiency whilst sticking to the steadfast values that make us one of the most formidable market leaders and an ASX-listed company.

Celebrating a legacy of innovation and excellence, Ignite marks 40 remarkable years since our journey began on February 20th, 1984.

At Ignite, we pride ourselves on being a leading recruitment agency in Australia, providing temporary, contract, and permanent recruitment services at all levels of seniority for businesses in both the public and private sectors. Our expertise spans various industries, including IT and digital, government, business support, engineering, information management, and professional services recruitment. Plus, we provide sought-after on-demand IT services.

We have an enviable track record of being a top 10 recruitment supplier to the federal government, and have built strong client relationships over the past four decades. Our extensive talent database, with over 870,000 candidate records, combined with our national resource centre, means we deliver effective and efficient recruitment services.

Ignite has genuinely earned our reputation as a leading recruitment agency in Australia.

What’s special about our recruitment agency?

  • 24-hour central point of contact via our resource on-demand team
  • more than 800,000 work-ready candidates
  • serviced thousands of clients in the past few years
  • 70 people in our team
  • thousands of jobs placed each year
  • 40 years in business
  • 5 offices across Australia

All our services are supported by our national resource centre with growing satellite resource teams in Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, and Perth. This has given us access to more internal proven expertise in behavioural science, organisational psychology, business change management, advanced competency assessment and human resources.

We value transparency and communication.
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