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A Candidate Cheat Sheet to How Recruitment Actually Works

If you have spent years in a stable role, navigating the recruitment market can feel unfamiliar. Simple misunderstandings about agency fees, contracting rates, and representation often cause unnecessary hesitation. Here is our straightforward candidate cheat sheet breaking down exactly how recruitment works, debunking common myths, and explaining how to get the best out of your consultant.

Operational Lessons: The Reality of Counter Offers

When a key team member resigns, making a financial counter-offer is a common reactive strategy to protect project timelines. However, market data shows that nearly one-third of employees who accept these offers still leave within twelve months. Here is a balanced look at what counter-offers actually achieve, why they often fail to address the root causes of turnover, and how to approach retention constructively.

Operational Lessons for Managing Interview Processes

Every business requires a different approach to hiring, but over engineering or rushing an interview process will actively drive top talent away. Having managed hundreds of hiring loops across the technology sector, we have seen firsthand what works and what fails. Here are our practical, real world lessons on how to design an interview process that delivers results.

PAYG vs Pty Ltd Contractor Structures

Deciding whether to contract through a PAYG or a Pty Ltd structure impacts your tax positioning, administrative workload, and insurance coverage. This guide provides a direct comparison of both pathways to help you choose the right setup for your next government or hardware engineering contract.

The Highest Paid Programming Languages in 2026

What are the highest paid programming languages in 2026? What is most in demand? And where are the best opportunities in software development right now?

Using AI Responsibly to Write Your CV

Build a better CV without the bot feel. Learn how to use AI to articulate your experience, tailor your applications, and create a professional draft that still sounds like you.

Motion Recruitment: Your Prequalified SCM0007 Partner for NSW Government ICT talent

Motion Recruitment is officially a prequalified supplier under the NSW Government SCM0007 Scheme for ICT Categories G, H, and I. Discover how our decade of specialist technology expertise helps NSW Government agencies and Sydney-based eligible customers secure high-caliber contingent talent with full statutory compliance and capped, transparent pricing.

Scam Alert – Scammers Impersonating our Consultants

Scammers are impersonating our consultants – Learn how to spot and protect yourself from the latest recruitment scams targeting job seekers, including fake interviews and fraudulent job offers.

How to Negotiate your Salary in a Recruitment Process

Learn how to negotiate your salary confidently in today’s job market. This guide from Motion Recruitment covers practical steps, realistic strategies and the key conversations that help candidates secure stronger offers and better overall packages.

Preparing for an Interview: Essential Steps

Interview prep doesn’t have to be complicated. From your elevator pitch to body language, our no-fluff guide covers the essentials to help you walk in with confidence.

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Our comprehensive 2024 Salary Guide is now available

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10 lessons in 10 years

Motion Co-founder Christian Green shares his lessons from 10 years of building his own tech recruitment business

2023 Trends and Fearless Predictions for 2024

What did we see in 2023 and what can we expect from the year ahead?
What to do before a final interview

Tips and tricks for nailing that final interview
Five Tips to Help Students Land Their First IT Graduate Jobs

Explore 5 simple steps to help you succeed not only in an IT graduate job, but in your career, too.

See ya, Bianca: “What I Learned At Motion”

At Motion, we love celebrating the wins. While saying farewell to Bianca Trpcevski, one of our favourite people and an amazing recruiter, is a hard pill to swallow, our time with her was definitely a win – we’re privileged to have been a bit of her professional and personal journey, and we’re incredibly excited about the role…
Farewell, Aimee: What I’ve Learned At Motion Recruitment

After four amazing years with Motion Recruitment, our colleague Aimee Nolan is setting sail for new challenges. IN her time at the business she’s been a key part of our company journey. Too often in recruitment, recruiters come and go without an appropriate acknowledgement of their contribution and growth, so we wanted to sit down…
Permanent Recruitment Pricing Models

Our client’s recruitment requirements are diverse and often fluid meaning our approach to pricing needs to keep pace. Motion is able to offer 3 specialist pricing models to ensure that we are able to best add value to our client’s permanent recruiting needs. Contingency Model Motion Recruitment is engaged to fill a given position and…
Motion Recruitment Service List

Motion Recruitment is a full service IT recruitment firm. Our well trained and professional consultants are experts in their field providing high quality candidates in a timely fashion. But recruitment is much more than just a good CV. Below is a list of additional services we provide as part of our recruitment process.   Value…
Candidate Search and Advertising Proposal

At Motion Recruitment our specialist IT Recruitment consultants utilise an exhaustive list of candidate sourcing techniques and advertising platforms ensuring confidence you have turned over every stone in your search for the best available candidate. Included in every recruitment process are the following: Advertising – An experienced consultant will be responsible for writing an accurate…

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