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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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Interview with the Founder: Brian Hannaford

  Thinking about a career in recruitment? Ever wondered what it’s like on the front line of the IT industry? We sat down with Motion Recruitment founder Brian Hannaford to chat about placing jobs, balancing priorities and getting the most of the business. What do you love about recruitment? Recruitment allows you to manage your…
How To Get Noticed By Recruiters

  Feel like you’ve been looking for a job forever but you’re just not getting the calls? Why is it that some people are constantly being contacted by recruiters and others not? You have the same credentials, the same experience and you’re awesome, right?! Well, the game has changed. When we were at school we…
The Pros and Cons of an Agile Framework

  I recently caught up with a CTO at a large business that had just undergone a transformation from a Waterfall model to an Agile framework (Scale Agile, specifically) and we had a good long chat about some of the challenges (and opportunities) he was facing. Here’s some of the things we talked about.  …
Women in Technology

In light of the recently passed International Women’s Day I thought it would be relevant to consider some of the challenges and issues faced by women in technical fields, where we remain drastically under-represented. The cause of encouraging more women in technology, and STEM fields generally, has forged a bit of a community in Sydney….
Is It Time For An AWS Certification?

  More than ever, we’re hearing from our clients that AWS certifications are something they’re looking for in their prospective employees. Not only does it show you have technical expertise and formalized training in the field, it will also garner you access, as the candidate, to a larger pay packet. Who should complete an AWS…
How To Get Into DevOps

  It’s a part of the industry candidates are clambering to get into. How best to secure your first DevOps role, though? Here are some my tips.   Learn the basics of how to code. Python and Ruby are versatile and a useful place to start – they can be used on any operating system….
How To Prepare For A Technical Test

  As part of many interview processes, candidates will be required to complete a technical test. This may be a written test or a face-to-face process, and it can often be a stage of the interview process where an otherwise well-suited candidate may struggle, as it could be outside of the scope of what they’re…
Emerging trends and the future of data and Artificial Intelligence

  Concrete predictions about the future of the world of data are impossible to make – as with any technical industry, the changes are coming quickly and are often difficult to predict or see coming. In truth the Sydney and Australian technology landscape is probably a couple of years behind the major hubs of Europe…
What defines a data scientist?

  Everyone is looking for a data scientist, but for a position in such high demand there’s no clear definition of what the job title describes. I’ve tried to get to the bottom of figuring out what’s involved. A company new in the data journey may think they need a data scientist, but they’re probably…
How To Shape Up Your Resume

  Ready to tackle a new challenge? Haven’t updated your CV in a few years? Here’s some tips on making sure your resume sits at the top of the pile. Length As a general rule of thumb your resume won’t be read for more than 20 seconds. If you’re lucky. Keep it under 2 pages…

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