Rent a Recruiter Secures Prestigious Business Innovation Award, Marking a New Era in Global Recruitment
Rent a Recruiter has been honoured as an ABA100 Winner for Business Innovation at The Australian Business Awards 2025, recognising the company’s leadership and long-term commitment to advancing industry innovation.
Established in 2019, Rent a Recruiter Australia was founded to challenge legacy recruitment agencies that relied on high-cost, transactional models. With recruitment inefficiency rampant and 95% of hiring effort often wasted through brief-and-race agency tactics, Rent a Recruiter introduced a model rooted in affordability, transparency and strategic outcomes.
The innovative Recruitment-as-a-Service (RaaS) offering embeds dedicated recruiters directly into client businesses, operating under the client’s brand, systems and culture. Unlike traditional contingency agencies that fill fewer than 5% of roles, this approach brings focus, accountability and measurable hiring performance to organisations previously priced out of professional talent acquisition support.
In Australia, SMEs make up 97% of all businesses, yet have historically faced agency fees of 15% to 30% per hire. Rent a Recruiter’s embedded model was built to close this gap, giving start-ups and scaling enterprises access to flexible and cost-effective recruitment delivery once reserved for large corporations.
The company evolved as a remote-first organisation after the COVID-19 pandemic and participated in the global Four-Day Week Global Trial in 2022. Over six months, Rent a Recruiter recorded increases in profitability and productivity, alongside improvements in employee wellbeing, enabling staff to dedicate more time to family and community care roles.
Rent a Recruiter has supported client hiring across six countries and multiple sectors including technology, transport, hospitality, government, education and security. The business continues to demonstrate sustained value through high retention, repeat contracts and a client-reported cost reduction of up to 70% when compared to traditional agency fees.
Managing Director of Rent a Recruiter Australia, Jessica Vatoff, commented:
“We started Rent a Recruiter because the traditional agency model was broken. High fees, low commitment, and too many CVs fired at employers with no accountability. We knew there had to be a better way.”
“Our Embedded Recruitment Services model places dedicated recruiters inside our clients’ businesses so hiring becomes consistent, predictable, and high-quality. Winning the ABA100 for Business Innovation validates what our clients already tell us: we remove the headache from recruitment. From advertising and sourcing to interviews, offers and onboarding, we deliver a true white-glove service that cuts hiring costs by up to 70% and improves retention.”
“This award fuels our mission to reinvent how companies hire and strengthens our belief that innovation in recruitment is not about speed alone, it is about building a smarter, scalable model that benefits employers, candidates, teams and society as a whole. This recognition accelerates our momentum heading into 2026.”
Industry transformation lies at the heart of Rent a Recruiter’s mission. The Recruitment-as-a-Service model has redefined engagement between hiring teams and recruitment providers by unifying process, purpose, cost predictability and long-term alignment.
The company’s success is further reinforced by client sentiment and internal performance benchmarks, achieving an employee net promoter score (eNPS) of 75, and a client satisfaction score of 95%.
Jessica Vatoff added: “This award fuels us forward. It strengthens our belief that smaller enterprises deserve better hiring support and reminds the industry that scalable innovation can be human-centred, efficient and accountable at the same time.”
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