About us

Are you ready to achieve more than you thought possible?

At Davidson, every action, big or small, is directed to enhancing workplaces, supporting careers and making a positive difference to the lives of our clients, candidates and the broader community.

With a national presence built over the past 30 years, we possess the scale and capability to enhance workplace performance. We combine this with strong local knowledge and a partnership-based approach to building sustainable value.

Our team includes a broad range of specialists in business advisory, search and recruitment and technology consulting. Many of our clients have worked with us for decades.

We put that down to not just believing in our values but living them.

We work with some of the biggest brands in Australia, supporting their business needs with the right people solutions and finding the best candidates for contract and permanent positions.

As a recruiter, your role is to immerse yourself in a specific candidate market. And while you will be on the phone a lot, face-to-face meetings, attending events, meet ups and conferences are essential to building your network.

Our clients seek our support to uncover those amazing employees that are hard to come by. So, you’ll spend most of your time proactively searching for those unicorns. This requires skill, connection and resilience. The work is diverse and rewarding.

Our candidates look to us to help them secure the right opportunity in line with their career objectives. In your role, you will offer support throughout, with advice that is genuine, caring and practical, including resume, interview and other tips and techniques.

We’ll teach you all the tricks of the trade to ensure, like the rest of our Davidson team, you are known in the market for your expert abilities in this area.

FAQs

Benefits

• Uncapped earnings
• The experience of working in a highly motivated, experienced, and collaborative team
  

Recruitment Academy Framework

As a trainee Recruitment Consultant within the Davidson Academy, you will participate in a 12-week intensive training program. This will cover the 7 key domains above and provide you with the fundamentals to build a successful career in recruitment.

The program is a blend of facilitator led training, online learning, interactive task-based activities and on-the-job coaching.

You will learn from a range of Davidson stakeholders and be buddied up with some of the most successful and experienced team members to ensure you are learning from industry leading recruiters.  

Career Pathways

At Davidson, competency frameworks and promotion milestones are based on outcomes, rather than duration. The quicker a talented recruiter fulfils the goals set out in the competency framework and reaches the milestones, the quicker they achieve their desired promotion.
 
Every Davidson employee has a development plan, encompassing both personal and career goals and desired timelines. This includes those trainees at the Davidson Academy. You will have the same opportunity as senior staff to discuss your personal and career goals, the action steps to achieve them and timelines.

Davidson offers multiple internal career specialties, to enable recruiters to grow in a customer facing role they can thrive in. Meet some of our Davidson Alumni below, many of whom in their career with Davidson have progressed into senior roles or transitioned into roles in other client facing teams.

Davidson Academy Alumni

Tessa Garamszegi

Senior Consultant, Projects & Business Transformation

"One year on I feel like I’ve grown immensely in my role. Every day is different and I’m so lucky to collaborate with and be mentored by so many wonderful people in the business. Every success is celebrated and there is ample amount of career growth opportunities."

David Prak

Consultant, Software Development

"One of the main things that I have learnt about working at Davidson is that culture is everything, it reflects the core values of Davidson. The way they do business, manage workflows, interconnect as a team, and deal with candidates and clients is all an experience that represents who they are as a company. "

Louis Rogers-Ross

Senior Consultant, Cloud

"What I love about my job is the positive impact I have on people’s lives and helping to shape high performing teams to deliver a company’s mission. Davidson culture to me is about respect, mateship and most importantly reward for effort."

Maddison Glass

Account Manager

"Starting my traineeship with Davidson was the best career choice I have made. Joining a high performing team, I was given the exposure, understanding and encouragement to work with amazing companies and candidates within an entirely new environment. The growth opportunities with Davidson are endless, and I’m excited to see where my career will go."

Owain Thomas

Consultant, Cloud & Security

"Being new to the industry, it's great to be part of a vibrant team with a collaborative environment that also promotes the opportunity for individual thought and career pathways."

Sarah Fallet

Associate Account Manager

"I enjoy working here because everyone is encouraged to be the best version of themselves. This means I get to work with individuals from various backgrounds whilst feeling comfortable to be myself everyday."

David Chisholm

Consultant, Data & Analytics

"Through the traineeship program Davidson has provided, I was given the tools and support needed to succeed and carve my own path in the industry. I feel confident, successful and am excited about where my future with Davidson is going to take me."

How to apply for the Davidson Recruitment Academy 

 Please read the following steps prior to progressing your application.