1,000+ to 3–4Candidates per role, down to the finalists you meet. See how we hire.Outsourcing Philippines staff is a common way for Australian businesses to add capacity. The real choice is the model: pay a BPO every month for staff it hires, or hire your own person directly and pay a recruiter once.
Each one works. They differ in who hires the person, what you pay and for how long.
Compare them on cost: direct hire vs an offshore staffing agency.
The risks are manageable: hiring the wrong person, unclear processes, and loose access controls. Screening, a clear role brief and a security checklist deal with most of them.
Every role below runs through the same five-stage screen, with a practical task matched to the job.
Under a BPO model, the provider earns a margin on every person, every month. That suits some businesses, but the cost grows with your team and never stops.
With direct hire, Tarino finds and screens your hire, you hire and pay them directly, and we are paid once: $250 to start the search and $4,750 when you hire, $5,000 excl. GST. Your hire keeps their full salary and works as part of your team.
Applicants, headhunted candidates and referrals from vetted local networks build a pool of 1,000+ per role.
Experience, stability, written communication, responsiveness and attention to detail.
Communication ability, professionalism and personality.
Role-specific tasks test real capability and quality of work.
Judgement, ownership, communication, problem-solving and independent operation.
The strongest candidates are reviewed across every assessment stage.
3–4 finalists with scorecards, practical-task results and independent reference checks, in about two weeks.
A large, English-speaking, university-educated workforce; working hours that overlap well with the Australian day; strong familiarity with Australian businesses and software such as Xero and MYOB; and salaries well below Australian rates for skilled roles. The benefit depends on hiring the right person and setting up the work properly.
Under a managed or BPO model you pay a monthly rate per person; Staff Domain, for example, publishes A$1,099 per person per month on top of salary. With direct hire through Tarino you pay the person's salary yourself and a one-time $5,000 excl. GST recruitment fee, with no monthly markup.
Not quite. Outsourcing means a third party does the work or supplies the staff. Offshoring means the work moves to another country, whether through a provider or a person on your own team. Direct hire is offshoring without outsourcing: the person works for you.
Most back-office and client-support roles that work in software: bookkeeping and accounting, admin and executive assistance, customer service, digital marketing and social media, loan processing, paraplanning, property management support, estimating and IT support.
Decide the role and the model first. If you want to hire your own staff, Tarino runs the search: 1,000+ candidates per role, screened down to a shortlist of 3–4 in about two weeks.
Book a 30-minute call. No pitch, no pressure, just a straight conversation about your business and whether Tarino is the right fit.
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