Our Profile

Challenge Recruitment Ltd is proudly a subsidiary of the Rubicor Group. We are committed to ensuring our business meets the needs and professional standards required by our customers, employees, shareholders and the community.

Challenge Recruitment Ltd operates under a number of brand names that reflect our diversified service offerings to Australian business. These include Choice HR and the Australian Personnel Consortium. The Choice HR Brand is represented in NSW only whilst the Australian Personnel Consortium is represented nationally for the provision of service to Telstra.

Challenge Recruitment Ltd operates a decentralised management structure that sees each branch operating in a fully autonomous manner. This enables each branch to seamlessly manage the servicing of their client base from the recruitment process right through to the generation of necessary reporting requirements of each client. This is unique in the Australian recruitment industry as it enables our clients and candidates immediacy in response times and the empowerment of our staff to make a difference in meeting your needs.

Our corporate management structure, includes a senior management team reporting to our Chief Executive Officer, who in turn reports on a monthly basis to the Rubicor board. Challenge Recruitment Ltd was established in 1991 and since then the company has grown into a major national company in the area of recruitment services and labour hire provision, and now covers the full spectrum of human resource services. In 2007 Challenge Recruitment Ltd became a subsidiary of the Rubicor Group. The Rubicor Group is one of Australia and New Zealand's largest and most diverse recruitment and human resource consultancy groups. Established in 2005, Rubicor member companies bring together some of the best and most experienced people in the field of recruitment and organisational development. Members of Rubicor offer serach, selection, volume recruitment, professional and support level contracting services plus learning and organisational development solutions. With offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra, Perth, Adelaide, Auckland and Wellington, Rubicor's industry expertise is wide and varied.

Our Mission

To add value to our customers, employees, shareholders and community.

Our Vision

To be the customers' first choice through the design, implementation and delivery of innovative staffing services that exceeds their expectations.

Our Values

• Leadership
• Satisfied Customers
• Employee Well Being
• Innovation
• Integrity
• Teamwork
• Rational Thinking & Decision Making
• A Learning Organisation
• Responsible Corporate Citizenship

These are the core values and behaviours that drive our organisation. Each one is critical, but should be held in balance with all others.

Leadership provides the vision and direction throughout the organisation. We will strive to:

• Act consistently and fairly in the treatment of individuals.
• Provide timely communication of expectations.
• Have the courage to make bold decisions and stand by our convictions.
• Have a sense of urgency.

Satisfied Customers ensure we are the staffing supplier of choice by striving to:

• Understand the needs of our customers before trying to be understood.
• Recognise, address and resolve issues before they become a problem.
• Influence customer-staffing requirements using innovative solutions.

Employee Well Being ensures we are all motivated to achieve our potential by striving to:

• Providing proactive management of health and safety of all employees.
• Support a sense of humour when practiced with appropriateness and respect.
• Support the maintenance of a balance between work and personal time.
• Provide an environment that is challenging, enjoyable and rewarding.
• Appropriately celebrate and share in the organisations' success.

Innovation provides creative design of processes and systems that give us a competitive advantage. We will strive to:

• Take advantage of the diversity of everyone's views and opinions.
• Adopt ideas, new or borrowed, to achieve outcomes.
• Develop ideas and activities that enhance the company's competitiveness.

Integrity requires the conviction to act honestly and consistently with these values. We will strive to:

• Behave professionally with mutual trust, respect and tolerance of others.
• Do what we say we will do.
• Ensure that all the company policies, procedures and systems are aligned to these values.

Teamwork harnesses the collective intelligence and capability of the organisation. We will strive to:

• Manage our conflicts by negotiation with flexibility and respect.
• Provide authority and appropriate resources in line with needs.
• Monitor, review and respond to set objectives.
• Acknowledge and celebrate team success.

Rational Thinking & Decision Making ensures we reach an appropriate solution. We will strive to:

• Have a planned approach to fact based decision making.
• Eliminate hidden agendas, giving all involved employees an equal input.
• Record all relevant facts and assumptions underpinning our decisions.
• Exercise informed risk taking.

A Learning Organisation evolves and improves the success of the business. We will strive to:

• Access new knowledge from internal and external sources.
• View critical incidents of success and failure as learning experiences.
• Learn from the knowledge held by individuals and teams throughout the organisation.
• Communicate learning through our processes and procedures.

Responsible Corporate Citizenship provides that every employee has a "duty of care" to ensure our organisation impacts positively on any individual, group or community that has dealings with the company. We will strive to:

• Maintain strong due diligence compliance programs.
• Promote and maintain an ethical culture through out the organisation.
• Enhance the reputation of the organisation to the public and legislative regulators.