Public Sector & Government Recruitment

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The right people, in the right roles, are crucial to delivering exceptional public services.

With our comprehensive range of solutions, we recruit talent across all levels and specialties within the public sector. With a supportive and collaborative approach, we offer extensive expertise and job market insights to place the right people in your roles.

Register a vacancy with our specialist recruitment consultants today.

Your trusted public sector recruitment agency

As a leading government recruitment agency in Australia with 37 offices nationwide, such scale grants access to a large pool of candidates for each vacancy. Discover why more government organisations are partnering with Hays.

Comprehensive recruitment services

We have dedicated public sector teams who operate within each of our specialisms. We train our consultants to understand the unique needs of the public sector, including relevant legislation, policies and recruitment principles. We screen, interview and reference-check candidates for permanent, temporary and contract roles.

Explore some of the recruitment services we offer our clients:

Interview training
Run assessment centres
Graduate campaigns
Manage bulk recruitment rounds
Provide scribing services
Offer psychometric testing
Supply a payroll service

Core values

Our expertise ensures that all public service requirements of merit, fairness, equity, transparency and confidentiality are upheld.

As a trusted recruitment partner, we’re also committed to supplying a diverse shortlist and helping our clients create inclusive workplaces. We are an equal opportunities employer with policies, procedures and relationships in place to promote our understanding of all forms of diversity.

As part of our commitment to drive positive diversity and inclusion change, we’ve produced several DE&I reports on this business-critical issue.

Innovators

Connecting organisations with the right talent is at the heart of what we do. This is why we have our finger on the pulse of emerging advancements and are prepared to adapt our recruitment process accordingly. By innovating through technology, we deliver precise client-candidate matches.

Approved supplier

We’re an approved supplier of key local, state and federal government recruitment and labour-hire agreements. We pride ourselves on our strong relationships with a diverse range of clients, including:

Not-for-profit and charitable organisations
The education sector
Publicly funded healthcare providers and utilities

We understand the complex legislative framework that underpins public sector jobs. Whether you're hiring for federal government departments or local government jobs, we source exceptional talent for every team.