Drafting a job brief isn’t a box-ticking exercise. It’s one of the most important steps in the recruitment process because it forces you to think deeply about the work that truly needs to be done — not just what’s written on last year’s job description.
A strong job brief has four essential elements:
- About your company — who you are, what you do, and why you’re different.
- The nature of the role — what success looks like and how the role contributes to the business.
- Skills and experience — the technical capabilities required to perform the job.
- Behaviours and attributes — how the person needs to show up to thrive in your environment.
That’s the starting point — not the finish line.
Why the Briefing Session Matters
Once you’ve drafted the basics, we run a structured briefing session to build out your thinking. There is always something in a client’s head that never makes it onto paper. And with GenAI writing more job descriptions than ever, that gap is getting wider.
The more time we invest upfront in getting the brief right, the less time we spend fixing a poor brief later — and the faster we can find the right person.
Understanding Your Business, Not Just the Role
We don’t stop at the job description.
We want to understand how your business works commercially, what’s changing, and what the future looks like. Often, this consultative approach uncovers something completely different from what the client originally thought.
A real example: A Head of Engineering came to us wanting a full-stack developer. After digging into the team structure, we discovered his existing team was overweight in back-end capability and what he actually needed was a strong front-end developer. Without that conversation, he would have hired the wrong person.
This is why the briefing process matters — it prevents expensive mistakes.
Where We’re Different
One of our biggest points of difference is that our recruitment process is Australian-led, consultative, and rigorous.
If your brief isn’t aligned to the Filipino talent market, we’ll tell you. If the role needs to be reframed to attract the right calibre of candidates, we’ll fix it. If your expectations don’t match the realities of the local market, we’ll guide you.
Our job is to make sure your brief works — not just in theory, but in the real Filipino jobs market where your future team member actually lives.
