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TROPIC • RECRUITMENT
Talent rising
CREAM OF THE CROP
From humble beginnings in a home office seven
short years ago, Cairns recruitment company
Elite Executive has expanded rapidly and is now
celebrating the opening of a Brisbane bureau.
Words Renee Cluff
The journey began with Managing Director with it and with that comes a responsibility
Eva Grabner in 2012, when she became to do your due diligence.”
a partner with a national recruitment. With numerous clients in Brisbane, an
Two years later, she re-branded and Elite expansion into the Queensland capital was
Executive was born. Ms Grabner had already always on the cards for Elite Executive. Ms
found her niche by specialising in executive Grabner said she was just waiting for the
level recruitment, casting a wide net for right recruiter for the right candidate for
both candidates and clients not only across the job, eventually finding one in Paul Ryan.
Australia but the globe. “Our candidates “I wanted someone who reflected my work
become our clients,” Ms Grabner told Tropic. ethic, professionalism and values,” she said.
“We recruit mid to upper level management, “Paul has been operating in the recruitment
so they might be successful in a GM or space for many years and ran his own highly
CEO role and if they’re responsible for successful firm in the UK before moving to
recruitment in that position and they’ve had Australia. He has extensive experience at the
a good experience with us, they will executive level and especially in IT which is
use us.” one area I have wanted to expand into.”
As a testament to success in a challenging So what’s next? As well as expanding into IT,
business climate, Ms Grabner made her first Ms Grabner has plans to grow the Brisbane
recruitment for her own company in 2017. recruitment team. However, she’s adamant
Since then, another nine staff members have the firm will remain a boutique company
joined the team and the firm boasts high with a personal touch, focused solely on the
profile clients from across Australia, Europe, executive space. “We are all about quality, not
the US, Asia and the Middle East, who are quantity and have some wonderful clients
catered for remotely using technology like that we feel we are just an extension of,” she
Skype and Zoom. said. “Plus, our Brisbane presence will give us
Ms Grabner credits the company’s success access to even more quality people, many
in part to a commitment to building of whom are looking to move to Tropical
relationships, not only with clients but also North Queensland. Who better to
candidates. “We are very specific about who recommend the area than a team of
we work with,” she said. “We’re recruiters consultants who live here?”
and we’re dealing with people, these are not
numbers. We are relocating people from
jobs, from cities, their families and their MORE: eliteexecutive.com.au
schools and everything else that goes along
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