Perth

Perth companies and agencies trust Pickr for recruiting intelligence

Scored shortlists in minutes, structured interviews for every role, and a free client portal for recruitment agencies. English interface, works anywhere, candidate data hosted in Frankfurt, Germany, GDPR compliant with a DPA included.

Perth is the capital of Western Australia and the hiring market of the resources economy. Iron ore, gold, lithium, and nickel miners run their operations from Perth head offices, oil and gas operators plan their LNG projects here, and around them sit engineering contractors, mining services firms, and a growing base of software companies built for the resources sector. Add the state government, the hospitals and universities, a defense shipbuilding cluster south of the city, agriculture, and the state offices of the national banks and consultancies, and you have a market where mining engineers, geoscientists, project controls specialists, electricians and fitters, safety professionals, and increasingly software and data engineers are all contested at the same time.

What makes hiring in Perth hard is distance and cycle. Perth is one of the most isolated capital cities in the world, so a role that cannot be filled locally means relocation from the east coast, New Zealand, the UK, South Africa, or Ireland, often with visa sponsorship, and every relocation adds weeks. The resources cycle sets the tempo: when commodity prices rise, miners, contractors, and service firms compete for the same engineers, trades, and project people, counteroffers arrive within days, and fly-in fly-out rosters decide who is available when. Recruitment agencies feel this twice: they have to move faster than their clients' internal talent teams, and they have to justify every recommendation to a client who has already seen plenty of CVs.

Market snapshot

Hiring in Perth at a glance

Key sectors
Mining and resources, oil and gas, engineering and construction, mining services and equipment, resources technology and software, healthcare, education and research, defense and shipbuilding, agriculture, professional services.
Typical employers
Head offices of major and mid-tier miners, oil and gas operators, engineering and EPCM contractors, mining services firms, state government agencies and health services, universities, state offices of national banks and consultancies, and a growing group of resources-tech and software companies.
Talent pool
Deep in mining engineering, geoscience, metallurgy, project controls, trades, and health and safety. Thinner in software, product, and data than the east coast, and heavily shaped by fly-in fly-out rosters. A large expat community from the UK, South Africa, Ireland, and New Zealand.
Languages of business
English throughout. Perth shares its time zone with Singapore, Hong Kong, and much of Southeast Asia, so many teams work with Asian offices, partners, and candidates during the normal working day.
Competition for talent
Cyclical and intense. When the resources sector is hiring, miners, contractors, and service firms compete for the same engineers, trades, and project professionals, and resources pay pulls candidates away from every other sector. Counteroffers are common and strong candidates decide within days.
Remote and relocation
Relocation from interstate and overseas is a normal part of hiring, often with visa sponsorship. Fly-in fly-out rosters to the Pilbara and the Goldfields are standard for site roles. City-based roles are mostly hybrid, and remote hiring across time zones is increasingly used for software and data teams.

How Pickr helps

What Perth teams get with Pickr

A scored shortlist in minutes, not days

You describe the role, Pickr searches your own talent pool and beyond, and you get a scored shortlist with reasoning for every profile. Related skills count, so a project engineer who ran the same kind of shutdown under a different job title, or a developer who solved the same problem in another industry, is not filtered out for missing the exact keyword. Verified qualifications sit on the profile where a role depends on them, as with trade licenses and site safety tickets. Instead of reading CVs on Monday, you run the first interviews on Monday.

Match reasoning you can explain to the client

Every score comes with a written rationale: what fits, what is missing, and what to probe in the interview. Agencies present candidates with arguments instead of forwarded CVs. In-house teams get hiring managers who understand why a profile made the list. Every completed hire makes the next shortlist for that role more accurate, so the system gets better with each hiring cycle instead of starting from scratch when the market turns.

Structured interviews across sites, time zones, and rosters

Every role gets tailored interview questions, interviews are transcribed live, and scorecards fill themselves in. Whether the interviewer is a site manager on swing in the Pilbara, an engineering lead in the city office, or a client in Singapore, everyone assesses against the same criteria while the observations are still fresh. Candidates book their own interview slots, and interviewer and hiring-manager seats are free, so the whole panel is in the process without a licensing discussion.

A client portal and less admin for agencies

Your clients review candidates in their own portal, vote, and give feedback, free and with unlimited users. Follow-ups, scheduling proposals, and feedback reminders are drafted for you, and the pipeline suggests the next step for every candidate. Email, WhatsApp, and LinkedIn conversations land against the right candidate, with your calendar and Slack connected. If you prefer, connect Claude or ChatGPT via MCP and run the pipeline from a chat window. Your existing data from Bullhorn, Ashby, Greenhouse, Lever, Teamtailor, Manatal, or a CSV file is imported in minutes.

EU-hosted in Germany

Candidate data and the application itself run in Frankfurt, Germany, inside the EU. Pickr is GDPR compliant, a Data Processing Agreement (DPA) is included, every sub-processor is published with its location and purpose, and names and email addresses are redacted from AI prompts by default. Your data never trains any AI model. For a Perth team that is a straightforward answer to the question of where candidate data lives, and it matters most when you hire European candidates or work with European clients, such as the engineering groups and energy companies with operations in Western Australia. The product works globally with an English interface, and demo, setup, and support all happen remotely. Pickr is built in Austria by a team that comes from recruitment itself.

FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Is Pickr available in Perth?

Yes. Pickr is a cloud application with nothing to install, so companies and recruitment agencies in Perth start with a remote demo, setup, and data import, and most teams are productive within a day. The interface is in English. Candidate data and the app run in Frankfurt, Germany, which is a plus whenever you hire European candidates or work with European clients.

Where is candidate data stored?

Candidate data and the application run in Frankfurt, Germany, inside the EU. Pickr is GDPR compliant, a Data Processing Agreement (DPA) is included, and every sub-processor is published with its location and purpose. Names and email addresses are redacted from AI prompts by default, and your data is never used to train AI models. For an Australian team that is a clear answer for candidates and clients who ask where their data lives.

Does Pickr work for recruitment agencies in Perth?

Yes. Pickr was built by the founder of a recruitment agency. Clients, mandates, submittals, and placements are part of the system rather than rebuilt with tags, so contingent and retained work across mining, engineering, and tech runs side by side. Your clients review candidates in their own portal, free and with unlimited users, and every recommendation comes with reasoning you can put in front of the client.

Which languages does Pickr support?

The interface is available in English and German. Candidate data works in any language: CVs and cover letters in English, German, French, Portuguese, or any other language are read, scored, and searchable in exactly the same way. Perth teams that sponsor candidates from overseas do not have to reformat anything before a profile can be compared with the local shortlist.

Does Pickr handle fly-in fly-out and site-based hiring?

Yes. Requirements and interview questions are set per role, so a site role on a roster and a city office role run side by side with their own criteria. Candidates book interview slots that fit their swing, interviews are transcribed and scored against the same scorecard whether the interviewer is on site or in the office, and the pipeline suggests the next step for every candidate so nobody goes cold while the panel is away.

What does Pickr cost for a recruiting team in Perth?

Pricing is on request, and the quickest way to get it is a short remote demo. What is fixed: interviewer, hiring-manager, and client seats are free, and you only pay for recruiters who actively work in Pickr. AI scoring, the client portal, and interview features are included rather than sold as add-on modules.

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Written by Andreas Amann

Founder of Pickr. Former operator at startups in Berlin and Silicon Valley, where he helped scale companies from 40 to 200+ people. Built Pickr after years of using every major ATS as a recruitment agency owner at ScalingPPL.

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