Talent Headhunters in Manila helping Aussie SMEs
We place talented, vetted & certified Filipino candidates 20 & 40 hours per week, with Aussie SMEs across 25+ core roles in Marketing & Sales, Accounting & Finance, Ops & CX, Dev & AI
Work-from-home talent screened, interviewed & certified
With over 16 years of experience screening, interviewing, testing and certifying top Philippines talent, our executive team has developed a winning formula for spotting and placing talent into SMEs, with many staying 5+ years in the role
Leverage a wealth of experience
Landing in Manila in 2009, our founder built and exited a 200-person BPO. He then launched a work-from-home staff leasing firm, sold that in 2023. Now, having served over 750 global clients, having hired 1,000+ Filipino staff, he is now compressing 16 years of experience into a seamless hiring process aimed at connecting Aussie businesses with talented & vetted Filipino staff
Why Get Staffed?
Marketing & Sales
- Chief Marketing Officer
- Digital Marketing Manager
- Content Marketing manager
- Paid Media Manager
- Social Media Manager
- Email Marketing Manager
- SEO Specialist
- Marketing Operations
- Inbound Sales Specialist
Accounting & Finance
- Chief Financial Officer
- Financial Controller
- Accountant
- Tax Accountant
- Financial Accountant
- Bookkeeper
- Accounts Payable
- Accounts Receivable
- Mortgage Specialist
Ops & Customer Experience
- General Virtual Assistant
- Contact Centre Operations Manager
- Customer Experience Manager
- Quality Assurance Manager
- Training & Development Manager
- Contact Centre Team Leader
- Customer Support Rep
- Technical Support Rep
Tech & AI (*New)
- Chief Technology Officer
- Front-end developers (HTML, CSS, JavaScript (React, Angular, Vue.js), and UI/UX)
- Developers (Python, Java, PHP)
- Full Stack Developers
- AI Architect / Engineer
- Machine Learning Engineer
With over 16 years of experience screening, interviewing, testing and certifying top Philippines talent, our executive team has developed a winning formula for spotting and placing talent into SMEs, with many staying 5+ years in the role.
Landing in Manila in 2009, our founder built and exited a 200-person BPO. He then launched a work-from-home staff leasing firm, sold that in 2023. Now, having served over 750 global clients, having hired 1,000+ Filipino staff, he is now compressing 16 years of experience into a seamless hiring process aimed at connecting Aussie businesses with talented & vetted Filipino staff.
With a suite of pre-built core roles, why would we wait for you to contact us before we start screening and vetting candidates?
Over the last 16 years, the executive team has created and refined job descriptions, assessments, interview questions & more, to develop a hiring formula that ensures there are always candidates available for the roles we offer.
With core roles in Marketing & Sales, Finance & Accounting, Ops and CX, and now with emerging roles in AI & machine learning, we have just about every SME role covered. If you are seeking a candidate outside these roles, we can definitely help, by applying the same methodology.
Every role offered at Get Staffed brings with it a suite of screening & assessment tools to ensure we shine a light on the top candidates in their respective fields.
All candidates go through several rounds of assessments / quizzes, followed by 1-way video interviews, then followed up with 2-way interviews with the recruitment team and then finally the founder. No single candidate is placed with an Australian client unless they have been personally interviewed by our Australian founder
Boots on the ground
Our Aussie executive team lives in Manila, and has lived in the Philippines for almost a decade. Your candidates will be personally interviewed by an Australian before we introduce you to them
- Our founder lives in Manila
- 16 years experience hiring 1000+ staff
- Pre-interviews conducted by the Aussie founder
- Coffee meet & greet with executive candidates
- House / site visits available to assist with tech / workstation set-up of new hires
Tap into a massive skilled workforce
The services sector is the dominant engine of the economy, employing a staggering 61.4% of the workforce. This translates into 31 million individuals working in roles spanning IT, finance, marketing, administration and customer support – the very roles that form the backbone of most Australian SMEs
- Access a massive, talented, labour pool
- The world's 2nd largest English speaking nation
- 300% larger than the Australian workforce
Rock-solid internet
Home internet has come a long way in The Philippines over the last decade. In 2015, the average speed was a tiny 2.8MBPS. It has since skyrocketed to an average of 94MBPS
- Average speeds of 94MPBS in 2025
- Majority of candidates have back-up connections
- More than adequate to run Xero, Hubspot, Canva, VOIP etc
The Marketing Stack
At Get Staffed, due to our extensive experience working with a myriad of marketing functions in The Philippines, you can now leverage our experience and contacts to build out the entire marketing org chart. Below the annual salary ranges in AUD, for experienced marketing professionals. Note the below roles assume manager level, the minimum level we believe suitable to be placed with Australian SMEs.
- Chief Marketing Officer: $40,000 to $55,000
- Digital Marketing Manager: $28,000 to $35,000
- Paid Media Managers: $28,000 to $35,000
- SEO Manager: $23,000 to $30,000
- Content Marketing Managers: $20,000 to $30,000
- Social Media Managers: $18,000 to $26,000
Start Scaling your Marketing Team
The Finance Stack
There is a world of finance talent that goes well beyond low cost bookkeepers. Build your entire finance team in the Philippines for the cost of 1 onshore team member. Below are the annual salary equivalents in AUD, assuming at minimum 5 years experience.
- Chief Finance Officers: $50,000 to $70,000
- Financial Controller: $25,000 to $35,000
- Auditor: $28,000 to $35,000 (assuming 10 years experience)
- Accountant: $22,000 to $30,000 (assuming 10 years experience)
- Financial Accountant: $22,000 to $35,000
- Bookkeeper: $18,000 to $25,000
- Accounts Payable: $16,000 to $22,000
Start Scaling your Finance Team
Cloud Contact Centre
The Philippines is the home of the contact centre. The worlds best value agents can be found here, for a fraction of the cost. Below are the annual (in AUD) salary ranges for senior (5+ years) contact centre staff
- Operations Manager: $30,000 to $40,000
- Quality Assurance Manager: $24,000 to $32,000
- Training & Development Manager: $22,000 to $28,000
- Senior Team Leader:: $20,000 to $24,000
- Senior Tech Support Rep: $18,000 to $23,000
- Senior Customer Support Rep: $16,000 to $20,000
Onboard your Contact Centre Team
What is a General Virtual Assistant?
A General Virtual Assistant as defined by Get Staffed, tends be more administration and operations focused. They have generally started within a BPO (Contact Centre for example) and then progressed to admin and operations tasks within Australian and/or US small businesses.
An experienced general virtual assistant with excellent communication skills can be the perfect right hand man/woman for an Australian sole trader or small business owner, due to their versatility, and will usually seek an annual salary of $16,000 to $25,000.
- Administration tasks
- Internal business process management
- Calendar and scheduling management
- Ecommerce store management
- Light social media (responding to messages)
- Possibly light bookkeeping (invoicing, bank rec)
- Email hanlding
Hire your Rockstar Virtual Assistant Today
Get Answers
We now live in a work-from-home world with days filled with Zoom meetings & cloud project management platforms. We source core role candidates in advance, screen & evaluate until we find the top candidates, and connect you for final interviews with the top 2-3 candidates
While this generally varies depending upon current demand and how quickly existing candidates are snapped up by our Aussie clients, for non executive roles we should have your top 2-3 in front of you within 7-10 days. For senior roles allow 14-21 days.
Transparent and visible, at 19% of the annual grossed up salary for full-time roles and 24% for part -time roles. At Get Staffed you pay just for the sourcing of your new hire, as with traditional recruitment firms. The key difference with recruiting remotely & within The Philippines is that the annual salaries are up to 80% lower than traditional in-country salaries, so not only will you be savings tens of thousands in annual salaries, your recruitment fee will be a fraction of standard recruitment fees.
The founder has been recruiting and working with remote staff in The Philippines since 2009 and has hired 1000+ staff across 25+ roles for clients in Australia, NZ, US & Canada.
If after 6 months, things are just not working out, let us know and we will replace your team member free of charge.
We recruit for a wide range of industries including tech, marketing, customer support, and more. At Get Staffed we focus on roles and skill-sets, with a belief that these roles & skills can be transferred successfully into a new industry relatively quickly.
If you do not have your own contracts ready to go, we have pre-built drag and drop independent contractor agreement templates ready to go when the time comes to hire.
Absolutely. The core skills group is merely the group of roles we excel at given our extensive experience as we have the role blueprints, job descriptions, salary research all pre-built. Hiring outside that group, we will follow the same methodology.