The Onset

The Onset is a recruitment agency based in Surry Hills, Sydney, covering technology, go-to-market and executive search roles. It dates its story to 2015 and says it has partnered with more than 600 companies since then.

Its specialist teams cover product and design, marketing and customer success, software engineering, hardware and robotics, DevOps, site reliability and QA, cloud, security and infrastructure, data, enterprise applications, projects and transformation, and revenue operations. Industry coverage also includes health care, finance and banking, education, consumer and retail, the public sector and media.

Services include permanent hiring on contingent, retained and project bases, contract services such as payroll, timesheet administration and onshore and offshore staff augmentation, and executive search for C-suite and senior leadership roles. It also offers international hiring in India, the Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia and Vietnam, including Employer of Record services. It says its database holds more than 200,000 technology candidates. Sean McCartan is named as CEO.