Labour Services
Labour Services
Professional and Technical Roles
Directions recruit professional and technical personnel including HSE specialists, superintendents, engineers, technicians, trade assistants and qualified tradepeople.
Trades and Skilled Labour
Alongside mainstream recruitment, the team draw on an established alumni network of skilled, job-ready candidates to broaden the talent pool.
Temporary Hire and Labour Hire
Directions provide ongoing support for temporary and project-based requirements, including specialist staffing for mining camps, hospitality and remote ops.
Cohort Specific Programs
Directions support Indigenous participation, youth and disadvantaged employment initiatives, social procurement outcomes and other cohort programs.
Directions Workforce Solutions provides flexible workforce solutions across professional and technical recruitment, trades and skilled labour, temporary staffing and labour hire, cohort-specific employment programs, and vendor payrolling. Directions is your workforce partner, and not a staffing supplier.
Directions bring together recruitment capability across multiple workforce needs, allowing us to build a tailored solution around your business. Not every business suits a one-size-fits-all approach, and every company is different.
The Directions team believes high standards should not be reserved for the largest organisations. Directions applies rigorous recruitment, vetting, medical and safety processes across our workforce services, whether we are supplying a single worker or supporting a major project workforce. The team employs their services across the full spectrum of industry, from local SMEs through to critical Tier 1 operations, bringing the same focus on compliance, quality and workforce reliability to every engagement.
Traditional recruitment models can encourage agencies to compete for the placement. Direction’s not-for-profit structure gives us greater freedom to focus on the outcome. That can mean working alongside other agencies, suppliers and partners when collaboration produces a better result for the client or the community. Directions strives to provide commercially viable support, and consider creative and unorthodox avenues that bring about satisfying outcomes from the longevity of your organisation.
Professional and Technical Roles
Directions recruit professional and technical personnel including HSE specialists, superintendents, engineers, technicians, trade assistants and qualified tradepeople.
Trades and Skilled Labour
Alongside mainstream recruitment, the team draw on an established alumni network of skilled, job-ready candidates to broaden the talent pool.
Temporary Hire and Labour Hire
Directions provide ongoing support for temporary and project-based requirements, including specialist staffing for mining camps, hospitality and remote ops.
Cohort Specific Programs
Directions support Indigenous participation, youth and disadvantaged employment initiatives, social procurement outcomes and other cohort programs.
Directions Workforce Solutions provides flexible workforce solutions across professional and technical recruitment, trades and skilled labour, temporary staffing and labour hire, cohort-specific employment programs, and vendor payrolling. Directions is your workforce partner, and not a staffing supplier.
Directions bring together recruitment capability across multiple workforce needs, allowing us to build a tailored solution around your business. Not every business suits a one-size-fits-all approach, and every company is different.
The Directions team believes high standards should not be reserved for the largest organisations. Directions applies rigorous recruitment, vetting, medical and safety processes across our workforce services, whether we are supplying a single worker or supporting a major project workforce. The team employs their services across the full spectrum of industry, from local SMEs through to critical Tier 1 operations, bringing the same focus on compliance, quality and workforce reliability to every engagement.
Traditional recruitment models can encourage agencies to compete for the placement. Direction’s not-for-profit structure gives us greater freedom to focus on the outcome. That can mean working alongside other agencies, suppliers and partners when collaboration produces a better result for the client or the community. Directions strives to provide commercially viable support, and consider creative and unorthodox avenues that bring about satisfying outcomes from the longevity of your organisation.
A Workforce Partner Built Around Your Business
DEI and Social Procurement
Directions can work with you to develop recruitment programs that demonstrate workplace requirements such as Indigenous participation, social procurement, diversity outcomes or community benefit as part of a tender, contract or organisational strategy.
Vendor Payrolling
You may know who you want to employ already, but can’t. Vendor payrolling allows Directions to become the legal employer of record while managing payroll, insurance and compliance, with a reduced margin reflecting the lighter-touch service.
Competition Collaboration
Directions’ not-for-profit structure gives the team greater freedom to focus on the outcome. That can mean working alongside other agencies, suppliers and partners when collaboration produces a better result for the client or the community.
Long-Term Systemic Growth
Perservere with purpose! Directions starts from highly competitive margins and focuses on building long-term client relationships. Our low overhead structure allows us to offer strong economies of scale without compromising the quality of service.
Tender Partner Programs
Directions assist organisations in strengthening their bids with credible workforces. The team can work alongside your tender team to develop practical employment pathways that add genuine substance to your submission.
Employee Vetting
The rigorously applied vetting process helps ensure candidates are appropriately assessed before they enter your workforce from qualification and experience checks through to relevant medical, safety and compliance requirements
A Workforce Partner Built Around Your Business
DEI and Social Procurement
Directions can work with you to develop recruitment programs that demonstrate workplace requirements such as Indigenous participation, social procurement, diversity outcomes or community benefit as part of a tender, contract or organisational strategy.
Vendor Payrolling
You may know who you want to employ already, but can’t. Vendor payrolling allows Directions to become the legal employer of record while managing payroll, insurance and compliance, with a reduced margin reflecting the lighter-touch service.
Competition Collaboration
Directions’ not-for-profit structure gives the team greater freedom to focus on the outcome. That can mean working alongside other agencies, suppliers and partners when collaboration produces a better result for the client or the community.
Long-Term Systemic Growth
Perservere with purpose! Directions starts from highly competitive margins and focuses on building long-term client relationships. Our low overhead structure allows us to offer strong economies of scale without compromising the quality of service.
Tender Partner Programs
Directions assist organisations in strengthening their bids with credible workforces. The team can work alongside your tender team to develop practical employment pathways that add genuine substance to your submission.
Employee Vetting
The rigorously applied vetting process helps ensure candidates are appropriately assessed before they enter your workforce from qualification and experience checks through to relevant medical, safety and compliance requirements
Direct Employment and Labour Services Comparison
Good workforce solutions require more than matching keywords on a resume. Directions understand the environments job candidates are entering and the expectations placed on them. The team’s recruitment capability is informed by real industry experience.
➤ Flexibility or Stability
Labour Services
Labour Services make it easier to scale your workforce up or down as projects, workloads or contracts change over time.
Direct Employment
Direct employment can be well suited when you have an ongoing position and want to build a permanent team around it.
➤ Fast Access Or Full Control
Labour Services
Directions manages the whole pipeline, helping businesses access workers without running the entire recruitment process internally.
Direct Employment
Hiring directly gives your organisation complete ownership of the recruitment process and the employment relationship from the outset.
➤ Less Admin Or Stay In-House
Labour Services
Directions manages employment administration and associated processes, allowing your team to focus on the work itself.
Direct Employment
Your organisation retains responsibility for payroll, employment administration and the broader employment relationship.
➤ Temporary or Permanent
Labour Services
Labour Services can be practical when you need workers for a defined period, project, peak workload or temporary vacancy.
Direct Employment
Direct employment can make sense when the position is expected to remain part of your organisation’s ongoing workforce.
➤ Internal or External Pipeline
Labour Services
Directions combines open-market recruitment with an established alumni network of skilled, job-ready candidates.
Direct Employment
Direct recruitment allows you to develop your own candidate networks and strengthen your internal talent acquisition capability over time.
➤ Commitment or Investment
Labour Services
With Directions, you can assess how a worker performs in the role before considering a longer-term employment arrangement.
Direct Employment
Hiring permanently means you can immediately invest in the employee as part of your long-term team, culture and development plans.
Direct Employment and Labour Services Comparison
Good workforce solutions require more than matching keywords on a resume. Directions understand the environments job candidates are entering and the expectations placed on them. The team’s recruitment capability is informed by real industry experience.
➤ Flexibility or Stability
Labour Services
Labour Services make it easier to scale your workforce up or down as projects, workloads or contracts change over time.
Direct Employment
Direct employment can be well suited when you have an ongoing position and want to build a permanent team around it.
➤ Fast Access Or Full Control
Labour Services
Directions manages the whole pipeline, helping businesses access workers without running the entire recruitment process internally.
Direct Employment
Hiring directly gives your organisation complete ownership of the recruitment process and the employment relationship from the outset.
➤ Less Admin Or Stay In-House
Labour Services
Directions manages employment administration and associated processes, allowing your team to focus on the work itself.
Direct Employment
Your organisation retains responsibility for payroll, employment administration and the broader employment relationship.
➤ Temporary or Permanent
Labour Services
Labour Services can be practical when you need workers for a defined period, project, peak workload or temporary vacancy.
Direct Employment
Direct employment can make sense when the position is expected to remain part of your organisation’s ongoing workforce.
➤ Internal or External Pipeline
Labour Services
Directions combines open-market recruitment with an established alumni network of skilled, job-ready candidates.
Direct Employment
Direct recruitment allows you to develop your own candidate networks and strengthen your internal talent acquisition capability over time.
➤ Commitment or Investment
Labour Services
With Directions, you can assess how a worker performs in the role before considering a longer-term employment arrangement.
Direct Employment
Hiring permanently means you can immediately invest in the employee as part of your long-term team, culture and development plans.
Frequently Asked Questions
➤ What are Labour Services or Labour Hire?
The terms ‘Labour Service’ or ‘Labour Hire’ is representative of a workforce arrangement where a worker is employed by Directions Workforce Solutions and performs work for a client organisation. Directions remains responsible for the employment relationship and associated administration, including payroll, employment compliance, insurance and ongoing workforce support, while the worker performs their duties within the client’s workplace and under the client’s day-to-day operational direction.
Our temporary staffing and labour hire services can be scaled according to the length, complexity and nature of the engagement. This may include supplying an individual worker, supporting a short-term staffing requirement, or mobilising a larger workforce for a specific project or operational need.
The term ‘Labour Service’ more specifically applies to the larger end-to-end workforce solutions agreement that encompasses various other services, including Payroll, Work Health and Safety, and more. The term ‘Labour Hire’, however, refers to the act of employing a worker and placing them with another business. We understand many often use these terms interchangeably.
➤ How quickly can you provide workers?
The timeframe depends on a number of factors, including the role, location, qualifications and experience required, screening and medical requirements, security clearances, and the size of the workforce needed.
For urgent or larger-scale requirements, early communication is particularly valuable as it gives our team more time to build an appropriate candidate pool and manage mobilisation requirements.
➤ What Size/Type Organisation Do You Work With?
Yes. Directions has demonstrated capability supporting Tier 1 organisations and major projects, including critical workforce requirements and mobilisations, while also providing workforce solutions to local SMEs and growing businesses.
Our model allows us to work across different scales of engagement, from individual placements through to broader workforce programs, while tailoring our approach to the operational and compliance requirements of each client.
➤ Why does Directions offer competitive pricing?
Directions is a registered not-for-profit charity rather than a conventional shareholder-driven recruitment business. Our organisational model allows us to operate with a focus on delivering strong workforce outcomes while maintaining competitive commercial pricing. We aim to keep overheads efficient.
This all means clients can access professional labour services while also working with an organisation whose broader purpose extends beyond the commercial transaction.
➤ Does Directions meet compliance requirements?
Yes. Directions Workforce Solutions operates its labour hire services in accordance with the applicable employment, workplace health and safety, workers’ compensation and other regulatory requirements relevant to each engagement.
In Western Australia, labour hire providers are not currently required to hold a specific labour hire licence. However, labour hire employers still have important legal obligations, including ensuring workers are appropriately employed, covered by workers’ compensation insurance, and supported by appropriate workplace health and safety arrangements.
Where an engagement operates across different jurisdictions or involves specific industry, site or contractual requirements, Directions works with the client to identify and address the relevant compliance obligations before workers commence.
➤ Can you assist FIFO, remote or regional workforces?
Yes. Our capability includes supporting remote operations and workforce requirements outside metropolitan environments.
Where a role involves FIFO, regional or remote work, we can consider the additional requirements associated with mobilisation, accommodation, travel, medicals, inductions, clearances and other site-specific conditions as part of the workforce planning process.
➤ What happens if a worker is absent or leaves?
We work with clients to manage workforce continuity where practical.
If a worker becomes unavailable, leaves an assignment or is otherwise unable to continue, our team can work with the client to identify and source a suitable replacement based on the original requirements. The response timeframe will depend on the role, location, availability of suitable candidates and any required screening or mobilisation processes.
Frequently Asked Questions
➤ What are Labour Services or Labour Hire?
The terms ‘Labour Service’ or ‘Labour Hire’ is representative of a workforce arrangement where a worker is employed by Directions Workforce Solutions and performs work for a client organisation. Directions remains responsible for the employment relationship and associated administration, including payroll, employment compliance, insurance and ongoing workforce support, while the worker performs their duties within the client’s workplace and under the client’s day-to-day operational direction.
Our temporary staffing and labour hire services can be scaled according to the length, complexity and nature of the engagement. This may include supplying an individual worker, supporting a short-term staffing requirement, or mobilising a larger workforce for a specific project or operational need.
The term ‘Labour Service’ more specifically applies to the larger end-to-end workforce solutions agreement that encompasses various other services, including Payroll, Work Health and Safety, and more. The term ‘Labour Hire’, however, refers to the act of employing a worker and placing them with another business. We understand many often use these terms interchangeably.
➤ How quickly can you provide workers?
The timeframe depends on a number of factors, including the role, location, qualifications and experience required, screening and medical requirements, security clearances, and the size of the workforce needed.
For urgent or larger-scale requirements, early communication is particularly valuable as it gives our team more time to build an appropriate candidate pool and manage mobilisation requirements.
➤ What Size/Type Organisation Do You Work With?
Yes. Directions has demonstrated capability supporting Tier 1 organisations and major projects, including critical workforce requirements and mobilisations, while also providing workforce solutions to local SMEs and growing businesses.
Our model allows us to work across different scales of engagement, from individual placements through to broader workforce programs, while tailoring our approach to the operational and compliance requirements of each client.
➤ Why does Directions offer competitive pricing?
Directions is a registered not-for-profit charity rather than a conventional shareholder-driven recruitment business. Our organisational model allows us to operate with a focus on delivering strong workforce outcomes while maintaining competitive commercial pricing. We aim to keep overheads efficient.
This all means clients can access professional labour services while also working with an organisation whose broader purpose extends beyond the commercial transaction.
➤ Does Directions meet compliance requirements?
Yes. Directions Workforce Solutions operates its labour hire services in accordance with the applicable employment, workplace health and safety, workers’ compensation and other regulatory requirements relevant to each engagement.
In Western Australia, labour hire providers are not currently required to hold a specific labour hire licence. However, labour hire employers still have important legal obligations, including ensuring workers are appropriately employed, covered by workers’ compensation insurance, and supported by appropriate workplace health and safety arrangements.
Where an engagement operates across different jurisdictions or involves specific industry, site or contractual requirements, Directions works with the client to identify and address the relevant compliance obligations before workers commence.
➤ Can you assist FIFO, remote or regional workforces?
Yes. Our capability includes supporting remote operations and workforce requirements outside metropolitan environments.
Where a role involves FIFO, regional or remote work, we can consider the additional requirements associated with mobilisation, accommodation, travel, medicals, inductions, clearances and other site-specific conditions as part of the workforce planning process.
➤ What happens if a worker is absent or leaves?
We work with clients to manage workforce continuity where practical.
If a worker becomes unavailable, leaves an assignment or is otherwise unable to continue, our team can work with the client to identify and source a suitable replacement based on the original requirements. The response timeframe will depend on the role, location, availability of suitable candidates and any required screening or mobilisation processes.
Workforce Development Made Simple
You do not need to know which staffing model is right before you contact Directions. Tell the team what your workforce challenge looks like, and the organisation can help determine the most practical recruitment or workforce solution for your organisation.
Whether you need one person, a project team, temporary workforce capacity, a specialist recruitment partner or an employer-of-record solution, Directions can assist.
Workforce Development Made Simple
Whether you need one person, a project team, temporary workforce capacity, a specialist recruitment partner or an employer-of-record solution, Directions can assist.