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Who We Are

Small-to-medium business leaders have a lot on their minds.

From strategy to budgets, marketing to operations, recruiting the right people at the right time to deliver the work and help grow the business is just one of many competing priorities.

Poor recruitment usually happens when you’re short on time and short of candidates but in need of people. It can be extremely costly – not just financially, but also culturally for the team. But selecting a recruitment partner can feel equally overwhelming, particularly if you’ve had a bad experience with recruiters in the past. How do you find someone that has great processes and great connections, but also has your back?

This is why Michael Berger first started Talent Blueprint in 2014 – to go into bat for people who run their own businesses. With a background recruiting for large organisations on panel agreements, Michael knew that SME business owners don’t need a recruiter that plays a numbers game. They need a recruiter they can trust who will help build great teams, together.

While our construction, engineering, resources and energy sector recruitment focus is niche, the permanent and contractor positions we recruit for are diverse – from CEOs to senior operations managers and maintenance team members.

Understood and supported

Our relationships with our clients are not transactional. We give the time, to get the return. We also deeply understand the construction and engineering industry – according to our client David O’Donnell ‘many recruiters say this, but Talent Blueprint actually does.’

Confident
You can rely on us, and trust us to deliver, even in the most challenging markets. We don’t just rely on luck. Our client Jonathan Smith says that we ‘do a great job of vetting candidates so the process takes less time and is also good value. They care about both sides of the equation.’
Rewarded

We’ll deliver results, but also a great experience. We’re flexible in how we work together, as we know that the traditional recruitment model (% of salary fee) doesn’t suit everyone. That’s why we have so many long-term clients, and work primarily from referrals.

Michael Berger

Founding Director

Sandhra Sanil

Recruitment Consultant

Anastasija Brankovic

Recruitment Consultant

Michael Berger

Founding Director
B. Bus (Marketing), QUT
MBA (Business Management), University of New South Wales

Michael founded Talent Blueprint in 2014 to help SME owners and leaders in the Queensland engineering and construction sector build their teams and grow their businesses.

Michael is passionate about working with aspirational business leaders to create rich talent pools for their growing businesses. With over 20 years of experience in this sector across Europe and Australasia, Michael created the unique Talent Blueprint 5 Step Recruitment Blueprint which can be tailored and applied to any recruitment challenge. You can either implement it yourself, or get us to help you do it, providing all the benefits of your own internal talent team without the overheads.

Over the last 20 years Michael has been:

  • Recognised as a leading supplier to Worley Parsons.
  • Listed as a preferred supplier to the Queensland Gas Company.
  • A key recruitment partner to London Underground in the UK.
  • Sole recruitment supplier and advisor to multiple growing QLD SME’s.

“Before dealing with Michael I really disliked recruiters. I considered them to be in the same category as real estate agents. But Michael has changed that perception for me. He really understands what our needs are, and he has spent a lot of time with us over four years to get that.”

Symon Jackson, Red Earth Engineering