Fairhired.

About Fairhired

We ran the agency. We did the hiring. Now we do it for you.

Fairhired exists because hiring great offshore people shouldn't be so hard. We know — we spent years doing it the hard way ourselves.

From our agency days to Fairhired

Before Fairhired there was our online reputation company — a business we founded and ran ourselves. We helped businesses take control of how they appear online; around twenty people on the team at its height, built over several years.

Winning the work was never the hard part. Finding people was. Every time we needed to hire, we hit the same wall: plenty of applicants, plenty of polished interviews, and no reliable way to tell who could genuinely do the work. Finding top-quality staff was, by a distance, the hardest part of running the business.

So we built our own way of hiring. Role-specific screening. Practical work samples. Reference checks that ask harder questions. Candid notes instead of a sales pitch. It was the process that kept our own agency staffed, and it is the process we now run for every Fairhired search.

Fairhired is that lesson, turned into a service — with one transparent fee and the working relationship kept directly between you and your hire. We have sat on your side of the hiring table. We built Fairhired for the business we used to be.

Desmond Dao interviewed on 7NewsDesmond Dao hosting the Q&A session on stage at the 10th APFIA Summit
Desmond Dao in the media — on 7News and hosting the Q&A session at the 10th APFIA Summit.
Our team on a weekly all-hands video call at our online reputation company
Our team on a weekly all-hands call — the online reputation company we ran before Fairhired.
01

The lesson we kept

In the agency, the difference between a great hire and an average one was the difference between a client staying for years and quietly drifting away. That lesson shapes every shortlist we deliver: evidence before enthusiasm, always.

02

What fair means here

  • Clear fees before the search begins
  • A salary discussed openly, set above the local market rate, and paid to the person
  • Top-quality talent that stays, because they are paid what they are worth
  • Role-specific evidence instead of polished interview answers
  • Candid shortlist notes, including genuine watch-outs
03

Built for direct teams

Fairhired is not a managed outsourcing company. You set priorities, build the relationship and lead your new teammate as part of your business. We handle the work of finding and assessing the right person.

04

Growing trust properly

Fairhired is building its client record carefully. We will publish client names, reviews and case studies only with permission and once the underlying work can be verified.

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