Executive Recruitment Team in Melbourne

Entrepreneurs at heart

Founded by CEO Ainsley Johnstone, Think Talent’s mission is to connect Australia’s leading businesses with world-class talent.

With qualifications in Organisational Psychology, Ainsley has a track record of building and growing successful businesses. Starting out in the finance and strategy talent markets, Ainsley also spent time at Origin Energy, leading the sourcing strategy for their enterprise transformation program; the largest in Australia at that time.

Responsible for bringing in over 300 program resources, Ainsley was instrumental in building the talent capability required to revolutionise Origin Energy’s retail operations, technology, business processes and people capability.

A natural entrepreneur, this experience highlighted for Ainsley the radical disruption posed by technology, the digital economy, shifting demographics, and renewed focus on customer centricity. Leaning into this trend, Ainsley went on to launch Think Talent in 2014, a specialist talent advisory, connecting ASX-100 organisations and scaling businesses, with exceptional talent across current and emerging segments.

In recognition of these contributions, Think Talent won the Seek Sara award for recruitment innovation in 2017. Think Talent was also featured in Bank of Melbourne’s Business State Magazine and listed as one of LinkedIn’s Top 3 Most Socially Engaged Staffing Agencies in 2018.

Like many businesses, Think Talent faced into the extraordinary challenge of COVID with courage and determination. Over this period, Think Talent has fortified a unique, collegiate business model, embedding agile ways of working and robust technology ecosystems that enable quality delivery at scale.

These are the values that shape our work

Connected

We activate the very best in people and maximise outcomes by harnessing the strengths of the collective.

Progressive

We are positive about the future and its potential. We spot emerging patterns to discover opportunities to create new value.

Trusted

We operate with unwavering integrity to build deep, long-lasting relationships based on care, discretion and respect.

Attracting future-fit talent is our business

To stay ahead of the talent demand curve, we track market trends and monitor commercial intelligence to understand emerging career profiles, future-fit behaviours and capability requirements. Right now, there are three trends reshaping work as we know it:

Where is the Love?

Necessary cuts across enterprises have shunted customer obsession down the priority list—and customers are noticing.

The Great Interface Shift

AI is upgrading our experience of the internet from transactional to personal, enabling us to be digitally understood.

Meh-diocrity

Creativity was about the audience, but has become dependent on tech. Is this what creative stagnation feels like?

*Life Trends 2024, Accenture

Meet the Think Talent team

Think Talent boasts a track record of successful placements across iconic brands, enterprise organisations and high growth market disrupters. Our experienced talent partners are recruitment specialists and offer executive level talent planning and search capability that will gain you the competitive edge.