STRAIGHTLINE RECRUITMENT

About Us

Russell Mathlay

Director / General Manager 

About Us

Russell Mathlay, the founder of Straightline Recruitment, who will also lead and operate as the Director and General Manager, established the company in 2025 after successfully leading and directing a previous recruitment company specifically focused on the transport, warehouse, and logistics industry over a 7-year period (2017 - 2024). Prior to Russell’s recruitment focus he has been leading, directing and managing for over 20 years, multiple operations associated with transport, logistics, waste and environmental infrastructure, earthworks construction, production, process manufacturing and frontline service delivery.

Knowing firsthand the demands and challenges associated with recruitment and selection and finding the candidates best suited to the employer’s needs during both high and low unemployment market conditions, Straightline’s core focus is to remove the stress and effort from your company by deploying its own expertise, simplified and straight forward recruitment processes to offer you, suitable candidates, to choose from for your operation. Allowing you and your company to focus on your core business and operations instead.

Our Purpose

Straightline Recruitment’s aim and purpose is to make temporary or permanent labour hire easy, simple, and straight forward. That way you as the employer can continue to focus on your core business, productivity, and operational output. 

Our Mission

Straightline Recruitment's mission is to eliminate complicated labour hiring processes by providing straightforward staffing solutions, bringing Employers and Jobseekers together that are best suited to one another’s needs.

  • The Employer’s need is to find the skills and experience in a labour resource that can contribute effectively towards its day-to-day efforts toward achieving its operational/service goals.

  • The Jobseeker’s need is to find a work assignment best suited to its past and/or existing skills and experience.

Trusted & Reliable Staffing Solutions

Straightline Recruitment’s vision is to provide trusted and reliable staffing solutions, by creating that bridge between jobseekers and employers who could use the skills and experience of such jobseekers achieving a result both parties will benefit from.