18 years. 100,000 placements. One better model.

We Didn't Build This to Be Different.

We Built It Because the Old One Was Wrong.

Two people. 18 years of Australian recruitment. 20+ years of operational and military leadership. A track record that made the flat fee model not just possible, but obvious.

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The recruitment model charges you more when you hire better people.

The fee goes up with the salary. The service doesn't.

We spent 18 years on the inside of this industry.

We've placed over 100,000 people into roles across Australia.

We've built agencies and led teams of 40+ recruiters.

And we watched businesses pay a fortune,

for a model that was never designed to put them first.

That's what Disruptive Recruitment exists to change

Lead Recruiter + Co-Founder

Lezly Kaye

Lezly Kaye has been recruiting in Australia for 18 years. She started at Hays, one of the world's most rigorous recruitment organisations, and built her craft placing people across fast-paced mining environments, mobilising whole teams in demanding conditions.

She went on to build her own agencies, managing teams that placed people across every function a business needs: administration, accounting, IT, engineering, operations, project management, HR, and executive leadership.

She is an 8x world record-holding recruiter. Not a marketing line. An actual record of performance built over two decades. She has placed over 100,000 people into permanent and temporary roles across Australia.

She has built recruitment teams from scratch. She has led agencies with 40+ consultants. More importantly, she has seen exactly where the model lets businesses down: the fee that grows with the salary but not with the quality of the work, the agency that moves on the moment a placement is made, the CVs that look right on paper but don't work with the team.

She built Disruptive Recruitment to do it differently. Flat fee. Full process. Hiring psychology built in from day one.

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Years Australian recruitment

Placements

World record-holder

Largest team led

Founder

Laki Mafi

Laki Mafi founded Disruptive Recruitment to challenge a model that had frustrated businesses for decades.

His background is in operational environments, including 9.5 years of military service, where he learned what it actually takes to build teams that perform under pressure.

Accountability. Culture. The right person in the right role.

He built Disruptive Recruitment because great recruitment should not come with a $20,000 price tag.

The flat fee model makes that possible, without compromising the process.

18 Years to Refine It.

One Fee to Deliver It.

Our process is not simple because we cut corners. It is simple because we have spent 18 years working out exactly what matters, and removing everything that doesn't.

The job title doesn't drive our process.

The job description and job conditions do.

We ask different questions to most recruiters. We look beyond the CV.

We match personality to leadership team, not just skills to a brief.

That is what makes a hire last.

And that is what makes our guarantee possible.

We Stand Behind Every Hire.

If a placement does not work out, we recruit again at no additional fee. We can offer that because we trust our process. Not as a marketing line. As a reflection of the work we put in before anyone ever sees a candidate.

Why "Disruptive"

It's Not a Buzzword. It's What We're Doing.

Every industry has a model that keeps running, not because it works, but because no one has changed it. Recruitment's model is the percentage fee. Pay more to hire better people. Regardless of the process. Regardless of the outcome.