Recruitment Built on Reality, Not Hype
Disruptive Recruitment was built because the recruitment industry stopped serving businesses properly. We exist to change that.
Our Purpose
Why Disruptive Recruitment Exists
Recruitment should not feel like a gamble. Yet for many businesses, it does.
You either:
Overpay for percentage-based recruitment
Work with recruiters who don't understand your business
Juggle multiple agencies for different roles
Or accept hires that 'sort of' work
None of that supports growth.
Disruptive Recruitment was created to make recruitment an easy, predictable, commercially sound decision… whether you're hiring your first employee or building a national team.
Too many agencies sell volume over fit. Too many recruiters don't understand the industries they recruit for. Too many businesses are left carrying the cost of inflated fees, poor hires, and constant churn.
Disruptive Recruitment delivers fixed fee permanent recruitment and executive search for blue collar industries across Australia, built on operational reality, commercial logic, and long-term partnerships.
Our Leadership
Built by Operational Reality & Recruitment Performance
Founded by Laki Mafi
Built on Blue Collar and Operational Experience
Disruptive Recruitment was founded by Laki Mafi, who brings over 20 years of blue collar and operational experience.
From working on the tolls through to operational leadership, Laki understands:
what performance actually looks like on the ground
How teams function under pressure
Where hires succeed or fail in real environments
And why operational alignment matters more than impressive resumes
This foundation ensures recruitment decisions are made with a deep understanding of safety, reliability, accountability, and delivery… not theory.
Led by Lezly Kaye
Elite Recruitment Performance at Scale
Disruptive Recruitment is led by Lezly Kaye, an 8x award-winning recruiter trained at Hays Recruitment, one of the world’s most recognised recruitment firms.
Over her career, Lezly has placed over 100,000 people into roles across Australia, spanning trades and blue collar positions, industrial and operational teams, administration and support functions, and senior leadership and executive appointments.
Her recruitment background is grounded in high performance agency environments, where results, consistency, and delivery mattered. The eight recruitment awards she has earned reflect sustained performance at scale, not one-off success.
Today, Lezly leads Disruptive Recruitment with a clear mandate… recruitment must serve the business, not the agency.
She brings commercial clarity, pattern recognition, and operational alignment to every hire, ensuring recruitment supports long-term business performance rather than short-term wins.
Our Approach
One Recruitment Partner… Not Multiple Agencies
Most businesses reach a point where using different recruiters for different roles creates misalignment. Frontline hires don't match leadership expectations. Leadership hires don't understand frontline realities. Operations suffer as a result.
At Disruptive Recruitment, we recruit from trades to CEOs, using one consistent model, one process, and one lens across the business.
Fixed Fee Permanent Recruitment
Clear pricing for all roles from trades to management
Executive Search
For blue collar and operational businesses
Because recruitment only works when the entire ecosystem works together.
Our Model
Why Fixed Fee Recruitment Matters
Traditional recruitment pricing rewards salary size, not hiring outcomes. We don't believe businesses should pay more simply because a role pays more.
Our fixed fee permanent recruitment model exists to:
Remove financial uncertainty
Keep hiring commercially fair
Support budget forecasting
Eliminate commission-driven behaviour
Align incentives with long-term success
By running lean operations and removing inflated recruiter commissions, we deliver high-quality recruitment without passing inefficiencies onto our clients.
Our Clients
Who We Work With
We work best with businesses who hire more than once, value consistency and alignment, and want one recruitment partner across their organisation.
Small and growing businesses navigating recruitment for the first time
Operational SMEs scaling teams and leadership
Blue collar businesses needing reliability and accountability
Large organisations requiring budget certainty and scope control
From businesses overwhelmed by recruitment hype to organisations needing structure and predictability… we exist to simplify the decision.
Let's Build Something That Works
Whether you're hiring one role or building a long-term team, Disruptive Recruitment offers a smarter way to recruit.
Fixed fee permanent recruitment and executive search for blue collar industries across Australia. From trades to CEOs. One recruitment partner. One fixed fee model.
Founded by Laki Mafi
Led by Lezly Kaye
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