Looking for pedigree trainers? So are our clients. Check our bios below. As you’ll see, our consultants have all worked in recruitment and talent acquisition for many years for large and diverse global businesses.
We know recruitment. We know best practice and we also know some clever tips and tricks. And we are happy to share our vast knowledge.
All our trainers are both skilled recruiters and facilitators, and are internally accredited to deliver these courses.
Recruit Clever.
Rachel Hill
Academy Director & Lead Trainer
Rachel Hill is a distinguished HR Executive and Thought Leader with over 30 years of expertise in Recruitment, Talent Acquisition (TA) Strategy, and Talent Management. Her work spans Australia, the Asia-Pacific region, and global markets.
As Managing Director of Hill Consulting HRS, Rachel assists organisations to attract top talent, optimise recruitment processes, and elevate hiring manager capabilities. She also spearheads The Recruitment Skills Academy, delivering bespoke training for TA professionals, Hiring Managers, HR leaders, and executives. These programs cover critical recruitment skills areas such as EEO and the law, unconscious bias, competency-based interviewing, employer branding, and attraction strategies. Ensuring HR teams and organisations are equipped for modern recruitment challenges.
Rachel’s mission, “Recruit Better,” reflects her passion for enhancing candidate experience, fostering diversity, and driving recruitment efficiency.
With a career spanning more than 28 years in corporate HR and recruitment roles across the UK, Australia, and New Zealand, Rachel has led large in-house HR and recruitment functions, contributing to her deep understanding of best practices and the human condition. Her expertise extends across various industries, making her a sought-after recruitment solutions expert and a pioneer in HR process efficiency and technology.
Currently, Rachel serves as Project Director and Principal Consultant at Hill Consulting HRS Australia, specialising in TA process improvement, cost optimisation, recruitment efficiency, and automation. She is a trusted advisor to corporate Australia, helping organisations transform their recruitment and HR strategies by enhancing process efficiencies, aligning people and practices, and leveraging cutting-edge HR technology.
An accomplished media commentator, keynote speaker, and corporate trainer, Rachel frequently addresses topics such as recruitment innovation, candidate experience, and HR tech. She has authored numerous blogs and articles on HR best practices and emerging trends and strategies.
Rachel’s leadership has been recognised at national conferences and industry events. She chaired the Employee Experience Conference in Sydney and serves as a National Judge for the Internal Talent Awards (ITA), evaluating innovation and technology in the recruitment industry.
She was also Founder and Director of HRtechmarket.com, a global platform featuring over 2,700 HR tech products. She currently does weekly posts, articles and newsletters on Recruitment, offering unparalleled insights into HR and Recruitment trends.
Rachel Hill continues to consult with leading organisations across Australia and New Zealand, enabling HR and TA teams to deliver strategic results and achieve better business outcomes via improved recruitment practices.
Tamara Di Veroli
Recruiter Trainer
Tamara is a recruitment and talent leader with over 16 years of experience in talent acquisition, talent management, process and systems improvement, leadership and redeployment management. Tamara has worked across numerous industries including infrastructure, construction, services, engineering, telecommunications, information technology, early learning and education, many of which have been in large and complex businesses.
Tamara is a people leader and has managed both small and large national TA teams with a strong focus on mentoring. Tamara loves to share and loves to train others in the art of TA. Tamara is passionate about training and teaching others how to think creatively and embrace new ways of learning, with the ability to adapt to all learning methods.
She really understands how to get the best out of people. Tamara’s experience spans all aspects of Talent Acquisition includes strategic sourcing, branding/EVP, ATS implementations, process design and development, bulk and graduate recruitment, rapid mobilisation projects, workforce planning, executive search & selection, talent mapping, succession planning, internal mobility, and redeployment. Tamara has successfully implemented a number of ATS’s / HR & TA systems and is passionate about process improvement. Tamara is passionate about giving back to the TA community and is an active member of several industry collaborations and networking groups as well as volunteering for Jobs for Humanity (Australia).
When she is not working on Recruitment campaigns or delivering training, Tamara can be found with her 5-year-old son Oscar and hubby enjoying the outdoors, Italian food and travelling.
Allison Bell
TA Strategy Trainer
Alison is a senior Talent professional with experience providing consulting offerings spanning the full range of implementation needs that support clients recruiting strategy planning, process re-engineering, process integration, account configuration, integration activation, assessment development, branding, change management and training.
She leads our TA Leadership and Strategy practice in the Recruitment Skills Academy.
Alison has an amazing ability to translate commercial business strategy and subtle people management approaches to ensure bottom line results for major global corporations.
She is also an expert on facilitating TA change, career profiling, operational job search methodologies, assessment and career profiling programs.
She has a high level communication skills ensuring rapport and influencing capabilities are applied to executive, middle management and administrative level delivery models. Cultural sensitivity demonstrating breadth and depth within a consulting coaching environment.
Her Specialties include:
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TA Strategy
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Managing high performance TA teams
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Global or APAC Talent oversight
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Process improvement
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RPO Negotiation and contract review
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Recruitment Process re-design
When not running major Recruitment redesign programs or building global Recruitment strategies, Allison can be found renovating her house, gardening or catching up with the kids.
Deb Zurnamer
Senior Legal Recruitment Trainer
Deb Zurnamer has extensive experience in the legal professional and Recruitment marketplace. She has worked as a lawyer, managed her own successful legal recruitment business, and has held senior Resourcing and HR Management positions in respected Sydney law firms.
Throughout her career she has been involved in talent attraction, recruitment and interviewing and has honed these skills over many years working in HR. She has a unique understanding of law firm practice as well as the legal recruitment market and has seen first-hand the positive impact of professional and best practice interviewing skills on the candidate experience. She is passionate about imparting these skills and experience to current and future legal leaders to positively impact the attraction and selection of excellent talent for their firms.
Deborah now partners with The Recruitment Skills Academy as our lead trainer and designer for Legal practice in delivering leading edge recruitment practices for lawyers. Developed for Leaders and emerging leaders in the legal profession.