Senior advisory hires carry real risk. Hire to match.
Accounting, consulting, advisory, recruitment, agency. Trust-critical hires deserve more than a CV scan and two phone calls.
Assessely is a smart HR platform for Australian professional services businesses that combines hiring assessments, reference checks with fraud detection, and employee retention surveys in one place.
THE CHALLENGE
The hiring and retention challenges professional services businesses face every day.
Senior hires carry outsized risk
A wrong hire at senior consultant, manager, or partner level affects clients, culture, and revenue. The cost goes well beyond the recruitment fee, and a fabricated track record can cost you a client relationship overnight.
Billable utilisation in the first 90 days is everything
New senior hires either start billing properly in the first quarter or they do not. By the time HR notices someone is not ramping up, you have already missed a quarter of forecast revenue and the partner is uncomfortable raising it.
Talent retention is a competitive issue
Your best people are always being approached. Understanding their experience, engagement, and loyalty signals is critical to keeping them. The competitor is one LinkedIn message away from your highest-billing consultant.
THE SOLUTION
How Assessely solves it.
Structured assessments
Assessments that test judgement, technical depth, and values, not just qualifications and experience. Built for advisory, consulting, accounting, and senior client-facing roles.
Partner-level reference verification
In-depth reference checks with AI fraud detection for senior appointments. Verifies role scope, client list relevance where appropriate, reasons for leaving, and confidentiality awareness.
Qualification and registration verification
Professional registration, CA/CPA membership, RG146, AFSL authorisations, or relevant industry credentials captured and tracked with renewal reminders.
Team pulse surveys
Engagement tracking for consultants and advisors who split time between clients and the office. Short surveys built for time-poor billable staff.
eNPS tracking
Measure loyalty in competitive professional talent markets. Spot retention risks before your best senior associate accepts an offer from a competitor.
Exit interviews
Understand why senior talent leaves before it becomes a pattern. Honest answers on partner dynamics, client mix, career path, and pay.
IN THEIR WORDS
What professional services teams say.
Real moments from people using Assessely in small and medium-sized businesses today.
Senior consultant hires are where you get hurt most. Our last director hire had a referee response that didn't line up with her CV timeline. Polite conversation followed. The explanation didn't hold up. We didn't extend the offer and six months on it's clearly the right call.
Hannah G.
Partner, management consultancy
Sydney
Reference turnaround time is the win. Candidate insights I read before every shortlist call. Two pages, actually useful.
Jess R.
Practice Manager, mid-tier accounting firm
Edinburgh
First reference check we ran came back flagging that the candidate had given us his housemate as a referee. He didn't get the job, obviously. Don't think we'd have caught it ourselves.
Bridget H.
People & Culture Lead, mid-sized professional services firm
Melbourne
HOW IT WORKS
Up and running in minutes.
Assess beyond the CV
Structured assessments that test judgement, technical depth, and values. Especially important for senior client-facing roles.
Verify with depth
Partner-grade reference checks with AI fraud detection for every senior appointment. Verifies what someone actually did, not what is on the CV.
Retain your best people
eNPS, pulse surveys, and exit interviews to understand and improve retention in a competitive talent market.
QUESTIONS
Frequently asked questions.
Quick answers for professional services teams considering Assessely.
Yes. Partner-grade reference checks with AI fraud detection, in-depth verification of scope and outcomes, confidentiality acknowledgements, and conflicts disclosures can all be captured. The audit trail per candidate is timestamped and exportable.
The AI cross-checks referee responses against the candidate-provided CV, looking for inconsistencies in dates, role scope, and outcomes. Email domain, response timing, and language patterns are also assessed. Suspect references are flagged for human review before sign-off.
Assessely runs on AWS with encryption at rest and in transit. Candidate records, references, and conflicts disclosures are protected with strict access controls.
Candidate names, schools, and demographic markers are stripped before AI evaluation. Scores are produced against the role criteria you define. Partners always make the final decision and can override any AI output.
Premium is $199 a month for full features. Reference checks $1 per referee, qualification and compliance checks $1 each, eNPS waves $10 each. Most 60-consultant firms running steady senior hiring sit between $400 and $700 a month.
Most professional services firms are live within a week. Migrating staff records and compliance evidence typically takes a day or two with our team. Partner adoption tends to follow once the first reference check returns a flag.
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