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About our HR Consulting Firm Brisbane

About Our Team

SkilledSuite is a Brisbane-based HR consultancy and recruitment firm specialising in on-demand HR support for small to medium enterprises. The firm recognises the challenges business owners face, particularly in managing and growing their teams. Unlike typical consultants who offer theoretical advice, SkilledSuite takes a hands-on approach, deeply immersing themselves in their clients’ businesses to provide practical, results-driven solutions. The team, including Hugh Reardon, and Connel Faulkner, is dedicated to ensuring real action is taken to address challenges, with a focus on achieving tangible outcomes. With a deep understanding of the business landscape, they help clients navigate obstacles and grow effectively.
 

Our Values

We value action and believe in progress over perfection. We take initiative, learn from our mistakes, and seek feedback after trying new things, even if we occasionally get it wrong. 
 
We focus on continuous improvement, embracing self-awareness and recognising that we’re not perfect, but that won’t stop us from taking bold steps. 
 
Our goal is to deliver an outstanding experience for our clients and team, treating every service as if it’s worth $100,000. If our results don’t get a “Hell Yes,” we push to do better, maintaining patience and clear communication to meet and exceed expectations.

Our Values

Egalitarian

Everybody has worth. Regardless of race, beliefs or education everyone has skills and abilities that are unique to them. We believe that by ignoring the superficial and placing people in roles where their strengths can shine, while providing them with support in areas they’re weaker in, we can create a workforce that is empowered. We want to challenge the status quo by not accounting for people as a cost to the company, though instead by considering their potential to add value. To us, people are the solution, not the problem.

Kinetic

We see problems as opportunities and we approach every opportunity with enthusiasm and high energy.

Learning

We learn from our mistakes and treat every experience as a chance to improve our process; we do not let failure weigh us down.

Self-aware

We acknowledge that we won’t always have the answer, we aren’t perfect and at times we might make the wrong call. However, we will not let our gaps stop us from giving something a go and trying again if need be.

Our Leadership Team

Connel Faulkner

Managing Director & Co-Founder

Hugh Reardon

Head of Product & Co-Founder

Meet The Brains Behind The Operation

Connel Faulkner
Managing Director & Co-Founder
Hugh Reardon
Head of Product & Co-Founder
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Connel Faulkner

Managing Director & Co-Founder

Hiring is only half the battle when it comes to getting the right people in your business.

After many years working across recruitment and in-house Human Resources roles, Connel discovered that the challenges with finding the right staff extend far beyond interviews and job offers. It was clear that the companies who excelled at finding the right fit had a broader focus on the process – one which starts well before a job ad is posted.

That is what encouraged Connel to launch SkilledSuite, a new kind of agency that went deeper into the staffing needs of Queensland businesses. High-touch, personalised and flexible to make sure the conditions were right on both sides of the equation, so the real needs of company and employee could be met effectively.

“People are such an integral part of any business, yet so many owners are not equipped with the tools to manage them well. Throwing more staff at a problem is not only inefficient, it can make things so much harder in the long run.

That’s why we developed SkilledSuite, to give this critical part of every business the attention it deserves in a flexible, meaningful and effective way. Not just getting the right people in, but ensuring the ones who are there meet the actual needs of the business.”

That’s why SkilledSuite exists – to make your people into the assets you know they can be.

Hugh Reardon

Head of Product & Co-Founder

When starting and growing businesses, the same challenges keep rearing their ugly heads.

That’s what Hugh has learnt through his decades as an entrepreneur, having built successful businesses in the manufacturing, technology, transportation and agriculture industries. So many of those challenges come down to the management, hiring – and firing – of personnel at all levels of the operation.

With over 160 staff at his last venture and tens of millions in revenue, he should know. It was also clear that the right kind of help was hard to come by. Finding himself tapped out with endless, grinding work days, Hugh was searching for external support who could help with the root cause of these issues.

“So much of the time we felt stuck in neutral. It was so frustrating, knowing what we could achieve but being limited by the same old challenges and jobs not getting done right. We spent hundreds of thousands on consultants, only to be left with bulky reports and mediocre hires. I knew there was a better way.

I’ve been in the trenches and tackled the same problems that are limiting your productivity and efficiency right now. I’ve learned that success can be repeatable and predictable. It’s possible to get there, you just need someone willing to roll up their sleeves and get it done.”

That’s what SkilledSuite was built for. To be the resource we wish we had when building our businesses.