Corporate & admin
Corporate and administrative staffing
The roles that keep a company running are the ones most often filled in a hurry, and the ones where a bad fit does the quietest damage. They deserve the same rigour as the roles with titles.
Quiet roles, loud consequences
When an operations coordinator or an office manager is wrong for the job, nothing dramatic happens. Things simply take longer, get dropped more often, and the people around them absorb the difference until somebody senior burns out.
These are also the roles with the clearest internal progression, which makes them worth hiring properly — a good coordinator becomes an operations lead if there is a path drawn for them.
Roles we place
- Operations and coordination. The connective tissue between teams.
- Administrative support. Including executive support, where discretion matters as much as capability.
- Customer and client support. Screened for temperament, not only systems experience.
- Finance and payroll administration.
- Office and facilities management.
Straight answers
Questions people ask about corporate and administrative staffing.
How do I hire a good office manager?
Hire for judgment under competing priorities rather than for software experience, because the tools take a fortnight to learn and the judgment does not. The most useful interview question is how they decided what to drop the last time everything was urgent.
Should administrative roles be temporary or permanent?
Permanent, in almost every case where the work is ongoing. These roles accumulate institutional knowledge that walks out with each departure, so the churn cost is higher than the day rate makes it look.
What does a corporate support role pay?
It varies widely by market and by how much judgment the role actually carries, so a national average is close to useless for setting a band. We benchmark against what comparable employers near you are paying now.
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