Free hiring kit for small business

Hire well, without the guesswork.

Write a clear, fair job ad, turn it into structured interview questions, and bring your new person on board with checklists and templates. Free, practical, and linked to the official sources.

Write a job ad Get the templates

The tools run in your browser. What you type stays on your device unless you choose to send us an enquiry.

Example ad, checked

Barista, part-time

Cafe in Ballarat, VIC · 20 to 25 hours a week · Pay from the award

We are after a young, energetic friendly, reliable barista to join our rockstar team.

"Young" can suggest older people need not apply. Describe the work instead. "Rockstar" is jargon: say what the job involves.

Everything for one hire, in order

Each tool feeds the next: the must-haves in your ad become your interview questions, and your position description becomes the probation review.

Job ad writer

A guided form that builds a clean ad and checks it for wording that can discriminate, missing pay details and jargon, with plain explanations.

Write an ad

Interview guides

Turn your must-haves into behavioural questions with a simple scoring sheet to print, plus what not to ask, reference checks and right to work checks.

Build a guide

Onboarding checklists

Before day one, day one, week one and the first three months: information statements, tax and super forms, safety induction and check-ins.

Open the checklists

Templates

Position description, offer letter outline, probation review and exit checklist, in Word, PDF and plain text.

Download

Small businesses do much of Australia's hiring

They employ millions of people, usually without a human resources team. The first hire is a big step, and fewer businesses are taking it. Why Hire Well exists

Over 5 million

people were employed by small businesses in 2023-24.

39%

of the private sector workforce worked in a small business in 2023-24.

of surviving self-employed businesses became an employing business in 2023-24, the lowest rate since these records began in 2007-08.

Source: Australian Small Business and Family Enterprise Ombudsman, Contribution to Australian Employment, July 2025 (opens another site). Based on ABS Australian Industry 2023-24 and ABS Counts of Australian Businesses 2023-24. Small businesses are those employing 0 to 19 people. Private sector figures exclude financial and insurance services.

A bigger hire?

Several roles at once, a senior or hard-to-fill position, or no time to run it yourself.

Tell us about it. With your agreement, we pass your enquiry to CAQA Recruitment in the same group, and it will tell you whether and how it can help. Any fees are agreed with you before work starts.

Help with bigger hires

The basics, from the official sources

Pay: Find my award (opens another site) and the Pay and Conditions Tool (opens another site) (Fair Work Ombudsman)
Job ads: what job ads cannot include (opens another site) (Fair Work Ombudsman)
Fair hiring: Good Practice, Good Business factsheets (opens another site) (Australian Human Rights Commission)
Getting started: Hiring employees guide (opens another site) (business.gov.au)