Profusion has won its fair share of awards over nearly two decades in business. In our early years we were twice listed in the Australian Financial Review’s Fast Starters Top 100 and we’ve been named Australia’s Healthiest Workplace by AIA Vitality twice. One award that is particularly special to us is our win for Recruiter of the Year at the inaugural Women in Finance Awards in 2017.

Profusion Co-founder and Managing Director Simone Mears explains why.

“When I first started recruiting in the Financial Services sector in the 1990s, the industry was entirely male dominated, both amongst recruiters and the talent they were considering. Female recruiters didn’t get the opportunity to work on placing candidates in the game-changing leadership roles.”

Our knowledge of the market, our deep networks and our track record of providing pathways for outstanding women to secure leadership roles continues to make us the go-to for placing women in senior financial services roles.

The number of female CEOs and board members in ASX 200 listed companies shows that there’s still a lot of work to do, but equally, the number of female CEOs in a key market sector like Superannuation shows how far we’ve come." 

"We’ve been doing a lot of work with our clients for more than a decade to appoint women into senior roles. As a female leader in Financial Services recruitment, I am still regularly approached by organisations who want help to identify high performing female talent.