At Decipher Group, our capability goes beyond what you would expect from a typical search firm – we provide a comprehensive array of management, executive and governance recruitment, and organisational design solutions to a wide range of businesses throughout New Zealand and Australia.
Our team are 100 percent focussed on exceptional service delivery, helping organisations to find, keep and grow people. But go deeper and you’ll see that we are also driven by making a positive impact – Empowering Success Through People. It’s part of the Decipher difference.
Our purpose, our people, our experience, and our capability enable us to consistently deliver the highest level of service and expertise.
The Decipher
difference
Our reputation is built on our ability to deliver results for our clients, while offering a premium service that is responsive, transparent, and outcome-driven.
Our team of specialists provide a highly personalised service built on long-lasting relationships; it’s this deep understanding of your sector, organisation and culture that means we consistently deliver exceptional results, guaranteed. From finding your next senior leader through to co-creating your people and resourcing strategy, we offer a breadth and depth of expertise that is unmatched in the market.
In today’s volatile and uncertain world, you need a partner who has their finger firmly on the pulse of business, talent communities, and people resourcing trends. Our team are well-respected advisors and thought leaders, who are widely known for their expert commentary, knowledge, and guidance.
It’s the expertise, curiosity and tenacity of our team that makes all the difference.
The values
that drive us
Without exception, our business and our people operate in accordance with our Decipher Group values.
Over the years, while our business has grown and our service offering has evolved, our values have stayed the same. The decisions that our team members make every day are based on and guided by our values:
Relentless Teamwork | We are collaborators and will always be better together.
Exceptional Outcomes Through Partnerships | We partner with our stakeholders to create the best outcomes without exception.
Do The Right Thing | We work with integrity, knowing that the right thing is the only thing to do.
We Deeply Care | About our colleagues, candidates, clients and communities.
Decipher
doing good
We maintain strong links with, and support, our wider community – making a positive impact is something that is very important to us.
Decipher Group are proud supporters of Māia Health Foundation and Cholmondeley Children’s Centre, contributing much needed fundraising and volunteer support to help make a real difference. In addition, we provide sponsorship and pro bono contributions to various community and sporting groups as well as enabling our team to share their expertise and strengthen the nation’s workforce by investing up to 10 hours a month to provide free career development advice, leadership coaching and recruitment support to graduates and senior professionals, looking to enhance their career prospects.
As part of our commitment to supporting our local communities and climate – we’re paying it forward! On behalf of our valued clients, for every candidate our team help place, we donate to Trees That Count, which means a native tree is planted in Aotearoa New Zealand.
By funding native trees, we’re seeking to absorb CO2 emissions over 50 years as those trees continue to grow. That’s good for our carbon footprint, and good for Aotearoa.
Our commitment
to DEI
Our success as a business is inextricably linked to people – from our two entrepreneurial co-founders and motivated team, through to the clients and candidates that are part of our broader community. As both individuals and a business, we value and support genuine and impactful diversity and inclusion practice.
We know that building diverse workplaces is an important priority for our clients. Our team utilise the very best digital recruitment technology currently available; smart automation and AI in our systems includes a suite of tools to assist with finding the right person for a role while also supporting efforts to mitigate unconscious bias. Our approach to candidate assessment is also grounded on best practice talent identification, based on merit and ability, uncovering the traits and behaviours of candidates and evaluating against what is required in the role.
Recruitment Graduate
Programme
We are on a continuous journey of learning and development within our team and realise that we also have a social obligation to contribute to building and enhancing capability within our wider community. The global experience of a pandemic, while incredibly disrupting and challenging, has also accelerated change at an exponential rate, transforming the workplace and workforce in ways previously thought unimaginable. Alongside a steady increase in the next generation entering the workforce, who bring with them different skills and behaviours, we felt that the time was right to introduce a distinctive and highly targeted graduate programme that nurtured tomorrow’s recruitment leaders.
Introducing the Decipher Group Recruitment Graduate Programme, an immersive 12-month experience where participants work their way through structured learning while completing on-the-job training.
Applications for the 2024 programme are now closed.
Our talented
team
Valued clients
What they say
about us
"What we are looking for from a recruitment partner is a firm with a good reputation in the market and one that has access to a broad selection of candidates. Having an added level of search and recruitment expertise, really makes the difference. At the time of being introduced to Decipher Group, we knew we needed a new approach and Decipher have certainly delivered."
Richard Greenaway
Chief Executive Officer, Anderson Lloyd.
"I have a long standing professional relationship with Decipher Group, and have enlisted their services to recruit a variety of senior management, executive and governance level positions. The skills and experience of Decipher’s in-house team are outstanding."
Trevor Burt
Chair, Rua Bioscience; Chair, MHM Automation Limited; Director, Landpower Group Limited; Director, MG Marketing Limited; Trustee, Maia Health Foundation.
"Decipher find the right people based on the skills and requirements criteria. In some instances, this can mean a limited pool of candidates, but we trust Decipher to find the right people and when needed, challenge our thinking."
Claire Evans
Partner, PwC Legal; Independent Director, Christchurch City Holdings Ltd; Trustee, Christchurch Symphony Orchestra; Independent Director, Canterbury Linen Services Limited; Trustee, Emergency Care Foundation. Previous: Intern Director, Lyttelton Port Company.
"We typically partner with an external recruitment consultancy when looking for executive level roles. The value for us, is tapping into a consultancy’s wider networks, looking for talent in industries different to ours as well as identifying up and coming leaders and future talent in the regions in which we operate. Decipher Group is great at building networks and relationships in a business environment; they have strong connections in the market and Calder Stewart leverage this when recruiting for roles."
Darren Evans
Chief Executive Officer, Calder Stewart.
"Our partnership with Decipher Group has evolved and we now use them as our outsourced HR provider on a retainer basis. It means we can tap into HR guidance and support on an as needed basis, providing critical and timely advice, while also having a permanent and independent HR contact for our wider team."
Monique Kaminski
Founder, Jeuneora.
"Manaaki Whenua – Landcare Research is a Crown Research Institute responsible for supporting New Zealand to develop a sustainable relationship with our land and the diversity of life on land, through the delivery of exceptional science and partnerships across a wide range of disciplines and organisations. We have utilised the services of Decipher Group for a number of executive appointments within our organisation and developed a trusted relationship with them over several years."
Richard Gordon
Former Chief Executive, Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research.
