Justine has considerable recruitment industry experience and has operated her own recruitment business since 1996 assisting high profile Government and Commercial organisations to win the war for talent.  

As a both a recruiter and business owner and with a proven track record in a highly competitive marketplace, Justine has a reputation for quality outcomes, service levels, and adding value. Her clients will attest to her contribution to many critical recruitment projects in challenging situations – and because of this, regularly refer her services to others.

The sustained growth in Eden Ritchie Recruitment and brand reputation are a reflection of the core values underpinning the business – these include honesty, integrity, ethics and responsiveness – to BOTH candidates and employers. Justine has recruited across all aspects of Executive Search and Selection projects in health, accounting and finance, corporate services including HR and operational and general management.

As a well-connected executive recruiter Justine has established networks locally and internationally to draw upon, this has played a key role in the establishment of a specialised Health Recruitment division within Eden Ritchie Recruitment. Justine can demonstrate significant experience and expertise in executive recruitment projects of similar scope within large and complex organisations. Her involvement in many critical recruitment projects has led to the delivery of successful outcomes to several high-profile Queensland Public and Private Sector organisations. Justine holds a Bachelor of Commerce with an Accounting major and is a member of the AICD.

Director of Eden Ritchie Recruitment, Kim Ritchie has spent the past 30+ years within the Queensland Recruitment Industry as both an Executive Recruiter and respected business operator.

Kim’s expertise came to the forefront when she formed Eden Ritchie Recruitment with Justine Eden in the belief that Brisbane lacked a local recruitment firm with a focus on customer service and professional integrity. Kim’s roles both present and in the past have involved extensive account management and client development within the public and private sectors as well as internally driving the growth and profitability of Eden Ritchie Recruitment.

Kim’s recruitment experience expands to all levels of Executive search, Accounting, General and Commercial Management and ICT recruitment. Together with search and selection recruitment processes, Kim has also provided support to clients in the areas of job specification design, writing advertising copy and subsequent screening process with the aim of attracting high calibre candidates most suited to a particular organisation. Partnering with high profile organisations to recruit positions critical to an organisation, Kim’s broad network and search reach is supported by specifically targeted national advertising and search campaigns. 

Linda Parker joined Eden Ritchie Recruitment in 2006 originally commencing as Personal Assistant to the Directors Kim Ritchie and Justine Eden. Since then Linda has worked across all facets of the business, encompassing payroll and accounts support through to working in the role of Recruitment Consultant for the Accounting Division.

In 2013 Linda transitioned to the role of Business Operations Manager, where she supported the Directors with the day-to-day management of the business and has since transitioned into providing selection panel services to Government Departments due to the ongoing and increasing demand. Linda has assisted in and managed multiple recruitment panel processes over the past 12 years and has gained significant experience with short listing, scribing and selection report writing with various Queensland Government organisations.

She has a reputation for delivering outstanding work and outcomes within very tight deadlines and is highly experienced in large scale, bulk recruitment projects – managing extremely high levels of applicants. The level of repeat business Linda receives is testament to the quality and results she continually delivers.

Jane Harvey joined Eden Ritchie Recruitment as a Senior Consultant within the executive recruitment division primarily focusing on Accounting and Finance as well as incorporating, Human Resources and offshore senior executive roles. She is focused on permanent recruitment and executive search within Government and Commercial organisations.Since joining Eden Ritchie, Jane has progressed into the position of Executive Search Specialist – she supports the whole of the business in the recruitment of ‘hard to source’ candidates and supports two Directors with search capability for their Executive roles across various job groups and industry sectors. 

Jane brings a wealth of experience, having commenced her recruitment career in the mid 1990’s after spending several years in an accounting capacity within a large multinational FMCG company. In her early career Jane specialised in the Accounting and Finance sector in both small boutique firms and large national firms in both Sydney and Brisbane.Jane primarily concentrates on recruiting Mid, Senior and Executive level professionals across a broad range of industry sectors and is able to utilise her own hands on experience to provide tailored solutions for her candidates and clients.

Angela joined Eden Ritchie Recruitment as part of the leadership team working alongside the Directors to drive future success and improve business services, systems and processes.

Having relocated to Brisbane from Melbourne, Angela has had several years as a Senior Manager in the Real Estate and Utility Connections industries. With a strong focus on improving business processes to maximise efficiencies and growth while maintaining a high level of customer service, Angela is extremely committed to supporting the Eden Ritchie Recruitment business, brand and reputation.

Helen joined Eden Ritchie in 2017 as a Recruitment Consultant within the Fasterr Division, working with employers and candidates responsible for recruiting across the whole of Government Sector within office-based/administration contract staffing solutions.

Helen moved into the IT Division to focus on the recruitment of Senior Business Analysts, Program/Project Managers, ERP Specialists, Change Managers, .Net Developers, Enterprise Architects, IT Managers, Business Process Improvement Specialists, Data Migration Experts, Network and Systems Administrators and Architects.

Helen has considerable experience within the Recruitment industry spanning Australia and the UK, specialising in the Biotech, Medical Device, Pharmaceutical and Occupational Rehabilitation Sectors.

Helen prides herself in providing the best experience for all her employers and candidates and places  integrity of representing Eden Ritchie Recruitment as an agency of choice for candidates in the job market and within Queensland Government as a whole.

As a Principal Recruitment Consultant, and with experience spanning over 5 years, Pauline considers herself both professional and efficient. Clients can be guaranteed of a recruitment process where they are kept informed and where they will be offered the best Candidates on the market. Candidates would say that she does her upmost at placing them in an environment that has a good culture and is a good fit. Pauline has a strong background in Business Development; therefore believes that connecting with her Clients is paramount.

Pauline has a passion for absorbing information and thrives in challenging environments. Pauline is accepting of peoples differences and would consider herself empathetic and helpful to those around her.  Prior to being a Recruitment Professional, Pauline owned and operated a couple of Beauty Salons.

Lisa has 9+ years of recruitment experience predominantly within ICT, she brings with her a breadth of knowledge and understanding within this space. Originally from New Zealand, Lisa has worked in internal and agency recruitment, and grew her ICT knowledge whilst working at Absolute IT in Wellington.

Lisa moved to Brisbane in 2019 to pursue her ICT recruitment career, determined to replicate the success she had in New Zealand. Lisa has recruited for both contract and permanent roles filling many hard to fill roles, sourcing candidates nationally and internationally. For Lisa it is all about relationships, she sees her role as someone that partners with and guides her clients whilst building strong working relationships.

Lisa ensures she understands her client’s business, the people and the culture, so she can successfully place top candidates into their businesses that are the perfect fit. She prides herself on being able to offer her candidates a high calibre of customer service, meeting candidates to understand who they are and what their needs are within the marketplace, so she can help them find their perfect role.

Outside of work Lisa has been practicing Yoga for 5 years and she feels this provides a good balance for her life.

Emma joined Eden Ritchie Recruitment as a Junior IT Recruitment Consultant, with efforts to drive success and improvement towards both government and commercial organisations.

Emma is a recent graduate with experience in policy & innovation.

Previously Emma was interning at QShelter working on policy ideas for housing the homeless during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Taryn holds international experience in recruitment, consulting, training and staff development in both the private and public sector. Taryn has worked on a diverse range of recruitment drives such as facilitating and organising assessment centres for specific government departments throughout Australia as well as specialising in recruitment in the information and communications technology spectrum.

Taryn believes that culture fit between employee and organisation is essential for sustainable business growth, productivity and employee development. Taryn directly supports all executive recruitment projects with functions including advertising response management, providing all application materials/packs, consolidating all application materials received from candidates, panel support activities including shortlist and selection reports, scheduling, travel arrangements and ensuring communication throughout. Taryn’s qualifications include a Bachelor, Honours and Master’s Degree in Human Resources Management as well as a Certificate IV in Workplace Training and Assessment.

Suzanne joined the Eden Ritchie Recruitment team in 2011 and is our Senior Panel Adminstration Officer providing a range of critical recruitment administration services working on a range of projects at any one time to ensure every box is ticked, no deadline is missed and often working to very tight time frames supporting a number of recruitment consultants.

Prior to joining Eden Ritchie, Sue gained 5 years experience within the recruitment industry as an Office Manager/Recruitment Administrator. Suzanne prides herself on being client focused and is very committed to proving the high level of service to candidates and employers that Eden Ritchie Recruitment prides itself on.

Susanne Flaherty, Government Panel Consultant, has human resource management experience across an extensive range of specialist areas including recruitment and selection, attraction and retention, workforce planning and succession management. She also has a particular interest and experience in health and safety. Working with Government, small business and the community sectors has ensured that Susanne has a comprehensive understanding of the short and long term human resourcing needs for micro to very large employers. She has been an employer herself and understands the business-critical nature of making the right recruitment decisions.

Along with experience recruiting staff in a range of Executive, administrative, technical and professional fields, she also has worked on a number of high profile specialist employment development programs. She has particular experience in working with genuine occupational requirement legislative provisions and can contribute effectively to recruitment exercises for targeted candidate groups.

Susanne holds a Master of Public Sector Management (Hons) and a Bachelor of Commerce in Human Resources

Lee joined Eden Ritchie Recruitment as Financial Controller and is responsible for the full range of financial management and reporting functions.

Lee brings a wealth of experience and knowledge to the role having worked in the construction, manufacturing and property industries. Lee has owned and run her own business, and as such has considerable knowledge of the SME market and their needs for staffing and business management.

Experienced in all areas of finance and business, Lee brings a high level of integrity and commitment to the team at Eden Ritchie Recruitment as well as ensuring our contingent of contractors out in the field are well looked after.