Meet our team

Our team of specialist recruiters place staff in roles across the entire professional industry.

Comprehensive recruitment in the professional space.

For over 18 years, Pure Source have consolidated relationships with candidates and clients over Brisbane’s entire white-collar industry. We never compromise the integrity of our process, and we always deliver on our promises.

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The Pure Source People

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Tracey Montgomery

General Manager


​Tracey commenced recruiting in Brisbane in 1995, and has spent the majority of her career at a senior management level. She has an extensive background in various recruitment methodologies and has consulted to some of Brisbane’s largest corporations

Ashleigh McFadyen

Senior Consultant


​Ashleigh brings a combination of the experience she has gained from previous roles in legal support services, customer service management and office administration to the Pure Source Recruitment Consulting team. Complementing this is her Business De

Marguerite Hancock

Consultant


​Marguerite shares Pure Source Recruitment’s mission to provide exceptional and personalised service to both candidates and clients. With her extensive experience in administration, sales and customer service across a broad spectrum of industries…

Phoebe Mohr

Consultant


Bringing over a decade of extensive experience spanning customer service, administration, leadership, and sales, Phoebe is recognised for her genuine passion for helping others, embodying a warm and personalised sense of care.

Bryana Cooper

Candidate Manager


In her role as a Candidate Manager, Bryana will strive for a positive experience for all candidates that are going through the recruitment process.

Schadd Montgomery

Co-founder


Schadd acquired a diverse range of skills and experience in his early working years, Golf ball recovery specialist and salesperson, Garden Waste Bin Collector, Trades Assistant, Commercial Cleaner, Weekend Service Station attendent,

Pure Source Blog

Read the latest news and industry insights from our blog.

I am right, you are wrong, and this is why

“My values didn’t align with his and we had too many different opinions.”   I nodded my head in interest as the candidate I was interviewing told me this was the reason why she’d left her most recent role. She was the Executive Assistant, supporting the person with whom she did not have ‘shared opinions’…

Menopause in the Workplace
Can someone please turn up the Air Con?

“She told me that my problem is I’m too nice.”   It’s Saturday morning cricket in Brisbane and at 7am it’s already nearing 30 degrees. I’m drinking hot coffee whilst simultaneously sweltering. It’s an early start and still two and a half hours to go so when it comes to caffeine, necessity prevails, despite the…

Person standing with their hands on their hips facing away from the camera, and they have the word Coach printed across the back of their shirt
That time I was a gymnastics coach

Coaching styles in the sporting world offer valuable insights that can be effectively applied to the workplace.

The Paradox of Professional Ghosting

It is the digital equivalent of sticking our heads in the sand, hoping the problem will magically dissolve.

The voice in our head that tells us we don’t belong

If your employees experience the feeling of Imposter Syndrome then it’s helpful to know this.

The case for NOT working from home.

I’m here to offer a different perspective and challenge the assumption that if you don’t like working from home you must have a prehistoric view about the modern workplace.

The 11 green flags of a great employee, what are yours?

The Importance of Reference Checking and Green Flags in Recruitment

The sisterhood is not okay

It is not at all uncommon for a candidate to tell me that they don’t want a female Manager and when asked why, the reasons are not always clear. It is often as a result of a past experience of being undermined. Perhaps it is because of the sisterhood we expect more from our female peers, so when those expectations aren’t met we feel let down”

Working from home has changed our social lives, but can we make work friends remotely?

Remote work can impact our social lives in ways we don’t realise. Here are five ways to make real connections while working from home.

An open letter to all Office Professionals

Part personal retrospective, part farewell to our cherished Office Professional of five years, Kristy.

Diversity and inclusion

Thoughts, opinions and takeaways from the Diversity and Inclusion seminar hosted by the Australian Human Resources Institute with guest speaker, Alma Besserdin, Founder and Director of Wimmigrants.

An open letter to all Office Professionals

Part personal retrospective, part farewell to our cherished Office Professional of five years, Kristy.

Has working from home been the demise of dressing to impress?

On the public’s insistence to discuss (at length) what women wear, and what this means for us at work and in job interviews.