Pear Tree

Pear Tree provides offshore solutions for Australian and New Zealand employers building teams in the Philippines, with over 750 companies helped and 90 per cent of placed talent staying with a client for at least a year.

• Six step hiring process covering tailored talent search across job boards and its own candidate network, initial candidate review, custom skill evaluation and a practical role-specific task test.
• Personal candidate assessment using video responses and one-on-one interviews, with shortlists of CVs, video interviews and written feedback, finished by third-party reference checks before contracts are signed.
• Role categories spanning sales and marketing, creative and design, IT and development, admin support, finance and mortgage broking, and operations, with multiple roles recruited at once.
• Six month replacement guarantee, onboarding usually within one to two weeks of candidate selection, and security practices including VPNs, password management, two-factor authentication and secure cloud workflows.

Best for: Australian and New Zealand employers that want to hire offshore talent in the Philippines directly and keep working with the same team long term.

Pear Tree provides employer of record arrangements for Australian and New Zealand businesses engaging offshore talent in the Philippines.

• Employer of Record and Contractor of Record options, with the contractor service covering HR, IT and compliance.
• Payroll run on the client’s behalf, alongside assistance with legal and payroll setup when an engagement starts.
• Lawyer-reviewed agreements for contractor engagements and ongoing compliance support for as long as offshore teams stay in place.

Best for: employers that want offshore hires engaged, paid and kept compliant under a formal arrangement.