Andrew Shafer

Head of AI Workforce Solutions | Helping Founders & HR Leaders build compliant teams faster & cheaper using AI & EOR.

Greater Melbourne Area

About

I'm a People and Talent professional with experience living and working in New York, Tokyo, London, Dubai, and Melbourne. If you're a founder, HR leader or executive trying to hire the right people, faster, at lower cost, without compliance headaches, I can help. Many companies are still hiring the same way they did five years ago. Slow. Expensive. Limited to their local market. And internal teams are stretched trying to keep up. That's the problem we solve at Outstaffer. Outstaffer is an AI-powered Recruitment, HRIS and EOR platform that helps companies across Australia and APAC: → Hire faster using AI Recruiter. Find and qualify talent at a fraction of traditional costs → Manage their team locally or globally with a FREE HRIS for up to 100 employees → Hire and pay compliantly across APAC without setting up entities or taking on IR risk I've spent 20+ years hiring across Australia, East Asia, Europe, the Gulf States and the US, across technology, enterprise and high-growth businesses. I've run high-volume contingency programs and built executive leadership teams from the ground up. Now I help companies do it smarter, using AI and a platform built for the way hiring actually works today. If you want to hire faster, reduce costs, and access the right talent across Australia or APAC, message me or book a call via the link in my profile. Contact me and let's get started! 📞 +61 483 965 582 ✉ [email protected] 🌐 www.outstaffer.com

Experience

  • Head of AI Workforce Solutions at Outstaffer.com
    Jun 2025 - Present · 1 yr 1 mo

    Founded in Australia’s Yarra Valley, Outstaffer is an AI Recruitment and HR tech company that enables businesses to find, hire, and manage talent in Australia or across APAC - locally, remotely, or through a blended team model. The Outstaffer Platform combines AI-powered Recruitment, Borderless HRIS, and Global EOR to help you save time, hire faster, reduce hiring and employment costs, and access high-quality remote talent across Australia and APAC—while staying compliant and in control—all from a single, unified platform. Your Trusted Talent & EOR Partner: We go beyond software. Outstaffer becomes an extension of your team—combining people and technology to help you hire faster, reduce costs, and improve hiring outcomes. Our AI-powered platform is supported by experienced recruiters, HR managers, and specialists who ensure every hire is aligned, compliant, and set up for success. AI Recruitment: Outstaffer AI Recruiter handles up to 90% of the hiring process, from sourcing and screening to first-round interviews, helping you identify and qualify talent significantly faster and at lower cost. Our AI evaluates over 100 skill dimensions, including communication, CEFR language proficiency, and critical thinking—while human recruiters make the final decisions on who to shortlist, ensuring quality and fit. Borderless HRIS: Borderless HRIS enables you to manage your workforce locally or globally from one platform. From onboarding and employee management to timesheets, leave, and compliance, you get full visibility and control without adding admin, overhead, or complexity. Employer of Record (EOR): Hire employees across APAC (onshore or offshore) without setting up local entities. Outstaffer acts as the legal employer, handling payroll, compliance, and in-country HR—so you can hire remote talent quickly, reduce risk, and stay fully compliant.

  • Senior Consultant at IPA
    Aug 2023 - Nov 2024 · 1 yr 4 mos

    IPA was established in Melbourne as Independent Personnel Associates in 1984. Since then we've grown to 100+ employees across 10 locations around Australia. Our head office is in Melbourne, Victoria. IPA are Australia’s only national recruitment agency and certified social enterprise committing 100% of profits towards services that support people with disability and promote community inclusion. Driven by purpose, IPA supports Australian employers by providing expert temporary, permanent, labour hire and diversity & inclusion recruitment services to small, medium and large organisations across Australia.

  • Travel at Career Break
    Jul 2022 - Jun 2023 · 1 yr

    In the transition of moving from Dubai to Melbourne, I drove around the entire country of Australia with my wife and two young boys, starting in Darwin, going counter-clockwise, and ending in Cooktown (including Tasmania!)

  • Talent Acquisition Manager at DAMAC Properties
    May 2021 - Jun 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos

    DAMAC Properties has been shaping the Middle East’s luxury real estate market since 2002, delivering iconic residential, commercial and leisure properties across the region and beyond. DAMAC Properties is an Emirati property development company, based in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates. In January 2015, DAMAC Properties was publicly listed on the Dubai Financial Market. The company operates internationally providing residential, commercial and leisure properties and has presence in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Jordan, Lebanon, Oman, and the United Kingdom.

  • Talent Acquisition Manager at DICO Group
    May 2021 - Jun 2022 · 1 yr 2 mos

    DAMAC's parent company, DICO Investments Co LLC, is the flagship investment arm of Hussain Sajwani, and was established in 1992 with assets of over AED 3 billion under management across the region. Investments are divided into four core areas; namely, strategic holdings, ownership of subsidiaries in growth industries, long-term investments in fast-growing banks, and debt instruments issued by regional companies and banks. Holdings include interests in property development, hotels and resorts, malls and retail, data centers, fashion brands, capital markets, and manufacturing and building materials, with an international footprint across the Middle East, Europe, and North America.