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Where sport notices its people

Notice People exists to connect and grow the people who will shape the future of Australian sport business.

Great sport businesses are built by great people. Notice is the network that enables you to find them.

Behind every successful club, campaign, partnership, broadcast, event or business is a group of people making it happen. The right people create momentum; in culture, in creativity and in commercial growth. That's why hiring, training and network matters.

Notice People combines deep industry experience, trusted relationships, a tailored search approach and our certified recommendation program to notice talent.

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Other firms battle for trust, ours comes built in

Our media ecosystem engages 15,000+ sport professionals across the industry every week

Our story

Notice began by helping people understand the business of sport. Every week, thousands of industry professionals come to us to discover the partnerships, ideas, organisations and people moving sport forward. Over time, a clear industry need emerged: organisations are looking for better ways to find great people.

Notice People was built to meet that need. We aren't recruiters looking into sport from the outside. We're already part of it. We understand its pace, pressures, personalities and possibilities because we've spent our careers working within it.

That experience, combined with the trusted audience Notice has built, gives us a different way to find talent: reaching beyond those actively looking for their next role to the people already doing exceptional work across the industry. The people worth noticing.

Our team

Our founders have worked in sports for a combined 30+ years, across teams, leagues, agency, brands and media.

  • Matthew Hughes in a checked shirt, smiling, in an empty timber grandstand

    Matthew Hughes

    Matthew founded Notice to help people see Australian sport business differently. What began as an independent newsletter has grown into a trusted industry platform, connecting thousands of sport professionals with the ideas, organisations and people shaping the industry.

  • Tom Meredith in a black polo shirt, laughing, in an empty timber grandstand

    Tom Meredith

    Tom is a senior sport executive with experience growing high-performing agencies and teams across Australia and the UK. He has led major projects for global brands, rights holders and sporting events, giving him a deep understanding of the people and thinking behind great sport businesses.

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Our core belief

The right people change the game

Our focus

Sponsorship / Partnerships / Strategy / Creative / Commercial / Brand / Marketing / Digital / Social / Content / Public Relations / Communications / Leadership / Management / Events / Experiential / Sales / Business development

Industry certified

All of our placements are certified by someone that we trust in the industry. We have a squad of senior sports business professionals on our talent referral roster, who actively provide input into our process.

Notice People combines deep industry experience, trusted relationships, a tailored search approach and our certified recommendation program to notice talent.

Where we win

  • Access to right talent

    We offer access to the industry unlike any other business. 15,000+ already engaged sport industry people. The person to change your game is in here.

  • Strategic anonymity

    Our tailored service offers you complete anonymity in the roles you are recruiting for. Keeping your competition unaware of your strategic recruitment.

  • Streamlined process

    We do the heavy lifting for you in terms of management of the recruitment process, CVs and interviews, saving you time and resource.

  • Ready Made Roster

    We have a ready made roster of talent that we can access from within our network. We know which people will be right and who is interested.

  • Business Exposure

    Our media network gives you the chance to promote your business to the industry in order to increase people's interest in working for you.

  • Trust Built In

    We can offer a layer of trust that's built into our business that can benefit yours. We're independent and guide conversations with candidates that way.

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Our core belief

We provide the platform to find and connect with the talent shaping Australian sport.

Our Services

Tailored engagement

A bespoke and proactive service. The best people are usually not applying, so Notice will support you with your recruitment and promotion strategy and headhunt the right people from our network.

Network engagement

Network engagement allows you to harness the power of our media ecosystem to promote your business and roles.

Events

Notice Happy Hour puts the people who run Australian sport business in one room, a few times a year, with a drink and no panel to sit through. It is where a surprising number of the introductions that turn into roles actually start.

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  • A full courtyard of guests standing at long timber tables at a Notice Happy Hour
  • Three guests in suits talking over beers by the windows of a function room