Five channels, checked live on 9 October 2026. Every line traces to a source captioned on the page.
| Channel | The Measuring Company | JV Recruitment | Bluestone | What it means |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google rankings 6 money searches | Page one on 0 of 6 | Page one on 3 of 6 | Page one on 3 of 6 | JV and Bluestone hold the top of the builder searches. Job boards hold the estimator ones. |
| Google Ads Transparency Centre, AU | 0 ads on record | 0 ads on record | 0 ads on record | Nobody here is paying Google, and the paid slots on all six searches were empty. |
| Meta Ads Ad Library, active now | No ads found | No ads found | No ads found | Nobody in this comparison is in the feed. The first firm in has it to itself. |
| Landing page Where the click lands | Two application forms, no phone | Vacancy buttons, 1300 number | Contact form, phone links | Your forms are clean. No tracking tag fired, so an application cannot be traced to its source. |
| Reputation Google rating (reviews) | 5.0 (8), as Starqtech | 4.8 (635 reviews) | 4.9 (40 reviews) | JV shows 635 reviews to your 8. Your listing still reads formerly Starqtech and is filed as a drafting service. |
The Measuring Company has a sharper offer than either competitor: application only, vetted estimators and five dated placements on the homepage. None of its pages is on page one for the six searches. JV Recruitment and Bluestone hold three each, and nobody here is paying Google or Meta.
Six searches a builder hiring or a professional looking for work types, read live from Google Australia on 9 October 2026.
| Search term | Searches / mo | The Measuring Company | JV Recruitment | Bluestone |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| construction recruitment melbourne | Medium est. | Not in top 10 | #1 | #2 |
| estimator jobs melbourne | High est. | Not in top 10 | Not in top 10 | #4 |
| construction recruitment agency australia | Medium est. | Not in top 10 | #2 | #3 |
| quantity surveyor recruitment australia | Low est. | Not in top 10 | Not in top 10 | Not in top 10 |
| estimator recruitment australia | Low est. | Not in top 10 | Not in top 10 | Not in top 10 |
| construction labour hire melbourne | Medium est. | Not in top 10 | #2 | Not in top 10 |
JV Recruitment and Bluestone hold the top two spots for construction recruitment Melbourne, with Design & Build and Hays close behind. On the estimator and QS searches, page one is Seek, Indeed and LinkedIn. Those are job boards, not competitors, and Google showed no question box on the builder search.
The chain, with every assumption written down. Deliberately conservative.
The six searches in this report, at an example volume a specialist AU market this size supports. An example, not a measured figure.
The clicks you do not get today, once your pages sit around position three, rounded down.
Applications at 5% of those visits, rounded down.
Applications from builders and professionals, not placements. Your placement fee is not on the site, so what one is worth is your number, not mine.
Halve the example volume and it is still one or two builder applications a month going to the recruiters above you. The apply page to catch them is already built.
Estimates, not promises. Each assumption is deliberately conservative so the number holds up.
Publish a sitemap, add a page for estimator recruitment and one for quantity surveyor recruitment, title the For builders page to construction recruitment, add organisation schema, and link the dated placements into each page.
| Advertiser | Ads on record | Last ran | Headline seen | Lands on | Offer on the page |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JV Recruitment | 0 | Nothing on record | Nothing running | jvrecruitment.com.au | Search jobs, submit a vacancy, 1300 CALL JV |
| Bluestone | 0 | Nothing on record | Nothing running | bluestonerecruitment.com | Live roles with salaries, a contact form, phone links |
| The Measuring Company | 0 | Nothing on record | Nothing running | measuringcompany.com/apply | An application form for builders and professionals |
Nothing on record for any of the three domains, and no paid result on any of the six searches on 9 October. The builder searches are open. A capped search campaign on construction and estimator recruitment, landing on the employer side of your apply page, would have had no paid competition on the day I checked.
Your homepage has a three-field application form and /apply a six-field one, both visible. I did not submit either. There is no phone number on the homepage. No GA4, Tag Manager, Google Ads or Meta tag fired, so an application cannot be traced to its source. The homepage promises a reply in 1 business day, /apply says 2.
Theirs: nothing to read. Neither JV Recruitment nor Bluestone has an ad running under its name. Missing: a headline aimed at one side, the builder hiring or the estimator applying, not both at once.
Theirs: no copy in the library. Missing: named proof. Your homepage already lists dated placements, a Senior Estimator in Melbourne in April 2026 among them, which is the kind of specific a builder trusts.
Theirs: no creative to compare. Missing: one clear next step. Application only is a strong filter, and the reader should know in the first frame that applying takes one short form.
Why this matters: a stronger headline and hook lifts click-through. Higher click-through lowers what Meta charges per click. Cheaper clicks mean more visits from the same budget, and more visits mean more enquiries. In this comparison the feed is empty, so the cost of learning what works is as low as it will get.
No paid result showed on any of the six searches on 9 October. A small campaign on construction and estimator recruitment, landing on the employer side of /apply, brings builder applications while the pages climb.
No GA4, Tag Manager, Google Ads or Meta tag fired on the homepage. Adding them, with an event on each application, shows which search or ad sent each builder.
Your listing shows 5.0 from 8 reviews but still reads formerly Starqtech and sits under drafting service. Renaming it and filing it as a recruiter matches it to the searches here.
No sitemap, and no page targets estimator or quantity surveyor recruitment. One page each, carrying your dated placements, gives Google something to rank against JV and Bluestone.
Nobody in this comparison runs Meta ads. A small test built on one dated placement is the cheapest audience in this report to learn from.
Fifteen minutes on the phone, no pitch. I will walk you through the tracking your apply page needs and what a capped search campaign for builders would cost.
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Everything in this report I can read because I have spent my own money on the exact channels it covers. What follows is not theory. It is what I would fix first.
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