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Growth & Recruitment Strategy

More of the right work. More of the right people. In the tightest construction labour market in a generation.
For Adam Robson and the PREKARO leadership teamPrepared by LOVRJune 2026
The objective

Two jobs, sitting on one foundation.

Win more of the right workA marketing engine that turns a credible builder into a visible one, on feed and in search, in front of the clients and developers who award the work.
Win more of the right peopleA recruitment engine in the hardest hiring market in a generation. The bigger prize, and the more open ground.
One foundationBoth stand on a stronger website, where work enquiries land and candidates are sent.

This is built off live market evidence, not a hunch. Here is what we found, and here is what we would do.

How we built this

Before a word about the plan, we did the work.

We read the whole field, every builder winning the talent war and every one losing it.
We audited every corner of the digital footprint, the site, search, social and reputation.
We mapped the pay market across seven salary sources.
We mined the public contractor register, 196,000 names.
None of it is opinion. All of it is evidence we went and gathered.
01 The market reality

The hardest hiring market in a generation.

50,000
worker shortfall at peak, 2026 to 27
$153B
Queensland infrastructure pipeline
54%
trades fill rate, roughly half of all roles go unfilled

Every core trade is in formal shortage and the pipeline accelerates into 2032, it does not slow. Nobody in this room caused it. It sets the stakes.

Construction Skills Queensland · Jobs and Skills Australia · QLD Audit Office, 2025
02 The cost of standing still

What it costs every time someone walks.

The replacement, not the wageThe salary is paid to whoever sits in the seat. The cost of turnover is the friction of replacing, the recruitment, the empty seat, and the ramp up.
It costs around
~$55k
to replace one senior person
Around $35k to recruit, and $15k to $20k lost while the seat sits empty about six weeks.

At around two departures a week, across the mix of roles, the replacement bill runs into the high six and seven figures, every year. This is the market's pressure, not a failing. The one number that makes it exact is your real cost per hire and role mix, and that is our first question. The whole plan is built to bring it down, and report it as it moves.

On the figures shared with us, around 72 staff and around two departures a week. Recruitment and vacancy costs, market-sourced.
03 The opportunity nobody is taking
Across the benchmarked field
0 of 12
competitors run paid recruitment advertising

Not one. The field is wide open locally, and the model is proven everywhere else, campaigns running 12 months to five years. Longevity is the proof of return. The first South East Queensland builder to move owns the talent conversation, and PREKARO is placed to be first.

Meta Ad Library benchmark, 12 SE QLD and national builders, June 2026
04 What winning looks like

Real faces and specifics beat slogans.

HutchiesRobson CivilRoberts CoBuildcorpLendleaseMultiplexBMDPCL

The best builders quantify their culture, film named staff on real sites, publish real dollar amounts, and let their leaders post. PREKARO already has the raw asset, the Player Profile series, Kai advocating, Adam on record that skills can be taught but attitude cannot. It just needs a destination, reach and video.

Public employer-brand and careers content across the field, June 2026
05 Recruitment today

You have the instinct. We build the engine.

What is already thereYou run the people content and your leaders already back it in public. The instinct is right, and it is rare.
What is missingThere is no destination to send anyone to, no paid reach behind it, and video, the format that wins, is barely used for the thing the business needs most.
The proof it worksYour own data. Video beats static around 1.8 times on the account, a crane reel pulled 8,178 plays against 33 likes on the static hiring graphic.
The website

Who are these guys?

A live placeholder team page on the PREKARO site titled Government Works, with stock photos and fake names

Apparently they work here. This page is live and findable on your site right now, fake names, a typo and all. Nobody put it there on purpose, and it comes down on day one. We only flag it because we would want to know.

06 The website today

Strong bones, a few fixable faults.

The strong bonesThe Who We Are page is genuinely strong, the project portfolio is deep, and the brand identity is solid. This is a good site underneath.
The faultsA live, indexable page titled "Government Works" with placeholder fake names is public right now. The careers page has been empty since 2015. The technical foundation is missing.
The fixStrengthen it, do not rebuild it. Take the page down today, rebuild careers into the destination, fix the foundation, and target the keywords.
07 Visibility today

A strong brand the market cannot find.

The gapNot in the top 50 on Google for any money keyword, commercial builder, construction company or office fitout Brisbane, and not named by the AI engines. LinkedIn, the strongest channel, only gets recycled content.
The fixThe marketing engine plus search. Video-led, platform-native, paid amplification, the keyword work, and LinkedIn worked properly, leadership-led.
The proofSimilar-sized peers rank page one. Your LinkedIn already out-engages Instagram per post, and Kai already advocates there.
08 The benchmark

What the market pays.

Site Foreman$140k to $180k
Site Manager$180k to $220k
Site Supervisor$120k to $150k
Contract Administrator, 2yr+$100k to $120k
Junior / Project Engineer$75k to $100k

Live SE QLD ranges, shared as context. The differentiators that win in this market are vehicle, bonus, a clear progression path, and work-life balance.

SEEK, Indeed, PayScale, Robert Half, Hays, D&B guides, June 2026
09 The system

Two engines, one connected system.

Not three suppliers and a pile of posts. One machine. The brand and the search work bring people in, the website captures them, the system works them, and the right people reach you, candidates to your recruitment team, enquiries to your desk. Every result feeds the next month's targeting.

The recruitment engineWins the people. Builds the audience, runs the ads, captures and nurtures every applicant.
The marketing engineWins the work. Puts the brand and the projects in front of the clients and candidates who matter, on feed and in search.
The websiteThe foundation both run on. Where every click lands, is captured, and converts.
The recruitment engine

The audience no job ad can reach.

Built, not broadcastWe build a real candidate audience instead of hoping an ad finds them. From LinkedIn we pull and enrich the managers, supervisors and office roles.
The trades nobody else can findFrom the public QBCC register, around 100,000 licensed Queensland contractors, narrowed to roughly 23,000 SE QLD trades by category, the carpenters, concreters and steel fixers who are never on LinkedIn. We enrich every one.
Loaded behind the adsBoth built into custom audiences, so the recruitment ads hit exactly the right people by trade and by location, not a scattergun to the whole feed.

The people the rest of the field cannot target, served straight into the campaigns.

The recruitment engine

From the right person to a hire.

Creative that winsVideo-led recruitment content, named staff on real sites, the format that already performs on your account, run as always-on paid recruitment to those audiences.
Captured, never lostEvery applicant lands in a nurture hub and is worked automatically, an instant response and a follow-up sequence, no lead left waiting.
Through to your teamQualified candidates filtered and handed through to your recruitment team, ready to place.
And further, carefullyWith that enriched contact list, compliant direct outreach to these people is a further option we can explore with you, handled carefully within the rules.
The marketing engine

Built on what is actually working.

What people searchWe track what the market searches, on Google and increasingly in the AI answers, and build content and ads against real demand.
What competitors rank forWe read the terms your competitors rank for and you do not, and go after them.
What is winning nowContinuous research into the formats and trends performing in the field, so nothing runs on a hunch.

What we express is the brand, the work, the people and the authority. The credible builder, finally made visible to the clients and developers who award the work.

The marketing engine

Run consistently, sharpened constantly.

Consistent and platform-nativePublished on a real weekly rhythm, made for each channel, not one post cross-blasted everywhere.
Paid behind the bestAmplification behind the content that earns it, in front of the clients, developers and candidates who matter.
Search and AIThe keyword work, Google Ads, the competitor terms you are missing, and visibility in the AI answers the market now asks.
Test and repeatRead the numbers, double down on what works, cut what does not, every month.
The foundation

The site everything runs on.

Brought up to standardThe technical foundation fixed, the search work done, and visibility built for the AI engines, so the business is finally findable.
Built to convertLead capture and clear calls to action on every page, the careers hub the recruitment engine points at, and the enquiry capture the marketing engine drives.
Nothing leaksThe destination both engines send traffic to, so every click the campaigns earn is captured and worked, not lost.

Foundation first, and the live placeholder page comes down on day one.

10 What we report

The numbers that prove it is working.

Reach and engagementImpressions, reach, CPM, click-through and cost per click, by channel and by campaign.
Cost to acquireCost per lead, cost per application and cost per hire, with application volume, tracked against the spend.
Search and visibilityKeyword rankings, share of search, website traffic and conversion rate.
PipelineEnquiries, candidates and the trend on every number, month over month.

Real marketing reporting, not vanity metrics. The numbers that show the system is paying for itself, and where to push next.

11 Why LOVR

We already know the business.

LOVR already runs PREKARO's social, so this is an expansion of work that already functions, not a cold start. The full capability sits in-house, and the homework is already done.

One team, top to bottomThe content, the ads, the build and the reporting, run as one operation, not handed across three suppliers.
Already in the cornerWe run your social, we know the brand, and we are in the building. No ramp up, no cold start.
Evidence, not a pitchEverything here was pulled fresh and sourced. The plan is built on what is actually true.
The offer

One operation. Three engines.

The recruitment engineThe custom-built audiences, the always-on recruitment ads, the nurture hub, and qualified candidates through to your team. It wins you people and brings the cost per hire down, in the one field no competitor is in.
The marketing engineThe research, the content, the paid, and the search and AI visibility, run consistently and sharpened monthly. It wins you work and turns a credible builder into a visible one.
The websiteBrought up to standard and built to convert, the foundation both engines run on. The cheapest credibility win on the table.

One team runs all of it, measured on real numbers. You hand us the operation, we run it end to end.

The next step
Here is the system. Here is what it stops costing you.

Two engines on one foundation, against a seven-figure problem it is built to bring down. We are already in the corner. Now we bring the depth to back the work. The next step is the commercial conversation.

Prepared by LOVR, June 2026