Zipline Global · Overseas recruitment at volume

Recruit overseas nurses at volume.
Vetted and credentialed faster.

If you already recruit overseas, you know the hard part isn't finding nurses. It's the 21 to 91 weeks of verification, registration and paperwork between an application and a first shift — and not knowing which end of that range a candidate sits at. Zipline Global is the engine that runs it — identity verified, credentials proven, registration tracked, landing dates forecast.

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The cost of the wait

You’ve hired them. They still can’t start.

Every candidate clears eight separate authorities before they can start a shift. The role still needs covering while that happens, and covering it usually means agency — month after month, until they land.

21–91 wks
for a nurse to become ready to practise here — a four-fold spread on the same job
30 vs 56
median weeks on the fast-tracked stream versus everyone else
$40–55k
fully loaded cost per international nurse on a health service's own campaign
~43%
of all new nurse registrations are internationally qualified
On the record

None of this is news to anyone who’s done it.

A Commonwealth review, the regulator's own reporting, a union submission, and a state campaign's published results.

7,000 applied. 67 got an offer.

7,000+ expressions of interest. 67 nurses offered a role.
Statewide international recruitment campaign, 2024

Applications die on missing paperwork.

"The most common reason for withdrawal is the applicant not being able to provide the evidence necessary to complete their application."
Ahpra Annual Report 2024/25

Employers give up on candidates they can’t predict.

"Some employers no longer consider applicants who are from countries ineligible for expedited registration pathways because of costs, uncertainty and delays."
Independent Review of Overseas Health Practitioner Regulatory Settings, 2023

Some arrive unregistrable.

"Members… passed the skilled migration requirements only to be denied registration on arrival to Australia."
Australian Nursing & Midwifery Federation, submission to the review, 2023
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For a domestic hire, compliance is the last 5% of the journey. For an overseas hire, compliance is the hire — around 90% of a 12–18 month critical path.
The reframe behind Zipline Global — same engine, opposite impact
What we handle

Everything between an application and a first shift.

Four things that have to hold at volume. Eight separate authorities sit inside them, each with its own portal, timeline and evidence bundle.

Know who's worth investing in, on day one.

Identity resolved at source, credentials checked against the issuing registry, and the registration stream predicted before anyone books an exam. The fast-tracked stream reaches practice in a median 30 weeks. Everyone else takes 56.

Identity Credential authenticity Registration stream OET / IELTS

Know where every candidate actually is.

One live record per candidate across every stage, with documents chased by the system rather than by a caseworker. The regulator's own reporting puts missing evidence as the most common reason an application dies.

Document auto-chase Stage tracking Landing forecast Candidate comms

Know it will stand up to an audit.

The same checks Zipline runs for Australian hospitals today, run for your overseas candidates. Every result lands in one place against that person, so the file is ready when someone asks for it — instead of being rebuilt by hand.

AHPRA VEVO Police checks, per jurisdiction Immunisation

Get them here, and onto the floor.

Visa lodgement routes to a MARA-registered agent, skills assessment and exam prep run through specialists, and the record follows the nurse all the way to their first shift. No handoff where a candidate goes quiet and takes another offer.

ANMAC Visa via MARA agent OSCE preparation First-shift check-in
What it costs you

What it costs when a candidate doesn’t make it.

Months spent on candidates who were never viable

No way to know at intake who has a real path to registration. A year of coordination, then the exam decides. An OSCE sitting alone runs about $4,000.

Credentials that have to be checked at the source

64% of skills-assessment applicants submit work experience that has to be verified directly with the employer who issued it — another country, another language, another time zone.

A pipeline that lives in spreadsheets and inboxes

Separate portal per check. Downloaded artefact per result. Hand-built folder per audit. Nothing joins them into one view.

No single system runs it end to end

Recruitment systems are built for local hires. None of them check an overseas qualification, work out how long registration will take, or keep the exams, work rights and visa moving together.

The engine

We get your overseas nurses cleared to work in Australia.

The same checks Zipline runs for Australian hospitals every day — AHPRA, VEVO, police, credentialing — run for your overseas candidates too. From the day they apply to the day they start.

Where we'd start Readiness Check

Know they’re real, their credentials are genuine, and how long registration will take.

On the day they apply, not nine months in:

  • Is this person real? Source-country identity resolution.
  • Are the credentials authentic? Primary-source verification, not a scanned PDF.
  • What's the true path to registration? Comparable-country lane or full assessment — with a predicted time and cost.

The output is a verified, ranked shortlist. You invest in the candidates who can actually land, before you spend a cent on the ones who can't.

Already running today Verification

Your team stops logging into portals and chasing paperwork.

AHPRA, work rights, police and immunisation checks all run automatically. Nobody logs into a government portal, downloads a PDF, or saves it to a shared drive. Overseas documents get read, translated and checked back against the body that issued them.

Outstanding paperwork gets chased by the system, not by your caseworkers. And because every check lands in one candidate record, the audit bundle assembles itself.

Pipeline tracking dashboard
Exploring Tracking

See where every candidate is, and when they’ll start.

Every candidate sits at a known step of the real Australian process — skills assessment, English, visa, registration — with a date for when they should arrive. Your team works from what needs doing next, not a spreadsheet.

And it carries straight through to their first day, so nothing gets re-collected when they walk in.

International nurse arriving in Australia
Exploring Specialist partners

We work with registered migration agents.

Visa lodgement goes to a MARA-registered agent. Overseas identity checks go to people on the ground in that country. Exam preparation goes to the centres that do it for a living.

We hold it together in one place, so you are not the one coordinating four specialists over email.

Integrations

Plugs into what you already run.

Connected
AHPRA VEVO ACIC State screening registers Workday
Partners
CGFNS International MARA migration agents

PageUp, iCIMS and SmartRecruiters in progress.

Zipline delivers full value with no integration at all.
Every integration reduces friction. None is a prerequisite.

Every check

34 checks. We run all of them.

Every check a nurse needs before they can work in an Australian hospital. 12 of them only apply to someone coming from overseas.

Identity & work rights
✓Photo ID
✓Change-of-name evidence
✓Passport
✓Visa & work entitlements
✓Overseas identity resolution
Professional credentials
✓AHPRA / NMBA registration
✓Qualifications
✓CPD records
✓Foreign qualification verification
✓Home-country registration standing
✓Practice-hours recency
Language
✓OET
✓IELTS
✓PTE Academic
Suitability
✓National Police Check
✓Overseas criminal history
✓Working With Children Check
✓NDIS screening
✓Prohibition orders
✓Statutory declarations
Health
✓Hep B, MMR, varicella, dTpa serology
✓Seasonal immunisation
✓TB screening
✓Fit-for-work assessment
✓State-specific directives
Employment
✓Reference checks
✓Employment history
✓Credentialing & scope approval
✓Mandatory training
Migration
✓Visa lodgement status
✓Employer sponsorship
Ongoing monitoring
✓Registration currency
✓Visa expiry
✓Credential expiry
International capability included No metered surcharge for an overseas candidate.
Who does what

You choose who to hire. We handle everything else.

We could have built an international recruitment agency and sold you a ready-to-go worker. We chose not to. The teams we spoke to were clear that control is what works. The health services with the lowest agency dependency are the ones running their own empowered, end-to-end recruitment teams. We'd rather arm those teams than replace them.

  • ✓Overseas nurses cleared to start — verified, registered, work-ready
  • ✓Your hiring decisions — you choose every candidate
  • ✓Your candidate relationship — no middleman between you and your workforce
  • ×Not a recruitment agency or labour placement business
  • ×Not a supplier of "ready-to-go workers"
  • ×Not an owner of the placement outcome, or a fee on every head
Getting started

Start with one cohort.

Most of this already runs for Australian hospitals every day, so we can put something real in front of you quickly.

Phase 0 · first

Check who can actually make it

Confirm the person is real, the qualifications are genuine, and how long registration will take. You get a shortlist worth spending money on.

Phase 1 · next

One place for every candidate

Every candidate tracked to a step, with the paperwork chased for you. Everything about a person lives in one place.

Phase 2 · then

The whole journey

Visa and exams handled through our partners, help for your team on what to do next, and the numbers to show your CFO what a hire costs against agency.

Early partners

We're selecting our first foundation partners now.

We're building this with a small group of health services and agencies, not for them — and the first group shapes what gets built and in what order. The group is small by design. If overseas recruitment is on your agenda for the next 12 months, we want to hear how you're running it today, including the parts that don't work.

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For recruitment directors, workforce leaders and people teams across Australian hospitals, health services and nursing agencies