About Us

BlueQ Consulting has a rich heritage going back over 20 years.

Quest was formed in 1986 as a specialist recruiter for IT vendors, and in 1995  David Reading became a partner in the company and became the sole owner in 2001. Over that 15 years the company developed its client relationships and grew its candidate database. In 2001 with the emergence of the Internet as a communications resource and the rise of the Internet Job Boards, new methodologies were developed by Quest to provide enhanced recruitment solutions.

e*Recruitment

The launch of e*Recruitment in 2000 was the first time that very low cost short-listing services were offered in Australia. This process has been continuously refined since that time and remains an important part of Blue Q Consulting techniques.

Automated Referral Strategies

Referrals have always been an essential component of the Recruitment process. The advent of the Internet meant that referral requests could be rapidly released to large numbers of key contacts in the target sector. Quest introduced this technique in 2001 and gradually it was further refined in the WhoYouKnow contact network and the related Referrals Job Board.

Ian Rowe then joined the company, which was renamed BlueQ, and David Reading was now able to focus on his business consulting activities.

Ian Rowe

Managing Director of Blue Q Consulting.

Ian's early background in Digital Technology has proven invaluable in providing recruitment services to this high growth industry sector. In addition his initial experience working in technical support enabled Ian to appreciate the demands of the IT community.

Ian travelled in Asia before arriving and settling in Australia in 2000. His enthusiasm for travel re-emerged in 2002 and this time he and his wife spent two years touring across Europe with a young son. This developed his appreciation of many cultures and that experience is put to great use in the recruitment sector

David Reading

Principal Consultant

David Reading has maintained an entrepreneurial career since launching the Parity Group in Sydney in 1978. The company grew to revenues of $35 million prior to its sale to Computer Power Group in 1986. David then was appoint a Divisional Genral Manager for Unisys Australia when it was formed in 1986.

He established Executive Search and Recruitment businesses in the IT sector covering, technical, sales and executive roles in Sydney, Singapore and Hong Kong.Various clients have directly engaged him to fill one year interim executive roles:

Executive VP for Technology Investments based in Hong Kong
CEO for Executive Search in the Australian Wine Industry
Sales Manager for the launch of Asset Management Software

David joined IBM after University and held both Sales and SE roles before emigrating to Sydney in 1973 to take up a role of Support Manager for International Computers. He has a B.SC Eng degree from University of London, Kings College , and is an Associate Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management