Recruitment Consultant
Permanent, Office based
Southend-on-sea, UK
£18K– £24K (Dependant on experience)
Recruitment Jobs in IT and Technology
Join a leading recruitment agency in Southend-on-Sea, Essex.
Matching IT professionals to top businesses in Europe!
Travel overseas
Opportunities to develop relations and entertain business clients
Enjoy a healthy work-life balance
Regular team social events, extended lunch times for fitness, early finish Fridays, and more!
Supporting your personal development
Weekly team training sessions to help you reach your potential
Job Description
As a Recruitment Consultant, your duties will include:
- Supporting clients and candidates through 360 recruitment process
- Preparation: develop a good understanding of client companies, their industry, their work culture, etc.
- Sourcing: using LinkedIn Recruiter to identify and reach out to qualified candidates
- Screening: reviewing applications and screening candidates to assess suitability
- Selection: successfully matching qualified candidates to permanent vacancies
- Preparing CVs and candidate profiles to forward on to clients regarding suitable applicants
- Hiring: guiding candidates through the interview process, ensuring the best chances of success
- Onboarding: supporting clients and candidates with new hires
- Managing candidate and client expectations, negotiating salaries
- Providing full recruitment support and effective staffing solutions to clients
- Build and manage your own client/candidate portfolio
- Travel overseas to build and develop client relationships
- Employee advocacy: supporting our marketing efforts (e.g, social media engagement, advertising jobs, brand promotion)
- Working towards and exceeding targets relating to the number of candidates placed or client billings.
- Commission structure up to 30% flat rate per month with no ‘desk fee’
- Base salary between £25,000 - £35,000 (dependent on experience)
- 25 Days Annual Leave, plus Bank Holidays
- Christmas & New Year period off
- Birthday celebrations
- Monthly team social events
- Quarterly 'London Lunch Club' incentive
- Annual company holiday incentive
- Casual dress & early finish on Fridays
- Free onsite refreshments (fresh coffee, canned drinks, bottled water, etc.)
- Free onsite parking
- Gym membership contribution
- Overseas travel to develop our existing and prospective customer base
To be considered for this position, you will need:
- Min. 1 year recruitment experience
- College or university level education
- Great communication skills (written and verbal)
- Self-disciplined, financially motivated, resilient
- Ability to work in a fast paced environment
- Strong sales, negotiating and marketing skills
- Interest in technology (not essential)
- Previous sales experience (advantageous)