Graduate Recruitment Consultant/Trainee

Maidstone
1 day ago
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My client, a specialist IT recruitment agency in Maidstone are seeking to hire a Trainee Recruitment Consultant.

They set up 1.5 years ago on the back of a VERY successful career in agency and have already generated 7 figures in GP.

There is a team of 3 at the moment providing a strong platform for fast growth. The team have global accounts and are working with exiting client brands. The business focus on the USA market hiring transformational roles in AI, Data, ERP and Software. The business cover Perm and Contract hiring.

The Role

They are looking for a Trainee Recruitment Consultant and will provide full training. To start with you will work closely with candidates and do resourcing for the consultants to place people into existing clients of the agency. You will then progress and have training on managing client relationships and securing new clients and you will gradually manage the entire recruitment process and do Business development to secure your own clients.

You will be hiring into the US market mainly.

You will be in the office 5 days a week and will work Monday to Thursday 10am to 7pm. Friday they finish at 5pm. (They do these hours to be able to get hold of their clients and candidates in America successfully).

We are very experienced as an agency at hiring trainees in Recruitment Consultant roles and someone in the team can go over in a lot of detail what the role involves and how it progresses and what training you will have, so please apply even if you aren't 100% sure as we can talk to you and go over openly with you and discuss together if we think it will be a fit for you.

Higher Success as an agency will also gift you a Level 5 recruitment Diploma course which you can learn in your own time to kickstart your career. (if you should like to)

Mainly you will be

  • Screening applications

  • Searching for CVs and candidates to call

  • Conducting candidate interviews and screening calls on the phone and on video calls.

  • Writing up detailed candidate profiles

  • Managing interview processes

  • Managing offer processes

  • Maintaining strong relationship with clients, managing expectations, providing updates and expert advise, and keeping in touch.

  • Securing new clients with business development

    The Selling Points

  • The team already know each other outside of work so it is a nice close, amicable team

  • The director has been successful early on in his recruitment career because of his determination, passion and the client relationships he has fostered. He has billed more than £1m in a year and has started a highly successful agency which is growing.

  • New hires will be working directly with the MD and have close mentorship to get them to be very high billing ASAP.

  • The business recruit into highly lucrative markets in the USA

  • Want to keep smaller boutique feel, focus on profit and being strategic.

  • Quarterly incentives, days out, and a free gym membership at CORE The Gym Maidstone.

  • The business are office based, the vibe is upbeat, hardworking and fun.

  • People who are outgoing, money hungry, not afraid to graft, eager and proactive people.

  • Once you are billing successfully there will be the chance to have a junior consultant or delivery consultant working with you. They have delivery consultants on the team too which may be utilised sometimes for splits.

    The Package

  • It is highly likely in this role with hard work that you will earn 6 figures within a couple of years.

  • Commission has no threshold and is a highly lucrative annual scheme, paid monthly the brackets that you work towards are annual, so you aren’t on the lower commission bracket every month fresh once you surpass it you aren’t on it again until January

  • The commission pays up to 35% which is exceptional

  • They will look to pay up to £26K base for the right candidate.

    The Requirements

  • A strong desire for a career role where you can progress and learn and stay long term

  • A strong desire to work very hard and put your all into a role to be successful

  • A client cantered mentality with strong customer service skills

  • Confident and good telephone manner, able to build relationships with people. Friendly and professional. You will spend most of your day speaking to people

  • Confident and happy to speak to new people and cold call people (with training)

  • Strong communicator with excellent written English

  • Very driven and hungry to be successful and earn well

  • Someone proactive who takes their career and their own success seriously

  • You could be a graduate or perhaps you are a school leaver. Either way you will need to have some sales or KPI target based experience, customer service experience, admin or office experience or some other transferable skills

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