Trainee Recruitment Consultant

Are you an experienced Salesperson or Account manager? Are you a people person who goes above a beyond to deliver results and an excellent service? We have an exciting position for a Recruitment associate (Trainee recruitment consultant) to work alongside the Team leader in our busy permanent recruitment division.

You will be required to source quality candidates to fill a number of live roles while being active in business development in order to bring on new clients to enable you to build your desk and maintain a consistent pipeline.

My client is an independent specialist recruitment partner who work’s on a national scale to provide an all-encompassing solution to clients across Construction and Property, Mechanical and Electrical, Civil Engineering, Industrial and Business Support.  They pride themselves on providing a flexible service for their customers, tailoring their services to suit their needs.  The team are proud to be able to support clients with all their recruitment needs without having to go to multiple agencies.

In this Trainee role, you will receive plenty of training, support, guidance and development from some of the best in the industry.

Main duties and responsibilities are outlined below but are not limited;

• Sales activity to include, calls, LinkedIn and emails to promote our services and available candidates to prospect companies
• Daily searches on job boards, our database and utilising linkedin in order to identify potential candidates to fulfil job roles
• Arrange and attend sales meetings
• Negotiate and agree terms and fees with new customers
• Regular use of social media platforms to promote vacancies and our services
• Writing and placing exciting and detailed job adverts
• Building a strong candidate database to ensure vacancies are filled in a timely manner with good quality candidates
• Building a strong client database to maintain a consistent pipeline of vacancies to work on
• Ensure all activity is recorded on the company database
• Ensure all candidates put forward are compliant and reference checked
• Ensure the candidate journey is managed throughout their experience
• Manage client relationships and look to develop these where possible
• Ensure we carry out regular client visits and service reviews to constantly deliver an excellent service

The ideal candidate will have:

• A previous track record in sales
• Excellent customer service/account management skills
• Experience working to targets
• Good IT skills
• A valid driving licence

In return they offer a competitive basic salary of £22,000 to £24,000 per annum on experience, an achievable monthly and 6 monthly bonus scheme, annual incentives and team building days, ongoing internal and external recruitment specific training, Westfield Healthcare, 23 days holiday plus stats rising to 25 after 2 years and your birthday off work paid.

Your hours of work will be flexible start between 8.30am and 9am and finish between 5pm and 5.30pm with additional hours required during busy periods