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Our Bedfordshire client is in a high growth potential company, a successful recruitment business that has gone from strength to strength, and still growing. They’re looking to onboard a forward-thinking Technology or IT Recruitment consultant who will bring positive energy, share their vision, making positive contribution and share the successes.

As a recruitment consultant you are responsible for attracting candidates for jobs and matching them to temporary or permanent positions with client companies. You’ll build positive relationships in order to gain a better understanding of your clients recruitment needs and requirements.
Working as a recruitment consultant, you’ll attract candidates by drafting advertising copy for use in a range of media, as well as by networking, headhunting and through referrals. You’ll screen candidates, interview them, run background checks and finally match them to clients.
You also provide advice to both clients and candidates on salary levels, training requirements and career opportunities.
Responsibilities
As a recruitment consultant, you’re the vital link between clients and candidates. The role is demanding and diverse. It involves:

• using sales, business development, marketing techniques and networking to attract business from client companies
• visiting clients to build and develop positive relationships
• developing a good understanding of client companies, their industry, what they do, their work culture and environment
• advertising vacancies by drafting and placing adverts
• using social media to advertise positions, attract candidates and build relationships
• headhunting – identifying and approaching suitable candidates who may already be in work
• using candidate databases to match the right person to the client’s vacancy
• receiving and reviewing applications, managing interviews and tests and creating a shortlist of candidates for the client
• requesting references and checking the suitability of applicants before submitting their details to the client
• briefing the candidate about the responsibilities, salary and benefits of the job
• preparing CVs and correspondence to forward to clients regarding suitable applicants
• organising interviews for candidates as requested by the client
• informing candidates about the results of interviews
• negotiating pay and salary rates and finalising arrangements between clients and candidates
• offering advice to both clients and candidates on pay rates, training and career progression
• working towards and exceeding targets that may relate to the number of candidates placed, a value to be billed to clients or business leads generated
• reviewing recruitment policies to ensure effectiveness of selection techniques and recruitment programmes.

Qualifications Recruitment consultant roles are open to graduates regardless of degree subject. Rather than specific qualifications, employers value drive, experience, skills and abilities, as well as the determination to succeed. However, experience and skills are more important, therefore no limited to graduates.

Skills You’ll need to show evidence of the following:

• excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• sales and negotiation skills
• a goal-orientated approach to work
• the ability to handle multiple priorities
• problem-solving ability
• the ability to meet deadlines and targets
• ambition and the determination to succeed
• tenacity
• confidence and self-motivation
• time management and organisational skills
• team working skills
• creativity
• consistent billing history
• meet and exceed KPI targets

They will build strong relationships with client stakeholders managing their accounts and ensuring client’s experience and expectations are given the highest priority and successful results are achieved.

You will be rewarded with good basic salary, plus commission structure and team bonus, with clear career path progression to acknowledge performance.

If you believe you have the qualities and skill set, we would love to hear from you. Please forward your CV asap.

We act as a recruitment business on behalf of our client, all applicants will be assessed without any bias at all, your data will be managed in accordance with GDPR regulations. Due to the volume of applicants we can only reply to candidates who have been selected for interview, this will be done within 5 working day.

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Salary: £25,000.00-£35,000.00 per year

Benefits:

• Company events
• Company pension

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

• Commission pay
• Performance bonus

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Dunstable: reliably commute or plan to relocate before starting work (required)

Experience:

• 360 Technology/IT recruitment: 1 year (preferred)
• Recruitment agency: 1 year (preferred)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Dunstable

Reference ID: WNYNT02