Graduate Headhunter

Virtus Talent; England; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 32,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment firm in the United Kingdom is seeking entry-level candidates to join their team. This full-time position emphasizes a competitive, meritocratic environment where your career development will be shaped by your hard work. Responsibilities include client and candidate meetings, negotiation, and achieving sales targets. Candidates must be recent graduates eager to learn and adapt. The role involves significant networking and relationship management to foster opportunities for both clients and candidates.

Qualifications

• Recent graduate looking for a career in consulting.
• Strong desire to learn and develop within the field.
• Ability to embrace change and strive for improvement.
• Willing to contribute to and shape team culture.

Responsibilities

• Conduct face-to-face meetings with clients and candidates.
• Perform advertising and job board searches.
• Negotiate and finalize candidate placements.
• Pass feedback between candidates and clients.
• Negotiate, extend offers and close deals with applicants/clients.
• Prepare CVs for client presentations.
• Deliver within agreed timeframes with clients.
• Aim to hit targets and earn commission.

Skills

Client relationship management

Networking

Negotiation

Sales techniques

Adaptability

Education

Recent graduate or about to graduate

Job description

This range is provided by Virtus Talent. Your actual pay will be based on your skills and experience — talk with your recruiter to learn more.

Base pay range

Are you about to graduate? Are you competitive and financially driven? Are you resilient and want to work in a meritocratic environment where your career development is directly influenced by your hard work?

If your answers to the above questions are 'YES', then look no further!

Who they are

Our client specialises at the mid-to-senior level of the Insurance, Financial Services and Technology sectors.

• Highly specialist and well-renowned teams of Consultants.
• Managers with loads of experience in their respective markets.
• Strong L&D function to support start of your career and growth in it.
• Multiple examples of people joining as Trainee Consultants and progressing to Principal Consultant level within 3 years.

If you're looking for opportunity, this is the right place. Our client has built their business on making opportunity happen for their clients, candidates, and their people.

If you're the kind of person who gets fired up by creating opportunities - rather than waiting for them to come to you, then this is the business for you.

Who you are

• You're a recent graduate or about to graduate.
• You're hungry to learn and have a restless desire to develop your knowledge and specialism.
• You anticipate change and embrace it, always striving for continuous improvement.
• You champion others to bring out the best in everyone - you'll help shape the culture.
• You'll subscribe to their core values – Commitment to excellence, Continuous improvement, Hard work and Integrity.

What will you be doing

• Client/candidate face to face meetings and networking.
• Advertising, database searching, using job boards, LinkedIn and direct headhunting.
• Booking and preparing candidates in for interviews.
• Passing feedback between candidates and clients.
• Negotiating, making offers and closing/signing up applicants/clients.
• Preparing CVs for presentation to clients.
• Delivering within time frames agreed upon with clients.
• Hitting your targets and making commission!

No candidate will meet every single desired qualification. If your experience looks a little different from what we’ve identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we’d love to learn more about you!

Virtus Talent are here to guide you through the interview process, make sure you are fully prepared for interviews and coach you on how to get your transferable skills and traits across in the interview. We will aim to secure you several interviews with several companies that you like the look of with the view of securing you several jobs offers.

Seniority level

Entry level

Employment type

Full-time

Job function

Sales, Consulting, and Business Development

Industries: Staffing and Recruiting