Graduate Recruitment Consultant

Mackenzie Stuart; Leeds; On-site; GBP 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading executive search firm located in Leeds is seeking enthusiastic graduates for the role of Graduate Recruitment Consultant. The position involves managing your own business while headhunting talent globally and developing client relationships. With a competitive salary of £29K and the potential for an average OTE of £45-50K in the first year, successful candidates will thrive in a sales-oriented, high-energy environment. This is an excellent opportunity for recent graduates eager to build a rewarding career in recruitment.

Benefits

Competitive base salary

Uncapped commission scheme

Fast progression to management

Monthly incentives including luxury vouchers

State-of-the-art office facilities

Tailored training program

Qualifications

• Manage your own business within the organisation.
• Work towards sales targets and KPIs.
• No previous experience required; personality and potential valued.

Responsibilities

• Headhunt top industry talent into job openings.
• Manage and build client and candidate relationships.
• Responsible for the entire end-to-end recruitment process.

Skills

Enthusiastic and hardworking

Confident individuals

Positive and resilient mentality

Excellent communication skills

Proactive and relentless

Education

Graduate degree in any field

Job description

Graduate Recruitment Consultant – Executive Search

Mackenzie Stuart is a market leading Executive Search firm established in 2005. We are searching for enthusiastic graduates to join our group of companies as a Graduate Recruitment Consultant. We are an ambitious, competitive, and highly motivated organisation which prides ourselves on providing unparalleled executive search services.

We are currently looking for people to join the next phase of our growth in either our Leeds or Harrogate.

The Mackenzie Stuart Group consists of the parent company Mackenzie Stuart and subsidiary companies including Indenovo Global, TH Daniels, George Thomas, JB Andrews, Irving Knight Group, Atrio Search, Novaris Search, Aire Search, Axzel Search, Optify Search and Sectr Partners. We are a business that places a huge emphasis on hiring graduates and young professionals who are looking to begin a successful career in recruitment.

Crucially, the Graduate Recruitment Consultant role is a sales & business development position, where you will have full responsibility for your own industry.

What we can offer you

• Competitive base salary of £29K and an uncapped commission scheme, which is among the best in the industry.
• Average 1st year OTE of £45-50k.
• Fast progression – average time to management is 12–18 months. We also give you the opportunity to become a Director of your own Recruitment Company (we have set up 20 companies in 13 years).
• A fun, high‑energy but professional office environment where you are surrounded by like‑minded individuals.
• Monthly, quarterly and yearly incentives including luxury retail vouchers (Selfridges, Harvey Nichols, John Lewis), free holidays abroad (Ibiza, skiing & city breaks) and monthly meals out.
• Brand new 12,000 sqft state‑of‑the‑art office space with communal working areas, yoga studio, golf simulator, a bar and many more features (Leeds HQ).
• A tailored 12‑week training period providing you with all the tools necessary to succeed as well as support and advice throughout.

Your role as a Graduate Recruitment Consultant

Essentially you will be managing your own business within our organisation, specialising in one of our many industries on a global basis.

You will headhunt top industry talent into high‑level job openings internationally, working with the most established companies and candidates within your market.

You will manage and build client and candidate relationships from the start of the role and be responsible for the entire end‑to‑end recruitment process. You will have a high level of support and autonomy.

This position is a sales and business development role; you will be working towards targets, have KPIs and will be responsible for developing your own clients from scratch.

Key skills of a Graduate Recruitment Consultant

• Enthusiastic and hardworking graduates looking to start their career in a corporate, competitive and rewarding career path.
• Driven and confident individuals who have a strong desire to begin their journey in the recruitment industry.
• Positive and resilient mentality to manage a demanding and challenging role.
• Proactive and relentless individuals with excellent communication who are able to fulfil a sales‑focused role and are responsible for their own success in salary earnings and progression.
• No previous experience required; we hire on personality and potential from any degree/background.
• A primary business model focused on hiring graduates or people starting their career in executive search and developing them into future leaders of the recruitment world.

Our most valuable asset is our people, so we pride ourselves on the investment, training, development and advancement opportunities we offer to our employees to facilitate their professional and personal development.

For more information on our business and the role at one of our companies, please visit https://graduates.mackenziestuart.com/.

Ideally all applicants will have the full right to work in the UK, without sponsorship. Due to the large number of applications, if you have not heard anything within 21 days then unfortunately you have been unsuccessful.