Recruitment Consultant

Hays; Cambridge; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

Join an award-winning team as a Recruitment Consultant in Cambridge, where your sales skills will shine. This dynamic role involves building lasting client relationships, engaging top talent, and achieving targets in a supportive environment. With a focus on personal and professional growth, you'll be part of a collaborative team that celebrates success. The company values diversity and inclusion, offering extensive support and development opportunities. If you're passionate about people and driven to succeed, this is your chance to thrive in a rewarding career with a global leader in recruitment.

Benefits

Commission scheme structure

Renowned training programme

Paid volunteering days

Employee wellbeing initiatives

Community support networks

Qualifications

• Sales-driven, results-focused individual with a passion for building relationships.
• Must possess resilience, ambition, and a proactive approach to work.

Responsibilities

• Foster lasting client relationships while pursuing new business opportunities.
• Engage top talent and guide candidates through the recruitment process.
• Negotiate terms to create mutually beneficial partnerships.

Skills

Sales Background

Client Relationship Management

Negotiation Skills

Target Achievement

Candidate Engagement

Job description

Recruitment Consultant - Construction

Join Our Award-Winning Team!

Joining our award-winning Construction team in Cambridge means becoming part of one of the most successful offices within the East of England region. With an established team of over 15 consultants across our Peterborough and Cambridge offices, we boast over 70 years of combined experience in recruitment. Not only will you be joining a global leader in the recruitment industry, but you'll also be part of a team that celebrates every success. Our collaborative and supportive environment ensures that every achievement is recognised, making your professional journey both rewarding and fulfilling.

This role will involve working on our established Trades & Labour desk, part of a highly experienced Construction & Property team with over 70 years of combined experience. The Cambridgeshire market is extremely buoyant with exciting growth forecast for years to come.

This is a sales-based role so we are looking for individuals that are passionate about talking to people, winning new business, and building lifelong partnerships with clients. If this sounds like you, we'd love to talk to you. Apply now to receive a call back from our Talent Acquisition team to discuss the role further.

Your new role as a Recruitment Consultant:

1. Client Growth: Foster lasting relationships, building and nurturing relationships with clients while actively pursuing new business opportunities. Understanding client recruitment needs and providing strategic advice to ensure the best candidate matches.
2. Candidate Engagement: Find and engage the best talent, attracting top talent through effective candidate engagement strategies. Guiding candidates throughout the interview and offer process, ensuring a seamless experience.
3. Skilful Negotiation: Create win-win situations for clients and candidates, negotiating terms and fees to create mutually beneficial partnerships.
4. Target Achievement: Meet and exceed KPIs with zeal and efficiency. Collaborating within a high-performing team, motivating each other to achieve outstanding results.
5. Leadership Partner Expertise: Becoming an industry expert through networking and staying ahead of market trends.

About you to make it in this role:

• MUST HAVE A SALES BACKGROUND
  Sales-driven and relationship-focused
  Results-focused
  Possess an ambitious drive to succeed.
  Resilient, persistent, and determined.
  Passionate about people, outgoing, and confident.
  Ambitious, target-driven, and financially motivated.
  A proactive and results-driven approach

Why Choose Hays?

People are at the centre of everything we do. We don't just place people into jobs but invest in lifelong partnerships that empower you to realise your ambition. We're backed by over 50 years of success, and a workforce of over 10,000 people across 33 countries. There might be 12,000 employees across the globe, but here, everybody is welcome, and every voice is heard.

As a large company we have a huge opportunity to make a difference to the communities we operate in.

As a result, we are proud to say:

• We partner with End Youth Homelessness UK to raise money for their charity.
• We also became carbon neutral in 2021 and are currently on the path to net zero carbon emissions.
• Hays was one of the first 20 companies nationwide to receive the National Equality Standard and we continue to promote an environment where all our employees can be their full self at work.
• #HaysHelps We're committed to making a positive impact on the communities we live and work in. As part of this, we have a volunteering scheme, #HaysHelps, which gives employees two days of paid leave per calendar year to volunteer.

Award winners of:

• Top 100 undergraduate employers by Job Crowd, NUE awards and Rate My Placement.
• Glassdoor Best Places to Interview.

As a Hays consultant, you will benefit from:

• Commission scheme structure (uncapped paid x13 times a year, increases with promotions).
• Built on rewarding success and the opportunity to influence your earning potential.
• Best technology in the industry and a renowned training programme to support success and drive rapid career progression and ongoing development.
• Opportunity to take your career globally.
• Incentives and rewards to recognise performance both locally, regionally and nationally.
• Broad range of employee wellbeing initiatives and benefits.
• Community of internal support networks.
• Paid volunteering days for all employees under our Working for Your Tomorrow Initiative.

Life at Hays presents the opportunity for growth, varied career paths, exciting challenges and a culture of inclusion that celebrates diversity. As a committed Disability Confident employer, if you’re thinking of a new tomorrow for your career, whatever your background, let’s work together to create it!

At Hays, we share a passion for creating a culture of opportunities for our people to flourish and succeed, whatever your background. We know that diversity of perspective and an inclusive approach, which encourages those experiences and views to be heard, is great for business and therefore your career.