Recruitment Consultant

Pertemps Swindon; England; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading recruitment agency in the United Kingdom is seeking an experienced Recruitment Consultant to join their Swindon-based Industrial & Engineering Division. Key responsibilities include engaging with clients, managing sales processes, and maintaining high standards of customer service. Ideal candidates should possess excellent communication and negotiation skills, along with a tenacious attitude to sales. The role involves extensive interaction with both clients and candidates.

Qualifications

• Ability to absorb knowledge and learn new IT systems.
• Experience in upselling to clients and working off-script.
• Experience in high-volume candidate onboarding drives.

Responsibilities

• Talk to and influence decision makers at all levels.
• Sell service packages and drive the brand.
• Assist with inbound queries from workers.

Skills

Confidence in speaking

Sales tenacity

Relationship building

Communication skills

Negotiation skills

Tools

Excel

Word

Outlook

Job description

Are you interested in seeking a new career within Recruitment? Pertemps is an award‑winning independent recruitment company seeking an experienced consultant to join our hugely successful and busy Swindon based Industrial & Engineering Division.

You will work with a broad range of industrial/engineering clients, which you would be responsible for servicing and developing, alongside broader sales responsibilities. Customer service would be a very important element of your role as you would need to uphold high standards to both our workers and our clients.

As a Recruitment Consultant joining our team you will:

• Talk to and influence decision makers at all levels.
• Sell service packages to them and rigorously drive the Pertemps brand.
• Assist with inbound queries at all levels from prospective and existing workers.
• Deal with Business‑to‑business onsite sales and telesales.
• Interview and independently select Industrial staff.
• Support tender processes and presentations.
• Positively profile the business within the local community.

The ideal Recruiter will hold the following skills and experiences:

• Ability to absorb knowledge and learn a range of new IT systems and recruitment compliance processes.
• Confident speaking to new people on the phone.
• Acting as a recruiter for high‑volume candidate onboarding drives.
• A good judge of character.
• A tenacious attitude towards sales.
• Ideally some experience in upselling to clients and working 'off‑script'.
• Characteristics of somebody capable of winning new business and building relationships.
• Ability to manage multiple workloads without detracting from quality of service.
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills.
• IT Literate with basic use of Excel, Word, Outlook (training will be provided to further develop these skills).
• Comfortable building rapport and creating new accounts with clients face‑to‑face.

If you are interested in applying for our Recruitment Consultant role, please click apply or alternatively contact Nigel in the Swindon office.