Recruitment Consultant

Maxim Recruitment; Leicester; On-site; GBP 20,000 - 30,000; Full time

Job summary

Maxim Recruitment is seeking a new Recruitment Consultant in Leicester, ideal for early career professionals. This role involves sourcing and interviewing candidates for various construction jobs, supported by extensive training and mentorship. With opportunities to work on high-caliber projects internationally, this position combines sales with recruitment in a rewarding and dynamic environment.

Benefits

Generous basic salary based on experience

Bonus based on fee revenue generated

Mentorship and full training

25 days paid holiday + Public Holidays

Flexible working/WFH by agreement

Qualifications

• Proficient in English with solid IT skills.
• Able to learn key recruitment tasks quickly.
• Demonstrates ambition and the determination to succeed.

Responsibilities

• Source, interview, and manage candidates.
• Negotiate salary offers and manage candidate expectations.
• Develop leads from candidates to grow the client base.

Skills

Confidence

Self-motivation

Interpersonal skills

Sales skills

Negotiation skills

Time management

Problem-solving ability

Education

Good standard of written and spoken English

Strong analytical skills

Ability to demonstrate sales and marketing behaviours

Tools

Bullhorn CRM

Job description

An exciting Recruitment Consultant job opportunity in Leicester for a confident and ambitious early career professional. Suitable applicants for this recruitment consultant job will need to be able to commute to our office in Clarendon Park, Leicester.

Full recruitment training will be provided to facilitate you becoming a successful and high earning recruitment consultant. You will work in the Leicester office with an experienced recruitment team and learn how to do this challenging job to an industry leading standard.

In your recruitment consultant job role, you will work with high quality construction jobs and high calibre construction professional job seekers and match them together to secure a recruitment fee and of course your sales bonus.
Using your research, organisational and sales skills, you will help employers to recruit great employees and help your candidates to advance their careers in the professional construction and engineering sector. We cover the construction recruitment market both in the UK and internationally in locations such as Canada, Dubai, Hong Kong and Australia.

As a new Recruitment Consultant with Maxim, we will provide you with full recruitment training. You will work in the Maxim Leicester office with other experienced recruitment professionals who will show you how to do this challenging recruitment consultant job to an industry-leading standard.

You will be trained to become a specialist Maxim construction recruitment consultant, and you will work with high-quality construction jobs and high-calibre construction professional job seekers to match them together and earn good bonuses.
You will be trained to use your research, organisational and sales skills to help employers to recruit and candidates to advance their careers in the professional construction and engineering sector both in the UK and internationally.

We have Recruitment Consultant jobs available to work on a number of ‘warm’ desks / departments, that are already up and running including:

• Recruiting for major international road, rail, bridge and tunnel infrastructure projects in UK, Europe, Canada and in the Middle East
• Recruiting within the specialist construction disputes sector in the UK and internationally
• Recruiting within the cost, QS, estimating & procurement sectors UK and internationally

Responsibilities and Duties

As a new recruiter with the Maxim team, you will join a small & supportive team and work closely with experienced recruitment consultants. We will help train you quickly and efficiently to be productive and feel confident in your role and capabilities.

The core task of a successful construction recruitment consultant at every level, is to successfully introduce the best candidates to the best matching jobs. We can show you how do to this!

Using your capacity to learn quickly, and by following the proven Maxim Recruitment methods and procedures, you will:

• Source, interview and manage candidates through the recruitment process with our premium employers in the UK and internationally
• Manage multiple candidate searches for our priority live client job vacancies
• Approach contacts and proactively headhunt suitable potential candidates and encourage them to show interest in the jobs we have available
• Interview and shortlist suitable candidates against urgent client job vacancies
• Recommend candidates for submittal to clients and brief and debrief and update candidates accordingly as they work their way through the selection process
• Negotiate salary offers and manage candidate salary expectations to ensure all parties achieve a successful outcome
• Identify and develop business leads from candidates interviewed to grow the client base
• Provide a professional service when liaising with candidate job seekers and employer clients that leads to repeat business, a good reputation and enhanced efficiencies and profits
• Write up, publish and market industry leading construction job vacancies that attract the highest calibre of candidate
• Maintain the data related to your clients and candidates using the market leading Maxim Recruitment ‘Bullhorn’ online candidate and recruitment CRM database
• Attend construction industry networking events with Maxim colleagues, candidates and clients – these can be in the UK or internationally depending on your role and preferences
• Undertake international travel on business as required to interview candidates and/or to develop new clients

Desired Skills and Experience

The most important skills required for success in this Recruitment Consultant job role are:

• Confidence
• Being self-motivated
• Demonstrating ambition through hard work and strategic behaviours

In addition, the following skills and traits (or the willingness to develop them) are highly desirable:

• 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
• time management and organisational skills

We welcome job applications for this Recruitment Consultant role from candidates who have had any of the following:

• Previous experience in recruitment or in the construction industry itself
• Candidates that have worked in other sales-related roles such as in a call centre or targeted retail environment.
• Recruitment consultants who have worked in other recruitment sectors and who are keen to make the move into a premium high value sector of the recruitment industry.
• Early career candidates or fresh graduates who can demonstrate they have the skills and behaviours needed to develop a successful career in recruitment at Maxim

Qualifications/Educational Requirements

• Suitable applicants must have a good standard of written and spoken English and be able to evidence solid IT skills.
• Strong analytical skills must also be demonstrated, and you should be able to learn key tasks and information quickly and accurately
• You should feel confident in your ability to develop and demonstrate strong sales and marketing behaviours.
• You will need to be able to write job descriptions and write reports on candidates eloquently and lucidly without mistakes.
• You MUST already have the right to live and work in the UK as this is a UK based position and we are unable to offer work visa sponsorship

Employing Company Overview and Profile

Maxim Recruitment undertakes executive search and recruitment assignments to find managerial level construction professionals for the very best construction companies based in the UK and internationally in countries such as Canada, Dubai, Hong Kong and Australia.

We have offices in Leicester in the UK, and in Toronto, Canada and in Hong Kong, China.
This Recruitment Consultant job is based in Clarendon Park, Leicester, in a pleasant area with a range of shops, cafes, pubs and near a public park and easily accessible to public transport.

Maxim Recruitment is proud to be on the Preferred Supplier List (PSL) for many of the biggest names in the national & international construction and property industry in the UK, Hong Kong/Asia, North America and the Middle East.

We also recruit extensively and exclusively for 'under the radar' niche expert construction companies and consultancies.

In 2025 we are celebrating 22 years of being in business.

Please look at our website for further information about us including our range of client vacancies, career advice information and a massive range of blogs written on a range of subjects relating to UK and international construction recruitment.

Additional Benefits Package and Incentives

• Generous Basic Salary based on experience
• Bonus based on fee revenue generated – full details supplied at interview stage. There is an open-ended opportunity to increase your basic salary massively
• Mentorship and full training/probation programme during the first 3 months
• 5 day working week with standard working Hours 8.30am – 5.30pm and finishing 4.30 on Fridays.
• 25 days paid holiday + Public Holidays
• Potential for flexible working / WFH by agreement once able to work independently

Steve Thomas is our specialist consultant managing this position

07441 343 671
(Office hours 9.30 to 5.30pm Monday to Friday)

London, Home Counties, Midlands, East Midlands & Northern UK

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