Recruitment Consultant

Maxim Recruitment; Leicester; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

An exciting opportunity awaits in Leicester for an ambitious individual to join a supportive team as a Recruitment Consultant. This role offers comprehensive training to help you excel in matching high-quality candidates with top construction jobs. You will develop essential skills in sales, negotiation, and client management while working alongside experienced professionals. With a focus on career advancement in the construction and engineering sectors, you will play a vital role in connecting talent with opportunity. If you are ready to embark on a rewarding career path with potential for growth and success, this position is perfect for you.

Benefits

Generous Basic Salary

Bonus based on fee revenue

Stakeholder Pension

Mentorship and training

25 days paid holiday

Potential for flexible working

Qualifications

• Strong communication and sales skills are essential for this role.
• Candidates should demonstrate analytical and IT skills.

Responsibilities

• Source, interview, and manage candidates through the recruitment process.
• Negotiate salary offers and manage candidate expectations.
• Attend industry networking events and develop new client relationships.

Skills

Tenacity

Confidence

Self-motivation

Ambition

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Sales skills

Negotiation skills

Time management

Organisational skills

Education

Good standard of written and spoken English

Solid IT skills

Strong analytical skills

Tools

Bullhorn CRM

Job description

Recruitment Consultant job in Leicester (MAX10029) - Maxim Recruitment

Recruitment Consultant

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 our many experienced recruitment professionals and learn how to do this challenging job to an industry leading standard.

In your recruitment job role, you will work with high quality construction jobs and high calibre construction professional job seekers and match them together using 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.

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 for jobs to the best jobs for the candidate’s preferences and abilities.

As a Recruitment Consultant or Graduate Recruitment Consultant, you will account manage our new and live clients which involves the task of attracting suitable candidates for client jobs and helping them through the recruitment process.

• Source, interview and manage candidates through the recruitment process with our premium employers
• Manage multiple candidate searches for our priority live client job vacancies
• Approach contacts and proactively headhunt suitable potential candidates and encourage them to apply for jobs with us
• 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
• 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:

• Tenacity
• Confidence and self-motivation
• Ambition

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
• 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.

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.

Additional Benefits Package and Incentives

• Generous Basic Salary based on experience
• Bonus based on fee revenue generated – full details supplied at interview stage
• Stakeholder Pension
• Mentorship and full ongoing training/probation programme with a performance review after 3 months
• 5 day working week with standard working Hours 8.30am – 5.30pm
• 25 days paid holiday + Public Holidays
• Potential for flexible working by agreement