Recruitment Consultant

Maxim Recruitment Limited; Leicester; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 40,000; Full time

Job summary

Maxim Recruitment Limited is seeking a dynamic Recruitment Consultant to join their Leicester team, focusing on permanent recruitment in the construction sector. The ideal candidate will be responsible for managing the recruitment process, engaging clients, and attracting quality candidates while potentially working flexibly. Opportunities for personal and professional growth are available within a supportive environment.

Benefits

Generous basic salary based on experience

Bonus based on fee revenue generated

25 days paid holiday plus public holidays

Mentorship and training program

Potential for flexible working arrangements

Qualifications

• Proven ability to develop strong communication and organizational skills.
• Knowledge of recruitment models and processes desired.
• Ability to demonstrate strong sales behaviors.

Responsibilities

• Manage end-to-end recruitment process including sourcing and candidate assessment.
• Engage with clients to understand their recruitment needs and provide solutions.
• Ensure compliance with legal and ethical standards in recruitment.

Skills

Communication

Sales

Organization

Interpersonal Skills

Education

Good standard of written and spoken English

Job description

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Maxim Recruitment is seeking dynamic and results-driven Recruitment Consultants to join our Leicester based team.

We specialise in permanent construction recruitment. In this Recruitment Consultant job role, you will manage the end-to-end recruitment process, including managing employer vacancies and identifying new ones, identifying, attracting, assessing, shortlisting, and onboarding premium candidates for permanent positions within client organisations.

Your expertise will be crucial in aligning candidates' skills with clients' requirements, ensuring a seamless and successful recruitment experience.

Previous experience in recruitment, sales, business development or proactive customer service is desired, although promising graduates or early career professionals will also be considered. We are also very happy to consider experienced sales or recruitment professionals that want to work part-time or flexible hours.

Recruitment Consultant Job Details

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 professional construction recruitment sector in the UK and also internationally in locations such as Canada, Dubai, Hong Kong and Australia.

Recruitment Consultant Responsibilities and Duties

• Client Engagement:
• Identify and secure permanent recruitment opportunities by researching, contacting and agreeing to represent clients that have professional construction vacancies to be filled
• Establish, negotiate, and agree on terms and conditions of business with clients.
• Continually develop and manage client/employer relationships to ensure high levels of customer satisfaction and quality standards.
• Candidate Sourcing and Assessment:
• Research, identify, and attract suitable candidates using a variety of professional recruitment and executive search methods
• Assess candidates' skills, qualifications, and cultural fit to meet client requirements.
• Conduct interviews and shortlist and present qualified candidates to clients and facilitate the interview and evaluation process.
• Process Management:
• Ensure all recruitment processes comply with legal, regulatory, and ethical standards.
• Accurately complete all necessary processes and aftercare services in line with Maxim Recruitment company policies.
• Performance and Development:
• Meet agreed activity levels to ensure you can fully service the construction employers you want to and are already working with
• Develop your professional manner and sales techniques and recruitment strategies to enhance your performance and outcomes for your client employers and the candidates you work with

Desired Skills and Experience

Applicants for this Recruitment Consultant job will ideally have the following experience, or if not, will demonstrate transferrable skills and/or be able to demonstrate the following knowledge, skills and behaviours to be able to undertake the role of Recruitment Consultant quickly once full training and guidance has been provided.

• Knowledge:
• Understand permanent recruitment models and processes and how to ensure successful outcomes for the employer and jobseeker customers you are representing
• Demonstrate your awareness of your legal responsibilities in areas such as equality, diversity, and inclusion, using the required recruitment processes and standards
• Skills:
• Possess or quickly develop an ability to identify and convert sales leads into new clients, candidates, and ultimately to permanent construction recruitment placements.
• Demonstrate Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build and maintain relationships.
• Demonstrate excellent organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple tasks and priorities effectively.
• Behaviours:
• Self-motivated with a proactive approach to identifying and obtaining new business opportunities.
• Tenacious and resilient, with the ability to overcome objections and setbacks.
• Demonstrate an ethical customer-focused approach, operating under the spirit of codes of practice, ethics, and the law.

Qualifications/Educational Requirements

• Suitable applicants must be able to demonstrate (with their application and CV!) a good standard of written and at interview, a good standard of spoken English and also be able to evidence solid IT skills.
• Strong analytical skills must also be demonstrated, and you should be able to learn key tasks and be able to evaluate and apply 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
• We prefer candidates to be based within a 40 minute commute of our office in Leicester although this may be negotiable for the right candidates

Maxim Recruitment Overview and Profile

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

We have offices in Leicester in the UK, in Toronto, Canada and in Hong Kong, China.

This Recruitment Consultant job vacancy is to be based in Clarendon Park, south east Leicester, in a pleasant area with a range of shops, cafes, pubs and near a public park and easily accessible to public transport.

Following successful completion of the initial 3 months of training and probation, it is possible for working from home (WFH) arrangements for a few days a week to be discussed.

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 around the Maxim Recruitment website for further information about us including the sectors of construction and property we work within, the locations we recruit for and our range of client vacancies, career advice information and the massive range of blogs we have written on a range of subjects relating to UK and international construction recruitment.
• We expect Recruitment Consultant candidates that are seriously interested in a job with us to have done their research and to know some key facts about us and why they are actively wanting to join our high-achieving but friendly and dynamic team based in Leicester.
• This role offers opportunities for personal and professional growth, including potential progression to team leader or managerial positions within the recruitment sector.

Note: This job description is intended to provide a general overview of the responsibilities and requirements of the Recruitment Consultant role. It is not exhaustive and may be subject to change based on organisational needs.

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 / double (+) your basic salary
• 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 national and international travel to meetings, conferences and events
• Potential for flexible working / WFH by agreement once able to work independently

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Associate

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Advertising, General Business, and Human Resources

• Industries

  Construction, Staffing and Recruiting, and Telephone Call Centers

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