Recruitment Consultant

Workshop Recruitment; Purbrook; On-site; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Part time

Job summary

A recruitment agency is seeking an experienced Recruitment Consultant to join their Drayton office, focusing on the construction division. This part-time role includes sourcing candidates, managing the hiring process, and liaising with clients. Ideal applicants should have at least a year of recruitment experience, possess excellent organizational and negotiation skills, and be self-starters. The job offers competitive salary, holiday, and benefits, with essential hours on Monday, Friday, and one other weekday.

Benefits

Competitive salary and bonus package

24 days holiday plus birthday off

Employee Assistance Programme

3.30pm finish on Fridays

Free parking

Qualifications

• Experience in recruitment is desirable, ideally 1 year+.
• Skilled at listening, client retention, and rapport building.
• Able to work to deadlines and achieve targets.

Responsibilities

• Resource candidates for live roles and speculative calls.
• Manage the candidate hiring process from start to finish.
• Qualify new vacancies.

Skills

Recruitment experience

Self-starter

Negotiation skills

Organisational skills

Objection handling

Job description

Workshop Recruitment are looking for an experienced and highly motivated Recruitment Consultant to join our Drayton office. Based on the outskirts of Portsmouth in Drayton, and we are looking for hungry and customer‑centric individuals to join our busy construction division. The role will mainly be tasked around resourcing for candidates, managing the candidate process and liaising with clients on interviews and candidate submissions. This will suit a candidate with previous recruitment experience, ideally 1 year+.

This role would best suit someone looking for reduced hours or part time – Monday and Friday are essential, along with one other day during the week, there is some flex on working hours.

Duties

• Resource candidates for live roles and for speculative calls.
• Manage the candidate hiring process from start to finish.
• Qualify new vacancies.
• Undertake client meetings where necessary with the key objective of understanding new vacancies.
• Once you secure new clients, you will be required to work with your colleagues to ensure that their requirements are met.
• Lead generation tasks, help identify new business opportunities.

Skills and Knowledge

• Previous recruitment experience is desirable.
• Be a self‑starter.
• Work closely with candidates to identify their needs and clients they may be suited to.
• Be skilled at objection handling, listening skills, client retention and rapport building.
• Have excellent negotiation skills.
• Possess good organisational skills.
• Be able to work to deadlines and achieve targets.

Benefits

• Competitive salary and bonus package.
• Target related incentives.
• 24 days holiday plus birthday off (pro rata).
• Employee Assistant Programme.
• 3.30pm finish on a Friday.
• Free parking.