Recruitment Consultant

Hays; Watford; On-site; GBP 25,000 - 35,000; Full time

Job summary

Join Hays as a Recruitment Consultant in Watford, specializing in Accountancy and Finance recruitment. You will build lasting client relationships, attract top talent, and achieve KPIs in a supportive and collaborative environment. This is an excellent opportunity for those driven by sales and relationship management.

Benefits

Commission structure

Best technology and training program

Paid volunteering days

Employee wellbeing initiatives

Qualifications

• Must have a sales background with a proactive approach.
• Outgoing and confident personality, with an ambitious drive to succeed.

Responsibilities

• Foster and nurture relationships with clients while pursuing new business opportunities.
• Engage and guide candidates throughout the interview and offer process.
• Negotiate terms and fees to create beneficial partnerships.

Skills

Sales-driven

Relationship-focused

Resilient

Proactive

Results-focused

Job description

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Senior Talent Acquisition Partner at Hays | Recruiting Experienced Consultants into our Teams across the South East and East of England regions |…

Recruitment Consultant – Watford

Joining our team in Watford means becoming part of a dedicated group specialising in professional. Our office is conveniently located just a stone's throw away from the station, offering excellent links to London.

You'll be joining a global leader in the recruitment industry, and our collaborative environment ensures that every success is celebrated. Our supportive team culture fosters growth and recognition, making your professional journey both rewarding and enjoyable.

In Watford, you will be at the forefront of Accountancy and Finance recruitment across West Herts and North West London—one of our most dynamic and high-performing sectors. As we enter an exciting period of growth, there’s never been a better time to join our journey. With a strong reputation for delivering top talent and tailored solutions, we’re expanding our reach and deepening our impact in a market with huge opportunity.

Whether you're driven by building lasting client relationships or helping professionals find their perfect role, you’ll thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment where your success truly matters.

This is a sales-based role so we are looking for individuals that are passionate about talking to people, winning new business, and building lifelong partnerships with clients (ideally in recruitment). If this sounds like you, we'd love to talk to you.

Your new role as a Recruitment Consultant:

Client Growth: Foster lasting relationships, building and nurturing relationships with clients while actively pursuing new business opportunities. Understanding client recruitment needs and providing strategic advice to ensure the best candidate matches.

Candidate Engagement: Find and engage the best talent, attracting top talent through effective candidate engagement strategies. Guiding candidates throughout the interview and offer process, ensuring a seamless experience.

Skilful Negotiation: Create win-win situations for clients and candidates, negotiating terms and fees to create mutually beneficial partnerships.

Target Achievement: Meet and exceed KPIs with zeal and efficiency. Collaborating within a high-performing team, motivating each other to achieve outstanding results.

Leadership Partner Expertise: Becoming an industry expert through networking and staying ahead of market trends.

About you to make it in this role:

• MUST HAVE A SALES BACKGROUND
• Sales-driven and relationship-focused
• Results-focused
• Possess an ambitious drive to succeed.
• Resilient, persistent, and determined.
• Passionate about people, outgoing, and confident.
• Ambitious, target-driven, and financially motivated.
• A proactive and results-driven approach

Why Choose Hays?

People are at the centre of everything we do. We don't just place people into jobs but invest in lifelong partnerships that empower you to realise your ambition. We're backed by over 50 years of success, and a workforce of over 10,000 people across 33 countries. There might be 12,000 employees across the globe, but here, everybody is welcome, and every voice is heard.

As a large company we have a huge opportunity to make a difference to the communities we operate in.

As a result, we are proud to say:

• We partner with End Youth Homelessness UK to raise money for their charity
• We also became carbon neutral in 2021 are currently on the path to net zero carbon emissions.
• Hays was one of the first 20 companies nationwide to receive the National Equality Standard and we continue to promote an environment where all our employees can be their full self at work.
• #HaysHelps We're committed to making a positive impact on the communities we live and work in. As part of this, we have a volunteering scheme, #HaysHelps, which gives employees two days of paid leave per calendar year to volunteer.

Award winners of:

• Top 100 undergraduate employers by Job Crowd, NUE awards and Rate My Placement
• Glassdoor Best Places to Interview

As a Hays consultant, you will benefit from:

• commission scheme structure (uncapped paid x13 times a year, increases with promotions)
• built on rewarding success and the opportunity to influence your earning potential
• Best technology in the industry and a renowned training programme to support success and drive rapid career progression and ongoing development
• Opportunity to take your career globally
• Incentives and rewards to recognise performance both locally, regionally and nationally
• Broad range of employee wellbeing initiatives and benefits
• Community of internal support networks.
• Paid volunteering days for all employees under our Working for Your Tomorrow Initiative.

Life at Hays presents the opportunity for growth, varied career paths, exciting challenges and a culture of inclusion that celebrates diversity. As a committed Disability Confident employer, if you’re thinking of a new tomorrow for your career, whatever your background, let’s work together to create it!

At Hays, we share a passion for creating a culture of opportunities for our people to flourish and succeed, whatever your background. We know that diversity of perspective and an inclusive approach, which encourages those experiences and views to be heard, is great for business and therefore your career.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Entry level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Business Development and Sales

• Industries

  Staffing and Recruiting

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