Trainee Recruitment Consultant: Uncapped Commission

Stafforce Ports; East Hampshire; On-site; GBP 24,000 - 32,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Uncapped commission

Clear progression opportunities

Ongoing training and support

Supportive team environment

Opportunity to build and manage your/​

Regular incentives and recognition

Job summary

Stafforce Ports is seeking a driven Trainee Recruitment Consultant in Southampton to join our expanding team. The role focuses on developing your own client base, winning vacancies, and delivering high-quality recruitment solutions through proactive outreach and relationship-building.

You will be responsible for building a pipeline, meeting decision-makers, and achieving targets with a supportive team and ongoing training.

Qualifications

• Experience in recruitment or sales, or a target-driven commercial role.
• Confident making outbound calls and approaching new clients.
• Strong communication, negotiation, and relationship-building skills.
• Commercially aware, resilient, and motivated by results.

Responsibilities

• Proactively generate new business through cold calling, sales calls, networking, referrals, and market mapping.
• Identify and approach prospective clients, including hiring managers, business owners, HR teams, and senior decision-makers.
• Book and attend client meetings to understand recruitment needs, promote services, and secure new vacancies.
• Build, manage, and grow a pipeline of active and prospective clients.
• Negotiate terms of business, fees, rates, and service agreements in line with commercial objectives.
• Develop knowledge of market, salary trends, and hiring challenges.
• Write and advertise vacancies across platforms to attract candidates.
• Source, screen, interview, and shortlist candidates for client vacancies.
• Manage the recruitment process from vacancy to offer and aftercare.
• Work towards KPIs, including sales activity, client meetings, vacancies won, interviews arranged, revenue generated.

Skills

Outbound calling

Negotiation

Relationship-building

Target-driven

Communication skills

Job description

Stafforce Ports is seeking a driven Trainee Recruitment Consultant in Southampton to join our expanding team. The role focuses on developing your own client base, winning vacancies, and delivering high-quality recruitment solutions through proactive outreach and relationship-building.

You will be responsible for building a pipeline, meeting decision-makers, and achieving targets with a supportive team and ongoing training.