CONSULTANT (Associate)

BAH Partners; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 180,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Excellent commission structure

Comprehensive healthcare coverage

Team-building activities

Company social events

Job summary

BAH Partners is seeking an Associate (Consultant in training) in Hong Kong to join a fast-paced recruitment team focused on financial markets and technology across Asia-Pacific.

You will source and manage candidates for multiple client specifications, craft CVs, brief candidates, and coordinate interviews. As you progress, you will handle client-facing responsibilities and close offers with post-offer management.

Qualifications

• Be bright and able to learn quickly.

Responsibilities

• Source, headhunt and shortlist technologists for client roles.

Skills

English proficiency

Communication skills

Attention to detail

Resilience

Energy and drive

Relationship building

Microsoft Office

Cantonese/Mandarin bonus

Education

University degree

Tools

Microsoft Office

Job description

BAH Partners is a specialist recruitment firm focused on financial markets and technology across Asia-Pacific. Our clients include leading hedge funds, quantitative and proprietary trading firms, investment banks, institutional digital asset businesses and Fintech firms.

Founded in Hong Kong in 2010, we specialise in technology, quantitative research, trading and senior appointments. Our team combines deep market knowledge with an established track record of delivering specialist talent across Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia and other major financial centres.

We take a focused, relationship-driven approach, built on a strong understanding of our clients, specialist markets and the talent within them.

Role overview

As an Associate, your role is that of "Consultant in training". You will work closely with your Manager and others on specific tasks and assignments by helping to source, manage and close candidates on roles and opportunities.

As you become more confident and effective at approaching candidates, you will begin to manage them throughout the recruitment process (interviews, preparation, client feedback, offer management, closing, post-offer management), gradually being given more freedom as you progress.

Then, once you’re a seasoned recruitment consultant who has mastered the candidate skills, we will let you develop your client and account management skills.

Our office is a great place to be – the phones are always ringing, and our consultants are always busy in what is a very fast-paced and dynamic industry.

• Candidate generation – you will be required to identify and HEAD-HUNT key technologists within the industry for any one of several client specifications we are working on. You will meet them, brief them, help them put together their CV, and work closely with your Manager as they engage in the interview process.
• Candidate regeneration – we have lots of candidate CVs on our database. Too many to deal with at any one moment. So, you will help us regenerate some of the older candidate relationships we have by checking in with them from time to time.
• Advertising – you will create, edit and place adverts daily. We use a variety of online advertising partners, as well as our LinkedIn Group and website.
• Candidate database generation and management – as you head-hunt, regenerate and advertise, you will collect lots of CVs and information. You will need to manage this information so that you can react and execute when a new role is released by one of our clients. As well as our own in-house developed recruitment system, you will be encouraged to forge your own methods of working and managing your candidates.
• Market mapping – basically, by having a clear picture of 'who does what' at the organisations within your market sector, you will know whom to call for any specific position that we are working on.
• Candidate management – interviews, expectations, offers, counteroffers... these are just some of the issues we have to deal with to deliver effectively to our clients. It will be down to you to get to know and understand your candidate so that, when the time comes, they are happy with the offer they receive...
• Offer and post-offer management – this is the most complex part of the role. When you are dealing with people, there are so many variables that need to be accounted for. Once you are experienced enough, you will be tasked with closing candidates on any offers they receive and then managing them through their resignation to their start date.
• Client specification management – when our clients release a role, it is down to us to elicit what they are 'really' looking for and, in some cases, manage them. expectations as to what the market can yield, in terms of candidates. You will come back to your colleagues with a clear picture of the requirement and work collectively to deliver to it.
• Account management – you will be given small accounts to work on, where you will build relationships with clients and become their first point of contact with the candidate market.

Key attributes and skills required

• Be bright
• Be articulate and communicative
• Speak and write English (Cantonese and Mandarin would be a bonus)
• Be resilient
• Pay lots of attention to detail
• Have loads of energy (even on a Monday)
• Build relationships easily with people from all backgrounds
• Understand Microsoft packages (Outlook, Word, Excel....)
• University degree or similar

Nice-to-have skills

• Previous professional and/or office experience

Commissions:

Excellent commission structure

Other Benefits:

Comprehensive healthcare coverage, regular team-building activities and company social events