Recruitment Consultant | Join a Thriving Hamilton Team

Advanced Personnel Services; Hamilton; On-site; NZD 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Birthday leave

Autonomy over your desk

Ongoing training and development

Performance-based rewards

Career progression opportunities

National brand behind you

Market variety in daily work

Strong Hamilton team

Job summary

Advanced Personnel Services in Hamilton, North Island, is seeking a Recruitment Consultant to own a thriving desk within a respected national family‑owned business. You’ll drive a genuine 360 recruitment process from first conversation to placement, building client relationships and sourcing top candidates.

You’ll be confident with people, commercially minded and motivated by creating opportunities. If you enjoy meeting new people, visiting businesses, and turning conversations into long‑term

Qualifications

• Experience in recruitment or sales is preferred.
• Ability to build client relationships and manage the recruitment process end-to-end.
• Self-motivated with a drive to achieve KPIs and targets.

Responsibilities

• Building and developing client relationships.
• Identifying new business opportunities and growing your network.
• Getting out into the market and meeting businesses face to face.
• Sourcing, interviewing and placing quality candidates.
• Managing temporary and permanent recruitment assignments.
• Building talent pipelines and staying connected with your candidate market.
• Managing your desk against agreed KPIs and commercial targets.
• Creating long-term relationships with both clients and candidates.

Skills

People skills

Commercial mindset

New business development

Relationship building

Face-to-face meetings

Job description

Recruitment Consultant | Join a Thriving Hamilton Team

Advanced Personnel Services – Hamilton, North Island

If you’re good with people, commercially minded and like the idea of building something you can genuinely call your own, this could be the move you’ve been waiting for.

Advanced Personnel has been connecting great people with great businesses for nearly 40 years. Today, we’re one of New Zealand’s largest family‑owned recruitment businesses, with eight locations across the country and a strong reputation built on relationships, results and doing recruitment properly.

Our Hamilton team is growing, and we’re looking for a Recruitment Consultant who wants more than just another desk.

This is an opportunity to join a thriving, motivated team, take ownership of your market and build a successful recruitment desk with the backing, systems and experience of an established national business behind you.

What You’ll Be Doing

This is a genuine 360 recruitment role, so you’ll be involved in the full picture.

You’ll be building relationships with businesses across the Waikato, developing new opportunities, finding great candidates and managing the recruitment process from first conversation through to placement and beyond.

You’ll spend your time:

• Building and developing client relationships
• Identifying new business opportunities and growing your network
• Getting out into the market and meeting businesses face to face
• Sourcing, interviewing and placing quality candidates
• Managing temporary and permanent recruitment assignments
• Building talent pipelines and staying connected with your candidate market
• Managing your desk against agreed KPIs and commercial targets
• Creating long-term relationships with both clients and candidates

This isn’t a role where you’ll be sitting back waiting for the phone to ring. You’ll have the freedom and support to get into the market, create opportunities and build a desk you’re proud of.

Who Will Do Well Here?

You don’t need to fit a particular mould.

What matters most is that you’re confident with people, commercially switched on and motivated by creating opportunities.

You’ll probably be someone who enjoys meeting new people, picking up the phone, getting out to see clients and turning conversations into long-term relationships.

Ideally, you’ll bring previous recruitment experience and understand the pace, resilience and commercial focus that comes with running a successful desk.

We’d also be interested in hearing from strong performers from B2B sales, account management or business development who can demonstrate the drive, relationship skills and commercial mindset needed to succeed in recruitment.

You’ll need to be proactive, organised, comfortable working towards targets and capable of managing a busy workload without losing the personal touch.

Why Advanced Personnel?

Good recruiters have options, so we know the opportunity needs to stack up.

At Advanced Personnel, you’ll have the chance to build your own market while being part of a team that is already moving forward.

You’ll have autonomy over your desk, support when you need it and the backing of a business that has spent nearly four decades building its reputation in New Zealand recruitment.

You can expect:

• A thriving and supportive Hamilton team
• Genuine ownership and autonomy over your desk
• Ongoing training and professional development
• Performance-based rewards and recognition
• Career progression opportunities as the business continues to grow
• A well-established national brand behind you
• The variety of working across different businesses, industries and people every day
• Birthday leave each year
• A culture that values getting out into the market and building genuine relationships

We have also been recognised as an RCSA finalist for five consecutive years, winning in each of the past two years, reflecting the calibre of our people and the way we operate.

This Could Be Your Next Move

You might already be doing well where you are.

You might not even be actively looking.

But if you’ve been thinking about what the next stage of your recruitment career could look like, and you want more ownership, more opportunity and the chance to join a team with genuine momentum, it’s worth having a conversation.