Entry-Level Recruitment Consultant

Fifteen West; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 75,000 - 85,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Base salary + uncapped commission

Warm desk with clients and live roles

Hands-on training and mentorship

Career development into 360 recruiter

Opportunity to own your market

Exposure to Energy Technology and Clea

Lunch clubs and team incentives

International trips

Job summary

Fifteen West in Austin, TX seeks an ambitious, commercially minded starter to join the US team on a warm desk with existing clients and live opportunities. No recruitment experience required—just potential and a drive to build a 360 recruitment career in Energy Tech and CleanTech.

You will learn how to source, headhunt and manage end-to-end recruitment while developing your own market and client base over time.

Qualifications

• No recruitment experience required.
• Ambitious, commercially minded individual with a willingness to learn.

Responsibilities

• Build relationships with candidates and clients across a specialist market.
• Source, approach and interview high-quality candidates for live opportunities.
• Learn how to headhunt and engage professionals who aren't actively looking.
• Manage recruitment processes from initial conversation through to offer and placement.
• Develop understanding of Energy Technology, CleanTech and related markets.
• Work with existing clients while developing new business opportunities.
• Build skills across sales, negotiation, business development and relationship management.
• Over time, develop your own client base and market.

Skills

Inquisitive

Proactive

People skills

Resilience

Commercial mindset

Team player

Ambition

Job description

• First-Year Earning Potential: $75,000–$85,000+
• Experience: No recruitment experience required

We're partnering with a fast-growing specialist recruitment business in Austin that's looking for an ambitious, commercially minded individual to join its growing US team.

This is an opportunity to build a career where your performance can genuinely influence your earnings, progression and responsibility, while working across some of the fastest-growing markets in the US.

No previous recruitment or energy-sector experience is required.

You'll be joining an established team specialising across Energy Technology, CleanTech and the wider energy transition, working with high-growth businesses across rapidly developing markets.

You'll also be stepping onto a warm desk with existing clients, relationships and live opportunities, giving you the chance to learn the ropes and gain exposure to real recruitment processes from day one.

The longer-term goal? Develop into a successful 360 recruiter who can build relationships, win business and eventually take ownership of a specialist market of your own.

What You'll Be Doing

• Build relationships with candidates and clients across a specialist market.
• Source, approach and interview high-quality candidates for live opportunities.
• Learn how to headhunt and engage professionals who aren't actively looking.
• Manage recruitment processes from initial conversation through to offer and placement.
• Develop a strong understanding of Energy Technology, CleanTech and the businesses operating within the space.
• Work with existing clients while learning how to identify and develop new business opportunities.
• Build your skills across sales, negotiation, business development and relationship management.
• Over time, develop your own client base, network and specialist market.

We're not looking for someone who already knows recruitment.

We're looking for someone with the attitude and potential to become really good at it.

You’ll likely be:

• Inquisitive and switched-on – you ask good questions, pick things up quickly and want to understand how things work.
• Proactive – you're comfortable taking initiative rather than waiting to be told what to do.
• Confident with people – you enjoy building relationships and aren't afraid to pick up the phone.
• Resilient – you can handle setbacks, learn from them and keep moving.
• Commercially minded – you're interested in sales, business and understanding what drives people and companies.
• Competitive – you like having something to work towards and being rewarded for doing well.
• A team player – you want to perform individually but also enjoy being surrounded by ambitious people.

Previous experience in sales, hospitality, retail, customer service, sport or another target-driven environment can be a great foundation, but isn't essential.

Learn From People Doing It Successfully

You'll have plenty of support while you learn.

You'll work closely with a hands-on manager who leads from the front, giving you direct exposure to how a successful recruiter builds relationships, develops business and grows a market.

The warm desk gives you a strong foundation to learn from, but there's real ambition behind the role. As you develop, you'll be encouraged to take more ownership, create your own opportunities and eventually build a successful market of your own.

The Culture

This is a high-performing team, but it's also a genuinely social and close-knit environment.

They work hard, back each other and celebrate the wins together. Whether that's lunch clubs, international incentive trips or simply grabbing a beer together after a good week, culture is a big part of what they're building in Austin.

They want people who are ambitious for themselves, but who also care about the standard and success of the team around them.

What's On Offer

• $45,000 base salary + uncapped commission
• $75,000–$85,000+ first-year earning potential, based on performance
• Warm desk with existing clients and live opportunities
• Hands-on training and mentorship
• Clear development into full 360 recruitment
• Opportunity to build and eventually own your own specialist market
• High-growth Energy Technology and CleanTech markets
• Autonomy without an environment dominated by unnecessary activity-based KPIs
• Lunch clubs, team incentives and international trips
• Genuine progression as the US business continues to grow

If you're looking to start your career in a commercial, people-focused environment where you'll be given the support to learn, encouraged to take ownership and rewarded as you develop, we'd love to hear from you.

You don't need recruitment experience. We're much more interested in your attitude, ambition and potential.

We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace where everyone has equal opportunity to succeed. Employment decisions are based on merit, qualifications and business needs.

Due to the high volume of applications, only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.