Graduate Recruitment Consultant

Start your career in professional recruitment

Are you ambitious, driven and looking for a career where your hard work can directly impact your progression and earning potential?

Our client is a specialist white-collar recruitment business, partnering with businesses across professional sectors to identify and attract high-quality talent. They are now looking for an Entry-Level Recruitment Consultant to join their growing team.

No previous recruitment experience is required. You’ll receive structured training and ongoing support from experienced consultants, giving you the skills and knowledge to build a successful career in recruitment.

The Role

As a Recruitment Consultant, you’ll work closely with both candidates and clients, developing your own specialist market and managing the recruitment process from initial contact through to placement.

Your responsibilities will include:

• Identifying and sourcing high-quality candidates through LinkedIn, job boards, databases and other professional networks

• Building and maintaining strong relationships with candidates within your specialist market

• Speaking with professionals about their experience, career goals and future opportunities

• Developing an understanding of your clients’ businesses, teams and hiring requirements

• Generating new business and developing relationships with prospective clients

• Managing vacancies from initial brief through to successful placement

• Arranging interviews and managing the candidate and client experience throughout the process

• Conducting market research and keeping up to date with industry developments

• Maintaining accurate candidate and client records within the CRM

• Negotiating offers and helping to ensure a smooth process through to placement

• Working towards individual and team targets

What We're Looking For

We’re more interested in attitude, ambition and potential than previous recruitment experience.

You could be a strong fit if you are:

• Confident and comfortable speaking to new people

• Ambitious and motivated by progression

• Commercially minded and interested in developing your sales skills

• Resilient and able to deal with setbacks

• Organised, proactive and able to manage multiple priorities

• A strong communicator with good attention to detail

• Competitive in a positive and professional way

• Comfortable working towards targets

• Curious and willing to learn

• Someone who enjoys building genuine professional relationships

Previous recruitment or sales experience is beneficial but not essential. Graduates and candidates from backgrounds such as sales, customer service, hospitality, retail, business development or other client-facing environments are encouraged to apply.

What You'll Get

• Competitive basic salary of £27-30k

• Uncapped commission

• Structured recruitment training from day one

• Ongoing coaching and mentoring

• Clear and transparent career progression

• Regular performance reviews

• The opportunity to develop your own specialist recruitment market

• Professional and supportive working environment

Career Progression

This is an opportunity to build a genuine long-term career.

As you develop your recruitment, business development and market knowledge, there is a clear route towards Senior Recruitment Consultant, Managing Consultant and leadership positions.

Your progression will be based on your performance, development and ability to take on greater responsibility.

Why Recruitment?

Recruitment combines sales, business development, research and relationship management. You'll have the opportunity to speak with professionals at all levels, work with established businesses and develop specialist knowledge within your chosen market.

If you're ambitious, commercially driven and looking for a career where you can progress based on your performance, we'd love to hear from you.

Contact Libby from SW6 Associates today on 07885295131