Trainee Recruitment Consultant - Education Sector

Trainee Recruitment Consultant

Location: Chelmsford, Essex

Contract: Permanent - Full-Time

You will provide a vital link between clients and candidates. The role is demanding and diverse, involving:

• Working with a large client base - differentiating your approach and candidate base according to needs
• Using sales, business development and marketing techniques and networking opportunities to attract business from client schools
• Visiting clients to build and develop close working relationships, providing the best possible service at all times
• Advertising vacancies by placing adverts on a variety of job boards
• Using social media to advertise positions, attract candidates and build relationships with candidates, employers, and the teaching community
• Headhunting - identifying and approaching suitable candidates who may already be in work
• Receiving and reviewing applications, managing interviews, and creating a shortlist of candidates for each client
• Requesting references and checking the suitability of applicants before submitting their details to the client
• Briefing and preparing each candidate about the responsibilities, salary, and benefits of the job
• Preparing CVs and profiles to forward to clients in respect of suitable applicants
• Organising interviews for candidates as requested by the client, followed by successful negotiations
• Informing candidates about the results of their interviews
• Using our CRM system to manage bookings with speed and accuracy
• Coordinating sponsorship activities for client schools

Key Requirements

• Proactive and wanting to give 100% each and every day
• Positive, fun and enthusiastic
• Hungry to learn, develop and be great at recruitment!
• Excellent time management and organisational skills
• Possess a professional and ethical approach to business, understanding how important our role in selecting staff to be responsible for our schools and their students
• Be able to forge and maintain relationships over the telephone and face to face

Benefits

• We have fantastic support teams - Payroll (PAYE), marketing, and compliance teams
• Excellent salary package with an open ended bonus system
• Company/team performance incentives throughout the year
• Excellent career progression and professional development opportunities
• Regular team events
• Friendly, professional, and hard working team environment
• 7am-4pm or 8am-5pm in term time
• Reduced hours over the school holidays
• Hybrid working (4 days in branch - Wednesdays working from home)
• Parking costs covered
• Free and unlimited bean to cup coffee (Cappuccinos, flat whites, etc). Free beers and prosecco every Friday!
• Daily snacks, fruit and free pick and mix!