Recruitment Consultant

Role
To identify and source vacancies, creating employment and placement opportunities for clients. To successfully match clients to the opportunities, ensuring that identified goals are met.

Key Result Areas
• Achieves sustainable contractual job outcome targets.
• Sources suitable employment and /or placement opportunities for clients.
• Through telesales, employer visits, mail shots and other marketing initiatives, develops and maintains records of current and potential employers.
• Conducts one to one interviews with clients prior to, or upon starting on programme.
• Matches clients with vacancies that most closely fit both parties’ requirements to maximise satisfaction on both sides.
• Actively promotes services to employers, host organisations and partners.
• Effectively manage the aftercare service to clients on leaving programme
• Ensures that all relevant documentation is completed correctly and in line with contractual deadlines and standards
• Recruits clients onto contracts where applicable e.g. Modern Apprenticeships.
• Has a sound knowledge and understanding of the contractual requirements e.g. client attendance and discipline; ensures equal opportunities and health and safety procedures are adhered to
• Seeks commercial opportunities
• Secures repeat business through strong customer relationships

Job Requirements
• Previous marketing experience, including cold calling and telesales
• Face-to-face negotiating
• Maintaining employer relations
• Interviewing experience
• Detailed contractual understanding
• Organised
• Self-motivated, trustworthy and determined with a desire to succeed
• Target focused and results driven
• Aims to ensure a good fit between the client and placement
• Generates sustainable employer relationships
• Communicates at all levels and in varying situations
• Professional appearance
• Works under pressure
• Commercially aware
• Skilled negotiator
• Committed to continuous improvement – personal and organisational
• Ideally a full driving licence, their own vehicle and business insurance (may not apply in certain areas)
• Numerate and literate