Recruitment Consultant

Roles & Responsibilities

When you join Robert Walters as a Recruitment Consultant, you’ll quickly find that your success is our success. A world-leading specialist professional recruitment consultancy, our business success is based on the drive, ambition and relationship-building skills of the talented individuals who make up our high-performance teams. We offer excellent training and accelerated career development, with the opportunity to develop deep specialist knowledge and explore career opportunities across the globe.

In Robert Walters, we have a great track record of turning industry professionals into stellar consultants. Hence, it is not necessarily for you to have recruitment experience to be part of us as you will be provided with robust training programs to set you up for success. All we need from you is your passion, motivation and willingness to learn to be a successful recruiter.

About the Role

As a Recruitment Consultant with us, you’ll join a team of recruiters who are specialists in their niche markets. Your role will involve managing the end-to-end recruitment process, providing an exceptional level of service to clients and candidates. You can also expect to be involved in a range of business development and networking activities to help us build even stronger existing client relationships – and attract new ones. At the same time, you’ll look to establish a strong pipeline of high calibre candidates within your sector so we can always match the right people to the right roles.

Key Responsibilities:

• Identify business opportunities by speaking to clients and candidates as well as by keeping abreast of industry developments
• Exceed client expectations by building robust relationships and a detailed understanding of each client’s organisation and recruitment needs
• Manage client roles, including writing and placing job ads, producing weekly mail shots and head hunting
• Source, select and match candidates to appropriate roles, ensuring only the quality candidates are put forward to clients
• Provide excellent candidate experience by arranging interviews, brief candidates on job roles, provide real time interview feedback and continuous candidate engagement
• Responsible for full sales cycle that includes leads generation, negotiation contracts to managing existing client relationship.

About you

To join us as a Recruitment Consultant, your skills and experience should include:

• Minimum 3 - 5 years solid industry experience in your area of expertise required, preferably coming from a sales or business development background or in a client facing role
• Possess business and commercial acumen mindset with a strong desire in doing sales and achieving targets.
• A commitment to exceeding client expectations, attracting top talent and achieving targets
• The ability to build a solid understanding of your clients’ needs and wider industry trends
• An entrepreneurial mindset, organised and driven approach with excellent attention to detail
• Strong team-working skills – you’ll enjoy sharing information and building robust relationships
• The initiative it takes to make sound decisions and recommend innovative solutions
• Strong communication and articulation skill with the confident level needed to speak to senior stakeholders and/or candidates.
• Experienced recruiters will be considered

Our Culture

We put our people at the heart of everything we do. Building deep, productive relationships, we help high-profile candidates seize amazing career opportunities with the world’s leading businesses. By doing so, we power people and organisations to fulfil their unique potential. We celebrate individual talent, entrepreneurial spirit, genuine teamwork and personal success of our own people every day.

What is in it for you?

• Competitive salaries & quarterly bonus
• Clear career progression plan based on merits
• Collaborative working environment that is sociable, celebratory and supportive
• Best in class training & development programmes

Only shortlisted candidates will be notified.