Trainee Recruitment Consultant – Environment

Trainee recruitment consultant – Environment

London

Basic salary + excellent commission

Overview

Now in our 10^th successful year, we have established ourselves as one of the UK’s leading environmental recruitment consultancies. We have built our reputation by delivering the highest levels of service and are looking for a consultant who shares our values to complement the busy London team.

This is an exciting opportunity for a proactive individual looking to be part of a friendly and successful team.  We expect high standards and offer the opportunity for our consultants to be autonomous in the development of their target sectors; being highly motivated, ambitious and having a flair for business development are key elements to being successful in this role.

We offer an excellent training and lots of support. As part of your initial training, you will provide research assistance to other consultants, identifying potential candidates and assisting in the recruitment process. You will then have the opportunity to manage your own portfolio of clients and developing your specialist sector knowledge.

 Duties

As a trainee recruitment consultant, you will:

•   Review candidate applications, manage the interview process and obtain client/candidate feedback following interview.
•   Headhunt - identify and approach suitable candidates.
•   Use sales, business development and marketing techniques to attract business from existing and prospective clients.
•   Develop a good understanding of your target clients through meetings, telephone calls, email and market research.
•   Advertise vacancies appropriately by drafting and placing adverts within a range of media.
•   Draft cv’s, produce job descriptions and advertise vacancies.
•   Develop a good understanding of your target clients through meetings, telephone calls, email and market research.

We are particularly interested in hearing from applicants with either a related degree or previous recruitment or sales experience. A confident phone manner and an interest in the environment, planning or civil engineering would also be beneficial.

We offer full training and support to our consultants, and a highly attractive commission plan.