Associate Recruitment Consultant

 
Job Title:         Associate Recruitment Consultant
Reports to :     Team Manager
Location:        London (near to Liverpool Street station)
Salary:             £25k, raising to £28k upon successfully completing 6 month probation
Commission:   As a consultant you will earn commission on business you generate
1st Year OTE:   £30k-£35k
 

Pertemps Education is an established recruitment agency that places a range of teaching and support professionals into daily cover, long-term supply and permanent positions across London & Essex. We operate at the forefront of the local education recruitment sector and are constantly innovating to stay ahead. We are a growing business, having relocated to London this year that offers real career progression.  As a small team, we work together to achieve our goals and believe that together we can grow into a major player within our local market.
Job Overview
As an Associate Consultant, you will be required to develop client relationships and establish a candidate base to match to the right job. You will identify business development opportunities and place candidates into roles in order to build a successful desk. Successful consultants will enjoy working to activity KPI’s and financial targets and will have the tenacity to succeed within a competitive market. The individual targets of an Associate Consultant is part of the wider team target and contributes to the overall company annual business plan. You will be a pivotal member of the team undertaking all functions of the 360 recruitment model.
Upon joining the business, you will receive extensive training so that you can gain a full understanding and competency level of all facets of the recruitment role.
Responsibilities and Duties
As an Consultant you will be required to:-

• Place suitable candidates into jobs to meet client requirements and achieve personal targets
• Identify, attract and headhunt new candidates in order to meet personal activity targets
• Identify and convert sales leads and develop a robust client base
• Identify and develop new business leads
• Manage and proactively develop client relationships
• Network effectively across candidate base to gain referrals and market information
• Understand and meet agreed weekly KPI’s in line with business expectations (calls, interviews, vacancies, visits)
• Ensure candidates are safeguarded and compliant before they start work. Work in partnership with the compliance team and other internal divisions
• Comply with company management systems, payroll, billing and database management
• Promotion of teachers into schools via various channels
• Map new geographical areas and update lapsed client school detail
• Provide excellent candidate care and customer service to your client schools and Teachers
• Become an expert in the use of the company CRM
• Design and prepare regular mailers to clients & candidates
• Build a presence on social media to promote yourself as a market expert

 
Person Specification
Essential
Desirable
Self-motivated
Innovative with an ability to think outside the box
Able to identify business development opportunities
Attention to detail
Tenacious and Resilient
Excellent social media presence
Target driven with a desire to achieve
Appropriately presented
Ambitious
Time management skills
Excellent communication skills
Proven business development skills
Positive attitude
 
Customer and client focused
 
Sales focused
 
 
Qualifications
Essential
Desirable
A Level educated
Degree educated
 
Recruitment or Sales Qualification
 
Membership of relevant Professional Body
 
Skills
Essential
Desirable
Business development skills or the ability to develop them over time
Knowledge of recruitment software (Bond Adapt) or CRM system
Appropriate verbal and written Skills
Recruitment or Sales Qualification
Time management and organisational skills
Previous experience within a recruitment role
IT Literate – Microsoft Packages
Social media expert
 
Proven track record of generating new and existing business
 
Summary
Recruitment is a sales job, where your career will be defined by the success of your business. Whether it be cold calling non-using clients, heading out on visits or developing a relationship with an existing user, you will always need to be looking to achieve the targets you have been set.
This isn’t a 9-5 job, the team are in the office at 7am working to secure opportunities for their candidate base. Whilst we finish at 4.30pm, if the work isn’t done or your clients need that last minute placement, we stay to ensure that all expectations are met.