Cobalt Recruitment
Associate Recruitment Consultant
How your CV stacks up
Upload your CV to see how well it fits this job role
?%
Role Overview
As an Associate Consultant, you'll support NFI generation by sourcing, engaging, and managing high-calibre candidates, building strong talent pipelines, and delivering an exceptional candidate experience.
This is an excellent opportunity for someone with recruitment or sales experience who is looking to build a long-term career in specialist recruitment. Working alongside experienced consultants, you'll gain exposure to live mandates from day one while developing the skills, market knowledge, and commercial confidence to progress into a successful 360 Recruitment Consultant.
What You'll Be Doing
- Market map and proactively engage high-calibre, hard-to-find talent.
- Build strong relationships with active and passive candidates.
- Manage candidates throughout the recruitment process, from qualification through to offer stage.
- Deliver high-quality, well-matched shortlists to experienced consultants.
- Share market insight gathered through candidate conversations.
- Maintain accurate CRM records and follow best practice recruitment processes.
- Participate in structured training and ongoing development.
Reasons to use Rodeo
Start with a chat, not a search bar
Grad scheme, placement, apprenticeship? Not sure what you want yet — that's fine. Your agent talks it through with you and turns "I have no idea" into a shortlist.
It searches the market for you
Every day your agent scans the market matching roles against what actually matters to you, not just keywords on a CV.
Only hits
No noise. No "maybe this fits." Just roles with a clear explanation of why they're right — and where to focus when applying.
What We're Looking For
- Recruitment or sales experience, with a commercial mindset and a genuine interest in building a career in specialist recruitment.
- Confident in building relationships and speaking with people from a range of backgrounds.
- Organised, proactive, and able to work at pace.
- Curious, resilient, and eager to develop specialist market knowledge.
- Ambitious, driven, and motivated by career progression and uncapped earning potential.
Why Join Cobalt?
Get help with your application
Your very own career expert that helps elevate your application to the next level.
- We know the best recruiters thrive when they have the right balance of opportunity, support, development, and reward. That's exactly what we're committed to providing.
- Uncapped bonus scheme.
- 4-day working week incentive.
- Unlimited annual leave.
- Hybrid working.
- Outstanding training, mentoring, and personal development.
- Clear career progression with transparent promotion pathways.
- High Achievers' incentive trips and lunches.
- Quarterly events, prizes, and regular team socials.
- Paid LinkedIn Recruiter Licence and market-leading recruitment technology.
- Breakfast and fruit in the office.
If you're looking to join a collaborative, specialist business where you can develop your expertise, accelerate your career, and be rewarded for your success, we'd love to hear from you.
“It took my CV and asked me questions relevant to understanding what kind of jobs to suggest for me. Suggestions were almost perfect. Jobs were exactly what I’ve been looking for.”
Jessica, London
Skills