Edmund & Evans
Graduate Recruitment Consultant - Executive Search
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Graduate Recruitment Consultant – Executive Search | Graduate Jobs | Trainee Recruitment Consultant
£27,000 Basic Salary + Uncapped Commission
£50,000+ OTE in Year One
Earn London-Level Salaries Without the Daily Commute
If you're an ambitious graduate looking for a career with exceptional earning potential, structured training and rapid progression, this could be exactly what you're looking for.
Our client is an award-winning Executive Search and Recruitment Consultancy specialising in senior-level appointments across highly lucrative markets. Working with leading businesses and placing senior professionals, you'll build valuable commercial skills while earning uncapped commission from day one.
Based in modern offices close to St Albans town centre, you'll enjoy the earning potential, career progression and client exposure of a London recruitment firm—without the daily commute into the City.
Whether you're searching for a Graduate Recruitment Consultant, Trainee Recruitment Consultant, Graduate Recruitment Job, Graduate Sales Role or an alternative to a graduate scheme, this is an outstanding opportunity to launch a long-term career.
Why Join Through Edmund & Evans?
At Edmund & Evans, we partner with some of the UK's most successful recruitment and executive search firms, helping ambitious graduates find businesses where they can genuinely thrive.
Every opportunity we represent offers structured training, clear progression and realistic earning potential. We only work with companies that invest in developing graduates into successful Recruitment Consultants and future leaders.
This is more than just another graduate job. It's the opportunity to join a business with an exceptional reputation for developing graduates into high-performing Executive Search Consultants.
What's In It For You?
- £27,000 basic salary
- Uncapped commission from day one
- Realistic first-year earnings of £50,000+
- Significant long-term earning potential
- Training & Progression
- Industry-leading graduate training programme
- One-to-one mentoring from experienced Directors
- Structured learning and continuous coaching
- Clear promotion pathway
- Genuine opportunities to progress quickly
- Benefits & Incentives
- EMI Share Scheme
- Monthly team socials chosen by the team
- Company holidays and incentive trips
- Selfridges vouchers
- £1,000 Bicester Village shopping experiences
- Luxury prizes and rewards
- Early finish Fridays for top performers
- Birthday half-day
- Christmas and New Year office closure
- Additional annual leave for every year of service
- Extra leave for children's birthdays
- Free parking
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The Opportunity
Executive Search is one of the most rewarding sectors within recruitment.
Rather than working on high-volume vacancies, you'll partner with clients to identify and recruit senior professionals into key leadership positions across specialist markets.
Placement fees regularly reach six figures, meaning you'll work on high-value assignments while developing genuine expertise within your market.
From day one, you'll receive structured training from experienced consultants, allowing you to build commercial, sales and consulting skills that will benefit you throughout your career.
What You'll Be Doing
As a Graduate Recruitment Consultant, you'll receive comprehensive training and learn every aspect of the recruitment process.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Building relationships with clients and senior industry professionals
- Sourcing and engaging high-calibre candidates
- Conducting candidate interviews
- Managing the full 360 recruitment process
- Arranging interviews and coordinating feedback
- Negotiating offers
- Market mapping and competitor research
- Building long-term professional networks
- Developing new business opportunities
- Becoming a specialist within your market
- Working towards individual and team targets
Full Graduate Training Programme
No previous recruitment experience is required.
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You'll join a structured Graduate Recruitment Academy designed to develop ambitious graduates into successful Executive Search Consultants.
Training includes:
- Recruitment fundamentals
- Executive Search methodology
- Business development
- Candidate management
- Negotiation techniques
- Market mapping
- Commercial awareness
- Ongoing coaching from experienced Directors
You'll receive continuous support throughout your career, with regular development reviews and clearly defined promotion milestones.
Who We're Looking For
We're looking for graduates who are ambitious, commercially minded and motivated by success.
You'll ideally have:
- A degree
- Excellent communication skills
- Confidence speaking with professionals at all levels
- A competitive mindset
- Strong resilience and determination
- Commercial awareness
- A positive attitude and willingness to learn
- The drive to build a long-term career
Previous sales, customer service or commercial experience is beneficial but not essential.
Why Recruitment?
Recruitment remains one of the most rewarding graduate careers available.
Unlike many graduate schemes where promotions can take years, recruitment rewards performance. The more successful you become, the faster you progress and the more you earn.
You'll develop highly transferable skills in sales, business development, negotiation, relationship management and consulting, while building an extensive professional network and becoming a specialist within your chosen market.
If you're looking for a Graduate Recruitment Consultant, Trainee Recruitment Consultant, Graduate Recruitment Job, Graduate Sales Career, Entry Level Recruitment Job or Graduate Executive Search Opportunity, this role offers genuine long-term career prospects.
Edmund & Evans are acting as the recruitment partner for this vacancy. Due to the volume of applications received, if you do not hear from us within three working days, unfortunately your application has not been successful on this occasion.
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