Hays
Recruitment Consultant
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Sales Recruitment Consultant - £30,200 - £35,000 + uncapped commission
Location: London – Hays Recruitment
We are seeking a sales-driven Recruitment Consultant to join our flagship London office in our Professional Services Recruitment team. As an Entry Level Recruitment Consultant, your primary focus will be to develop and nurture relationships within organisations across London.
You will be conducting business development (sales calls) to seek out and meet with Recruitment teams, Directors, line managers, and other key stakeholders. As an Entry Level Recruitment Consultant, you will be recruiting the best and most experienced candidates for roles across a professional sector. This is a sales-based role where you will enjoy commission alongside your base salary.
Your new team
This is an opportunity for a trainee Recruitment Consultant to join one of Hays' longest-standing business areas with a strong client base and job flow. We offer a collaborative and inclusive environment ensuring you are set up to succeed while being surrounded by expertise. Our London office is in the heart of the city and home to 300 ambitious sales-driven consultants who work hard and celebrate success.
Hays is the largest specialist recruiter globally and a multi-award-winning business covering 22 areas of recruitment across over 80 offices in the UK. We are professional, people-centric, and proud to be positively impacting our local people and businesses with the work we do.
Your new role
The responsibilities of an Entry Level Recruitment Consultant include:
- Making cold calls and sales calls to prospective clients to sell our services
- Developing and maintaining strong relationships with organisations and key decision-makers
- Actively engaging with face-to-face meetings with in-house recruitment professionals, directors, and line managers
- Sourcing, screening, and recruiting top-tier candidates for roles
- Draft reports, ensure compliance, and participate in internal projects
- Working to daily targets and KPIs to achieve your monetary goals
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We pride ourselves in hiring the very best talent in the recruitment space and therefore you will need to meet the following criteria to apply:
- Proven sales experience — able to hit targets, manage pipelines, and convert leads into revenue
- Resilience under pressure
- Strong communication skills — confident on the phone, persuasive in conversation, and able to build rapport fast
- Ability to generate new business — proactive in identifying opportunities and approaching potential clients
- Relationship-building ability — able to nurture long-term client and candidate relationships
- High energy and self-motivation — thrives in a fast-paced, competitive environment
- Confidence to influence decisions
- Has a good understanding of what 360 recruitment is and is passionate about pursuing a career within recruitment
- Commercial awareness
What you’ll get in return
Hays is a multi-award-winning employer, and we believe as part of the employee and employer deal, we can give you a career with unrivalled progression. Our culture is a reason why so many of our people choose to stay and grow their careers with Hays. Our colleagues describe our culture as ‘high energy’, ‘inclusive’, and ‘great people’ with a ‘growth mindset’.
In addition, you will enjoy:
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- Uncapped individual commission paid upon invoice every 4 weeks
- Regular performance-based incentive programs including all-expense paid international trips
- A culture underpinned with trust, which is based on expertise, training, collaboration, inclusivity, and doing the right thing
- Industry-leading learning and development to maximise your performance and advance your career every step of the way
- A global brand with established PSL agreements and warm client relationships
- An adult approach to working with hybrid working models and flexible working hours
- The opportunity to work in any of our 32 other countries through our global mobility offering
- Diverse range of employee support networks, wellbeing initiatives, and wider benefits
We know talented people want to work with the best: people, brand, tools, technology, and infrastructure. They also want career development. Our culture is shaped and created by these features. We also know our people want to do interesting and meaningful work, increasingly in an organisation that is purpose-led. This is demonstrated in the work we have done through our commitment to DE&I, Net Zero, and our global volunteering and fundraising program, ‘Helping for your tomorrow’.
What to do next
Please apply now to become the next Senior Recruitment Consultant or for more information on our roles.
Life at Hays presents the opportunity for growth, varied career paths, exciting challenges, and a culture of inclusion that celebrates diversity. As a committed Disability Confident employer, if you’re thinking of a new tomorrow for your career, whatever your background, let’s work together to create it!
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