Hays
Recruitment Consultant Edinburgh
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Recruitment Consultant - Hays Edinburgh
Kickstart Your Career with Hays
At Hays, we're more than recruiters - we're career partners. Join the number 1 in specialist recruitment.
The Role
The responsibilities of a Recruitment Consultant will involve:
- Client Growth: Foster lasting relationships, building and nurturing relationships with clients while actively pursuing new business opportunities. Understanding client recruitment needs and providing strategic advice to ensure the best candidate matches.
- Candidate Engagement: Find and engage the best talent, attracting top talent through effective candidate engagement strategies. Guiding candidates throughout the interview and offer process, ensuring a seamless experience.
- Skilful Negotiation: Create win-win situations for clients and candidates, negotiating terms and fees to create mutually beneficial partnerships.
- Target Achievement: Meet and exceed KPIs with zeal and efficiency. Collaborating within a high-performing team, motivating each other to achieve outstanding results.
- Leadership Partner Expertise: Becoming an industry expert through networking and staying ahead of market trends.
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Who You Are
You're ambitious, curious, resilient, and ready to push outside your comfort zone. Strong communication, people skills, and a drive to succeed will set you up for success.
Our culture is driven by our valued behaviours; at Hays we encourage everyone to be:
- Be bold and curious: we are ambitious, push outside our comfort zone and experiment
- Own the outcomes: we strive for performance, see things through & always act with integrity
- Be better together: we support, celebrate and share with each other to create stronger outcomes for all
- Champion the customer: we proactively partner with our customers to build better, profitable solutions
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What You'll Get - Hays Benefits
- Structured training & career development from day one
- Uncapped commission + base salary
- Generous leave, wellbeing rewards & lifestyle benefits
- Global career opportunities with a business that celebrates diversity and success
Ready to Make Your Mark?
If you're driven, people-focused, and eager to build a career in recruitment, apply today and grow with Hays.
At Hays, we share a passion for creating a culture where there are opportunities for our people to flourish and succeed, whatever your background. We know that diversity of perspective and an inclusive approach, which encourages those experiences and views to be heard, is great for business and therefore your career with us.
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