Hays
Recruitment Consultant (Finance)

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Why Choose Hays?
Join our award-winning team here at HAYS! Working across our South Coast region provides the opportunity to join a vibrant team of c.30 experienced Consultants, each bringing diverse expertise across a range of specialist sectors. You'll be part of a supportive and collaborative environment where colleagues are always willing to share their knowledge and help you succeed. Our new office location in Southampton is an integral part of the wider South region, fostering a strong culture of teamwork and collective achievement. Together, we strive for excellence and take pride in celebrating our shared successes.
Your new role as a Recruitment Consultant:
- 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.
- 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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I’m in my final year doing Economics and I don’t know whether to apply for grad schemes now or do a masters first. What do you think?
Honest answer — it depends on where you want to end up. A lot of top grad schemes (Big 4, civil service, banking) don’t need a masters. Let’s look at the ones you’d be competitive for now, and we can decide if a masters actually adds anything.
Also worth knowing: most autumn 2026 applications are open now. Timing matters more than you think.
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Graduate Consultant — 2026 Scheme
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StrongYour economics background and your summer at a regional bank line up with what PwC looks for on the consulting scheme. Applications close in four weeks.
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Why you're a good match
You’ve got the grades and the economics background, and your bank internship is exactly the experience this scheme looks for. Apply soon — deadlines close within the month.
Experience fit
Your summer at the bank plus your econometrics coursework map directly to the day-one responsibilities on this scheme — client modelling, market briefings, and deal support.
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No noise. No "maybe this fits." Just roles with a clear explanation of why they're right — and where to focus when applying.
No day is the same, and you will gain experience across a varied range of skills. You really can influence your own earning potential, by getting out what you put in. Your energy and dedication will be rewarded in a culture built on celebrating success.
Why Choose Hays?
As a large company, we have a huge opportunity to make a difference to the communities we operate in. As a result, we are proud to say:
- We partner with End Youth Homelessness UK to raise money for their charity.
- We also became carbon-neutral in 2021 and are currently on the path to net-zero carbon emissions.
- Hays was one of the first 20 companies nationwide to receive the National Equality Standard, and we continue to promote an environment where all our employees can be their full self at work.
#HaysHelps - We're committed to making a positive impact on the communities we live and work in. As part of this, we have a volunteering scheme, #HaysHelps, which gives employees two days of paid leave per calendar year to volunteer.


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Award winners of:
- Top 100 undergraduate employers by Job Crowd, NUE awards and Rate My Placement
- Glassdoor Best Places to Interview
As a Hays consultant, you will benefit from:
- Commission scheme structure (uncapped paid x13 times a year, increases with promotions)
- Best technology in the industry and a renowned training programme to support success and drive rapid career progression and ongoing development.
- Opportunity to take your career globally
- Incentives and rewards to recognise performance both locally, regionally and nationally
- Broad range of employee wellbeing initiatives and benefits
- Community of internal support networks.
- Paid volunteering days for all employees under our Working for Your Tomorrow Initiative.
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