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Trainee Recruitment Consultant-Manchester

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Trainee Recruitment Consultant
Location: Manchester
Salary: £25k-£26k + uncapped comms £30k realistically year 1
Job Type: Full-time
Ready to start a career where your performance actually matters?
Are you a recent graduate, or early in your career, and looking for a role where you can learn, earn, and progress quickly?
We're looking for a Trainee Recruitment Consultant to join our client.
You don't need previous recruitment experience. What matters is that you're ambitious, driven, confident talking to people, and willing to put the work in.
What is Recruitment?
Recruitment is a fast-paced, people-focused career that combines sales, relationship building, negotiation, and problem-solving. You'll learn how to identify great candidates, win new business, and work with businesses to solve their hiring challenges.
What will you actually be doing?
You'll be trained across the full recruitment process, giving you exposure to both candidate delivery and business development.
Your role will include:
- Speaking with businesses to understand their recruitment requirements
- Building relationships with hiring managers and clients
- Sourcing and identifying candidates using databases, LinkedIn, social media, and referrals
- Speaking with candidates and conducting telephone/in-person interviews
- Building and managing your own candidate network
- Writing and supporting with job adverts
- Matching candidates to the right opportunities
- Preparing candidates for interviews and supporting them throughout the process
- Arranging interviews and managing the offer process
- Developing relationships that lead to repeat business
- Identifying new business opportunities and developing them into clients
- Attending client and candidate meetings as you develop
- Managing your own workload, targets, and pipeline
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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
Why you're a good match
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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Every day your agent scans the market matching roles against what actually matters to you, not just keywords on a CV.
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.
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.
You'll be involved in the full recruitment lifecycle, from finding a candidate right through to them accepting an offer.
No recruitment experience? That's OK.
We're not looking for someone who already knows how recruitment works.
We're looking for someone with the right attitude and potential.
You could be a recent graduate, have 6–24 months' sales/customer service experience, or simply be looking for your first real career opportunity.
You'll need to be:
- Ambitious – you want to build a successful career
- Resilient – you're comfortable hearing "no" and getting back on the phone
- Confident – you're happy speaking to candidates and clients
- Commercially minded – you're interested in sales and earning potential
- Organised – you can manage multiple priorities
- Competitive – you enjoy having targets and measuring your performance
- Personable – building genuine relationships comes naturally to you
- Hungry to learn – you want to develop and progress
What does progression look like?
This isn't a role where you're expected to stay a Trainee Consultant indefinitely.
You'll have a clear opportunity to progress into a Recruitment Consultant position by demonstrating consistent high performance.
Progression is based on what you achieve, including:
- Revenue generated
- Quality of your work
- Candidate and client relationships
- New business generated
- Conversion rates
- Your ability to manage the full recruitment process
- Consistently hitting and exceeding targets


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As you develop, you'll gain experience in client meetings, candidate interviews, business development, and managing your own vacancies and pipeline.
Why recruitment?
Recruitment gives you the opportunity to build skills that can take you a long way in your career.
You'll develop experience in:
- Sales
- Negotiation
- Communication
- Business development
- Networking
- Relationship management
- Commercial awareness
And the better you become, the more responsibility and earning potential you can take on.
If you're competitive, ambitious, and enjoy working with people, recruitment can be an incredibly rewarding career.
The opportunity
We're looking for someone who doesn't just want a job.
We want someone who wants to build a career.
If you're looking for a role where your effort is recognized, you're given the opportunity to develop, and there's a clear route to progression, we'd love to hear from you.
Apply Today
If you're looking for a graduate opportunity that offers structured training, genuine career progression, and the chance to earn well as your career develops, we'd love to hear from you.
Apply now and take the first step towards a rewarding career in professional B2B sales.
About MIRABLE
MIRABLE is dedicated to supporting the careers of graduates by placing them into promising account management roles across the nation, accompanied by unparalleled training from our award-winning in-house trainer.
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