What do Recruitment Consultants do?
In essence, Recruitment Consultants find candidates for jobs and jobs for candidates. It is a sales focused role, where the ability to promote yourself and Reed’s services will ensure your success in this competitive industry.
At Reed you can either work as a Temporaries/Contracts Consultant or as a Permanents Consultant in a number of industry sectors and locations.
As a Recruitment Consultant you will:
- Develop business relationships/opportunities with both current and potential clients
- Attract new candidates to register with Reed
- Evaluate clients’ staffing requirements and assess how best to meet their needs
- Find suitable candidates who match your clients’ vacancies and promote them to your clients
- Ensure that candidates are fully prepared for interview before meeting the client
- Manage the entire recruitment process from taking a vacancy through to placing a candidate in the job
To be successful you will have to:
- Create and develop a profitable client base through planned business development
- Promote Reed’s range of services to clients and candidates, largely on the phone but also through visits, presentations and networking events
- Foster strong relationships with your clients and strive to exceed their expectations
- Ensure you are up to date with developments in your specialist sector and with your competitors’ activities, making you an expert in your local market
- Negotiate terms with clients
- Use your initiative and creativity to find good quality candidates from a variety of sources
- Advertise your vacancies in a range of media, including reed.co.uk
- Interview candidates, manage their expectations and gain their commitment
It can be a challenging and demanding role, requiring self-motivation, determination and a strong sales instinct. However, it is also an extremely rewarding role both personally and financially.
