Recruitment Consultant

An exciting opportunity to jump on the Academics bandwagon as a recruitment consultant in our Sussex branch.

You'll be based in our impressive Sussex branch which is hub for a range of local, national and international businesses and boasts some stunning break-out work spaces with on-site parking included.

At Academics, we pride ourselves on being a reputable, nationwide leader in education recruitment. Our Recruitment Consultants expertly advise our schools on the market conditions and source and vet candidates for a range of roles within schools, with majority being Teachers and Teaching Assistants.

Why is great to work at Academics?

• In addition to a rewarding commission structure of up to 25% on everything you bill (no desk charge), we offer 'salary incentives', which are financial targets to increase your salary
• Starting on 27 days annual leave + bank holidays, you'll increase your annual leave allowance by 1 day every year of service spent with us
• Reduced working hours during school holidays - These are great soaking up some sun in August!
• With 18 branches nationwide and counting, there's a culture of success and brilliant support network across the business
• A thorough induction process where you'll receive support and mentoring from myself as the Branch Manager, our Regional Manager, Operations Director and Managing Director
• Genuine career progression opportunities - I like many of my colleagues at Academics started with the business as a Recruitment Consultant and within 4 years had the opportunity to open the Sussex branch and grow my own team
• Recognition and Reward - We enjoy internal competition and sharing successes and will pit you up against other consultants with similar experience to you in our 'league table' with financial and experience day incentives to be won
• Cross-branch collaboration is really important to us and we link up with our colleagues regularly, be it to spend a day in their office or simply spend an afternoon with them in the pub, at 'run club', or the local cricket 6's for a laugh
• Employee Assistance Programme - Mental health support with up to 8 free counselling session's available

The typical daily activities of a Recruitment Consultant:

• Posting up-to-date, relevant, effective and engaging job adverts
• Reviewing applicants to adverts and vetting progressed candidates
• Using social media to develop your network and headhunt candidates
• Undertaking the admin to complete the registration of successful candidates
• Developing creative and detailed profiles for each successful candidates
• Contacting prospective and existing client schools via phone calls, emails and face-to-face
• Presenting candidates to schools and arranging interviews/trial days
• Managing day-to-day portfolio of temporary workers

If you're driven by the prospect of financial freedom whilst making a real impact to the lives of others on a daily basis. If you've got great people-skills, can hold a conversation, are thick-skinned and not afraid to make mistakes or say the wrong thing but prepared to learn from it, you'll fit right into the team here at Academics as our newest Recruitment Consultant.

Hit apply now with an up-to-date CV!