Recruitment Account Manager / Consultant

Are you interested in building a rewarding career in the recruitment industry?

We’re a small, friendly and driven team and look forward to someone with enthusiasm and initiative joining us. If you like talking to people, fact-finding, helping others, following processes and being organised this could be an ideal role for you. You would be a dedicated recruiter working on behalf of a small number of established clients recruiting for office professionals.

We’ve been in business for 17 years, have grown in profits year on year and have an excellent reputation for the service we provide to clients and job seekers. We carry out recruitment on behalf of a wide range of companies for jobs within the Midlands and sometimes nationally. We specialise in HR, sales, marketing, accountancy and finance and administration roles, and we’re super proud of the high levels of customer service that we offer.

Our modern, recently renovated office is based very close to Market Harborough town centre.

Duties and responsibilities:

• Interviewing and assessing the skills of job seekers
• Sourcing and researching potential candidates who are looking for a new job via our database, job board websites and LinkedIn
• Managing the candidate’s recruitment journey, ensuring an excellent level of customer service and communication is received
• Identifying new business opportunities within existing clients and accounts
• Arranging interviews for candidates with the client
• Coaching candidates on interview techniques
• Managing and growing our existing clients and advising them of suitable people for vacancies
• Maintaining and updating our database
• Writing CV profiles to promote candidates skills
• Managing and communicating job offers

Skills and experience required:

The successful applicant will be an experienced account manager within the recruitment industry, a recruiter or someone keen to learn about the recruitment industry, committed to working hard in our team. In addition, we are looking for the following skills and experience:

• Excellent communication skills, both in writing and verbally
• Strong administrative and IT skills, with a good knowledge of Microsoft Office, particularly Word and Excel
• Excellent customer service skills with a proactive nature and a confident telephone manner
• Excellent attention to detail and accuracy
• Solutions-focussed and able to use initiative to problem-solve
• Enjoys working as part of a team
• Highly organised, able to prioritise and work to deadlines effectively
• Understands the importance of confidentiality and GDPR

Hours of work:

• Monday to Friday 8.30am – 5pm with one hour’s lunch

Salary and benefits:

• Salary depending on experience
• We offer 25 days’ holiday plus your birthday plus Christmas and Bank Holidays
• We’re all about recognising the small things so we always celebrate birthdays, work anniversaries and we all get together for a summer BBQ and Christmas party