Senior Recruitment Consultant

Position:Senior Recruitment Consultant - Education Sector

Location: Birmingham

Salary: starting salary £30,000 - £35,000 experience dependant + uncapped commission (OTE £50k-£65k)

Annual leave entitlements: 25 days + bank holidays

Requirements: Proven track record in recruitment or sustained sales experience in a relevant sector

Who are Academics?

Academics education recruitment are one of the UK's fastest growing education recruitment agencies with over 20 branches throughout the UK, including Birmingham. Our nationwide network of recruitment teams provide teachers, teaching assistants and school support staff to over a thousand Primary and Secondary schools every day, for both short and long term assignments. If you're wanting to join a forward-thinking, fast growing recruitment/sales company then we are the place for you.

Why work for Academics recruitment agency?

Academics recruitment in Birmingham is a healthy blend of experienced recruiters, trainees and apprentices. We believe in supporting our talented recruitment teams to grow personally and professionally through excellent training platforms and a blended approach to learning. Our collaborative management style means we listen to our employees, support their growth and ensure they reach their full potential within their recruitment career.

Job Description:

As a Senior Recruitment Consultant in our Birmingham branch you will be joining an established team with a reliable client base that you will be expected to help grow and develop further.

Main duties of our Senior Consultant:

• Managing your own desk of Birmingham base business against agreed targets
• Arranging interviews & placing candidates into roles
• Client attraction; canvassing, mailing and other sales led activities
• Candidate attraction; developing a new candidate pool to fulfil vacancies identified through the client attraction process
• Recruit quality candidates through planned candidate strategy, including advertising promotional activities, utilising all existing resources within the office in order to fill vacancies/ bookings

Person Specification:

• Recruitment (any sector) or sales background
• Applications are welcome from candidates in any recruitment sector including hospitality, industrial, construction, driving, commercial etc - full training in education sector provided
• Driven and resilient
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Experience of working in a faced paced environment
• Strong attention to detail and be a completer/finisher
• Excellent IT skills and good knowledge of all Office applications

What we can offer you:

• Uncapped Bonus Scheme
• 25 days holiday + Bank Holidays
• Warm friendly and fun office environment
• Regular Individual & Team incentives including additional leave, vouchers, days out and meal/drinks events.
• Optional pension
• Wellbeing programme
• Annual company awards and summer party