Job Role: Recruitment Consultant

Reports to: Branch Manager

Hours: 40 hours per week, Monday - Friday, 08.30-17.00

Location: Daventry Branch

Introduction & Job Purpose

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Recruitment Consultant to join the team at Challenge-trg, based within our Daventry branch. Challenge-trg Recruitment one of the UK's leading recruitment businesses and uniquely positioned to provide a unique, integrated, multi-service offering comprising of end-to-end recruitment, transport solutions, and training.

Reporting to the Branch Manager, you will be the first point of contact for all candidate recruitment activities. You will have a personal responsibility to support the branch to achieve budgeted and non-financial targets.

You will be responsible for supporting all branch client accounts, ensuring that service levels are maintained and managed, with regular client reviews and improvements being implements when needed.

You will be responsible for registering suitable candidates in line with Company and/or client criteria, completing candidate clearances/references and ensuring candidates are fully compliant before being onboarded and cleared to work.

Applicants will need to hold a full UK driving licence as weekly visits to our client sites to register candidates, hold inductions and carry out service visits will be necessary.

Key Behaviours

Strong communication skills
Aptitude for sales
Confidence
Effective interpersonal skills
Ambition and determination to succeed
Results orientated and target driven
Ability to work on your own and part of a team
Problem solving and tenacity to cope well under pressure
Ability to handle multiple priorities

Other

Act in a calm, professional and confidential manner at all times
Energetic and upbeat manner
Willingness to work extended or unsociable hours during peak periods
Have previously worked in a customer focused role

Person Specification

Qualifications

Experience and Skills:

Demonstrable experience of working in a Recruitment Consultant role
Proven experience of working with clients and delivering on expectations
Experience of recruiting and retaining candidates successfully
The ability to effectively handle a busy and varied workload, meet tight deadlines and prioritise effectively
Good computer literacy with accurate data entry skills
Excellent communication and interpersonal skills with ability to establish rapport with a variety of stakeholders at all organisational levels
Uses own initiative and can work independently
Takes responsibility for own work
Uses judgement to know when to ask for help and guidance
Excellent organisational and time management skills
Excellent attention to detail and accuracy
Practical approach to problems and solutions focused
Builds appropriate professional, friendly and accessible relationships with internal and external contacts
Resilient and able to work in an organisation that is undergoing change due to development and growth.

Essential Behaviours:

'Can-Do' attitude
Proactive and positive approach to working
Professional and presentable at all times

Challenge-trg Recruitment Ltd is acting as an employment business in relation to this vacancy

We provide equal employment opportunities (EEO) in all our employment practices to all employees, temporary workers, and applicants for employment without regard to age, gender reassignment, married or civil partnership, pregnancy or maternity leave, disability, race including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation.