Trainee Recruitment Consultant

Job Title

Recruitment Consultant / Graduate Recruitment Consultant

Operating company

VGC Labour Solutions / Personnel

Reporting To

Managing consultant (relevant division/region)

Deputy

Resourcing and compliance specialist

Post Responsibilities

Recruitment

• Responsible for delivering permanent and/or temporary placements to agreed target levels in line with business strategy.
• Agree terms of business and rates of pay/margins with candidates and clients
• Maintain awareness of industry / sector changes and trends and attend relevant industry networking events.
• Maintain a list of live vacancies, progress, PSL’s and opportunities.

Resourcing

• Weekly meeting with the team to review target roles and work plan.
• Candidate sourcing through advertising, job boards and other medias. Manage job board usage. Where needed liaise with marketing to get the roles onto the company social media channels.
• Process responses to recruitment adverts and maintain contact on availability for candidates seeking work and the recruitment process. Ensure all recruitment / resourcing activities are logged on the database.
• Registering candidates – work with resourcing and compliance team to register new candidates including review paperwork, right to work checks, qualification checks in line with trades and skills matrix and awarding bodies, interview, PPE, induction, references, contracts, VGC pre-employment drugs and alcohol screening etc. Ensuring they have relevant briefings / paperwork to commence work.
• Support other teams where there are peaks and troughs in resourcing requirements.

Social Impact

• Work with social impact manager to identify roles that could be supported using social impact and talent pipelines programmes. (eg military, women, ex-offenders., hard to reach groups)
• Provide support at recruitment open days and employability workshops.

Client / Account management

• Support managing consultant with business development activities including client acquisition, development, and client relationship management.  Actively seek up future opportunities and keep the sales team informed of the progress.
• Monitor and manage own targets and report to management on a weekly basis.

Compliance

• Ensure full compliance with VGC business management systems including policies & procedures covering business process, health & safety & employment legislation. Promote VGC’s HSQE Objectives and BMS both internally and externally 
• Work closely with HSQE team in the event of any accidents / incidents / near misses and any remedial action is implemented.
• Maintaining compliance with GDPR policies and processes
• Attend audits to report compliance information.

Commercial management

• Notify commercial team of all new starters including agreed charge / pay rates. Ensure any further changes / variations are also notified and in line with agreed procedures.
• Liaise with finance team to manage financial risk and credit checks on clients.
• Attend relevant client meetings.
• Gain feedback from clients and that this is recorded in line with agreed processes.   
• Support on the completion of PQQs and tenders.
• Assist with collating weekly timesheets and communicate any issues.

Post Specific Skills, Experience Qualifications, Person Specification

Essential Knowledge:

• Experience of working within recruitment industry.
• Proficient use and knowledge of software such as MS Word, Excel, Access & Outlook as well as recruitment CRM systems.
• Commercial understanding
• Awareness of employment legislation
• Health & safety knowledge
• Must have a full valid manual driving license.

Essential Skills:

• Finely tuned client facing skills with a client orientated approach.
• Ability to work with minimum supervision and use own initiative.
• Excellent Communication, Interpersonal, Organisational & Planning Skills
• Refined sales ability
• Able to motivate staff to perform better.
• Able to balance competing priorities and meet personal targets within a fluctuating & demanding workload