Trainee Recruitment consultant

The opportunity

We are currently seeking a trainee recruitment consultant to join a warm desk that would be working with other senior recruiters recruiting for roles in Construction that cover white collar professionals, Trades and Labour, you would be helping out with our existing large job flow and being trained on dealing with clients and candidates and how to build relationships with both and eventually leading to having your own desk, there is an excellent opportunity for the right candidate to build a large desk after finishing their training program which would of course come with the potential to earn top commission.

What is recruitment?

As a recruitment consultant, you are an intermediary between companies looking to recruit (clients) and people seeking a new career (candidates). Primarily a sales role, a career in recruitment can offer high rewards and quick results. You will be speaking to clients and candidates daily, matching CVs and people to jobs. You will be meeting clients, networking, using social media and job boards and managing candidates throughout the recruitment process.

Who is Setsquare Recruitment?

With recruitment knowledge spanning over a quarter of a century, we are one of the longest established built environment businesses in the UK, upholding a reputation which has allowed us to build and develop long term relationships with our candidates and clients.

Working from a network of 14 offices throughout the UK, our consultants are niche sector experts in their respective disciplines which cover architecture, construction, building services, facilities management and maintenance, surveying, engineering, interior design, and building maintenance.

Setsquare Recruitment is proud to be a part of nGAGE Specialist Recruitment, a UK-based recruitment group which supports, steers, and brings together specialist recruitment businesses, enabling them to be market leaders within their respective sectors.

Why would you want to work for Setsquare Recruitment?

We operate a lively environment at Setsquare Recruitment where we let you express your own personality and encourage you to help us drive the right positive, fun, achievement orientated culture, but we of course give you the framework, structure & skills to be successful. We'll give the route map to be effective in your role, all we ask is that you follow it & commit to working hard to be a success. Do that, then there are no limits to what you might achieve.

Because we know, as in all walks of life & any job, hard work and persistence will always trump lazy intellect, if you don't want to graft hard to make a go of your career, it simply won't happen. There are no short cuts to success, whatever you've heard. But you can absolutely achieve success professionally, personally, and financially if you embrace the wonderful roller coaster that is recruitment.

The Person

To be successful in recruitment you will be personable and outgoing, the kind of person who can talk to anyone, about anything! You will have to be tenacious, with an excellent attitude to hard work. You will be someone who thrives under pressure, can think quickly on their feet, and can take ownership of their actions.

This role requires resilience, you will get knocked back but it's about how you pick yourself up, dust yourself off and move on to the next task with renewed enthusiasm.

Above everything else, if you are driven, hungry for success and willing to put in the time and energy to make it happen, this might just be the role for you.

Your Background

You will ideally have worked in a target driven environment, within a sales industry such as Estate Agency, Retail or Call Centre. You may even have had some initial exposure to recruitment or have worked as a Resourcer previously. Graduates will also be looked at who show the right drive and determination, you will be used to using your initiative, in a fast-paced environment where you are responsible for your own workload.

The Training

You will join our Recruitment Fundamentals University, a training programme overseen by our dedicated talent & development team. In this, you will receive a mixture of online, classroom and on-the-job training whilst having the support of our management team who will help you make the transition from Trainee to Consultant and beyond! We also run coaching classes with our top performers so that you can learn from the best of the best in our business. If you're ready to forge a great & varied career with a firm that cares about you, then don't hesitate to contact us about how we could make that happen

The Benefits

Perkbox - global app that provides discounts on your everyday spending

1-2-1 financial wellbeing health-checks

Subsidised gym membership

Mobile phone

Laptop

Life cover (2x base salary)

Headspace app

cash in holiday entitlement (up to a limit) for employees whose holiday entitlement is above statutory minimum levels

50% (up to £20) towards the cost of an eye test and up to £50 contribution towards the cost of standard VDU glasses

Season ticket scheme (after probation period completed)

Bike to Work loan scheme (salary sacrifice)

Additional benefits - overseas trip, company events regular incentives

Setsquare is committed to equality in the workplace and is an equal opportunity employer.

Setsquare is acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.