The Graduate Recruitment Bureau is an expanding specialist recruitment consultancy based in Seven Dials, Brighton. As our name suggests we specialise solely in placing graduates. We work a range of industries and vertical markets across the UK.
The policy of the company is to concentrate on quality and activity targets. We actively encourage individuality and innovation within our team and have a relaxed atmosphere and casual dress policy.
We are looking for at least one person to start immediately.
This challenging role offers an excellent opportunity for a graduate to work in a rewarding and target driven environment and learn how to recruit, working alongside our experienced consultants.
During the initial training period successful candidates will be pursuing the following activities:
- Sourcing candidates from both internal and external databases
- Project work, working on large candidate campaigns
- Calling suitable candidates, interviewing them for suitability for a certain job and marketing that position to them
- Booking interviews with consultants
- Learning about the technical aspects of various market sectors
- Posting job advertisements on our website and handling incoming response
As your experience grows you will be:
- Arranging for selected candidates to interview with clients
- Researching new clients in various market sectors
- Building working relationships with key decision-makers within potential new clients, and eventually receiving their permission to find graduate-level candidates for their relevant open vacancies
Candidates who successfully complete the training period will be given the opportunity to progress into a role as a Recruitment Consultant.
The starting salary for this position is ??16k and commissions could take this to ??20k in your first year. Second year earnings will grow. Successful consultants in the business earn ??30-50k+
Skills and attributes required:
- The highest standards of written and spoken English
- Highly organised. Able to handle large workloads, volumes of applicants and manage time well
- Display sufficient integrity to enable candidates to trust your judgement and intentions
- Determination to pursue clients and candidates when your first attempts are initially rejected
- A 'thick skin' to recover quickly from negative responses
- Capacity for hard work ? we work a standard 47 hour week!
- Eventually, the ability to build long-lasting relationships with senior decision-makers within target companies
Knowledge:
- We are ideally looking for graduates with an honours degree of a 2:2 or above in any subject, preferably with a business element
- Candidates should be proficient users of MS Office products (Word, Excel, Outlook, Explorer)
