Robert Walters is the world’s most trusted talent solutions business. Across the globe, we deliver recruitment, recruitment process outsourcing and advisory services for businesses of all shapes and sizes, opening doors for people with diverse skills, ambitions, and backgrounds.
We help organisations find the skills and solutions to reach their goals and assist talented professionals to power their unique potential.
We offer our people incredible career opportunities as well as an inclusive culture and flexible working.
About the Role:
As a Recruitment Consultant, you will act as an intermediary between organisations (clients) wishing to recruit staff and professionals (candidates) seeking a career change. The objective of the consultant is to meet the needs of both the employer and the candidate to ensure the best mutual fit. This is more than just a case of skills matching. It is important to have a strong understanding of the employer’s business, their business culture as well as the professional ambitions of the candidate, ensuring that these are all aligned.
Responsibilities:
Candidate Management
- Professionally and effectively manage the recruitment process from beginning to end
- Source, select, and assess candidate skills and experiences, their career goals and their suitability for different roles, advise candidates on market conditions and job opportunities
- Organise and coordinate interviews with candidates and fully briefing candidates regarding roles
- Contribute to candidate review within your team and present high-quality candidates
- Take responsibility for keeping in touch with candidates to have a firm knowledge of your candidate pool - both active and inactive
- Constantly monitor the candidates in the database to ensure candidates’ availability is kept updated through a periodic review
- Develop and provide consultation to a large network of candidates with both immediate and long-term career needs
- Ensure completeness and accuracy of information of candidates within the database
Client Engagement
- Arrange and attend meetings with prospective clients and keep in regular contact to build positive, productive and long-term and trusted relationships with new and existing clients
- Gain a thorough understanding of your client’s business, culture and successfully interpret their unique resourcing requirement and offer a solution focused approach
- Consult and advise clients on our portfolio of solutions
- Present profiles to clients, either for existing roles or on a speculative basis
- Ensure only high-quality candidates are put forward to our clients for interview
- Adhere to a short turnaround time for screening applicants, advertising response, reference checking
- Manage the interview process - from candidate screening through to interview, feedback and negotiation of remuneration package with client
- Ensure the Robert Walters database accurately reflects all business dealings with clients and candidates
- Lead and Support candidate and client functions and events
Seek Opportunities & Thought Leadership that foster business growth
- Take ownership of your business development plan within your industry specialisation
- Generating new business via pro-active business development
- Build cooperative internal relationships focusing on cross-divisional and cross-regional relationships
- Develop a solid business pipeline and consistently achieve all revenue and targets
- Understand Robert Walters commercial terms and negotiate (within pre-agreed parameters with Manager)
- Identify potential recruitment consultants and refer them to the business
- Gain understanding of your market specialization by attending specialist events/webinars
- Keep up to date about industry trends/recruitment best practices to ensure you can provide and demonstrate market knowledge to both candidates and clients
Who you are:
- 3-5 years of Professional experience in your relevant field of specialisation
- Determination to succeed (Grit) and resilience
- Pro-activeness and commercial acumen
- A commitment to exceeding client expectations, attracting top talent and achieving targets
- An entrepreneurial, organised and driven approach with excellent attention to detail
- Excellent team player – you’ll enjoy sharing information and building robust relationships
- The initiative it takes to make sound decisions and recommend innovative solutions
Benefits:
- A unique opportunity to drive projects such as Employer Branding, Talent pipelining, Recruitment Innovation, Candidate Experience
- A track record of high performance and an ability to deliver excellent results consistently is key. In return for your hard work, you’ll be offered a competitive top salary and benefits package with bonuses/commission and fantastic incentives programme
- Private medical insurance
- A fantastic training and development programme
- The opportunity to partake / qualify for our Global incentive weekend
- Employee wellbeing through various programmes
- You’ll have plenty of opportunities to progress your career, both in your country and other locations around the world. That’s the benefit of working for a large global organisation. One that is at the forefront of recruitment innovation, and a specialist in RPO and MSP
“As a Disability Confident Employer, Robert Walters is committed to offering a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process to all candidates. If you require any accommodations or adjustments as a result of a disability, impairment or health condition, please do not hesitate to let me know.”
Robert Walters - Global Talent Solutions
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