Job title:                      Trainee Recruitment Consultant (Contract Division)
Location:                     Reading or Solihull
Contracted hours:       40+ per week
Salary:                         Negotiable depending on experience (Circa £30,000+ per annum OTE, plus benefits package.

Project Resource is a vibrant and rewarding recruitment business.  We supply to the building, civil engineering, rail and infrastructure industries.  We have a strong presence, reputation and service offering, providing consultative advice and high calibre contract and permanent solutions to employers, across senior technical, middle and senior management positions.  Established in September 2002 we have seen extensive growth and are looking to continue this development.

Responsibilities

• To work within our existing Contract team, to establish, grow and develop your own business;
• Work closely with our team to explore business opportunities with our existing clients;
• Look to generate new business from existing clients that have and have not recruited staff from us previously;
• Look to generate new business from new clients that have not supplied previously;
• Generate the right mix of jobseekers, new and repeat business that delivers a profitable mix of business in line with agreed targets;
• Management of the recruitment process from start for finish;
• Deliver compelling and professional proposals that generate profitable business;
• Ensure compliance with all internal procedures/ processes, external regulations and legislation;
• Take ownership and liaise with your line Manager, to ensure constructive personal development;
• Assist with the coaching and development of colleagues where required; and
• Maintain comprehensive and current knowledge of your clients, market and key commercial trends.

Essential criteria

• Experienced working for another recruitment agency/ business as a Contract Division Recruitment Consultant or have worked in a direct sales environment;
• Proven track record of placing jobseekers in Contract jobs or selling to new and existing customers;
• If you have recruitment experience: Historic monthly billings (£) with current/ past employer should be in excess of £2,000 per week (ideally above £5,000 per week average) or generating consistent sales figures per week/ month;
• Experience of generating your own leads and job opportunities;
• Proven ability to account manage/ build successful employer relationships, that lead to repeat business;
• Professional disposition, articulate, high attention to detail, and exemplary customer service approach;
• Outgoing, friendly, focussed and hard working;
• Sensible, with clear life goals, career minded and completely success motivated;
• The ability to be self critical; and
• Ability to demonstrate achievement beyond your peer group.

Desirable criteria

• Exposure one or some of the following industries: Building, Civil Engineering, Railway or Infrastructure (Highways, Water and Energy);
• Good face-to-face ability and experience;
• Ability to lead and grow a team (short or long-term).

The opportunity

• Project Resource is a meritocracy (promotes from within), offering our most talented and motivated team members the opportunity to develop to their fullest potential as we grow.  Our senior members of staff are all home grown, and this is a policy we are committed to trying to maintain.
• We are dedicated to growing organically, so offering total continuity to our employees.
• Project Resource is well established, but the size of opportunity and our structure means it is never too late to join us and make a real personal impact on the business.
• The Directors have plans to diversify the business, with new offices, new delivery capability, new companies, and are looking for team members to run or be an integral part of these opportunities’.

Company culture

• Project Resource has an ambitious and enthusiastic sales team, it has very much a work hard play hard ethos.  All our employees are genuine people who are friendly and fun to be around.
• An excellent, thriving company social calendar, with regular target and non-target based company funded nights out.

Benefits
We offer a competitive basic salary, excellent commission package, and very comprehensive benefits package.  See Company benefits for more detail.

Apply for this job
Please email your CV in confidence to K.Ingram@project-resource.co.uk, Internal Recruitment or call on 01628-477744 to discuss this job opportunity in more detail.