Recruitment Consultant
🔒 Confidential Employer
Posted 7 May 2026
LOCATION
Stoke-on-Trent
TYPE
Full-time
LEVEL
Mid-Senior level
CATEGORY
Human Resources & Recruitment
This employer holds a UK Home Office sponsor license — sponsorship for this specific role is at the employer’s discretion
SKILLS
Relationship building
Sales experience
Recruitment
LinkedIn sourcing
Negotiation
Communication
Time management
Problem-solving
FULL DESCRIPTION
Recruitment Consultant
[Employer hidden — sign up to reveal] is hiring a Recruitment Consultant for their Education sector in Stoke-on-Trent. This is a full-time, on-site role.
Duties
- Build strong and effective relationships with both existing clients and new business clients
- Maintain up to date knowledge and in-depth expertise of the external recruitment market
- Monitor the quality of all candidates and ensure that the adverts and interviews during recruitment process are of a high standard.
- Identifying new client opportunities and negotiating fees confidently
- Plan to meet the future recruitment requirements of commercial clients
- Search and identifying marketable candidates with specialist skill sets
- Assist in ensuring that the end-to-end recruitment process supports a positive candidate experience at all times
- Work in close conjunction with the other Recruitment Consultants to share best practice
- Contribute to the growth of [Employer hidden — sign up to reveal]
- Daily speculative CV sending to industry specific clients
- Qualify candidates and onboard any new clients
- Following the weekly sales cycle
- Using LinkedIn to grow your network
- Attending networking events
Requirements
- Previous recruitment experience or experience working within sales experience, building and maintaining relationships
- Passionate about exceeding business expectations
- Constantly strive to come up with new ideas to do things better
- Bring energy and passion to the office
- Demonstrate extensive local market knowledge
- Relentlessly prioritise and pursue the outcomes that matter to our business
- Ability to problem solve and organise efficiently
- Possess self-confidence.
- Resilience and proactive approach to work.
- Have strong leadership skills
- Be motivated and results driven
- Be able to act quickly and decisively
- A full driving license is required
- A sense of humour is a must!
- 'People' person with a can-do attitude
- Confident problem solver
- Outgoing and ambitious individual
- Experience building and maintaining relationships
- Professional conduct
- Great Attention to detail
- Excellent communication and influencing skills
- Ability to manage your own time
- Experience of working in a busy office environment is highly desirable
- Customer service / Call Centre / sales experience is preferred
- Recruitment background is also desired!
How to Apply
Click here to apply or contact Estelle Raybon at [contact hidden] or call [contact hidden].
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