Recruitment Consultant

Salary: £26,000 per year

We will consider candidates from outside of the Lincolnshire boundaries due to our agile working policy. Ideally commutable within 1-1.5hours.

Overall Purpose of Job

Deliver a consistent, high quality recruitment service, sourcing and placing candidates on behalf of client companies to fill positions on the temporary, permanent or apprentice desk as determined by the Recruitment Sales Manager.

Work as part of a team to develop and increase recruitment sales through new business growth and maintaining the existing client base, sourcing, building and managing relationships with employers, marketing and networking.

Work towards and exceed targets relating to business leads generated, number of candidates placed, invoice value.

Use a wide range of media to attract candidates, guide them through the application process, placing advertisements, giving interviews and matching candidates to the appropriate roles, focusing on specialist areas as appropriate.

Contribute towards the achievement of ongo Communities strategic and operational targets and overall company aims.

Main Responsibilities

Establish relationships with new clients through business development and marketing campaigns.

Visit current and prospective clients to develop strong relationships.

Recruit and maintain positive working relationships with a pool of qualified and skilled temporary placement workers

Recruit and support candidates for permanent positions, including specialist areas as appropriate, through the hiring process.

Screen, interview and short-list potential candidates both face to face and by telephone.

Prepare CVs and correspondence to forward to clients in respect of suitable applicants

Handle job starts and ensure reference checks on candidates are in place

Line manage and mentor an apprentice within the team

Work closely with the Employment Support team to alert them to upcoming opportunities and enable them to upskill clients to meet demand.

Responsible for marketing vacancies, including social media marketing, representing the company at events and attending networking opportunities as appropriate.

To participate in personal support and supervision, undertake personal development training as appropriate to the post.

Undertake other duties and responsibilities appropriate to the grading of the post as considered appropriate.

Creativity and Innovation:

Ability to organise and operate a recruitment desk, with an understanding of the importance of meeting deadlines, reporting pipeline activities and communicating objectives and achievements well

Create and develop innovative means to increase sales, gain and maintain customers

Generate ideas on ways to use our USP as a social enterprise to its full advantage

Excellent oral communication skills, including the ability to use clear language within a variety of contexts

Working to strict timescales and meet deadlines

Strong interpersonal skills, marketing skills and ability to network and build relationships with businesses, agency workers and partner organisations

Decision Making

Deliver levels of income to meet financial targets within our values and ethos

Agreeing terms of business and charge rates with clients within our pricing structure, achieving minimum set profit margins

Managing own diary considering the time constraints of a busy office, ensuring sufficient time is allocated to sales work, resourcing and administration

Making decisions on placement of suitable candidates

Contacts & Relationships

The post holder will line manage and mentor an apprentice within the team

The post holder will need to have the ability to forge and maintain relationships and effective interaction with the whole team to work together to achieve the best results for the team, our clients and our candidates

The post holder will need to have the ability to forge and maintain relationships and effective interaction with third parties; clients, agency workers and the employment support team

Decision Making – Discretion:

Using discretion on fees to ensure sufficient profit margins are met

Work within set procedures and targets determined by the Board and your line manager

Ability to work as part of a team to formulate solutions

Able to identify potential areas of risk, evaluate and implement resolutions.

Responsibility for Resources:

Take responsibility for the day to day running of a recruitment desk

Laptop and smartphone

Responsible for any resources required to support the apprentice

Decision Making – Consequences:

Not meeting individual and team monthly targets.

Insufficient profit margins making targets unachievable

Impact on the quality of service provision to customers

Ultimate sustainability of Ongo Recruitment

Work Demands:

Set own priorities and set and manage priorities and workloads.

Work flexibly and on occasions outside normal working hours.

Meet deadlines that regularly change.

Ability to work flexible and on occasions outside normal working hours.

The post holder must have a full driving licence and be mobile.

Physical Demands:

Normal physical effort

Working Conditions:

Mainly office based, with a need to visit the company offices and travel to clients businesses

Work Context:

Some risk to personal safety due to lone visiting clients premises

Knowledge, Skill & Experience Required

Essential:

* Proven sales experience with ability to drive results and demonstrate energy and vision.

* Excellent interpersonal and negotiating skills with the ability to be tactful and articulate

* Enjoy responsibility and working in a high-pressure environment

* At least two years experience in a similar sales focused role, within proven experience in achieving targets

* Organisational ability to handle multiple priorities, act quickly and decisively, work to changing deadlines and pay attention to detail

* Excellent customer service and problem-solving skills to deal with all kinds of issues in a solutions-oriented manner.

* A good team player who shows commitment, works hard and delivers a fair share of the workload

* Self- awareness and the skills to recognise the need to provide support to other team members, including apprentices, to help get the job done.

* A very good judge of character

* Excellent communication and administrative skills

* Good general education including numeracy, literacy and writing skills

* Ability to use a range of IT packages including word processing, spreadsheets, data bases, PowerPoint, Outlook, email and the internet

* A strong commitment towards Equality and Diversity principles

* Ability to transport yourself across North Lincolnshire

Desirable:

* REC Certificate in Recruitment Practice qualification

Equality and Diversity:

To promote equality and diversity amongst our stakeholders, residents, customers, clients, staff, board and committee members and all those we work with.

* To ensure all customers’ needs are understood and all services that are provided meet individual needs, including in relation to the protected characteristics and customers with additional support needs.

* To treat everyone with dignity and respect at all times.

Health & Safety:

To be aware of risks to personal safety, other employees, customers, company property and company reputation and to promote a culture of risk mitigation in the planning and execution of all tasks

Risk Management

* To have an understanding of the organisations risk management process. To be able to identify, analyse and evaluate risks that may affect the achievement of service and organisational objectives. To manage and respond to risks appropriately.

Environment and Sustainability:

* To ensure the environment and sustainability policies are understood by the post holder

* To promote the importance of considering the environment and sustainability in the role

* To treat the environment with respect and commit to ensuring all services/activities that are provided in this role have taken the impact on the environment into consideration/action plans