Recruitment Consultant

Are you looking to kick-start your career as a Recruitment Consultant? Do you possess an unwavering work ethic and the ambition to succeed in a fast-paced, competitive environment?Are you a self-starter with a sales background looking to maximise your earning potential?

If these aspirations resonate with you, we'd love to hear from you!

Location: CardiffSalary: £24,500 per annum + uncapped commission. 1st year OTE £30,000, 2nd year OTE £40,000Hours: Mon-Fri, 40 hours per weekHybrid: After your initial training period you can choose to take advantage of our hybrid working policy. 10 days out of 20 in office

Your new role as a Recruitment Consultant:

Client Growth: Foster lasting relationships, building and nurturing relationships with clients while actively pursuing new business opportunities. Understanding client recruitment needs and providing strategic advice to ensure the best candidate matches.
Candidate Engagement: Find and engage the best talent, attracting top talent through effective candidate engagement strategies. Guiding candidates throughout the interview and offer process, ensuring a seamless experience.
Skilful Negotiation: Create win-win situations for clients and candidates, negotiating terms and fees to create mutually beneficial partnerships.
Target Achievement: Meet and exceed KPIs with zeal and efficiency. Collaborating within a high-performing team, motivating each other to achieve outstanding results.
Leadership Partner Expertise: Becoming an industry expert through networking and staying ahead of market trends.
No day is the same and you will gain experience across a varied range of skills. You really can influence your own earning potential, by getting out what you put in. Your energy and dedication will be rewarded in a culture built on celebrating success.
Why Choose Hays?
People are at the centre of everything we do. We don't just place people in jobs but invest in lifelong partnerships that empower you to realise your ambition. We're backed by over 50 years of success, and a workforce of over 10,000 people across 33 countries. There might be 12,000 employees across the globe, but here, everybody is welcome, and every voice is heard.

Being so much more than just a specialist recruitment business, what really sets us apart is our knowledge through scale, deep understanding, and ability to meet your needs. You can trust that we have expansive networks, up-to-the-minute market knowledge, and leading-edge technology to help you get where you want to go.
As a large company, we have a huge opportunity to make a difference to the communities we operate in.

As a result, we are proud to say:

• We partner with End Youth Homelessness UK to raise money for their charity.
• We also became carbon-neutral in 2021 and are currently on the path to net-zero carbon emissions.
• Hays was one of the first 20 companies nationwide to receive the National Equality Standard and we continue to promote an environment where all our employees can be their full self at work.
• #HaysHelps We're committed to making a positive impact on the communities we live and work in. As part of this, we have a volunteering scheme, #HaysHelps, which gives employees two days of paid leave per calendar year to volunteer.

Award winners of:

• Top 100 undergraduate employers by Job Crowd, NUE awards and Rate My Placement
• Glassdoor Best Places to Interview

Your new office
The Cardiff team are one of the highest performing teams in the UK. The office is situated centrally (just behind the Cardiff Central train station) in a modern building, three minutes' walk to the city centre.

Our Cardiff office is home to eight different teams specialising in finance, technology, marketing, human resources, procurement, education, construction and property and business support recruitment for customers across South and West Wales.
The high performing team consists of 20+ consultants who are all committed to providing first-class recruitment services, working hard and doing the right thing. They work closely with local communities. In recent months, they have worked on employability projects with local charities and universities, donated supplies to Cardiff foodbanks, raised money for Welsh homeless charities and volunteered to support tree planting programmes across Cardiff.
Outside of the excellent results they produce, the team also do a lot outside of work, from scavenger hunts to 10k runs, from cook offs to inter-team competitions. They run an array of incentives on a monthly, quarterly and annual basis, rewarding excellent results and contributions across the team.

As a Hays consultant, you will benefit from:

• Fast track promotions, progress your career up to Director level within 8 years!
• The most comprehensive training programme in the industry
• Flexible hybrid working patterns
• The backing of a Global Company, established for over 50 years
• Significant growth potential of salary after year 1
• Best Technology in the Industry including a 'Salesforce' CRM
• Opportunity for global relocation - Dubai, Australia, New York!
• Referral bonuses of up to £2000 per individual

Social & Incentives

• Black Tie Summer Ball and Christmas Parties
• Opportunity to win a 5* luxury trip with top performing colleagues - Hays Elite i.e. Croatia, South Africa, Italy, Iceland
• The opportunity for recognition at local, regional and national awards
• Incentives and rewards - celebration dinners / team lunches
• Parents@hays support network
• Disability confident employer with established disability and long term ill health employee network (REACH)
• Hays Pride our LGBTQ+ network

Time off

• Buy and sell holiday - up to 5 extra days per year!
• 23 days per calendar year (plus bank holidays) annual entitlement increases with length of service

Health & Wellbeing

• Gym discounts
• Access to virtual doctor unlimited times per year
• Cycle to work scheme
• Employee loans to buy Tech/Rail/Tram travel
• Internal Learning & Career Zone for self development

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