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Education Recruitment Consultant - Leeds - Graduate Opportunity

Date posted : 18/02/19
£20000 - £23000 per annum + including benefits

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Teaching Personnel are recruiting for an immediate or April start in our Leeds office. If you are serious about a career, apply now for this Recruitment Consultant position working within the ever expanding Education sector. Teaching Personnel are the market leader within the sector and offer unrivalled training and development and genuine career development, our organic business is such that 99% of senior management began their career as a consultant with TP.

Due to continued growth and a successful academic year (2017/18), we have a vacancy for a Recruitment Consultant on a full-time permanent basis; this would be to join our Leeds Primary team. The Leeds office is situated on Wellington Street in the heart of the city, making it easy to reach with close by parking. The successful applicant will be joining a team of talented Recruitment Consultants and a supportive management team; the role will be working specifically with primary schools and servicing their supply needs. Teaching Personnel are looking for ambitious and dedicated individuals, in addition to a market leading reputation, first rate support and training, you'll benefit from an excellent salary/package, other benefits of working at Teaching Personnel include;

  • Reduced working hours in school holidays
  • Generous holiday entitlement which increases with service
  • Unique and successful Learning and Development Programme
  • Contributory stakeholder pension and Life Assurance
  • Daily coaching, mentoring and support from your manager and colleagues
  • A positive, fast paced and progressive work environment with the market leader
  • Uncapped commission and a genuine career within Recruitment
  • Regular prizes for service and performance and two company events a year

The life of a Recruitment Consultant in Education involves a variety of responsibilities and each day offers something different. You will make planned sales calls, target schools in your chosen geographical patch & sector (primary schools) offering our unrivalled service and quality candidates for temporary and permanent positions. As a Recruitment Consultant within Education, you will be responsible to build and develop your own candidate database (teachers and support staff) in order to successfully service your given client schools. You will ideally have previous sales experience or knowledge of the education sector, however this is not essential, to be successful as a Recruitment Consultant you need to be a good communicator and extremely organised. Working in
Education Recruitment requires you to take a detailed job specification accurately, advertise on behalf of your client, recruit suitable candidates and make the placement a smooth success.

Teaching Personnel review performance regularly and you will qualify for promotions 4 times per year (quarterly), we have a specific career path for Recruitment Consultants to progress and become Branch Managers, our business is organic and almost all management started their career at Teaching Personnel as a Trainee or Education consultant.

Do you fit the bill to join us and become a successful Recruitment Consultant within Education?

Whether you are a graduate looking for your first position as a trainee, or an experienced Recruitment Consultant looking to join the education sector we would like to hear from you. Our Leeds location is one of the most successful offices in the company (of over 80), you will be joining a fast-paced environment and benefit from an expert level of thinking and training, to give you a truly great career opportunity.

If you would like to join the market leader and start your career as a Recruitment Consultant, please apply now with a CV/covering letter and we'll be in touch to discuss your application straight away.

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