Trainee Recruitment Consultant - Southampton

As the market leader within education recruitment and continual yearly growth, Teaching Personnel in Southampton are seeking a Recruitment Consultant on a full-time permanent basis. Situated in the heart of the city, the successful applicant will be joining a team of talented Recruitment Consultants and supportive managers who are always striving for excellence.

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 and offer our service and quality candidates for temporary and permanent positions
• 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 be required to take a detailed job specification accurately, relay this back to suitable candidates and match the most successful candidate back to your client school

To be successful as a Recruitment Consultant you need to be a good communicator and extremely organised. Ideally, you will have previous sales experience or knowledge of the education sector, however this is not essential. Additionally, you will need to have a valid full UK Driving License and access to a vehicle (we will also consider applicants who are currently learning to drive).

Teaching Personnel review performance regularly and you will qualify for promotions 4 times per year, 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 Consultant.

In addition to a market leading reputation and salary package, other benefits of working at Teaching Personnel include;

• Reduced working hours in school holidays (9-4)
• Generous holiday entitlement which increases with service
• Unique and successful Learning and Development Programme
• Contributory stakeholder pension
• Daily coaching, mentoring and support from your manager and colleagues
• A positive, fast paced and progressive work environment
• Life assurance
• Regular prizes for service and performance and two company events a year

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

Whether you are a graduate looking for your first position as a Trainee, or an experienced consultant looking to join the education sector we would like to hear from you!

If you would like to join the market leading Education recruitment company and forge a career for yourself in an ever-growing industry, please apply now with a CV/covering letter and we'll be in touch to discuss your application.