Recruitment Consultant

Role: Recruitment Consultant

Location: Prow Park, Newquay

Hours - Full Time:

• 7.30am – 4pm x2 days per week
• 7.30am - 5pm x2 days per week
• 7.30am – 4.30pm Friday's
• Work from home Wednesday's
• Reduced hours (9am - 3pm) in school holidays

Vision for Education is part of The Edwin Group – a Top 10 UK-employer in The Sunday Times Best Places to Work 2023. Rated as 'Excellent' by our staff in all categories and recognised as having industry leading and world-class levels of employee engagement across the Group.  

Vision for Education are looking to appoint a driven and talented Recruitment Consultant to join our fantastic and friendly new team in Cornwall, where you will be working with schools across the Cornwall area. This is a fantastic opportunity to join the market leaders in education recruitment, recruiting high-quality teaching and support staff for short, long-term placements and permanent roles. 

We have a growing team and with clear progression, the chance to earn an uncapped amount of commission, and a team orientated and fun office, there has never been a better time to join Vision for Education.

The role:

Vision For Education are proud to offer an unrivalled service to both schools and teachers. As well as performing the duties of a consultant you will have the opportunity to work your way up to Assistant Branch Manager - supporting the Branch Manager and Regional Director with driving the growth of the branch.

The role is demanding, rewarding and diverse and involves:

• Using sales, business development and marketing techniques and networking opportunities to attract business from client schools.
• Visiting clients to build and develop close working relationships.
• Developing a good understanding of client schools; what they do and their culture and environment.
• Advertising vacancies by placing adverts on a variety of job boards
• Using social media to advertise positions, attract candidates and build relationships with candidates, employers, and the teaching community.
• Headhunting - identifying and approaching suitable candidates who may already be in work.
• Using candidate databases to match the right person to the client's vacancy.
• Receiving and reviewing applications, managing interviews, and creating a shortlist of candidates for the client.
• Requesting references and checking the suitability of applicants before submitting their details to the client.

The successful candidate will have/be:

• One years minimum recruitment experience
• Excellent communication and sales skills.
• The ability to grow their desk.
• Excellent time management and organisational skills.
• An ability to organise their own workload and meet deadlines.
• Self-motivated and resilient.
• The ability to act on their own initiative.
• Possess a professional and ethical approach to business.
• Be able to forge and maintain relationships over the telephone and face-to-face.
• Possess a desire to exceed the highest levels of customer service.
• Operate effectively as part of a happy, motivated team.

What we offer:

• Excellent salary package with an open-ended bonus system
• Company/team performance incentives throughout the year
• Regular team events
• Well - being studio on site with free classes
• Friendly, professional, and hard-working team environment
• Free parking on site
• Enhanced paternity and maternity leave
• Extra day annual leave on your Birthday

Click 'apply now' to be part of this fantastic new team!

The Edwin Group do not discriminate on the grounds of age, gender, race, colour, religion, disability or sexual orientation, and we welcome applications from all sections of the community.

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