Recruitment Consultant, IT Contracting
Are you Robert Walters?
Robert Walters is the world’s most trusted talent solutions business. Across the globe, we deliver recruitment, recruitment process outsourcing, and advisory services to organizations of all shapes and sizes, opening doors for people with diverse skills, ambitions, and backgrounds.
The businesses we partner with want to make things happen. And they need people to do it. They have goals. They have challenges. They want answers.
We deliver the talent solutions they need to reach their goals. That might mean recruiting a permanent, temporary, or interim professional. It might mean putting together an outsourced team of 30 recruitment experts. Or it might mean reframing the way they think about remuneration or diversity.
Whatever the solution, we deliver better experiences and higher quality outcomes by taking the time to listen to, and fully connect with, the people and organisations we partner with. Our ability to truly understand them and share their compelling stories is what sets us apart.
By engaging with people's stories, we help organizations find the skills and solutions to succeed and assist talented professionals to power their unique potential.
The biggest opportunities start with a story, tell us yours today.
About the Job
Making the transition into recruitment can be a rewarding career move as the more you put in, the more you get out — both financially and career-wise.
Our consultants at Robert Walters come from a variety of international professional backgrounds with strong industry-focused experience. We offer excellent training and accelerated career development, with the opportunity to develop deep specialist knowledge and explore career opportunities across the globe.And if you’ve never thought about a role in recruitment before, you’re in exactly the right place. We have a great track record of turning industry professionals into stellar consultants.
When you join Robert Walters as a Recruitment Consultant, you will experience and celebrate a culture thrived and centred around teamwork, passion, integrity, quality and innovation. Our consultants have professional experience in the industries for which they recruit which enables them to draw upon their specialist knowledge to offer a genuine consultative service to employers and candidates.
As a Recruitment Consultant, you will act as an intermediary between organisations (clients) wishing to recruit staff and professionals (candidates) seeking a career change.
The objective of the consultant is to meet the needs of both the employer and the candidate to ensure the best mutual fit. This is more than just a case of skills matching. It is important to have a strong understanding of the employer’s business, their business culture as well as the professional ambitions of the candidate, ensuring that these are all aligned.
What You Will Do
Candidate Management- Professionally and effectively manage the recruitment process from beginning to end
- Source, select, and assess candidate skills and experiences, their career goals and their suitability for different roles, advise candidates on market conditions and job opportunities
- Organise and coordinate interviews with candidates and fully briefing candidates regarding roles
- Contribute to candidate review within your team and present high-quality candidates
- Take responsibility for keeping in touch with candidates to have a firm knowledge of you candidate pool - both active and inactive
- Constantly monitor the candidates in the database to ensure candidates’ availability is kept updated through a periodic review
- Develop and provide consultation to a large network of candidates with both immediate and long-term career needs
- Ensure completeness and accuracy of information of candidates within the database
- Arrange and attend meetings with prospective clients and keep in regular contact to build positive, productive and long-term and trusted relationships with new and existing clients
- Gain a thorough understanding of your client’s business, culture and successfully interpret their unique resourcing requirement and offer a solution focused approach
- Consult and advise clients on our portfolio of solutions
- Present profiles to clients, either for existing roles or on a speculative basis
- Ensure only high-quality candidates are put forward to our clients for interview
- Take ownership of your business development plan within your industry specialisation
- Generating new business via pro-active business development
- Build cooperative internal relationships focusing on cross-divisional and cross-regional relationships
- Develop a solid business pipeline and consistently achieve all revenue and targets
- Understand Robert Walters commercial terms and negotiate (within pre-agreed parameter with Manager)
- Identify potential recruitment consultants and refer them to the business
- Gain understanding of your market specialization by attending specialist events/webinars
- Keep up to date about industry trends/recruitment best practices to ensure you can provide and demonstrate market knowledge to both candidates and clients
- 2-3 years of professional work experience in the technology industry preferred
- Demonstrate a strong determination to succeed (grit) and resilience
- Pro-activeness and commercial acumen
- A commitment to exceeding client expectations, attracting top talent and achieving targets
- An entrepreneurial, organised and driven approach with excellent attention to detail
- Excellent team player – you’ll enjoy sharing information and building robust relationships
- Initiatives to make sound decisions and recommend innovative solutions
- Fresh graduates with a Degree in Information Technology or relevant disciplines are encouraged to apply - comprehensive on-the-job training will be provided