About The Protocol Group
- 27 years young
- Market-leading Education Recruitment agency
- Only agency dedicated to Nurseries, Schools, FE Colleges, Universities and Training Providers
- Private equity-backed growth business
- High Incentives on top of uncapped commission
What does a Recruitment Consultant do?
The role of a Recruitment Consultant combines sales, relationship building and business development.
As an ambassador of The Protocol Group with both candidates and clients and will be driven to achieve/ exceed sales targets by successfully placing day-to-day, temporary & permanent placements within Education establishments.
Responsibilities
To be successful in Recruitment you will need to do the following:
- Be commercially driven to maximise every opportunity
- Effectively use sales, marketing techniques, job boards & social media platforms to attract both specialist candidates and clients to use you!
- Make business development calls, along with emails/pitches to clients to pick up potential business
- Be proactive in your approach to candidates and clients through selling opportunities, such as selling candidates via speccing or selling roles to passive candidates
- Build your brand through effective and consistent social media presence, client visits, networking events, and candidate surgeries
- Build solid relationships with both candidates and clients & ensure candidate and client management is delivered to the highest standards
- Promote all Protocol services by cross-selling and be fully competent to sell them
- Show consistent commitment to company standards in complying with all relevant legislation, e.g. Compliance and GDPR.
- Ensure the Protocol CRM database remains up to date and accurate, and you will ensure your administration is of the highest standard
- Achieve your weekly KPIs & monthly sales targets
What personal attributes do you need?
- Passion/Enthusiasm – We’re all a passionate bunch of people with bags of enthusiasm, and we want like-minded people to join us!
- Resilience – Recruitment is challenging, I don’t want to sugarcoat it to you, but you have good days and bad days, and on the bad days, you have to be able to pick yourself up and crack on – but on the good days…..these are good and your hard work will finally pay off
- Self-Motivation – As much as you will be working within a team or be led by an inspiring leadership team, Self-motivation is massive – we want people to join us, who can come in and have a hunger to succeed no matter what!
- Team Player – Even with you running your own desk – Teamwork is super important to us and a critical factor in our success!
- Strong organisation skills! – Recruitment is a lot of plate spinning, organisation and time management will help you stay on top of your client/candidate management, business development, and filling your roles!
- Confidence! – Day to day you will speak to lot of people over the phone or virtually if you are confident, people will listen to you, and people will trust you – Remember, you know what you are talking about!
- Success – Success breeds success, and we want to surround ourselves with natural winners!
To apply for this role, please email your CV to gbrydges@protocol.co.uk or call 0115 977 5555!
