Trainee Recruitment Consultant

We are seeking a sales-driven Entry Level Recruitment Consultant to join our Chelmsford office in our Professional Services Recruitment team. Chelmsford is a vibrant and fast-growing city that blends historic charm with modern convenience offering a great quality of life and a strong sense of community. With excellent transport links to London, a buzzing high street, and a thriving business scene, it’s an ideal place to build a successful and balanced career.

As an Entry Level Recruitment Consultant, your primary focus will be to develop and nurture relationships within organisations across Chelmsford. You will be conducting business development (sales calls) to seek out and meet with Recruitment teams, Directors, line managers, and other key stakeholders. You will be recruiting the best and most experienced candidates for roles across a professional sector. This is a sales-based role where you will enjoy commission alongside your base salary with the potential to earn £30,000 - £38,000 in your first year.

This is an opportunity for a trainee Recruitment Consultant to join a collaborative and inclusive environment ensuring you are set-up to succeed whilst being surrounded by expertise. Hays is the largest specialist recruiter globally and a multi-award winning business covering 22 areas of recruitment across over 80 offices in the UK. We are professional, people centric and proud to be positively impacting our local people and businesses with the work we do.

The responsibilities of an Entry Level Recruitment Consultant in Chelmsford include:

• Making cold calls and sales calls to prospective clients to sell our services
• Developing and maintaining strong relationships with organisations and key decision makers
• Actively engaging with face-to-face meetings with in-house recruitment professionals, directors, and line managers
• Sourcing, screening and recruiting top-tier candidates for roles
• Draft reports, ensure compliance, and participate in internal projects
• Working to daily targets and KPIs to achieve your monetary goals

We pride ourselves in hiring the very best talent in the recruitment space and therefore you will need to meet the following criteria to apply:

• A genuine drive to work in a sales environment – our best people are motivated to work to targets and go the extra mile for clients and candidates
• The ability to communicate like a professional in the workplace
• An individual who is resilient and not afraid of challenges
• Has a good understanding of what 360 recruitment is and is passionate about pursuing a career within recruitment

Hays is a multi-award winning employer and we believe as part of the employee and employer deal, we can give you a career with unrivalled progression. Our culture is a reason why so many of our people choose to stay and grow their careers with Hays. Our colleagues describe our culture as ‘high energy’, ‘inclusive’, and ‘great people’ with a ‘growth mindset’.

In addition, you will enjoy:

• Uncapped individual commission paid upon invoice every 4 weeks
• Regular performance-based incentive programmes including all-expense paid international trips
• A culture underpinned with trust, which is based on expertise, training, collaboration, inclusivity and doing the right thing
• Industry-leading learning and development to maximise your performance and advance your career every step of the way
• A global brand with established PSL agreements and warm client relationships
• An adult approach to working with hybrid working models and flexible working hours
• The opportunity to work in any of our 32 other countries through our global mobility offering
• Diverse range of employee support networks, wellbeing initiatives and wider benefits

We know talented people want to work with the best: people, brand, tools, technology and infrastructure. They also want career development. Our culture is shaped and created by these features. We also know our people want to do interesting and meaningful work, increasingly in an organisation that is purpose led. This is demonstrated in the work we have done through our commitment to DE&I, Net Zero and our global volunteering and fundraising programme, ‘Helping for your tomorrow’.

Please apply now to become the next Senior Recruitment Consultant or for more information on our roles. Life at Hays presents the opportunity for growth, varied career paths, exciting challenges and a culture of inclusion that celebrates diversity. As a committed Disability Confident employer, if you’re thinking of a new tomorrow for your career, whatever your background, let’s work together to create it!