Trainee Recruitment Consultant in Newcastle upon Tyne

Start Your Career in Recruitment with Kinetic.

Are you ambitious, confident with people and looking for a career where your progression and earning potential can grow with your performance? Kinetic Recruitment has been recruiting within Engineering, Manufacturing and Industrial markets for over 40 years, and we're looking for a Trainee Recruitment Consultant to join our established North-East team in Newcastle.

You don't need previous recruitment experience, as we'll provide a structured training and development programme. However, if you already have some recruitment or resourcing experience and are ready to take the next step towards becoming a Recruitment Consultant, we'd be particularly interested in hearing from you.

You'll start by learning recruitment from the candidate side of the business, working alongside experienced Consultants and supporting a stable, long-term client base across the North-East. As your knowledge and confidence develop, you'll gradually move into client relationships, account management and business development, with the aim of becoming a fully-fledged 360 Recruitment Consultant managing your own clients, candidates and recruitment desk.

Your Training & Development

We don't expect you to arrive knowing how to be a Recruitment Consultant - that's what we'll teach you. Your development will combine practical, on-the-job training from experienced recruiters with a structured training programme delivered in conjunction with the Level 3 Recruiter Apprenticeship programme.

You'll learn how to:

• Find, attract and engage candidates
• Interview and assess candidates effectively
• Match candidates to temporary and permanent vacancies
• Build and manage candidate relationships
• Understand our Engineering, Manufacturing and Industrial markets
• Understand our clients, their businesses and recruitment requirements
• Develop commercial awareness and understand recruitment margins
• Build confidence communicating with clients
• Conduct business development and sales activity
• Develop new and existing client relationships
• Negotiate rates and terms
• Manage vacancies from initial instruction through to successful placement
• Ultimately build and manage your own recruitment desk

You'll have experienced people around you throughout that journey, helping you develop both your recruitment knowledge and commercial skills.

What You'll Be Doing Initially

Your first stage will focus predominantly on candidate recruitment and resourcing, giving you a strong grounding in the fundamentals of recruitment.

You'll:

• Search for candidates using job boards, our database, referrals and social media
• Speak with and interview prospective candidates
• Build candidate pipelines for regularly recruited skills
• Match candidates to temporary and permanent vacancies
• Develop relationships with candidates and temporary workers
• Support experienced Consultants in filling vacancies for established clients
• Learn about our clients, their sites and the people they recruit
• Maintain accurate candidate records and compliance information

As you develop, you'll take on increasing responsibility for client communication and commercial activity as you work towards managing your own recruitment desk.

Who Are We Looking For?

We're more interested in your potential, attitude and ambition than your current job title. You may already be working as a Recruitment Resourcer and feel ready to develop the client-facing and commercial skills required to become a Consultant. Alternatively, you could be a graduate or college leaver looking for your first commercial career, or already working in customer service, sales, hospitality, retail, account management or another people-focused environment.

We'd particularly like to meet someone who is:

• Confident communicating with different types of people
• Naturally curious and comfortable asking questions
• Organised and able to manage competing priorities
• Commercially minded
• Proactive and prepared to take the initiative
• Resilient and able to deal positively with setbacks
• Motivated by achieving results
• Keen to learn and develop
• Comfortable working as part of a team

You must hold a full driving licence and be able to drive, as you'll increasingly visit client sites as your role develops.

Salary, Bonus & Working Arrangements

Starting salary £25,500. Bonus opportunity as you develop within the role. Newcastle based. Hybrid working available, with a minimum of 3 days per week in the office. Normal working hours of 8.30am-5.00pm, with flexibility available. Full driving licence required. Laptop and mobile phone provided. Free onsite parking.

Benefits

We want people to build a long-term career with Kinetic, so our benefits develop with your service. From joining:

• 25 days' holiday plus bank holidays
• An additional day off for your birthday
• Team and company social events
• Access to training and development relevant to your role

After 3 months:

• Auto-enrolment into our pension scheme - currently 5% employee contribution and 3% from Kinetic

Following successful completion of your 6-month probation:

• You become a member of the Kinetic Employee Ownership Trust (EOT) - when Kinetic is successful and meets its company targets, one third of net profits are distributed equally amongst all Employee Owners in April each year
• £200 annual Personal Development & Well-being Allowance, which can be used towards hobbies and interests outside of work

After 12 months:

• Private Health Scheme (taxable benefit; personal contribution may be required)
• Enhanced Company Pension Scheme - Kinetic contributes 6% when you contribute 3%, together with access to financial advisers
• Option to join the Bupa Healthcare Cash Plan, helping towards costs such as optical and dental treatment
• Death in Service / Life Assurance

Why Kinetic?

You'll be joining an experienced North-East team with a stable, long-term client base and strong relationships across the region, backed by more than 40 years of recruitment experience. This is an opportunity to learn recruitment properly from the ground up, develop alongside experienced people and build towards running your own successful recruitment desk. Because Kinetic is Employee-Owned, following successful completion of your probation you'll also become an Employee Owner, giving you the opportunity to share in the success you help create.

If you're ambitious, enjoy working with people and want to build a long-term career in recruitment, we'd love to hear from you.

Kinetic plc is a Recruitment Consultancy with over 40 years' experience delivering staffing solutions to the engineering, manufacturing and technical industries. Kinetic plc treats all applications confidentially and reviews all submissions. Candidates who do not meet the specification may not be contacted; however, CVs may be retained for consideration against future opportunities.