At a Glance
- Tasks: Join a dynamic team to identify and approach senior-level candidates for exciting PE-backed businesses.
- Company: Boutique executive search firm specialising in technology and private equity.
- Benefits: £30K salary, quarterly bonuses, strong training, and clear progression opportunities.
- Other info: Opportunity for international exposure and potential relocation to the US.
- Why this job: Gain real responsibility from day one and work directly with C-suite executives.
- Qualifications: Bright, ambitious graduates with strong communication skills and a competitive spirit.
If your skills, experience, and qualifications match those in this job overview, do not delay your application.
Location: Bishop Stortford
Salary: £30K + quarterly bonus
Job Type: Permanent, Full-Time
Want to build a career in executive search where you're trusted with real responsibility from day one? We're working with a boutique executive search firm specialising in Software, AI, Technology Services and Business & Professional Services, partnering with some of the most exciting PE-backed businesses across the UK, Europe and US. They're now looking to hire 2 ambitious graduates to join their growing team.
This isn't your typical graduate recruitment role. You'll be working on retained executive searches, helping PE-backed businesses identify their future CFOs, COOs, CROs and other C-suite leaders. With average search fees of £75k-£100k, you'll be operating in a high-value, commercially focused environment from the start.
What will you be doing?
- Researching and mapping entire markets
- Identifying and approaching senior-level candidates
- Building relationships with C-suite executives
- Managing candidates throughout the search process
- Supporting client relationships and search strategy
- Producing detailed market intelligence and research
- Contributing to pitches and business development
- Learning how to build and run a search from start to finish
The aim isn't for you to spend years purely behind the scenes doing research. You'll be developed into a client-facing, commercially minded executive search consultant, with increasing responsibility as you progress.
Where could this take you?
The business is growing quickly and wants its graduate hires to become future leaders of the firm. You'll have a clear progression path, with the expectation that you'll begin developing your own business development activity from around year three. For the right person, there is genuinely the opportunity to help build the business, take ownership of areas of the firm and eventually lead teams or practices. There is also an international growth strategy, including plans to build out the US operation, creating potential opportunities to work internationally or relocate to the US in the future.
What are they looking for?
You don't need previous recruitment or executive search experience. We're looking for graduates who are:
- Bright, ambitious and commercially driven
- Confident communicators who enjoy speaking to people
- Naturally curious and enjoy becoming an expert in a particular sector
- Competitive and motivated to succeed
- Comfortable dealing with senior professionals
- Analytical and able to think commercially
- Hungry to progress and take on responsibility
- Able to demonstrate achievement through academics, sport, sales, work experience or another competitive environment
You don't need a particular degree or academic background. What matters most is intelligence, attitude, ambition and the desire to build something.
Why this opportunity?
- Work directly with PE-backed technology businesses
- Average search fees of £75k-£100k
- Exposure to CEOs, CFOs, CROs and other senior executives
- Work on genuine retained executive search, rather than high-volume recruitment
- Become client-facing from an early stage
- Strong training and development
- Quarterly bonus structure
- Clear progression into leadership
- International exposure and potential US opportunities
- Small, ambitious team where your contribution genuinely matters
- Opportunity to help build a growing business rather than simply slot into an established structure
This is an opportunity for someone who wants to be challenged, developed and given responsibility, not someone looking for a standard 9-5 graduate job. If you're ambitious, commercially minded and want to build a career in executive search, technology recruitment and private equity, we'd love to hear from you. Apply now or reach out to Beth Cole at RULE Recruitment to find out more!
Graduate Executive Search Consultant Technology & Private Equity employer: Rule Recruitment
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