Trainee Recruitment Consultant in Manchester

Join us in our brand-new Manchester city centre office as a Trainee Recruitment Consultant and be part of a team that’s shaping the next chapter of our growth!

If you’re hungry to learn, want to increase your earning potential, and build a career with no ceiling, recruitment is the industry for you.

Why Vantage?

Vantage Consulting are a multi award-winning recruitment business ranked within the top 2% of recruitment companies in the UK.

We operate in niche, growth and scarce resource markets, delivering mid to executive level talent to a global engineering client base. Established in 2010 we\’ve continued to push ourselves to break records whilst maintaining what\’s important to us, the relationships with our partners and with our people.

We have ambitious growth plans and the infrastructure to achieve it, with expansion planned in the UK and America.

Our dedicated team of managers will help you master your craft and set you on the road to success – 89% of our consultants exceeded their targets in 2025!

In addition to a basic salary from £25,500 to £28,000 and an uncapped commission structure up to 40%, we offer the following:

• Dedicated 6-week training academy
• Clear promotion framework
• Latest tools and technology
• 23 days annual leave plus bank holidays and birthday leave, life event leave and volunteering leave
• Long service sabbaticals
• International trips to destinations such as Ibiza, Rome, France, Morocco and more
• 5* team and individual incentives including fine dining and spa trips

About You

To be successful for the Trainee Recruitment Consultant role, you\’ll be a highly driven and ambitious individual. You\’ll have experience building relationships and working to targets, ideally within a sales or recruitment environment.

You should also be able to demonstrate the following skills and experience:

• Have a thirst for knowledge and self-development
• Be creative and have an entrepreneurial mindset
• Have strong written and verbal communication skills

The Role

As the successful Trainee Recruitment Consultant, you\’ll be responsible for the end to end recruitment and sales process. You\’ll build and maintain a network of clients and place candidates in mid to senior level roles within a specialist engineering market.

You can also expect to:

• Assess job specs and create adverts
• Proactively source specialist candidates
• Qualify and screen candidates over the phone and through video
• Manage interview and offer processes
• Gain specialist market information and leverage it to grow market share
• Manage relationships with new and existing businesses
• Sell our services to new clients and pitch for business

We encourage applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that represents the wider society that we serve. We champion diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued and a sense of belonging.

Prior to commencing employment with the company, successful applicants must provide evidence of their entitlement to live and work in the UK. Therefore, if you are successful with your application you will be required to provide one or a combination of the documents specified on the UK Government website prior to joining.

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If you\’re interested in applying for the Trainee Recruitment Consultant opportunity, please click the Apply Now button. Or if you have any questions and want to discuss the position further, please contact Mollie Bond on 01785 875214.

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