Candidate Consultant

Location: 1^st Floor, 350 Chiswick High Road, Chiswick, London W4 5TA

Hours: Monday-Friday 9-5.30pm

Salary: up to £25k DOE + bonus

Hybrid 4 days office / 1 day working from home – fully in the office during 3 month probation.

Are you ready for a career of a lifetime? Join the award-winning Chiswick branch!

Are you a determined, confident, and eager individual who is ready to carve out their future within a lucrative, supportive and incredible industry? Do you have experience in strongretail or sales and are wanting to elevate yourself in a corporate world?

We’d love to hear from you if you're a super-motivated individual, a conversationalist, who is not afraid to pick up the phones, be face-to-face with clients and candidates alike and put yourself forward for opportunities.

You’ll be supporting the Perms desk, offering administration and sales support. You will be responsible for following up with candidate prospects, proactively looking for candidates, following compliance processes, such as right to work checks, and ensuring the office continues to be an environment where consultants are supported, and the branch runs smoothly.

You will be responsible for promoting the branch, ensuring you are being the best ambassador for the branch’s client base and candidate pool. There is a rare opportunity in this branch to develop into a recruitment consultant relatively quickly, so ideally you will be ready to take on the responsibility and can see yourself progressing to a 360 recruiter.

The Team

Your branch manager, Irene has 25 years with Adecco, so there will be no lack of insight, support, and development on your side. Fronted by two Principal Consultants, Jack has a well-tenured 20 years with the company and works alongside our Perms Principal Consultant Chelsea, who has an incredible 3 years with Adecco. The backbone of the branch, Liz, is Chiswick’s Senior Candidate Consultant, with 25 years behind her, there is nothing she doesn’t know.

The Chiswick branch are looking for a fun, lively and motivated individual who wants to follow in the branches footsteps and create an incredible career for themselves! 

• Proactively resource candidates for active client vacancies as well as pipelining talent relevant to the current market sectors
• Handle incoming candidate CVs, pre-screening and arranging candidate appointments and guide candidates through the interview process
• Assisting with the interview process to assess candidate qualifications, skills and previous work history
• Using video interviewing technology and assessments to shortlist and select candidates.
• Proactively understanding current clients requirements.
• Build market knowledge of clients within each sector.
• Daily use of internal CRM system and recruitment tools (which will be taught)
• Interact and liaise with clients on daily basis.
• You're highly organised, you are able to structure and prioritise your workload to achieve your targets.
• You are proactive and always looking to delight customers.
• You're able to fix next steps and deadlines very clearly thanks to outstanding and clear communication on what's expected from the customer.

Do you come from a retail or sales background? Do you currently work in recruitment and are looking for a company that will support your succession plan? Adecco Chiswick are looking to see someone develop relatively quickly into a 360 consultant. Initially learning the ropes of a 180 consultant, you will work towards fine tuning your professional acumen and strive to match the success of your office counter parts.  

Are you someone who can prioritise and not get overwhelmed with a fast-paced environment? We are looking for someone who has an instinctual nature to get the branch in order and please our clients and candidates!

Skills

• Excellent relationship building and customer service skills
• Strong organisation skills and a methodical approach to all tasks
• Strong desire to succeed.
• Resilience, self-motivation, and the ability to work under pressure.
• Ability to operate in a competitive environment.
• Strong organisation skills and a methodical approach to all tasks
• Business acumen
• Ability to prioritise workload to ensure efficient delivery of candidates to your consultant
• Empathy, the ability to support candidates through their job search 

Benefits

• Range of discounts via our own benefits platform (buy & sell holidays, discounted shopping vouchers, cinema tickets, etc)
• Huge incentives – Team and company wide (including weeks abroad, days out at the races, fine dining experiences, etc).
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• LinkedIn Learning - Access to thousands of courses to fine tune your skills - Free for you!

Make an impact where it matters most.

We believe that understanding the hiring process helps you to prepare, feel, and be, at your best. As a global, multi brand organisation with multiple different roles, our application process can vary.

On our career site, you will find some of the key steps you can expect to guide you along the way.

Interview Stages:

1. First stage – face to face with Branch Manager Irene
2. Second stage – Teams call with Head of Permanent Placement

As one of the world’s largest employers we believe in talent, not labels, and focus on the diverse and unique skills our people bring. We seek to foster a culture of belonging and purpose, an environment where everyone can thrive and feel engaged, and where difference is respected and valued. Our commitment to equity, equal opportunity, inclusion, and diversity is part of our broader commitment to respecting fundamental human rights across our value chain. The Adecco Group is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer.

Posting date: 12-03-2024