Are you a results-driven professional with a passion for connecting talent with opportunity?
Stafffinders, Scotland’s longest-established independent recruitment agency and a key player across various industries, is thrilled to announce an exciting opening for a Permanent Recruitment Consultant. Based in their vibrant Scottish hub, this is your chance to join a forward-thinking, family-led business where your ambition and relationship-building skills will be truly valued. If you’re ready to make a significant impact in a fast-paced and rewarding environment, read on!
What you will get in your new role
Stafffinders believes in rewarding hard work and fostering a thriving environment for our team. Here’s a glimpse of the fantastic benefits and opportunities awaiting our new Recruitment Consultant:
- A competitive salary package, reflecting your experience and expertise.
- Achievable individual bonus opportunities, directly linked to your success.
- Time in lieu.
- Enjoy your birthday day off every year!
- Generous length of service benefits, including extra days’ holiday and private healthcare.
- Paid volunteering days, allowing you to give back to the community.
- Access to our Cycle to Work and Tech discount scheme.
- Clear career progression opportunities within our well-established recruitment business.
- Be part of fantastic performance-related incentives and competitions, with recent prizes including a week-long trip to Paris and an upcoming 7-day holiday to Portugal – it could be you!
- A truly supportive and collaborative team culture, where your ideas and suggestions are genuinely valued, allowing your creative juices to flow.
Responsibilities in your new role as Recruitment Consultant
As our new Recruitment Consultant, you will play a pivotal role in Stafffinders’ continued success, bringing your high energy, positive attitude, and phenomenal ambition to a well-established team. You’ll thrive on building relationships, whether over the phone or in person, and be instrumental in our fast-paced, high-volume temporary and permanent recruitment efforts. If you’re confident, outgoing, and happiest when you’re building relationships, you’re already ticking our boxes! Your responsibilities will include:
- Developing new business through proactive client outreach and relationship building, establishing Stafffinders as a trusted partner.
- Managing and growing relationships with existing clients, understanding their needs and exceeding expectations.
- Crafting compelling job adverts and sourcing top-tier candidates through multiple channels.
- Efficiently screening, interviewing, and matching candidates to suitable opportunities, ensuring the perfect fit.
- Managing the entire recruitment process, from initial vacancy qualification through to successful placement.
- Building and nurturing a strong pipeline of candidates, maintaining regular and effective communication.
- Ensuring full candidate compliance and meticulously maintaining accurate CRM records.
- Working towards and consistently exceeding individual sales and placement targets, contributing directly to our shared success.
Your personality, experience and qualifications
To excel in this role, you will be a driven, confident, and commercially focused individual with a proven ability to develop new opportunities and deliver outstanding results. We’re seeking someone who is passionate about people and thrives on variety, ideas, and human connection in a busy, sales-focused environment.
- Essential: Demonstrable experience in recruitment (this is essential), whether in temporary or permanent markets.
- Confidence in making outbound calls and a natural flair for generating new business.
- Exceptional relationship-building skills, allowing you to connect authentically with clients and candidates.
- Excellent communication, both written and verbal, alongside strong organisational abilities and a keen eye for detail. An excellent command of the English language is required for effective communication.
- A proactive, motivated attitude and the resilience to thrive under pressure.
Please note: This role is fully office based and does not offer hybrid working, fostering a truly collaborative team environment.
Our selection process typically involves a two-stage interview, allowing us to get to know each other thoroughly.
Apply now!
Please send us an up-to-date copy of your CV, by clicking the Apply button. This position is only available to applicants who have immediate Right to Work in the UK and you will be required to provide evidence of such upon request. Also required are up-to-date contact details for at least 2 references.
Stafffinders are operating as an Employment Agency for permanent positions and as an Employment Business for temporary positions.
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