Early Years Recruitment Consultant

Early Years Recruitment Consultant

We are currently seeking to expand our highly successful recruitment team.

Link Education are Education Recruitment Specialists providing a service to Nursery, Primary, Secondary and SEN settings across the South East.

We have a strong focus on customer service and provide a first rate service to both schools, nurseries, teachers and support staff. Our service is centred on an ethical approach to recruitment and a dedication to attracting and supporting the best candidates - both teaching and non-teaching professionals.

As an Early Years Recruitment Consultant, you will be focused on delivering a "consultative" service providing short-term, long-term and permanent staff to nurseries within a specific geographical area.

You will be:

• Developing business with new clients over the phone and client visits
• Resourcing and interviewing new candidates
• Negotiating offers between clients and candidates
• Maintaining working relationships with existing clients and spotting opportunities for further business
• Advertising vacancies and searching job boards

What we are looking for:

As a Consultant, You will be targeted on both your activity and your financial billings on a weekly and monthly basis and expected to achieve and exceed the targets set for you.

To be successful within our business we would look for someone with the following attributes:

• A proven ability to sell
• An ability to think on your feet
• To be consultative in your sales approach
• To be able to negotiate and influence decision makers
• To be good at building long standing relationships with clients and candidates to ensure that your desk moves in the right direction
• The right mindset - honest and flexible with the determination to succeed and to enjoy working to structured goals and targets on a daily, weekly and monthly basis
• Having the ability to work quickly but efficiently under pressure.
• Excellent computer skills and telephone manner

Successful applicants will have experience in the recruitment industry. This will be a full 360 recruitment role where you will liaise with clients and candidates on a daily basis and our highly experienced team will provide you with support and training.

You will need to have enthusiasm for recruitment, great business development skills combined with passion, ambition and a strong desire to succeed.

We are offering a competitive salary and excellent OTE with uncapped commission!

If you believe you have strengths we are looking for, please apply and we will contact you to arrange an interview.