Graduate Recruitment Consultant -Control Your Earnings

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Why get into recruitment consultancy?

Recruitment consultancy has two main benefits; the career progression and earning potential! Recruitment is an industry in which you can earn over £40,000 in your first year and quickly progress through the ranks to senior and management positions.

• First year basic salary: £22,000


• First year on target earnings: £40,000


• Second year on target earnings of £60,000


• Third year on target earnings of £100,000


• Quarterly incentives (Ascot, Cartier Polo, Henley Regatta etc.)


• Rolexes for top biller


• Monthly lunch clubs to London’s top restaurants


• Highly sociable working environment

The role of a graduate recruitment consultant

Recruitment consultancy is a direct sales role. A recruiter has to be able to sell candidates to clients and vice versa. On the candidate side you will be advertising jobs, screening CVs, interviewing candidates and prepping them for interviews. On the client side you will be expected to win your own clients which will involve lots of cold calling, liaising with existing clients, setting up interviews and negotiating contracts. This is a position that will involve lots of networking and requires a proactive mindset.

Who is the position of a recruitment consultant with?

We are currently offering a position with a company are based next to Old Street Station in Central London and specialise in IT recruitment. Having just moved to new offices they have extremely ambitious growth plans looking to grow to 300 from 150 in the next couple of years.

They work with high profile clients including being the EXCLUSIVE supplier to Apple in the UK, they also work with: HSBC, Shell, Sainsbury’s, BT and Lloyds and won several awards for their performance.

They also run one of the most generous commission schemes within the recruitment industry, there are people who have been with the company for less than 5 years who bill over £1 million a year and take home over £300,000 as individuals.

Who is suitable for recruitment consultancy?

• 2:1 degree from top 40 university


• Track record of working hard and high achievements


• We are looking for someone that is consultative and not an aggressive sales personality


• Money motivated!


• Strong personality with a mature attitude


• Someone that is disruptive in a positive manner


• Ambitious

Rule Recruitment is here to support you through the process, prepare you for interview and advise you on how to communicate your talents to perspective employers. Realise your potential with RULE!

RULE Recruitment are a leading recruitment business specialising in placing the best talent into the recruitment market. We work from trainee level recruitment where we place the best graduates and trainees into entry level recruitment positions right through to seasoned recruitment professionals at Director level. With over a decade of working in the recruitment to recruitment sector, we are well positioned to help you find the best recruitment job for you.