Recruitment Consultant

We are a leading recruitment consultancy for the media industry, established over thirty years ago. We have an unrivalled reputation for the quality of our work and delivering on expectations, no matter what the market throws at us and a large and loyal candidate and client base.

We are looking to hire a recruitment consultant for our team that focuses on recruiting for media owners, business intelligence providers and IT firms, filling commercial roles such as sales, marketing and conference production from trainee to director level. This is our longest-serving team that has exclusive relationships with some of its clients and is often given vacancies that none of our competitors have access to.

At Media Contacts we strongly value relationships and face-to-face interaction, with team members having attended business events in New York, Washington and Amsterdam in the past year as well as sponsoring and attending networking events and awards in London. We are very much global in our outlook, with recent placements made in the Caribbean, Japan, South Africa and mainland Europe.

This opportunity would be ideal for someone who loves networking, is culturally curious, sets high standards of delivery and strives to be the best in the market that they recruit for. The financial rewards can also be considerable.

The Recruitment Consultant's Job:

The recruitment consultant role is pivotal to the success of Media Contacts, driving revenue and delivering excellent service to both clients and candidates. It is a 360-degree recruitment role and each recruitment consultant is given their own part of the business to take control of and grow. We operate on a meritocratic basis, enabling you to take charge of your own destiny and a combination of your own endeavour and the support of the management and your colleagues can drive you along a career path to becoming a manager or even a director of the business.

• Revenue Generation - Hitting (and hopefully exceeding!) monthly and quarterly revenue targets, maintaining a sales pipeline and keeping track of revenue forecasts
• Candidates - Sourcing and headhunting candidates in relation to client briefs through the phone, linkedin etc, building your personal brand and online presence through personal marketing and word of mouth, networking to build and maintain strong relationships in your market, interviewing candidates over the phone, via video and face to face, managing the interview process through to job offer stage, providing ongoing support and customer service to candidates post placement (some of our candidates have used us as their trusted advisers for twenty years!)
• Clients - mapping out and maintaining excellent market expertise and knowledge of your clients' businesses, visiting clients and providing consultative advice on hiring to clients, actively sourcing new business leads and conducting new business activity
• Desk Management/Team Work - maintaining accurate records of all client and candidate activity, being an active and vocal member of a collaborative, supportive team, including contributing to team meetings and strategy

Requirements:

• Previous experience as a recruitment consultant or another commercial sector that has developed transferable skills
• Educated to degree level or strong attainment on leaving school/college
• A great attitude, willingness to work hard and throw yourself in
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Entrepreneurial spirit
• Integrity and the desire to work with a great, supportive team

Other info:

Culturally we are a progressive, inclusive employer and we pride ourselves on our commitment to an ethical, professional approach. We blend hard work with fun and operate as a meritocratic, supportive company.

We offer lots of social opportunities and incentives for our teams. We are a largely office-based culture, generally working 4 days in our Islington office and 1 day from home.

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