Position: Senior Recruitment Consultant - Education Sector

Location: Leeds

Salary: starting salary 32,000 - 40,000 experience dependant + uncapped commission

Annual leave entitlements: 27 days + bank holidays

Requirements: Proven track record in recruitment or sustained sales experience in a relevant sector

We are looking to add a Senior Recruitment Consultant to our thriving branch in Leeds. Our team currently delivers and extremely high service to a large portfolio of clients in the Midlands area. Due to this sustained success, we are looking to add an experienced recruiter to the branch.

Main duties of our Senior Consultants:

Managing your own desk of business, working towards agreed targets
Arranging interviews & placing candidates into roles with our clients
Client attraction; canvassing, mailing and other sales led activities
Candidate attraction; developing a new candidate pool to fulfil vacancies identified through the client attraction process
Support and assist our resourcers with the registering, interviewing, testing and referencing of candidates when necessary

Person Specification:

Recruitment or sales background
Driven and resilient
Excellent verbal and written communication skills, you'll be comfortable on the phone as you are writing emails
Experience of working in a faced paced environment and be resilient and flexible.
Strong attention to detail and be a completer/finisher
Excellent IT skills and good knowledge of all Office applications

What we can offer you:

Uncapped Bonus Scheme
27 days holiday + Bank Holidays
Warm friendly and fun office environment
Optional pension
Wellbeing programme
Annual company awards and summer party
Career progression & development opportunities

Who are Academics?

Academics education recruitment are one of the UK's fastest growing education recruitment agencies with over 20 branches throughout the UK. Our nationwide network of recruitment teams provide teachers, teaching assistants and school support staff to over a thousand Primary and Secondary schools every day, for both short and long term assignments. If you want to join a forward-thinking, fast growing recruitment/sales company then we are the place for you.

If you're looking to kick start your career as a recruitment consultant in the Leeds area, and hoping to join a rapidly expanding, hugely successful business, with a great reputation and one of the lowest turnovers of staff in recruitment, then speak to us.

Email your CV or contact Craig Walker. Craig is very happy to discuss the role in more detail.