Associate Recruitment Consultant

At VWA – Boutique Recruitment Consultancy

Permanent

West End

Up to 35K depending on experience

7-VWAAC/NCWFA

VWA is hiring! We are looking for an ambitious, hardworking, highly communicative and team-playing individual to join our team as Associate Consultant in our Temporary and Contract Division. This role comes with a pathway towards eventual Consultant status and management of your own client-base, this is an excellent opportunity for someone looking to develop their skills in a commercial and people-focused environment.

About Us:

VWA is a boutique recruitment consultancy and has been established for 36 years – there is a true family feel in our culture and approach. We largely focus on the London market, although have a reach extending outside of the UK, supporting with a range of hiring needs, including:

• Business support and administrative roles
• Operations
• Marketing
• HR
• Finance, investments and accountancy
• Private PAs

About the Associate Consultant Roles:

As an Associate Consultant based on the Temporary and Contract team, your role will cover different areas to develop your knowledge of all VWA’s recruitment processes. This will include:

• Sourcing candidates through responding to applications and active searching on recruitment job boards.
• Conducting telephone screening calls with potential candidates.
• Helping to run targeted searches and headhunt top talent
• Conducting competency-based interviews with candidates invited to register.
• Candidate relationship management throughout registration process.
• Shortlisting candidates for clients’ briefs, collating interview feedback from candidates.
• Market research and analysis as required.
• Business development activities to grow own client base and nurture existing client relationships.
• Supporting weekly agency worker payroll administration.
• Administrative support including sending our compliance documents, Microsoft Office assessments and formatting CVs.
• Other tasks as required.

About You:

• Prior experience from a high-end sales role is ideal, but recruitment experience is not required.
• Strong Microsoft Office skills, and experience using IT programmes or databases.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Commercial attitude.
• An efficient approach to work and with a warm and approachable manner.
• Natural rapport-builder, and have a team-working and commercial mindset.

Additional Details:

• Core hours are 9am – 5.30pm, with flexibility to work beyond these hours if required.
• The company operates a hybrid working structure (3 days office-based) however the successful candidate will be fully office-based while onboarding into the role.
• Competitive base salary up to 35K depending on relevant experience (in business development, account management or sales), participation in commission scheme after probation and annual discretionary bonus.
• Other fantastic benefits included!

If you’re looking to build a successful career in recruitment in a fun, supportive and team-spirited environment, we would love to hear from you!