as a recruitment consultant you will ultimately be responsible for your own business developing a portfolio of both candidates and clients across the kent market you will have responsibility for the full recruitment process which will include contacting local companies by phone and email to pick up new vacancies sourcing candidates for these roles and then offering professional advice to your clients on how best to recruit for these vacancies other elements of this job will include interviewing candidates to ascertain suitability for a role writing advertisements to attract candidates and meeting with clients on site to discuss their recruitment requirements you will also be required to negotiate fees and salaries with both clients an we are looking for someone who has strong sales skillsat the heart of this job is the ability to secure your candidates interviews and ultimately a job which will often require you to persuade and influence candidates and clients alike the role will also involve a degree of cold calling so you will have to be resilient and an extremely proactive individual who enjoys working with people ideally you will have come from a professional sales environment and be degree educated where specific uk qualifications are required we will take into account overseas equivalents page personnel is part of pagegroup and are a ftse 250 listed business we have operations across the uk as well as our worldwide operations and have a number of professional disciplines under the pagegroup this is genuinely a very exciting opportunity for someone who wants to be in charge of their own destiny there is a very comprehensive training package huge scope for career progression and many of our best consultants become managers in their first 23 years you will also enjoy working for a business that offers extremely generous benefits such as annual trips abroad to california brazil and south africa and quarterly incentives ranging from top page personnel is a leading uk recruitment consultancy this job was originally posted as wwwtotaljobscomjobseekingrecruitmentconsultantjob