Trainee Recruitment Consultant - Education Sector

Job description

Trainee Recruitment ConsultantLocation: Chelmsford, Essex

Contract: Permanent - Full-Time

You will provide a vital link between clients and candidates. The role is demanding and diverse, involving:

Working with a large client base - differentiating your approach and candidate base according to needs

Using sales, business development and marketing techniques and networking opportunities to attract business from client schools

Visiting clients to build and develop close working relationships, providing the best possible service at all times

Advertising vacancies by placing adverts on a variety of job boards

Using social media to advertise positions, attract candidates and build relationships with candidates, employers, and the teaching community

Headhunting - identifying and approaching suitable candidates who may already be in work

Receiving and reviewing applications, managing interviews, and creating a shortlist of candidates for each client

Requesting references and checking the suitability of applicants before submitting their details to the client

Briefing and preparing each candidate about the responsibilities, salary, and benefits of the job

Preparing CVs and profiles to forward to clients in respect of suitable applicants

Organising interviews for candidates as requested by the client, followed by successful negotiations

Informing candidates about the results of their interviews

Using our CRM system to manage bookings with speed and accuracy

Coordinating sponsorship activities for client schools

Key Requirements

Proactive and wanting to give 100% each and every day

Positive, fun and enthusiastic

Hungry to learn, develop and be great at recruitment!

Excellent time management and organisational skills

Possess a professional and ethical approach to business, understanding how important our role in selecting staff to be responsible for our schools and their students

Be able to forge and maintain relationships over the telephone and face‐to‐face

Benefits

We have fantastic support teams – Payroll (PAYE), marketing, and compliance teams

Excellent salary package with an open‐ended bonus system

Company/team performance incentives throughout the year

Excellent career progression and professional development opportunities

Regular team events

Friendly, professional, and hard‐working team environment

7am-4pm or 8am-5pm in term time

Reduced hours over the school holidays

Hybrid working (4 days in branch – Wednesdays working from home)

Parking costs covered

Free and unlimited bean‐to‐cup coffee (Cappuccinos, flat whites, etc). Free beers and prosecco every Friday!

Daily snacks, fruit and free pick and mix!

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Extra information

Status

Open

Education Level

Secondary School

Location

Chelmsford

Type of Contract

Full-time jobs

Published at

26-05-2026

Profession type

Teaching / Instructors / Guides

Full UK/EU driving license preferred

No

Car Preferred

No

Must be eligible to work in the EU

No

Cover Letter Required

No

Languages

English