Responsibility
If you're after early management responsibility, the chance to work on your own initiative and a stimulating working environment which is anything but nine-to-five, then welcome to the recruitment industry. Real responsibility with the support to develop to your full potential.
Working with clients
As a consultant, you will develop close working relationships with your clients, which, depending on your office and specialisation, could range from blue chip plcs and international firms to entrepreneurial, owner-managed businesses or some of Europe's largest public sector bodies.
You'll have responsibility for expanding your client base, and increasing sales to that base, as well as delivering the service itself, requiring a vast range of personal qualities and skills.
You'll need to develop a keen awareness of how to resource sales leads, including networking with your local business community and use of the internet as a vital marketing tool. Employers will rely on you for advice when planning recruitment, drawing up job and person specifications and salary and benefit packages.
Working with candidates
As advisor and confidant to those seeking a new position, you'll be responsible for helping people achieve their career goals. You'll need to attract new candidate registrations, through advertising on the internet and in the financial, national and local press, as well as encouraging those people you help to recommend Hays to their friends and colleagues.
From your initial meeting, where you carry out a thorough interview and advise on candidates' expectations, you'll be that candidate's personal advisor, counselling them on a range of career issues such as CV preparation, handling interviews and salary trends. You will also be a sounding board for crucial decisions when job offers are considered and options weighed up.
Website resources
The internet has revolutionised recruitment. More and more people are finding jobs and recruitment consultants through the worldwide web.
Hays has responded to this with the largest managed jobs database on the internet. As a consultant, part of your job is to use this vital marketing tool. It's something no recruitment consultant can afford to ignore.
Our website department will keep you up-to-date with developments on our own website, information which you'll need to be continually communicating to your clients and candidates to demonstrate the lengths to which we're going in order to provide the biggest choice of opportunities and services.
