Trainee Recruitment Consultant (Kickstart) - Cardiff
Equal Talent Partners, United Kingdom
Job Description
Equal Talent Partners (E-Qual Recruitment Ltd) is an established company with over 10 years experience in the education recruitment sector. We work with over 100 schools and further education colleges. Additionally, we provide training to teachers, develop impactful projects to widen access to Higher Education and improve Science amp; Maths education for the Welsh Government, and we’ve built the Educators Wales digital recruitment platform. We’re an education company, providing recruitment, training, transformation and digital services.
The Role: Trainee Recruitment Consultant
As a Trainee Recruitment Consultant at Equal, you’ll gain a thorough insight into the work of a Recruitment Consultant in the specialist education sector.
You’ll work with our Candidate Recruitment Manager, Compliance Manager and School Recruitment Managers to grow and enhance our network of education professionals and make a real difference to our growth through enabling us to service more client schools and colleges throughout Wales.
Key Responsibilities
- Taking responsibility for candidate recruitment within a specified geographical area (one or more counties)
- Searching for and attracting strong candidates for roles in education institutions
- Interviewing candidates for temporary, long term and permanent roles with Equal Talent Partners and our client organisations
- Identifying candidates’ training needs and areas for development
- Fully utilising the company Application Tracking System (ATS) to ensure candidates’ progression
- Carrying out compliance amp; vetting processes for candidates under the supervision of our Compliance Manager
- Working with the Candidate Recruitment Manager to create attractive candidate CVs
- Working with Recruitment Managers to match strong candidates with the right roles in a timely manner
- Getting candidates ready for their first day in work with Equal Talent Partners
- Supporting Recruitment Managers to find suitable work for education professionals in schools within a specified geographical area through communicating with schools and matching candidates effectively
- Having a real tangible impact on the business by expanding our candidate base and therefore the number of client schools we can effectively service
Requirements
We’re looking for new team members who bring, energy, professionalism, strong communication skills, digital literacy and a willingness to learn to our team.
Energy amp; motivation
We need you to be motivated, eager to learn quickly, keen to have a real impact and enthusiastic about the work you’ll be doing within our team. We’re a close-knit team so everyone’s motivation is key to maintaining our momentum.
High standards amp; professionalism
With that, you’ll need to have high standards for your work and presentation and be able to represent Equal Talent Partners in the best possible way at all times. Your professionalism is key. As a Trainee Recruitment Consultant with Equal, you’ll be dealing with our candidates and clients on a daily basis and our maintaining our strong reputation through working with integrity is key.
Communication
In addition to your energy and professionalism, we’ll need you to have a high standard of written English and written communication, be a strong verbal communicator and have confidence in presenting yourself and representing the company to new people.
Digital literacy
You will also need to be digitally literate and able to effectively pick up/learn how to use new systems.
A willingness to learn
Full training will be provided but strong intuition and curiosity to learn will be especially helpful.
Qualifications
Degree-level qualifications would be desirable, but are not essential in this role. We are equally interested in hearing from motivated school-leavers and those who’ve taken other paths.
Get in touch
Recruiters do best when they work well with people and processes, so the best recruiters come from all walks of life and backgrounds (much like our candidates), so if this sounds like a role which would excite you, please get in touch whatever your academic and professional background is - we’d love to hear from you.
Benefits
Skills Development
As a Trainee Recruitment Consultant with Equal, you’ll gain expert knowledge of the education recruitment sector, setting you up well for a career in education recruitment or any other area of the broader recruitment industry. You’ll develop:
- A thorough knowledge of the recruitment sector, and particular knowledge of education recruitment
- The ability to