Recruitment Consultant
| Posting date: | 24 November 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £26,400 per year |
| Additional salary information: | £25,600 basic salary + uncapped commission |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 23 December 2025 |
| Location: | IP1 1UQ |
| Remote working: | Hybrid - work remotely up to 2 days per week |
| Company: | Hays |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | IpswichPT |
Summary
Recruitment Consultant
Hays Recruitment – Ipswich
We are seeking a sales-driven Recruitment Consultant to join our local Ipswich office in our established Construction & Property team. As a Recruitment Consultant, you'll be responsible for further developing a temporary Construction within a team of four Construction & Property specialists.
You will be conducting business development (sales calls) to seek out and meet with recruitment teams, directors, line managers, and other key stakeholders. As a Recruitment Consultant, you will be recruiting the best and most experienced candidates for roles across Construction, often supporting with the recruitment of Commercial Managers, Site Managers and Project Managers. This is a sales-based role where you will enjoy uncapped commission alongside your base salary.
Your new team
Are you ready to build a career where your ambition is supported and your success celebrated? We’re looking for a driven and relationship-focused Recruitment Consultant to join out local team of 8 consultants. We offer a collaborative and inclusive environment ensuring you are set-up to succeed whilst being surrounded by expertise.
Whether you’re returning to work, changing careers, or looking to grow in a new direction, we welcome diverse experience. As a people centric business, we’re proud to be positively impacting our local people and businesses.
Your new role
The responsibilities of a Recruitment Consultant include:
Making cold calls and sales calls to prospective clients to sell our services within Construction
Developing and maintaining strong relationships with organisations and key decision makers
Actively engaging with face-to-face meetings with in-house recruitment professionals, directors, and line managers
Sourcing, screening and recruiting top-tier candidates for roles
Drafting reports, ensure compliance across all activities, and participating in internal projects
Working to daily targets and KPIs to achieve your monetary goals and contribute to the growth and profitability of Hays
We pride ourselves in hiring the very best talent in the recruitment space and therefore you will need to meet the following criteria to apply:
A genuine drive to work in a sales environment – our best people are motivated to work to targets and go the extra mile for clients, candidates and Hays
Excellent communication skills and workplace professionalism
An individual who is resilient, bold and curious
Has a good understanding of what 360 recruitment is and is passionate about pursuing a career within recruitment
What you’ll get in return
Hays is the largest specialist recruiter globally and a multi award-winning business covering 22 areas of recruitment across over 50 offices in the UK.
As a multi-award-winning employer, we believe as part of the employee and employer deal, we can give you exciting career development opportunities to support your aspirations. Our culture is a reason why so many of our people choose to stay and grow their careers with Hays.
We are big on collaboration and driven to connect with each other on a genuine human level. We call it the Hays spirit. You will experience this inclusive, motivating energy across our business.
In addition, you will enjoy:
Uncapped individual commission paid upon invoice every 4 weeks
Regular performance-based incentive programmes including the opportunity to qualify for an all-expense paid international trips
A culture underpinned with trust, which is based on expertise, training, collaboration, inclusivity and doing the right thing
Industry-leading learning and development to maximise your performance and advance your career every step of the way
A global brand with established with an enviable client base of global household names
A mature approach to working with hybrid working models and flexible working hours
The opportunity to take your career across the world through our global mobility offering.
Diverse range of employee support networks, wellbeing and volunteering initiatives alongside wider benefits
We know talented people want to work with the best: people, brand, tools, technology and infrastructure. They also want career development. Our culture is shaped and created by these features.
We’re also committed to doing the right thing, together. As a progressive employer, we believe in doing the right thing for our people our customers and the communities in which we live and work. We’re constantly working to deliver on our commitments to social purpose, equity, diversity & inclusion and sustainability.
What to do next
Please apply now to become the next Recruitment Consultant or for more information on our roles.
The future is what you make it at Hays – and you’re in the driving seat. Your energy and dedication will be rewarded in a culture built on celebrating success.
As a committed Disability Confident employer, if you’re thinking of a new tomorrow for your career, whatever your background, let’s work together to create it!
Hays Recruitment – Ipswich
We are seeking a sales-driven Recruitment Consultant to join our local Ipswich office in our established Construction & Property team. As a Recruitment Consultant, you'll be responsible for further developing a temporary Construction within a team of four Construction & Property specialists.
You will be conducting business development (sales calls) to seek out and meet with recruitment teams, directors, line managers, and other key stakeholders. As a Recruitment Consultant, you will be recruiting the best and most experienced candidates for roles across Construction, often supporting with the recruitment of Commercial Managers, Site Managers and Project Managers. This is a sales-based role where you will enjoy uncapped commission alongside your base salary.
Your new team
Are you ready to build a career where your ambition is supported and your success celebrated? We’re looking for a driven and relationship-focused Recruitment Consultant to join out local team of 8 consultants. We offer a collaborative and inclusive environment ensuring you are set-up to succeed whilst being surrounded by expertise.
Whether you’re returning to work, changing careers, or looking to grow in a new direction, we welcome diverse experience. As a people centric business, we’re proud to be positively impacting our local people and businesses.
Your new role
The responsibilities of a Recruitment Consultant include:
Making cold calls and sales calls to prospective clients to sell our services within Construction
Developing and maintaining strong relationships with organisations and key decision makers
Actively engaging with face-to-face meetings with in-house recruitment professionals, directors, and line managers
Sourcing, screening and recruiting top-tier candidates for roles
Drafting reports, ensure compliance across all activities, and participating in internal projects
Working to daily targets and KPIs to achieve your monetary goals and contribute to the growth and profitability of Hays
We pride ourselves in hiring the very best talent in the recruitment space and therefore you will need to meet the following criteria to apply:
A genuine drive to work in a sales environment – our best people are motivated to work to targets and go the extra mile for clients, candidates and Hays
Excellent communication skills and workplace professionalism
An individual who is resilient, bold and curious
Has a good understanding of what 360 recruitment is and is passionate about pursuing a career within recruitment
What you’ll get in return
Hays is the largest specialist recruiter globally and a multi award-winning business covering 22 areas of recruitment across over 50 offices in the UK.
As a multi-award-winning employer, we believe as part of the employee and employer deal, we can give you exciting career development opportunities to support your aspirations. Our culture is a reason why so many of our people choose to stay and grow their careers with Hays.
We are big on collaboration and driven to connect with each other on a genuine human level. We call it the Hays spirit. You will experience this inclusive, motivating energy across our business.
In addition, you will enjoy:
Uncapped individual commission paid upon invoice every 4 weeks
Regular performance-based incentive programmes including the opportunity to qualify for an all-expense paid international trips
A culture underpinned with trust, which is based on expertise, training, collaboration, inclusivity and doing the right thing
Industry-leading learning and development to maximise your performance and advance your career every step of the way
A global brand with established with an enviable client base of global household names
A mature approach to working with hybrid working models and flexible working hours
The opportunity to take your career across the world through our global mobility offering.
Diverse range of employee support networks, wellbeing and volunteering initiatives alongside wider benefits
We know talented people want to work with the best: people, brand, tools, technology and infrastructure. They also want career development. Our culture is shaped and created by these features.
We’re also committed to doing the right thing, together. As a progressive employer, we believe in doing the right thing for our people our customers and the communities in which we live and work. We’re constantly working to deliver on our commitments to social purpose, equity, diversity & inclusion and sustainability.
What to do next
Please apply now to become the next Recruitment Consultant or for more information on our roles.
The future is what you make it at Hays – and you’re in the driving seat. Your energy and dedication will be rewarded in a culture built on celebrating success.
As a committed Disability Confident employer, if you’re thinking of a new tomorrow for your career, whatever your background, let’s work together to create it!
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Disability Confident
About Disability Confident
A Disability Confident employer will generally offer an interview to any applicant that declares they have a disability and meets the minimum criteria for the job as defined by the employer. It is important to note that in certain recruitment situations such as high-volume, seasonal and high-peak times, the employer may wish to limit the overall numbers of interviews offered to both disabled people and non-disabled people. For more details please go to Disability Confident.