Recruitment Consultant
| Posting date: | 01 December 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £26,400 to £36,400 per year |
| Additional salary information: | uncapped commission |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 31 December 2025 |
| Location: | Surrey, GU2 7YL |
| Company: | Hays Specialist Recruitment |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 37303_1764588558 |
Summary
Welcome to Hays!
At Hays, we believe in being long-term partners with our people as well as our customers. With over 50 years of business success across 31 countries, we have built a reputation as the world leader in specialist recruitment and workforce solutions.
Together with over 9,500 people across the globe, we are better together: we support, celebrate, and share with each other to create stronger outcomes for all. Launch your career with the world's leading specialist recruitment & workforce solution organisation. Join the Hays team!
Location: Guilford
Salary: £27,000 to £30,000 per annum + uncapped commission
Hours: Mon-Fri, 40 hours per week
Hybrid: After your initial training period you can choose to take advantage of our hybrid working policy.
The Opportunity
What can I expect day to day?
As a recruitment consultant you will gain exposure to a range of different activities whilst being supported by a structured training and development programme from day one. Some of your main responsibilities may include:
- Source, interview, and match high-quality candidates to roles
- Identify and proactively partner with new and existing clients through new outreach and business development calls to build better, profitable outcomes by understanding their hiring needs and challenges
- Manage the recruitment process by guiding candidates and Clients through the full recruitment process from taking a brief to negotiating offers
- Be bold and curious, developing specialist market expertise by actively seeking to understand your customer's market
- Take accountability for meeting targets and delivering your monetary goals that contribute to the growth and profitability of Hays
- Be part of a vibrant and inclusive culture that cheers on progress by celebrating personal and team performance
Who are we looking for?
You'll be ambitious, pushing outside your comfort zone and willing to experiment. It's not just about who you are, but who you want to become.
- Effective communication skills and interpersonal skills, having honest conversations
- Customer centric by understanding clients' needs and delivering tailored solutions
- Have a strategic mindset to spot opportunities and drive profitable outcomes
- Open to change - being comfortable in a fast-paced target driven environment
- Develop new business relationships and maintain your network of client companies through business development calls, client visits, networking and entertainment events.
- Collaborative in spirit, people focused with a sales-driven mentality.
- Be resilient, bold and curious
What you'll get in return
Believing that personal growth leads to professional progression, you'll feel heard, valued and assured that we care about your wellbeing, in an inclusive environment where you can be your authentic self. This will enable you to reach your full potential, broadening your ability to make a positive impact leading to your own personal success.
- Access to team leadership training for you to evolve your career
- Cutting-edge tools and technology to enable you to make an extraordinary impact
- Generous leave entitlements to take advantage of parental leave, volunteering days, lifestyle and flex leave
- Celebrate success: Culture built on rewarding success with the opportunity to influence your earning potential with uncapped commission in addition to base salary.
- Global career opportunities - make your mark locally or explore international opportunities with Hays
- Thrive in a workplace where diversity is celebrated, and everyone feels welcome
- Wellbeing rewards: Benefit from health, leisure and lifestyle partnership discounts
- Employee Resource Groups and Working Groups for you to connect and collaborate with like-minded colleagues
What to do next:
If you strive for performance, see things through whilst acting with integrity? Hays is the place to be. Joining Hays means joining a business that's going places. Apply today!
At Hays, we share a passion for creating a culture where there are opportunities for our people to flourish and succeed, whatever your background. We know that diversity of perspective and an inclusive approach, which encourages those experiences and views to be heard, is great for business and therefore your career with us.