Recruitment Consultant
| Posting date: | 02 March 2026 |
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| Salary: | £36,400 to £40,000 per year |
| Additional salary information: | uncapped commission |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 01 April 2026 |
| Location: | Southampton, Hampshire, SO15 2JU |
| Company: | Hays Specialist Recruitment |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 37463_1772459976 |
Summary
Recruitment Consultant - Southampton
£36,500 - £40,000 + uncapped commission
(Must have 1 years Recruitment experience)
Join Our Award-Winning Team!
Working in our Southampton office means joining a vibrant team of experienced Consultants, each bringing diverse expertise across various specialized sectors. You'll be part of a supportive and collaborative environment where experienced colleagues are always ready to share their knowledge and help you succeed. Our Southampton office is an integral part of the wider South East region, fostering a culture of teamwork and collective achievement. Together, we strive for excellence and celebrate our successes.
Your new role as a Senior Recruitment Consultant:
Client Growth: Foster lasting relationships, building and nurturing relationships with clients while actively pursuing new business opportunities. Understanding client recruitment needs and providing strategic advice to ensure the best candidate matches.
Candidate Engagement: Find and engage the best talent, attracting top talent through effective candidate engagement strategies. Guiding candidates throughout the interview and offer process, ensuring a seamless experience.
Skillful Negotiation: Create win-win situations for clients and candidates, negotiating terms and fees to create mutually beneficial partnerships.
Target Achievement: Meet and exceed KPIs with zeal and efficiency. Collaborating within a high-performing team, motivating each other to achieve outstanding results.
Leadership Partner Expertise: Becoming an industry expert through networking and staying ahead of market trends.
No day is the same and you will gain experience across a varied range of skills. You really can influence your own earning potential, by getting out what you put in. Your energy and dedication will be rewarded in a culture built on celebrating success.
Why Choose Hays?
As a large company we have a huge opportunity to make a difference to the communities we operate in.
As a result, we are proud to say:
- We partner with End Youth Homelessness UK to raise money for their charity
- We also became carbon neutral in 2021 are currently on the path to net zero carbon emissions.
- Hays was one of the first 20 companies nationwide to receive the National Equality Standard and we continue to promote an environment where all our employees can be their full self at work.
- #HaysHelps We're committed to making a positive impact on the communities we live and work in. As part of this, we have a volunteering scheme, #HaysHelps, which gives employees two days of paid leave per calendar year to volunteer.
Award winners of:
- Top 100 undergraduate employers by Job Crowd, NUE awards and Rate My Placement
- Glassdoor Best Places to Interview
As a Hays consultant, you will benefit from:
- Commission scheme structure (uncapped paid x13 times a year, increases with promotions)
- Best technology in the industry and a renowned training programme to support success and drive rapid career progression and ongoing development
- Opportunity to take your career globally
- Incentives and rewards to recognise performance both locally, regionally and nationally
- Broad range of employee wellbeing initiatives and benefits
- Community of internal support networks.
- Paid volunteering days for all employees under our Working for Your Tomorrow Initiative.
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.