Senior Recruitment Consultant

At Fruition Group we embrace our values of Pride, Energy and Perseverance and our colleagues embed them as the foundation of their work. Our colleagues are proud to work for Fruition Group, they are pro-active with high energy to maintain our market-leading status. With a diverse team we recognise that no two people are the same and we focus on results rather than unachievable KPIs and work collaboratively to achieve our goals whilst having fun along the way!

We are a high growth organisation who work with a huge range of technology employers throughout the UK, and as a business we re-invest profits to ensure we are leading in recruitment innovation in our marketplace and equipping our colleagues with the best environment, tools and training to help them succeed.

The Yorkshire Tech team is our longest standing market, which focusses on staffing high-profile clients across the Leeds and Yorkshire area on an exclusive basis. This team is made up of extremely experienced recruiters, and has full support from our Delivery function and Consultancy Enablis, enabling you to accelerate your billings and become a true market leader in the industry.

The role

Reporting directly into a Managing Consultant, you will play a pivotal part in the resourcing of candidates for our clients and the development of new client relationships. You will continue to develop your network of candidates within your specialist vertical market and continually keeping up to date with current trends. You will think outside of the box for sourcing strategies and utilise all internal tech provided to maximise efficiency.

There is excellent opportunity to develop your mentoring and leadership skills as you will begin to support junior colleagues with their day to day recruitment and deliver training sessions. You will work alongside internal Account Managers to ensure a smooth recruitment process from beginning to end for roles that you are delivering on.

Key Responsibilities

1. Development of accounts into key accounts
2. Searching for suitable IT candidates who match our clients' requirements
3. Headhunting and networking on sites such as LinkedIn / GitHub / Stack Overflow
4. Writing and posting job adverts
5. Telephone interviewing candidates to assess their suitability for specific roles
6. Arranging interviews for candidates and liaising with them during this time
7. Making job offers to suitable candidates and handling rejections
8. Taking references / collating relevant supporting documents
9. Building relationships with candidates to create a strong talent pipeline
10. Use social media to create a personal brand
11. Keep up to date with trends within the Tech industry
12. Building relationships with existing and future clients
13. Utilise internal tech such as SourceWhale, LinkedHelper and Paiger
14. Ensure all data is accurately recorded on CRM
15. Attending meeting with clients to explore potential opportunities
16. Negotiating fees and terms of engagement

Key Skills and Capabilities

1. Outstanding communicational skills with the ability to adapt language to different audiences
2. Ability to build long-lasting professional relationships
3. Ability to handle difficult conversations
4. Excellent analytical and problem solving skills, attention to detail; well organised
5. Proactive and independent thinker
6. Excellent customer service skills
7. Strong presentation skills with the ability to convey key messages to diverse and wide audiences
8. Exceptional Stakeholder Engagement skills
9. Experience working to targets, and good billing history
10. Good negotiating skills
11. Experience using the telephone in a professional environment is essential
12. Good understanding of recruitment in the Leeds market is desirable
13. Experience within Tech Recruitment on a 360 basis is essential

Benefits

1. Competitive basic salary with uncapped earning potential
2. Lucrative commission - no thresholds!
3. Ongoing training with external learning providers
4. Clear and structured Career progression
5. Bi annual winners trip to European destinations such as Marbella, Barcelona & Amsterdam
6. Flexible working offer between the office and home
7. Quarterly lunch clubs for top achievers
8. Quarterly team socials
9. Childcare vouchers
10. Friday early finish

If you're interested in joining Fruition as a Senior Recruitment Consultant / please get in touch for an initial confidential chat about our available opportunities, and we'll happily share our story with you.

For further information please email

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation or age.