Associate/Trainee Recruitment Consultant Astbury Marsden

Job description

The focus of the Associate Consultant role is to deliver candidates to strategic assignments across the markets/sectors we cover including Investment Banking, Financial Services, Management Consultancies and Oil and Gas. You will work on a variety of search assignments and strategic projects across multiple business areas. Driving candidate generation and gathering competitive intelligence, you will support our consultants in their delivery to our clients' requirements. You will be working towards specific milestones to ensure your progression and promotion to a Consultant within the first year.

Duties:

• Undertaking research to locate candidates through interviewing, telephone referencing and taking qualitative views from market sources.
• Identifying top industry performers and talent pools
• Market mapping
• Assistance in executing mandates through candidate identification, qualification and interview
• Pre-pitch/origination researching and due diligence
• Formulating competitor analysis
• Telephone referencing to gather additional information on candidates and companies
• Developing strong network of market sources
• Developing broad understanding of your specialist market including Banking, Insurance, Financial Services or our new Oil and Gas market.

Person requirements

• Graduate calibre
• Sales experience preferred
• Pro-active and able to filter useful information from online sources
• An understanding of and interest in the financial markets.
• Experience working in a team orientated environment
• Confident, articulate communicator both by telephone and face to face
• Entrepreneurial: engages with team and creates solutions
• Intelligent and naturally inquisitive
• Well organised, structured and disciplined
• High levels of drive and influence

Recruitment is fast-paced, competitive and challenging, and is not the right career path for everyone. For those who enjoy sales, targets and being entrepreneurial this is the right role, with rewards that other industries can not offer.

Company information

Established in 1995, we now have three locations including London, Hong Kong and Singapore and we’re continually looking to grow each office further.

Over the last couple of years we have been awarded with accolades including The Sunday Times ‘best small companies to work for 2012’, Recruiter Fast Top 50, A Top 250 Recruitment Company 2012 and Bronze Investors in People 2012 and 2013.

All our Associates benefit from our award-winning training and development plans. We believe in promoting from within and roles in management and transfers to our other international offices are open to all.

Accepted degree subjects

Any

How to apply

Please email via the Apply now button or Tel: 020 7065 1173