Job Description:

Soar Recruitment is looking for an experienced Early Years Recruitment Consultant to join our growing team. We specialise in Education Recruitment and Early Years Recruitment and will be moving into other related sectors.

Based in Beckenham we offer a young, lively environment where consultants can thrive and reach their full potential in recruitment. We are looking for the ideal candidate to join our team and grow with the business. If you’re looking for a truly inspiring work environment where you have the room and all of the tools for growth, Soar Recruitment is for you! You will join a company that’ll encourage you to maximise your potential, be successful and truly develop your career.

As an Early Years Recruitment Consultant, you're the vital link between clients and candidates. The role is demanding, diverse and involves:

• using sales, business development, marketing techniques and networking to attract business from client companies
• advertising vacancies by drafting and placing adverts in a range of media.
• using social media to advertise positions, attract candidates and build relationships
• headhunting - identifying and approaching suitable candidates who may already be in work
• using candidate databases to match the right person to the client's vacancy
• receiving and reviewing applications, managing interviews and tests and creating a shortlist of candidates for the client
• requesting references and checking the suitability of applicants before submitting their details to the client
• working towards and exceeding targets that may relate to the number of candidates placed, a value to be billed to clients or business leads generated
• expanding the client base by actively sourcing new business and develop positive relationships as well as maintaining positive and effective relationships with existing active and dormant clients
• be the key account manager for individual clients ensuring that the client’s needs are met and that the services provided deliver to the required financial targets
• Reporting to the director daily with an update of your current pipeline
• Management of clients/candidates needs and expectations
• To ensure employers and candidates are fully supported throughout their customer journey
• To support the wider Soar Recruitment management team with operational duties and development strategies

The successful candidate will inherit a patch that already has an established client and candidate base ready for someone with the vision to expand its potential and grow its market share. We promote consultant's treating their patch as their own business, creating a strong client and candidate relationships and thinking of innovative ideas to grow the business and gross profit.

What we are looking for:

• 360 Recruitment experience
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal
• Excellent sales ability
• Confident and ambitious
• Sales-minded with the confidence to pick up a phone and win clients
• Self-motivation, determination, energy, drive and enthusiasm
• Excellent organisational and time-manage skills
• Ability to work in a fast-paced environment and manage a busy workload
• Confident, articulate, presentable and professional
•  a resilient, positive individual with a can-do attitude