Manager - Talent Acquisition - Consulting Firm

Recruitment consultants provide a vital link between clients and candidates.

The role is demanding and diverse and involves :

- Using sales, business development, marketing techniques and networking to attract business from client companies

- Visiting clients to build and develop relationships

- Developing a good understanding of client companies, their industry, what they do, plus their work culture and environment

- Advertising vacancies by drafting and placing adverts in a range of media, for example newspapers, websites, magazines

- Using social media to advertise positions, attract candidates and build relationships with candidates and employers

- 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

- Briefing the candidate about the responsibilities, salary and benefits of the job in question

- Preparing CVs and correspondence to forward to clients regarding of suitable applicants

- Organising interviews for candidates as requested by the client

- Informing candidates about the results of their interviews

- Negotiating pay and salary rates and finalising arrangements between client and candidates

- Offering advice to both clients and candidates on pay rates, training and career progression