Graduate Recruitment Consultant
Maxim Recruitment has offices in Hong Kong, Leicester UK and in Toronto, Canada. We are looking to employ a Graduate level Recruitment Consultant or Resourcer in any one of these locations that have strong English AND Cantonese language skills.
The Recruitment Consultant or Resourcer job will be to work with the recruitment team on both new and existing professional/technical construction job vacancies we have with clients in Hong Kong and across Asia and Australia.
Project Details
The Recruitment Consultant or Resourcer job will be to work with the recruitment team on new and existing professional/technical construction job vacancies based in Hong Kong and across Asia and Australia.
This opportunity is open to candidates new to recruitment or with previous recruitment experience and appropriate training will be given.
This is an ideal opportunity for those who are keen to work alongside and learn from our recruitment professionals, that have many years of success recruiting in the construction industry.
The position will suit Graduate applicants who have confidence, ambition, and a collaborative working attitude. This Graduate Recruitment Consultant job offers a market leading bonus scheme, which recognises hard work and rewards recruitment consultants who do a good job.
The office and company culture at Maxim Recruitment is one of collaboration, learning and shared success. Recruitment Consultants or sales professionals that feel over-managed by petty KPIs at corporate recruitment companies are welcome to get in touch to experience first-hand how a role in a recruitment company should be – educational, progressive, team-spirited and financially very rewarding!
Responsibilities and Duties
As a recruiter, you will work based with either the Hong Kong team or the UK team and will train and work alongside experienced recruitment professionals. Using your proactive capabilities and attributes, and the skills and experience of the team, you will:
- Source, interview and manage candidates through the recruitment process
- Manage multiple candidate searches for priority client job vacancies concurrently
- Interview and shortlist candidates against urgent live client jobs
- Recommend candidates for submittal to clients and brief and debrief candidates accordingly
- Identify and develop business leads from candidates interviewed to grow the client base
- Provide an exceptional, professional service when liaising with candidate job seekers and employer clients
- Write up, publish and market detailed construction job vacancies
- Develop a network of contacts within a number of specialist niche areas of the construction sector
- Read relevant trade press regularly and share industry knowledge with colleagues
- Be accountable for upkeep of data related to your clients and candidates using the market leading Maxim Recruitment online candidate database
- Attend networking events with colleagues
- Potential for international travel on business based on area of specialism developed
Desired Skills and Experience
- For the Hong Kong focused recruitment role, fluency in both English and Cantonese is ESSENTIAL
- We welcome job applications from new graduates for this Graduate Recruitment Consultant role
- Previous experience in recruitment or the construction industry is desirable but not essential
- Successful candidates who have worked in other sales-related roles will be given necessary training to become established recruitment consultants
- Recruitment consultants who have worked in other recruitment sectors will be given necessary training to become successful in the construction sector.
To work at Maxim Recruitment, you need to be a team player. You must show a committed, hardworking & professional approach. You must be dedicated to learn on the job and be enthusiastic about becoming more independent through training and over time.
New graduates, those with some work experience and those with previous recruitment experience are invited to get in touch for a confidential chat.
Qualifications/Educational Requirements
- Suitable applicants are most likely to be degree qualified and be able to evidence solid IT skills.
- Strong analytical skills must also be evidenced and you should be able to learn key tasks and information quickly.
- You should feel confident in your ability to develop and demonstrate strong sales and marketing behaviours.
- You must be able to speak English and Cantonese (& ideally Mandarin) to a fluent business and conversational level
Employing Company Overview and Profile
At Maxim Recruitment we undertake executive search and recruitment assignments for managerial level construction and property professionals into many of the very best permanent construction job roles in the industry.
We find jobs for UK and international construction professionals in the UK and recruit international candidates for clients worldwide.
We have offices in the UK, Hong Kong and in Toronto, Canada.
Maxim Recruitment is proud to be on the Preferred Supplier List (PSL) for many of the biggest names in the national & international construction and property industry in the UK, Hong Kong/Asia, North America and the Middle East. We also recruit extensively and exclusively for 'under the radar' niche expert construction companies and consultancies that you have never heard of that reward our efforts handsomely.
Additional Benefits Package and Incentives
- Generous salary based on experience and capability
- Bonus system based on level of involvement in and contribution to monthly and quarterly revenue generated
- Mentorship and full ongoing training / probation programme with a performance review after 3 months
- Conferencing, networking events and online training
- Encouragement to utilise, develop and strengthen your own skills within a collaborative working environment
- 5 day working week
- Working Hours 8.30 – 5.30pm
- Generous Leave + Public Holidays
- Potential to work from home / remotely after probation period has been successfully completed
