Recruitment Consultant

Maxim Recruitment is seeking a dynamic and results-driven Recruitment Consultant to join our Leicester based team, specialising in permanent construction recruitment.

In this role, you will manage the end-to-end recruitment process, including managing employer vacancies and identifying new ones, identifying, attracting, assessing, shortlisting, and onboarding premium candidates for permanent positions within client organizations.

Your expertise will be crucial in aligning candidates' skills with clients' requirements, ensuring a seamless and successful recruitment experience.

Previous experience in recruitment, sales, business development or proactive customer service is desired, although promising graduates or early career professionals will also be considered.

Project Details

In your recruitment consultant job role, you will work with high quality construction jobs and high calibre construction professional job seekers and match them together to secure a recruitment fee and of course your sales bonus. 

Using your research, organisational and sales skills, you will help employers to recruit great employees and help your candidates to advance their careers in the professional construction and engineering sector. 

We cover the construction recruitment market both in the UK and internationally in locations such as Canada, Dubai, Hong Kong and Australia.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Client Engagement:

• Identify and secure permanent recruitment opportunities by researching, contacting and agreeing to represent clients that have professional construction vacancies to be filled
• Establish, negotiate, and agree on terms and conditions of business with clients.
• Continually develop and manage client/employer relationships to ensure high levels of customer satisfaction and quality standards.
• Candidate Sourcing and Assessment:
• Research, identify, and attract suitable candidates using a variety of professional recruitment and executive search methods
• Assess candidates' skills, qualifications, and cultural fit to meet client requirements.
• Conduct interviews and shortlist and present qualified candidates to clients and facilitate the interview and evaluation process.
• Process Management:
• Ensure all recruitment processes comply with legal, regulatory, and ethical standards.
• Accurately complete all necessary processes and aftercare services in line with Maxim Recruitment company policies.
• Performance and Development:
• Meet agreed activity levels to ensure you can fully service the construction employers you want to and are already working with
• Develop your professional manner and sales techniques and recruitment strategies to enhance your performance and outcomes for your client employers and the candidates you work with

Desired Skills and Experience

Applicants for this Recruitment Consultant job will ideally have the following experience, or if not, will demonstrate transferrable skills and/or be able to demonstrate following knowledge, skills and behaviours to be able to undertake the role of Recruitment Consultant quicky after full training has been provided.

• Knowledge:
• Understand permanent recruitment models and processes and how to ensure successful outcomes for the employer and jobseeker customers you are representing
• Demonstrate your awareness of your legal responsibilities in areas such as equality, diversity, and inclusion, using the required recruitment processes and standards
• Skills:
• Possess or quickly develop an ability to identify and convert sales leads into new clients, candidates, and ultimately to permanent construction recruitment placements.
• Demonstrate Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to build and maintain relationships.
• Demonstrate excellent organizational skills, with the ability to manage multiple tasks and priorities effectively.
• Behaviours:
• Self-motivated with a proactive approach to identifying and obtaining new business opportunities.
• Tenacious and resilient, with the ability to overcome objections and setbacks.
• Demonstrate an ethical customer-focused approach, operating under the spirit of codes of practice, ethics, and the law.

Qualifications/Educational Requirements

• Suitable applicants must have a good standard of written and spoken English and be able to evidence solid IT skills.
• Strong analytical skills must also be demonstrated, and you should be able to learn key tasks and be able to evaluate and apply information quickly and accurately
• You should feel confident in your ability to develop and demonstrate strong sales and marketing behaviours.
• You will need to be able to write job descriptions and write reports on candidates eloquently and lucidly without mistakes.
• You MUST already have the right to live and work in the UK as this is a UK based position, and we are unable to offer work visa sponsorship

Employing Company Overview and Profile

Maxim Recruitment undertakes executive search and recruitment assignments to find permanent jobs for managerial level construction professionals.  We work with the very best construction companies in the UK, and internationally in countries such as Canada, Dubai, Hong Kong and Australia.

We have offices in Leicester in the UK, and in Toronto, Canada and in Hong Kong, China.
This Recruitment Consultant job vacancy is to be based in Clarendon Park, Leicester, in a pleasant area with a range of shops, cafes, pubs and near a public park and easily accessible to public transport.

Following successful completion of the initial 3 months training and probation period, it is possible for working from home (WFH) arrangements for a few days a week to be discussed.

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.  In 2025 we are celebrating 22 years of being in business.

• Please look around the Maxim Recruitment website for further information about us including the sectors of construction and property we work within, the locations we recruit for and our range of client vacancies, career advice information and the massive range of blogs we have written on a range of subjects relating to UK and international construction recruitment.
• We expect Recruitment Consultant candidates that are seriously interested in a job with us to have done their research and to know some key facts about us and why they are actively wanting to join our high-achieving but friendly and dynamic team based in Leicester.
• This role offers opportunities for personal and professional growth, including potential progression to team leader or managerial positions within the recruitment sector.

Note: This job description is intended to provide a general overview of the responsibilities and requirements of the Recruitment Consultant role. It is not exhaustive and may be subject to change based on organisational needs.

Additional Benefits Package and Incentives

• Generous Basic Salary based on experience
• Bonus based on fee revenue generated – full details supplied at interview stage.  There is an open-ended opportunity to increase / double (+) your basic salary
• Stakeholder Pension
• Mentorship and full training/probation programme during the first 3 months
• 5 day working week with standard working Hours 8.30am – 5.30pm and finishing 4.30 on Fridays. 
• 25 days paid holiday + Public Holidays
• Potential for national and international travel to meetings, conferences and events
• Potential for flexible working / WFH by agreement once able to work independently