Recruitment Consultant / Senior Consultant - Legal

Job description

Recruitment Consultant / Senior Consultant - Legal
Location: Edinburgh
Salary: Negotiable

Are you an experienced recruiter looking to switch specialism or do you have a sales background or are you a legal graduate considering a move into recruitment?

If the answer is yes we might just have the role you have been searching for. We can offer a warm desk, dynamic working environment with greater career progression and higher financial rewards operating in an entrepreneurial and collaborative working environment.

Recruitment is a hugely autonomous industry that requires articulate, confident, target driven individuals who have a passion for business and success. We are a legal recruitment consultancy that specialises in placing lawyers into new roles across businesses and law firms. Our Private Practice client base covers most of the top 100 law firms in the UK and our in house legal team operates across a range of major national and international companies.

Your role would be to recruit in this market (hence the benefit of a legal based background). Working closely with an experienced legal recruiter you will be trained to understand how to deliver a truly consultative service that clients and candidates value. You will be shown how to map the market, how to create and realise strong, long lasting business relationships and you will be trained how to effectively communicate with your clients and candidates. Eventually you will be a true specialist in your chosen field.

To succeed in this role you must be able to demonstrate a track record of your persuasive ability; have a good degree, ideally in law, be able to clearly define why you are money motivated; have examples of where you have been resilient and tenacious, wanting to work in an autonomous role where you need to be extremely pro active.

What the role involves;
* Sourcing candidates within the Legal market, utilising a range of innovative channels including social media, our unique database, forums, job boards and LinkedIn Recruiter
* Sales and business development to engage with new clients, working to targets
* Manage the recruitment process from taking a thorough job brief, short-listing the best talent, managing the interview process and offer management
* Writing and posting innovative and engaging job adverts
* Active on social media platforms in order to increase market awareness.

What we can offer you;
* Fast moving and performance-orientated business with excellent rewards
* Very competitive salary and benefits package
* Fantastic opportunities for career progression, with clear targets. Your progression is influenced by your hard-work and the results you achieve
* Industry-leading training
* High performance and high reward culture, with quarterly and annual high flier events.

Background Requirements:
* Ideally degree educated and a law degree would be preferential.
* A strong desire to work in a high energy and sales led culture where you are rewarded on merit
* You should be confident, articulate and a team player and have good emotional intelligence and charisma.
* Ideally you will have had some exposure to targets within a business environment, or be able to demonstrate sales capability.

If you would like to take your experience within the Legal sector and specialise as a Legal Recruitment Consultant contact Andrew Inglis for a confidential discussion.

Search is an equal opportunities recruiter and we welcome applications from all suitably skilled or qualified applicants, regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/beliefs, sexual orientation or age.