Junior Recruitment Consultant – Engineering
Robert Walters is the world’s most trusted talent solutions business. Across the globe, we deliver recruitment, recruitment process outsourcing and advisory services for businesses of all shapes and sizes, opening doors for people with diverse skills, ambitions, and backgrounds. We help organisations find the skills and solutions to reach their goals and assist talented professionals to power their unique potential. We offer our people incredible career opportunities as well as an inclusive culture and flexible working.
About the Role
As a Junior Recruitment Consultant with us, you will work alongside a team of experienced recruiters who are specialists in their particular markets. Your role will involve providing essential data to our consultants in relation to candidates and all aspects of the recruitment market. It is an opportunity to take on a rewarding role that will give you the perfect platform from which to develop a long-term career with us as a Recruitment Consultant – and beyond.
Working alongside experts, you’ll have the chance to develop deep sector expertise and gain insight from the very best in the business.
Put simply, as a world-leading specialist professional recruitment consultancy with a reputation for accelerated career growth, we’ll give you the tools and support you need to take your first steps in the field of recruitment and plot your own international career path.
Researcher Responsibilities
- Identify new business opportunities by speaking to candidates and developing your understanding of the market
- Carry out some specific headhunting projects and support our consultants when they’re out of the office
- Research relevant industry news and developments, pro-actively acting on any information you gather from your research – or from candidates
- Screen CVs and source new candidates using a variety of methods, including referrals and job boards
- Carry out telephone-based and face-to-face interviews with candidates
- Ensure our candidate databases are up to date and hold all relevant statutory information
Team Assistant Responsibilities
- Maintain and update the client and candidate data base
- Update and format the CVs of newly registered, existing and working candidates
- Liaise with clients and candidates, answering calls, taking messages and handling queries
- Undertake a variety of other tasks from diary management to document production
Local requirements
- A passion for learning, experiencing different situations and trying new things
- The ability work support a team and delivering against tight deadlines
- A tenacious approach – you’ll follow tasks through thoroughly to deliver quality and precision
- Excellent team-working, relationship-building and communication skills
- Plenty of initiative, an entrepreneurial spirit and the ability to see the bigger picture
As a Disability Confident Employer, Robert Walters is committed to offering a fully inclusive and accessible recruitment process to all candidates. If you require any accommodations or adjustments as a result of a disability, impairment or health condition, please do not hesitate to let me know.
This position is being sourced through our Outsourcing service line. Resource Solutions Limited, trading as Robert Walters, is an employment business and employment agency and welcomes applications from all candidates.
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About the job

Contract Type: FULL_TIME
Specialism: Human Resources
Focus: Recruitment
Industry: Recruitment Consultancy
Salary: Competitive package
Workplace Type: Hybrid
Experience Level: Associate
Location: Manchester
FULL_TIMEJob Reference: 5934
Date posted: 24 March 2025
Consultant: Nic Farmer
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