Recruitment Consultant
Recruitment Consultant
Join a specialist education recruitment business and manage the full recruitment lifecycle while building a successful career in a high-energy, office-based environment with uncapped commission potential.
Location: Cape Town (Office-Based) | Working Arrangement: Office-Based | Working Hours: 8:00 to 18:00 UK Time (Reduced hours during school half-terms) | Salary: R17,000 R25,000 per month + Commission (Flat 10% Base Rate)
ABOUT OUR CLIENT
Our client is a fast-growing recruitment business specialising in the education sector. The business is expanding following a major acquisition that provides exclusive access to multi-academy trusts, creating significant recruitment opportunities ahead of the upcoming peak season.
The company operates within a high-energy, work hard, play hard environment while maintaining a supportive, family-oriented team. New consultants receive structured onboarding through classroom training, system demonstrations, and active call coaching from day one.
THE ROLE: RECRUITMENT CONSULTANT
This is a full recruitment lifecycle role with an equal focus on candidate generation and service delivery within the education sector. The successful candidate will be responsible for sourcing, engaging, and placing candidates while managing recruitment activity through the company's CRM and recruitment systems.
Comprehensive training and ongoing coaching are provided to support success in the role.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES- Source, engage, and place candidates within the education sector.
- Conduct daily outbound "power hour" calling sessions.
- Source a minimum of five new candidates each day.
- Maintain active pipeline regeneration within the CRM.
- Manage, write, and optimise up to 20 advertisements on the Team Tailor platform.
- Submit daily End of Day (EOD) reports to leadership.
- Strong IT literacy with the ability to use modern CRM software.
- Experience with Team Tailor is advantageous.
- Highly articulate with exceptional verbal and written communication skills.
- Driven, goal-oriented, and motivated by earning commission.
- Able to work effectively within a collaborative, fast-paced team environment.
- Resilient with a high drive for success.
- Able to commit to full-time office attendance (5 days per week).
- Able to work core hours of 8:00 to 18:00 UK time (or local shift equivalent).
- Available during mandatory blackout leave periods (October half-term to December and May half-term to July).
- A competitive sports background is considered advantageous.
- Employment Type: Permanent
- Probation: 6 months (may be completed early upon successfully securing 56 deals).
- Annual Leave: 25 days annual leave, 3 UK bank holidays, and a 78 day Christmas shutdown.
- Additional Leave Incentive: Earn 1 extra day of leave per academic term for maintaining 100% attendance.
- Equipment Provided: Laptop, dual screens, and a noise-cancelling headset.