Recruitment Consultant
Content + Source + Freshness • 16 Dec 2025 • 95% confidence
Offer value
Strong opportunity for recruiters with sales experience, offering good benefits and career advancement potential.
- Strong prospect for growth and financial rewards
- Excellent training in a supportive company culture
- Sales experience helps in achieving targets
Pros
- Competitive salary with opportunities for commissions
- Comprehensive training and development program
- Good work-life balance with reduced hours during school holidays
Cons
- Full office-based role might not suit everyone
- Sales-driven environment may feel high-pressure
- Potential for long hours during busy recruiting seasons
Who it's for
Entry level • Office-based
Good fit
- Sales-driven individuals looking to transition to recruitment
- Candidates eager for structured training
- People who thrive in a dynamic, goal-oriented environment
Not recommended for
- Experienced workers seeking higher roles
- Candidates against office settings
- Individuals not suited for a performance-driven culture
Motivation fit
Key skills
About the job
TeacherActive
Recruitment Consultant Education
Office based, 150 Minories, London EC3N 1LS
Salary – £32,000 – 44,000 (dependent on experience)
Do you want to earn a competitive salary that increases with success? Are you driven, determined and motivated to succeed? TeacherActive is looking for a Recruitment Consultant to join our team in London.
The Benefits:
- The most effective training and coaching programme in the industry, you will be working in a supportive, friendly, fun environment focussed on your success
- Uncapped commission with no threshold
- The opportunity to increase your basic salary by hitting key milestones
- Fantastic career and promotion opportunities – we are a fast moving and performance-orientated business with excellent rewards
- Reduced working hours in school holidays
- 23 days annual leave plus bank holidays which increases with length of service and an extra day s annual leave on your Birthday and a life admin day to be taken when needed!
- Use one of your normal working days to volunteer at a charity of your choice
- Working from home allowance per annum (upon passing probation)
- Company run functions that celebrate success
- Excellent health care plan
- Champagne Fridays
The role of a Recruitment Consultant:
- Business development, contacting new and existing clients to generate new opportunities
- Working with clients, identifying their needs and requirements to fill their vacancies
- Attending client meetings/school visits
- Shortlisting CVs, screening applicants over the phone and interviewing/registering them
- Filling vacancies within an agreed time scale
- Building a pipeline of candidates such as Teachers and Teaching Assistants to ensure you can react quickly to your client’s needs
- Maintain regular contact with your candidates and clients, building excellent relationships
- Keeping up-to-date with news and changes to legislation in the education industry
- Reviewing your performance to continually improve
This is by no means a complete list; you need to be adaptable in recruitment as your day plan can change at the drop of a hat. The industry is exciting, fast-paced and requires somebody with a lot of resilience, enthusiasm and energy.
This is a sales role, as you will work towards meeting targets. However, we offer a well-structured training programme and frequent support to aid you in achieving and exceeding targets. We offer uncapped commission with no threshold, so you can reap the rewards of all your hard work!
Key skills required:
- Previous sales experience or having worked in a target and KPI focused role
- Drive, determination and motivation
- Working towards targets and deadlines in a fast-paced environment
- Exceptional organisational and time management skills
- Confident, positive and resilient personality
- Strong communication skills with the ability to build rapport
- Ability to build relationships
Working hours:
- Term time – 07:30am start finish at 4:30pm x2, 5pm x2, 5:30pm x1
- Reduced hours in school holidays – 8:30-4pm approx
- Office Based
If this sounds like something you would be interested in then please do not hesitate to apply!
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