Senior Recruitment Consultant

About Beyond The Book:

We are a specialist recruitment consultancy working within the Marketing, Digital and Creative industry. With our roots in Warwickshire, we are now a fully remote team, getting together once a month but at all other times fully utilising the technology available to work closely and productively, as well as maintain our strong team spirit.

We believe that we have created a relaxed, enjoyable, and autonomous culture that makes working at Beyond The Book a different experience from most other recruiters. Beyond The Book stands out as an industry-leading partner for both clients and candidates, and all our consultants have a passion for delivering fantastic results and genuinely helping to further the careers of professionals, across the UK.

Our 6 core values are centred around integrity, quality, being experts in our field, problem-solving, and creating meaningful, long-term, relationships with candidates and clients. As such we have built a team of like-minded and motivated individuals, who have a real understanding of the sectors they lead.

We are now looking for an experienced Recruiter from anywhere in the UK (with the ability to commute to Warwickshire once a month) to join the team. You will have over 3 years’ recruitment experience, be a specialist in your sector, and have an existing network of potential clients and candidates that you have built strong relationships with, over your time in recruitment.

We would love to hear from individuals who have experience and networks in either the North of the UK, London, South East, South Coast, South West, or The Midlands.

The highlights:

• Fully remote* (*The team gets together physically once a month, in the Midlands)
• A 360-degree recruitment consultant role, but with a key focus on delivery, a high level of candidate and client care, and desk growth through network
• Very well supported in the business by back-office admin, resourcing and a sales and marketing function
• A strong recruitment tech-stack, including Bullhorn, LinkedIn Recruiter, Woo, Recruiter Insider, Honch, SourceWhale, MyPeople and Microsoft Teams
• A professional, driven, and supportive team, focussed on delivering results, but not to the detriment of the culture
• A trusting and ‘grown up’ management and leadership structure
• Competitive Salary and an uncapped bonus
• Company laptop, iPhone and all equipment needed to work from home
• Healthcare after 6 months
• 25 days holiday, including 4 days (minimum) shut down at Christmas, rising to 30 days after five years. There is also up to 10 days holiday available through team targets and individual stretch targets.

Key responsibilities and Activities:

• Proactively building your brand and marketing yourself and your sector through smart use of existing content and original thought pieces, including video
• Building your network of advocates and future candidates within your sector through memorable experiences
• Running complete recruitment campaigns, from brief to placement, to include:
  • Face to face client briefings
  • Creating interesting and compelling job copy to deploy across multiple channels
  • The technical ability to search effectively for talent on LinkedIn, databases, and other sources
  • Candidate management from initial telephone contact, through to internal interviews, interview prep and placement negotiation
  • All client contact throughout the candidate search, to placement
• Working with existing clients, building relationships, and ensuring our high service standards are always delivered, with exceptional end to end recruitment solutions
• Identifying and acting on all opportunities to develop relationships with existing clients
• Creating business opportunities by networking and making connections with new companies
• Developing a deep knowledge of current and potential clients, and the industry we serve

Your skills and qualities:

• Highly motivated, proactive, and driven to achieve results
• Extremely tenacious and resilient; You understand how recruitment works and have the mental strength to navigate the highs and lows
• A natural people person with excellent relationship building skills
• Enjoy proactively marketing your areas of expertise, with insightful and interesting social content and different media, including video.
• Solution focussed with the ability to solve problems creatively and quickly
• Someone who values planning and can think strategically
• A proven ability to work on multiple projects at the same time
• A high level of business acumen with a commercial outlook that underpins day to day decisions
• A dedicated team player - not just a cliché - you truly understand (and enjoy!) the benefit of teamwork and behave and communicate accordingly
• You strive to continuously improve and are happy to work on areas of personal development
• An inquisitive, positive, and outgoing personality

If you would love to be part of a growing business that is committed to changing the perception of the recruitment industry, then please apply now!