Search Consultant

City of London
2 weeks ago
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Search Consultant Salary: £35,000 - £38,000

Based in Farringdon

Hybrid - 2 days in the office / 3 days working from home.

A successful management consultancy and recruitment business that provides support to housing, charities, public, not-for-profit organisations, is looking to recruit a Search Consultant. You will work in the permanent recruitment team, identifying and engaging top C-suite talent, building relationships, and conducting candidate research. Ideally, candidates will have recruitment experience at the executive search level, along with strong research and confident communication skills.

Duties:

Conduct research on potential candidates using a variety of online tools, company database, existing networks.
Identify and proactively contact potential candidates via email, phone, and social media etc to discuss their interest and suitability for roles.
Conduct suitability assessments (not formal interviews) to ensure alignment with role requirements.
Provide qualitative and quantitative progress and update reports to stakeholders.
Produce high-quality long list reports including written summaries of candidate applications to reflect candidate's offer to our clients.
Grow a base of new emerging talent for the wide range of roles we support using advertising, networking, marketing, and social media tools.
Be a point of contact for incoming potential candidates and registering them on our database.
Proactively expand your market knowledge through internal and external events attendance, market literature, and colleagues who have first-rate market knowledge.
Maintain the candidate database and use consistently according to agreed record keeping conventions and best practice.
Ensure the organisation's recruitment processes are fully compliant with employment and other legislation, keeping abreast of changes, and revising company processes to reflect these.Skills and Experienced Required:

Degree level education or suitable, similar standard of education
Experience of working in the recruitment field preferred. Executive search level desirable
Operating administrative and data systems
Solid experience of MS Office applications, in particular Word, Excel, and Outlook
Knowledge of the social housing, care, charitable or public sector desirable, but not essential
Ability to produce a high volume of written work to a professional standard
Communicate professionally with a diverse range of contactsBenefits:

25 days, plus public holidays. This rises by one day per completed year of service, up to a maximum of 30days, plus public holidays
Salary exchange pension scheme, with an employer contribution that matches employee contributions up to 5%
Health insurance for employees that have successfully completed their probation. This is available for employees and their dependants, and the company meets the cost of the premiums, though it is classed as a taxable benefit.
Death in service insurance, set at the equivalent of two year's salary
Yearly bonus 10% based on company and individual performance
Hybrid working
Hours: 9am-5.00pm

Huntress Search Ltd acts as a Recruitment Agency in relation to all Permanent roles and as a Recruitment Business in relation to all Temporary roles.

We practice a diverse and inclusive recruitment process that ensures equal opportunity for all we work with, irrespective of race, sexual orientation, mental or physical disability, age or gender. As an organisation, we encourage applications from all backgrounds and will ensure measures are met when required, to allow a fair process throughout.

PLEASE NOTE: We can only consider applications from candidates who have the right to work in the UK

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