Graduate Recruitment Consultant – Executive Search

Location: London

Salary: £28,000–£35,000 base + uncapped commission

Start Date: Immediate / Flexible

Russell Group Graduates Wanted ideally

Are you a high-achieving graduate looking to build a career in executive search and headhunting?

We are looking for ambitious, driven graduates from Russell Group universities to join a high-performing executive search team in London. This is an opportunity to work with senior professionals and leading businesses, develop commercially valuable skills and build a career where performance is directly rewarded.

As a Graduate Recruitment Consultant, you will work across the full recruitment lifecycle, identifying and approaching exceptional candidates, developing relationships with senior professionals, winning new business and managing the process through to successful placement.

What you'll be doing

• Conduct targeted research to identify senior-level candidates and decision-makers.
• Approach and engage high-calibre professionals through LinkedIn, email and telephone.
• Build and maintain relationships with candidates and senior clients.
• Manage the recruitment process from initial conversation through to placement.
• Develop a strong understanding of specific markets, sectors and talent pools.
• Work closely with clients to understand their hiring requirements and identify the right talent.
• Develop your own network and eventually take responsibility for winning new business.
• Work towards ambitious individual and team revenue targets.

What we're looking for

We're particularly interested in graduates who are:

• Educated at a Russell Group university, with a strong academic background.
• Commercially minded, competitive and motivated by financial reward.
• Confident communicating with senior professionals.
• Resilient and comfortable working towards challenging targets.
• Highly ambitious and motivated by rapid career progression.
• Naturally curious, persuasive and relationship-oriented.
• Comfortable picking up the phone and having conversations with new people.
• Previous sales, business development, recruitment or client-facing experience is advantageous but not essential.

Why Executive Search?

Executive search is recruitment at the highest level. You'll develop expertise in sales, negotiation, business development, relationship management and market intelligence, while building a network of senior professionals across some of the world's leading organisations.

For ambitious graduates, this is a career where your progression and earning potential are closely linked to your performance. High performers can progress quickly into senior consultant and management positions, with the opportunity to build their own client portfolio and specialise within a high-value market.

If you've worked hard to graduate from a top university and want a career that rewards ambition, resilience and commercial ability, we'd like to hear from you.