Recruitment Consultant at Lexdan Select

The main function is to act as an intermediary between clients looking to recruit and candidates who are seeking a job. A recruitment consultant needs to maintain the client relationship and understand their needs, and ensure that they match it appropriately to a candidate profile.

In doing so, the consultant needs to have an understanding of a wide variety of factors, from the clients industry, culture, plans, business and more. Then the match needs to be made to a particular candidate who matches these factors.
Main duties and responsibilities:

• Management of the end-to-end recruitment lifecycle
• Matching and placing candidates into the right position by ensuring the client and candidates needs are understood and met
• Develop and maintain a network of contacts to help identify and source qualified candidates
• Candidate headhunting to target both active and passive external candidates, particularly hard-to-find talent and niche skills
• Leverage online recruiting resources and in-house system to identify and recruit the very best candidates
• Review resumes and credentials for appropriateness of skills, experience and knowledge in relation to position requirements
• Pre-screen and interview candidates though competency based questioning techniques
• Manage and coordinate all communication with candidates and clients
• Prepare candidates for interviews with clients by providing detailed information on the company, business strategy, department background, job descriptions, and expectationsetting
• Manage the presentation, selection, offer, negotiation, closing, and administrative components involved in full recruitment lifecycle
• Conducting business development to grow existing client base
• Market and industry research and due-diligence

What does the first 6 -12 months entail?

• Training from the Directors on various topics to develop the  employee on aspects of the recruitment cycle
• Shadowing of Directors and other consultants
• Learning what makes a good CV
• How to manage candidates through recruitment processes
• Assisting Directors with CV management and presentation
• Sitting in on Client meetings with Director
• Learning how to conduct own candidate meetings/interviews
• Recording of relevant candidate and client info on our database system