• Do you have a professional sales/corporate background?
• Do you like interacting with people on the phone and in-person?
• Are you hardworking, self-motivated, ambitious and driven to succeed?
• Used to working in a fast-paced environment where you're accountable for hitting sales targets and KPIs?
• Then a career in recruitment could be a good match for you!

What’s great about a career in recruitment?

Everyday you have the potential to change someone’s life and transform a business. As a specialist advisor supporting companies and individuals, you match job-seekers to new roles, introduce industry experts to new career opportunities and help solve your clients' staffing problems. If you’re hardworking, driven, persistent, and effective at delivering results, you’ll enjoy a long, varied and successful career in recruitment and make a lot of money!

What does a day in recruitment look like?

It's varied, busy, and fast-paced. Depending on your role, you'll have a number of key responsibilities, including:

1. Sourcing, screening and selecting candidates for your clients' open job vacancies
2. Generating candidates and then introducing them to businesses to create opportunities
3. Managing all aspects of the recruitment process and supporting your clients with hiring and onboarding people
4. Managing key accounts and helping to retain and grow that business
5. Winning new business by doing sales calls, attending sales meetings and networking online and in-person

Your day will be jam-packed full making calls, conducting and arranging interviews and going on client meetings - no two days are ever the same and you'll need to be organised, efficient, self-motivated and enjoy working at pace and under pressure.

What are some of the challenges I’ll face?

Being a Recruitment Consultant is incredibly rewarding, but you need to be prepared for some challenges:

• There’s a lot to learn and it will take time to see results - expect a steep learning curve and a year to get your head around things
• It's a sales job, so there's fee targets and activity KPIs which you'll be expected to hit in time and be consistent with achieving in the future
• All day long, you’re interacting with people – mostly on the phone but also in meetings and interviews - so you need lots of energy and enthusiasm, good interpersonal skills and excellent communication
• Working with people can be challenging so you’ll need to be resilient, have a positive attitude and possess good problem-solving skills
• And finally, there are lots of different aspects to the role so you’ll need good time management, the ability to work at pace, and be comfortable spinning lots of plates!

What kind of person makes a good recruiter?

There's not just one type of person that makes a good recruiter but ideally I'm looking for people from:

• Professional/B2B sales backgrounds
• Individuals that have done technical roles in industries like mining, engineering or construction
• Individuals from Real Estate, Call Centres or Insurance are also of interest

What roles are available?

• Accountancy & Finance recruitment
• White-collar mining
• Engineering
• IT recruitment

You must have valid work rights to be considered and be currently living in WA.

Please note that regrettably these roles cannot offer sponsorship (unless you have at least 12 months' recruitment agency experience from overseas but you will at least need to have valid work rights at this moment to be considered)

They are full-time, permanent opportunities, based in and around the Perth CBD/metro area.

In these roles you'll earn a base salary and be entitled to commission/bonuses as you hit your targets and deliver results - which will grow over time as you get better at the job and build your candidate and client network.

I’m interested, so how do I get into recruitment?

If all of this sounds like a challenge that you’re up for, and you’re interested in beginning/continuing a career in recruitment, then we should talk!

My name is Michael Jones and I run the Developing Experts Academy which hires and trains entry-level recruiters for recruitment agencies across Perth. As you can see, I have lots of opportunities that I can match you to, and, once placed into a role, you’ll receive additional specialised training from me to help you succeed and become a recruiting expert. (If you're an experienced recruiter looking for a new opportunity, feel free to reach out too!)

Click ‘apply now’ or email your updated resume to [email protected].

Please provide a cover letter explaining why you're interested in recruitment and why you think you'll be successful at it, and I look forward to speaking to you soon.