Sporty Graduates and Athletes - Trainee Recruitment

Sports Athletes to Recruitment With being an athlete or heavily involved in sport, it can be hard to find a role that truly gets you excited or satisfies your competitive drive and desire to be the BEST We seek sporty individuals who want to apply their passion for sport to a direct sales role. Naturally you are competitive, hard-working and extremely ambitious. These traits are essential in a recruitment environment. Former high-level athletes quickly go on to achieve successful, high-earning recruitment careers, often earning in excess of £100,000 by their third year. You will be building relationships with both clients and candidates and essentially dual-selling to the both of them. You will be working in a very competitive, fast-paced environment and hence your natural competiveness will be essential. As a recuitment consultant you will be placing a variety of high level candidates into a range of companies; whether it be headhunting a potential CEO for a Barclays client or sourcing an engineer for a F1 franchise. The Role As a trainee sports recruitment consultant you will be responsible for: Building relationships and regularly consulting clients and candidates, to ensure their recruitment needs are met Maintaining successful client/candidate relationships Generating new business through business development Candidate engagement; screening CV’s, communicating and interviewing candidates to establish position suitability Producing adverts for job opportunities Hitting/surpassing targets to earn commission Candidate Requirements A trainee sports recruitment consultant should possess most, if not all, of the following: 2:1 University degree or/and commercial sales experience (not essential if sport has been played professionally) Competed in sport to a high level ( County, Semi-Pro, University etc ) Worked while at university Extremely motivated and hard-working Financially driven Sharp Strong communication skills and a natural relationship builder The Package - Trainee Sports Recruitment Consultant The perks of a trainee sports recruitment consultant include: £22,000 base salary with On Target Earnings of £45k in year 1; £70k in year 2; £100k in year 3 Lucrative uncapped commission structure Fast-paced career progression - you can expect to be a senior consultant/team leader within a couple of years Quarterly and annual bonuses Monthly lunch clubs at Michelin starred restaurants. Reward trips: Las Vegas, Dubai, Cancun and Ski trips. Personal incentives: Ipads, Rolex, Car plans Free or discounted gym membership Why is a career in recruitment a natural career step for sporty individuals? High Success in recruitment often comes from key attributes that come second nature to sports people some of these include: Strong work ethic Resilience Constantly striving to be the best you can be Confident and communicator Ambition and drive Competitive with yourself and others Need to achieve and be successful - you want to be BETTER THAN AVERAGE What sport stars have we placed? GB rowers Sprinters Professional footballers PGA Golfers Championship rugby players Netball champions Any many more Lots of our clients are looking to hire and train people like you so you can soon become a top performing recruitment consultant. APPLY to me to speak to me about this transition and the opportunities we have available. Coming from a competitive swimming sporting background myself I can speak to you about how the transition to recruitment is so natural