Junior Recruitment Consultant

Application Deadline: 23 August 2026

Department: Consulting

Employment Type: Permanent - Full Time

Location: London UK

Description

As a Recruitment Consultant in Davies Talent Solutions, you will support specialist temporary and contract recruitment across a wide range external clients; predominantly in the Insurance & Financial services industries.
This role is considered a 180-recruitment role, meaning you will be responsible for candidate generation and delivery in the first instance. Whilst you will partake in client meetings and shadow Senior Consultants on negotiations, you will not be responsible for proactive business development or client account growth until you have mastered the candidate delivery side of your role.

This is an excellent opportunity for someone who is interested in consultative sales and a genuine interest in supporting job seekers and clients.

This role can be based in London or Brighton and requires office attendance at least 2 days / week.

Key Responsibilities

• Source, build and develop strong candidate pipelines through multiple channels including networking, proactive outreach on LinkedIn, role advertisements and referral schemes
• Work alongside colleagues to understand and subsequently sell client requirements and elevator pitches to relevant candidates
• Practice active listening skills to ascertain candidate strengths and areas of opportunities, ability to articulate to clients and colleagues alike.
• Coach and advice candidates on resume writing, interviewing and skills testing.
• Continuously build on your market knowledge, sharing information with broader team where relevant
• Develop your knowledge of the wider consulting business areas.

Skills, Knowledge & Expertise

• Some customer-facing work experience required, previous recruitment experience advantagous
• Highly motivated to delivery high quality outcomes for candidates, clients and the wider Davies Consulting team
• Motivated by achieving and exceeding targets and KPIs
• Confident communicator, strong active listening skills
• Resilient and tenacious in the face of rejection
• Curious, and eager to continuous learn, hone and improve sales, time & relationship management skills
• Happy to work autonomously and independently but towards a team goal or objective
• Ability to be based in, or travel to Brighton (at least twice monthly)