Working For Us

Working in recruitment consultancy is enormously rewarding, both financially and in terms of the team spirit engendered within a sales environment. To be fair it is the closest that you are likely to come to running your own business without actually having to do it yourself! Working for Abacus Consulting, your earning potential will be extremely high and if you have the talent and are prepared to put in the hours you could enjoy a happy and very lucrative career with us.

So what are we looking for in a recruitment consultant?

• Enthusiasm
• Self Reliance
• Emotional Intelligence
• Creativity
• Resilience
• Sense of humour

A Typical Day

Is there one? Probably not is the answer. However there are some core activities which may give you a flavour for what you would be doing on a day to day basis:

• Business Generation: by this we mean telesales …. And there will be some cold calling! In addition to meeting with clients face to face to sell our services.
• Candidate Management: you will be managing a portfolio of candidates relevant to your target recruitment market and your job is to look after those people by keeping in touch with them and to interview and prepare CV’s for new registrations.
• Job Fulfilment: you will spend a substantial amount of time searching our recruitment database to identify candidates whom are relevant to specific client vacancies, preparing and sending the candidates CV’s to clients and the after arranging interviews and communicating job offers.
• Advertising and Marketing: here’s where your creative juices need to start flowing when writing job adverts and marketing literature for distribution to both clients and candidates.

Training

We offer a comprehensive induction programme which consists of systems training, technical jargon training relevant to the accountancy sector and core sales techniques training. All the managers in our business have a wealth of recruitment experience so on the job mentoring and coaching is very much an ongoing process. In addition we deliver in house training courses geared toward heightening your commercial skills and gaining control over how you make your desk as financially rewarding as possible.

Career Prospects

To find out more about us or discuss a career in recruitment in more detail please contact William Hayward. All enquiries will be treated in the strictest confidence.

Email: whayward@abacusconsulting.co.uk

Case Study

Mo has worked for us for 13 years and this is what she has to say………

“ I have worked in recruitment for over 15 years and Abacus was my first move into a specialist recruitment sector. I still love the thrill of winning business with a client and feel a real sense of achievement when I have helped a candidate find the right job that will enhance their career. I have to say that working for Abacus is different to my other employers because, whilst the job fundamentally does not change from one agency to the next, the team atmosphere and management support does differ enormously. I have always felt very supported by my manager’s and feel that I am fairly rewarded financially for my successes. Most of all though I work with a great team of people whom I count as friends more than work colleagues.”

Moira Keenan, Business Manager, Milton Keynes Office