Graduate Recruitment Consultant – Cardiff

Location:

Region: Cardiff
Country: United Kingdom

Role:

  • Industry: Recruitment
  • Job Type: Consultant
Salary: £24000 - Per Annum

Application Details:

Expiry Date: 31/10/2025
Job Reference: CSCAR0110222

Graduate Recruitment Consultant – Cardiff

Are you a high-achieving graduate with a sharp commercial mindset and a drive to succeed? Join one of the UK’s most ambitious recruitment firms and kickstart a career where your business acumen, resilience, and ambition are truly rewarded.

At g2 Recruitment, part of the G2V Recruitment Group, we specialise in placing top freelance talent across the European Engineering industry. Our Cardiff office is expanding rapidly, and we’re looking for graduates who are ready to make an impact in a fast-paced, high-performance environment.

This is your chance to join a vibrant, collaborative team in one of our most exciting markets. You’ll receive full training, hands-on support, and a clear path to progression — all while building a career where your success is directly rewarded.

Why Start Your Career with Us

  • Competitive starting salary of £24,000
  • Uncapped commission with realistic earnings: Year 1: £35K–£45K, Year 2: £50K–£70K, Year 3: £100K+
  • Award-winning training programme including classroom sessions, 1-to-1 mentoring, and deskside coaching
  • Clear career progression based on merit
  • Regular feedback and development reviews
  • Vibrant office culture with team socials, lunch clubs, and European holiday incentives

What You’ll Be Doing

  • Own the full recruitment lifecycle: from sourcing candidates to managing client relationships
  • Use strategic business development techniques to win new clients and deliver tailored recruitment solutions
  • Build your own specialist desk in the European Engineering market
  • Develop long-term partnerships with clients and candidates
  • Collaborate with your team to share insights and drive collective success

Who We’re Looking For

  • Graduates with strong commercial awareness and a business-focused mindset
  • Excellent communicators who thrive in competitive, goal-driven environments
  • Ambitious, resilient, and eager to learn
  • Confident working in a sales-oriented role with clear performance targets
  • Based in or relocating to Cardiff

Ready to Apply?

We’re hiring now with flexible start dates throughout October and November. Apply today and start your graduate career with g2 Recruitment.

Also hiring in: Manchester, Bristol, Nottingham, London, Birmingham, Munich, Cologne

g2 Recruitment are committed to equality of opportunity for all applications from individuals are encouraged regardless of age, disability, sex, gender reassignment, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief and marriage and civil partnerships or any other characteristic protected by law.

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L&D Team

We are very lucky that g2 recruitment see Learning and Development as a vital part of a consultants journey which is why we have 4 people in the team who you will work very closely with from day 1 in your career. The team are on hand to guide you through your career at all levels and provide extra support working closely with the management team to give all consultants the best chance of success.  

Our Three Pillars of Training

Academy:
Week 1 is a series of remote sessions to learn all things systems, followed by a 1 week academy process which is a mixture of classroom and deskside this will be in one of our UK offices and usually consists of 3-8 other consultants all starting their journey together.

Experienced Modules:
These are a variety of sessions curated by us designed to support consultants as they are progressing through the career ladder, the aim is to ensure consultants at all levels have access to L&D.

Junior Management Programme:
Ran by our head of L&D this programme is designed to support junior managers as they start their management career. This involves things like personal branding, time management and ends in a business plan which is presented to members of the Exec board and senior management team.

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Jaz D’Avola
Head of Learning & Development

Jaz joined g2 Recruitment in 2013.

She now leads our Learning and Development programme, transferring the knowledge and wisdom she learnt as a recruiter to the new generation of talent.

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Imani WIlliams
Learning and Development Consultant

Imani joined g2 Recruitment in 2022.

His role involves developing individuals in all areas of the business, varying from inducting and onboarding consultants to working with them 1 to 1 to identify areas of development.  He aids with growth of L&D across the business, watching consultants experience and develop.

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Meghan Mcloughlin
Learning and Development Consultant

Meghan joined g2 in 2023 as an L&D consultant, Working in recruitment for 6 years, her role is to  help consultants at all levels to upskill and focus on development points. This could be anything from sales calls or candidate calls to organisation improvements.

Kane Gray
Systems & Academy Trainer

Kane joined g2 in April 2023 as an Academy & Systems Trainer.

His role involves teaching the consultants that are new to the company the foundations of recruitment and our systems before then helping them to upskill in areas specific to each consultant. Working closely with different consultants and watching them implement the feedback, apply it, and then benefit off the back of it.

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