Trainee Recruitment Consultant – Manchester

Location:

Region: Manchester
Country: United Kingdom

Role:

  • Industry: Recruitment
  • Job Type: Consultant
Salary: £24000 - £24750 per annum

Application Details:

Expiry Date: 04/07/2025
Job Reference: CS – Manc_1749223514

Trainee Recruitment Consultant – Manchester

Trainee Recruitment Consultant - Manchester

Looking for a career that rewards hard work, ambition, and resilience? Want to build something for yourself - with clear progression, great earning potential, and the chance to learn from some of the best in the business?

g2 Recruitment is a market leader in IT, Tech, Engineering and UK Government recruitment across the UK and Europe. We've got a proven model, industry-leading commission structure, and clear career progression - and our Manchester office is a prime example of what success looks like.

We're hiring trainee recruitment consultants into our Manchester office - a high-performance, fast-paced sales environment with a proven track record of developing successful consultants. You'll be surrounded by consultants and leaders who've been where you are now - many of our top performers joined us as trainees and have gone on to bill six figures and lead their own teams.

What you'll be doing:

  • Building your own desk in a specialist market given to you (Tech, IT, or Engineering across the UK or EU)
  • Managing the full 360° recruitment process - from first call to placement
  • Sourcing and headhunting top candidates using LinkedIn, job boards and outbound calls
  • Winning new business and building long-term client relationships
  • Becoming a market expert in a specialist technical niche
  • Hitting sales targets and working in a goal-driven, competitive environment

What we're looking for:

  • Resilient, confident individuals who are comfortable on the phone
  • People with strong communication and relationship-building skills
  • Someone with commercial awareness and the ability to "connect the dots"
  • Graduates or professionals with sales, customer service, or call centre experience
  • Ambition to progress quickly and achieve high earnings based on performance

What you'll get in return:

  • £24,000-£24,750 starting salary
  • Uncapped commission from day one - zero threshold
  • First year OTE of £35K-£45K+, with potential to earn 6-figures by year 3
  • Structured progression to Senior, Principal, and Team Leader levels
  • Top-level in-house training and ongoing development
  • Monthly incentives including lunch clubs and trips abroad
  • A high-energy, competitive, and social office culture in central Manchester

Apply now to take your first step into a high-reward, high-performance career. We're interviewing now for start dates next month all the way through to September!

We're also hiring in Bristol, Nottingham, Birmingham, Cardiff, London and Munich

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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