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: 05/08/2025
Job Reference: CS – Manc_1751968553

Trainee Recruitment Consultant – Manchester

Trainee Recruitment Consultant - Manchester

We've just opened a brand-new office in Spinningfields, one of Manchester's most exciting business districts, and we're hiring ambitious individuals to grow with us!

At g2 Recruitment, we're specialists in placing top talent into technical industries across the UK & Europe. Recruitment is a fast-paced, phone-based sales role, and we're looking for ambitious people who are confident, resilient, and hungry to succeed.

Whether you've got a background in B2B/B2C Sales, Customer Service, or you've thrived in competitive sports or leadership roles at University, this could be your next big move. We're not interested in how many years of experience you've got, we're interested in your potential!

What we offer:

  • £24,000-£24,750 base salary
  • Uncapped commission from day one (no thresholds)
  • OTE: £35K-£45K in Year 1, with £100K+ realistic by Year 3
  • Promotions based on merit, not time served
  • Industry-leading training and ongoing 1-to-1 mentoring
  • Regular incentives: team socials, company holidays, monthly lunch clubs
  • A driven, social team with serious plans to grow

What you'll be doing:

  • Building your own client and candidate network within a specialist industry (Tech, IT, or Engineering in the UK or EU)
  • Managing the full 360° recruitment process - from winning business to placing candidates
  • Making sales calls, pitching roles, negotiating offers, and closing deals
  • Working to clear KPIs and targets in a high-energy, competitive office
  • Building strong relationships over the phone and in person

You'll be a strong fit if you:

  • Are confident speaking to new people and can build rapport quickly
  • Have experience working towards targets (sales, fundraising, sport, etc.)
  • Can take knockbacks and keep going - recruitment isn't always easy
  • Want to earn, learn, and move up quickly based on what you deliver
  • Are commercially switched-on and able to think on your feet

We're hiring now for summer and autumn starts - apply today!

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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