Recruitment Consultant: Aquarius Recruitment
Recruitment Consultant: Aquarius Recruitment
Description
Aquarius Recruitment and Search was established in 1997 with a view to offering specialist recruitment services to the financial services industry in South Africa. To this endeavour, we now have a successful track record of 21 years — finding and placing specialist skilled people in asset management, investment banking and actuarial-life assurance companies.
We are currently looking for a Recruitment Consultant to join our team, this will involve working with two other recruiters who have a combined 20+ years of extensive recruitment industry experience. In today’s world of recruitment, specialization is key as well as working alongside industry experts. We would offer a fantastic nurturing and supportive working environment which often manifests in passive billing derived from joint and split placements.
This job involves:
- Sourcing high caliber candidates through various available mediums – Interfacing with HR and line managers in the financial services industry
- Procurement of high quality Job Specs
- Researching the job profile to understand what you are looking for
- Referral of suitable candidates to our clients according to their job specification
- Conducting in-house database searches for appropriate candidates
- Conducting external research via Internet, Social Media and company websites
- Cold-calling target companies to extract data about potential candidates
- Head-hunting targeted individuals to assess their worthiness for the job spec
- Interviewing candidates to assess their suitability for a specific role
- Quality control of CVs before they are sent to our client companies
- Negotiation of terms and conditions and remuneration packages
- Coordinating interviews with candidates and clients
Requirements
Competencies:
- Experience gained as a Recruitment Consultant within a recruitment agency is preferable
- Able to demonstrate successful recruitment track record
- Excellent communication skills — written and verbal English
- Excellent attention to detail when scrutinising documents
- Good negotiation skills
Advantageous:
- Knowledge and understanding of the financial services industry
Personal skills/attributes:
- A people’s person
- A self-starter, self-motivated and tenacious
- Dynamic and self-confident — comfortable speaking to people of all levels
- Driven to succeed in achieving targets
- Ability to communicate at all levels
Do you love to investigate new opportunities and challenges? Then, you might be the right fit for our team.
Location: Cape Town, Gardens , CBD
