What Does a Tech Recruitment Consultant Do?

Seeking a new and challenging job with unlimited career progression?

After a year or two of working in sales or account management, many recent graduates are keen to take on a new challenge.

Ready to move on and upward?

No longer gaining enough stimulation from their existing job, and with little career progression to be seen, it is time to move on. IT recruitment offers the ideal step up in prospects, opportunities and earning potential for young, tech sector sales executives.

What does an IT Recruiter do?

Recruitment consultants are basically responsible for matching people to available job vacancies.  A Tech Recruiter specialises in the technology sector, seeking out people with specialist skills and identifying business opportunities in the tech community.

There is a lot of networking to be done as a Tech recruiter, making contacts among potential clients and identifying tech talent, potential candidates as well as managing the recruitment process, setting up interviews, organising work and benefit offers.

A Rewarding challenge for executives with ambition

The world of Tech Recruitment can provide the perfect challenge for recent graduates possessing some previous sales work experience.  Offering infinite career development possibilities for ambitious second jobbers, new challenges on a daily basis and a great income, Tech Recruitment is a career marked for growth.

It is also very fulfilling.  You are helping others find the perfect job, matching candidates to companies and ultimately creating your own international market area. Next Ventures offer the Next Step training academy from their London head office, with opportunities existing in the New York  office also.

Work with the foremost tech recruiter

Next Ventures is one of the foremost tech recruitment companies in the country, working with top brands and blue chip businesses. Established over 20 years, Next Ventures is experiencing amazing growth.  Demand for Tech staff is booming, and companies needing tech talent are hunting for the best people.

Finding those candidates requires special people able to go the extra mile to match job vacancies with candidates. This is where Next Ventures steps in with its expert consultants ready to assist. An independent business, the directors work alongside consultants, with fun social events marking the end of each busy week.

Great rewards and benefits

Recruitment consultants at Next Ventures work hard and play hard.  The sky is the limit for technology recruiters, when rewards and benefits are added to monthly salaries.

Next Ventures Commission Calculator

If you are already in recruitment or another sales role take a look at earnings potential at Next Ventures with our commission calculator by clicking on the image below or follow this LINK, you can also add the app to your phone or visit our Work for Us page.

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Next Ventures is always looking for confident, sales orientated trainee recruitment consultants to help take the business to the next level. Technological knowledge is not essential, although knowledge of business, marketing, finance, economics, communications and computer science is useful.

High quality on job training

Joining the company’s Next Step Academy offers fast-track career progression.  These on-the-job training programmes are held at regular intervals throughout the year, with the next one starting in late April. You will learn how to recruit top tech talent in this in this industry leading training programme.

How to be a Good IT Recruiter

A mix of classroom, on desk and shadowing super star consultants, ensures that new entrants are soon working with clients, rapidly learning how to be a good IT recruiters. Exploring the various business sectors at Next Ventures allows new consultants to find their most appropriate niche area in which to develop future careers.

A continuous training schedule ensures that every consultant constantly improves their business and consultancy skills, enabling them to become experts in their preferred market segment. This is a company that truly rewards hard work and effort so new consultants will quickly experience the benefits of beiing  successful technology recruiter.

What does a Tech Recruitment consultant earn?

You can expect a good income once your training is complete.  Tech Recruitment consultants enjoy very high earning potential, with a basic rate of up to £24,000 plus uncapped commission levels on top of that.

Within year one you could be earning between £35,000 – £45,000 OTE with commission payments, while by the third year you could be receiving an income of more than £100,000.  These are achievable figures since commission rates are very generous.

Benefits and incentives

Good commission is paid on top of salaries while hitting targets can result in great incentives such as all expenses paid overseas trips or monthly lunch clubs at top London restaurants.  Every new client signed up results in an immediate £400 voucher.

Then there are the other benefits like the progressive sabbatical scheme granting one, two or three months leave.  Every month, the salesperson of the month gains a £150 voucher.

A highlight of the company year is the annual awards event, where the most successful consultants can find themselves receiving luxury watches, jewelry and vouchers.

Your success is supported and celebrated

Success is not measured only on KPI’s but also on personal and team achievements.  Consultants at Next Ventures are definitely the best in the business.  Joining the team means you will never be held back, instead you will grow your career as quickly and as far as your skills and hard work allow.

The future is definitely bright for consultants working within one of the most progressive, expanding and challenging business sectors.

Contact Next Ventures

For more information on the benefits of a career with Next Ventures visit our Work for Us page.

If you want further information please contact our Manager of Talent Acquisition, Holly King on 0207 549 4030 Holly.King@next-ventures.com or apply now for the next academy programme here.