With a few years’ experience, you’ll either be a Recruitment Consultant ready for the next challenge or a Senior working towards Principal or Manager.  Used to handling difficult situations and thinking on your feet, you are ready to take on mentoring or management of an Associate. Perhaps you want greater autonomy, the chance to expand your knowledge or the opportunity to progress more quickly.

If you’re ambitious, confident, self-motivated and keen to learn more, Boston hale can offer a transparent, achievable career path, great benefits and a collaborative culture.

Senior Consultants can get involved in the Future Leaders programme and will receive targeted training and development to match their career aspirations.  We provide market leading systems, access to our network of proven candidates and a mix of existing clients and new business opportunities.

Cultural fit is extremely important to us, we need to know you share the same values, ambition and approach to your work as we do. We invest a lot of time and resources into helping our team achieve their goals, so we look for people who commit to the business, work hard and contribute to our business culture and environment.

The type of person we are looking for:

• A 360 recruiter with a consistent track record of proven success.


• Self-motivated, determined, able to make things happen, push back and present creative solutions.


• An exceptional communicator with strong written, verbal and listening skills.


• Works well in a team, happy to take on responsibility, make decisions in the absence of a Manager and support more junior colleagues.


• Able to build strong, productive relationships with customers, colleagues and partners at all levels.


• Excellent organisation and time management skills. Analytical and meticulous.


• A multi-tasker with the ability to combine business development with delivery of several roles, juggling priorities.


• Goal driven and target orientated. Keen to measure and track individual and team performance. Immersed in the numbers and motivated by exceeding expectations.


• Ambitious, willing to learn and work hard. Behaviours in line with seniority, adding value and contributing to other areas of the business.


• Values driven, with an ethical approach to doing business. Takes an interest in people, and always does the right thing.


• Looking for an employer that values its people with which to grow a career for the long term.

Day to day tasks:

As a Senior Recruitment Consultant, these are the duties you’d be performing on a daily basis:

• Developing and implementing a new business development strategy for your market covering new and existing customers.


• Using research to identify new business opportunities and monitoring competitor activity.


• Using multiple methodologies to source both active and passive candidates. Writing engaging, optimised job advertisements for job boards, including our own.


• Making full use of social media to extend the reach of your searches and to increase brand awareness and reputation in your market.


• Data management, making full use of our internal resource and ensuring all data is full and accurate.


• Providing sound advice to customers based on expert market knowledge. Engage with the market to keep on top of innovations and change.


• Good management of the recruitment process in its entirety, working with all parties to ensure issues are resolved.


• Communication – managing the client and candidate relationship, delivering constructive feedback, both positive and negative, questioning and clarifying.


• Mentoring less experienced colleagues, supporting the team and helping others across the business


• Putting forward new ideas and suggestions, investigating industry events and creating thought leadership content and blogs.


• Getting involved with our CSR and social events, contributing to the team culture and camaraderie.

Career Progression:

Career management through our personal development plans.  You will have regular meetings with your manager, the leadership team and training staff to create your career roadmap. We have clear promotion criteria, with speed of promotion determined by your own motivations. 

Rewards and benefits:

We offer a competitive package including:

• Salary – regularly reviewed in accordance with your progress


• Generous, uncapped commission structure


• Team and individual incentives


• Workplace pension scheme


• Holiday allowance – increasing with each year of service


• Inclusive social events and celebrations


• Early finish Fridays


• Flexible working


• Employee Assistance Programme

To find out more and apply, send your CV and a short covering letter stating why you want to work in recruitment and what you can offer to the role.