Job Description
Graduate Recruitment Consultant - London\n\nLocation: City of London\n Salary: £32,000 base + £35,000 - 40,000+ OTE in your first year\n Start Date: Immediate or Summer 2025 Graduate Intakes\n\nAre you a recent graduate who balanced studies with part-time work, showing resilience, drive, and ambition? If you're now ready to launch your career in a high-performing, people-focused environment-recruitment could be the perfect fit.\n\nAt Tradewind Recruitment, we're looking for hard-working, ambitious graduates to join our thriving London office as Graduate Recruitment Consultants. This is an opportunity to work in a fast-paced, rewarding industry where your efforts directly impact your success.\n\nWhy Tradewind Recruitment?\n\nWe're one of the UK's leading education recruitment agencies, a 5x Sunday Times Top 100 Company, and known for developing top talent through our elite Impact Academy training programme.\n\nIf you've juggled coursework, deadlines, and part-time jobs-we already know you have what it takes to succeed here.\n\nWhat We Offer:\n\n£32,000 starting salary with uncapped commission\n£35,000 - 40,000+ OTE in your first year\n35 days annual leave, plus 4.5hr days during all school holidays\nIndustry-leading training via our Impact Academy\nAll-expenses-paid international incentive trips\nA collaborative, graduate-friendly team environment in central London\nRegular social events, wellbeing support, and career progressionWhat You'll Be Doing:\n\nAs a Graduate Recruitment Consultant, you'll be responsible for:\n\nInterviewing and placing education professionals into schools across London\nWriting CV profiles and marketing candidates to clients\nBuilding strong, long-term candidate relationships\nSupporting the sales team to drive placements and meet demand\nWorking towards clear KPIs and earning commission from day oneAbout the Impact Academy\n\nOur Impact Academy is a comprehensive training programme designed to help high-potential graduates with little or no recruitment experience build exceptional careers.
You'll receive one-to-one mentoring, on-the-job coaching, and classroom sessions covering:\n\nCandidate management\nCompliance & safeguarding\nTime management & prioritisation\nBusiness development & negotiation (in year 2)Many of our top consultants and managers started as graduates-we promote based on performance, not tenure.\n\nWhat We're Looking For:\n\nWe're keen to hear from graduates who:\n\nWorked part-time or full-time alongside their studies\nAre resilient, competitive, and thrive under pressure\nCommunicate well and love working with people\nAre highly motivated by success, personal growth, and making an impact\nAre ready to commit to a long-term career path with big earning potentialWhether you've worked in retail, hospitality, customer service or any high-pressure environment during university, that experience counts-it shows you've got grit.\n\nReady to Start Your Career?\n\nIf you're a graduate with a strong work ethic and the ambition to build a high-earning, meaningful career in a company that rewards effort-Tradewind Recruitment wants to hear from you.\n\nSubmit your CV to (url removed) to apply now or arrange an interview.\n\nLaunch your recruitment career with Tradewind London-where graduates thrive