Anthony Haynes writes: We're delighted to announce the newly created role of Account Manager.
Details of the role and how to apply are as follows:
Account manager
Informal description of the role
We’re a talent agency. Our clients are membership organisations, awarding bodies, and learning providers.
When a client wishes to engage our services to help fill a role, our account manager (AM) meets with them to ascertain their requirements and preferences.
The AM then briefs our search team so that they can search for potential candidates.
When the search team has identified such candidates, they pass such details to the AM.
The AM then interviews (online) the most promising, to assess how well they fit what the employer’s looking for.
The AM then recommends candidates for the employer to interview/assess.
The key skills required, therefore, are:
1. matching − being able to identify the degree of fit between (a) the employer’s requirements and preferences and (b) candidates’ qualifications, experience, and attributes
2. empathy − being able to understand each employer’s desires, values, and culture
3. communication − in particular, being able to elicit information from employers, convey the brief to the search team, and help employers appreciate the qualities of each candidate.
Please note that, the term that we’ve used here, namely ‘Account Manager’, corresponds to the term ‘resourcing partner’, which is more commonly used within the recruitment industry,
Key facts
· This is a full-time, permanent, home-based role, reporting to our Managing Director.
· The post-holder will be 100% home based. You’ll communicate on a regular basis with your manager (and other team members), clients, and candidates, mainly over Microsoft Teams (video and chat), and occasionally via WhatsApp and phone calls.
· The role requires 40 hours’ work per week, normally Monday−Friday. The precise days and times may be negotiated to mutual benefit as a typical working pattern, provided they fall within the hours of 07:30−21:00, and may, if proposed by the employee, include some hours worked on a Saturday.
· Basic salary is £25,000 p.a.
· In addition, there’s an uncapped commission scheme (as a guide, we’d expect you, based on current business levels, to earn £4,000+ in commission in your first 12 months).
· We are enrolled in a NEST occupational pension scheme, which includes an employer contribution.
· Annual leave allowance comprises 25 days + your birthday off + Bank Holidays (making 34 days in total).
Application process
We encourage applications from all sections of the community.
No previous experience of the recruitment industry is necessary.
To express interest in this role, send your CV (only) to resourcingteam@fjwilson.com with ‘Account manager’ in the subject line. The deadline for sending CVs is 20 July.
We will then send you an application form, for completion by 27 July.
For selected applicants, the first stage of the selection process will be an online interview on 1-3 August.
For applicants who we then wish to progress, the second stage will be an online interview [date tbc] based on a practical exercise completed prior to the interview.