Careers With Us

As a company we are totally committed to developing the careers of the people who decide to fulfil their ambitions with us.  We love growth and we love seeing people progress.  Recruitment is one of the most dynamic, stimulating and fun environments to be in and it offers substantial opportunities for ambitious people. 

Fulfilling your ambitions and developing your career with us typically follows one of these 2 paths. Both offer opportunities to become highly skilled at your chosen speciality as well as to pursue management and business leadership positions.

Sales

Most people join us straight from or within a year of leaving university with the intention of developing a career in recruitment, sales, and management. Starting as a trainee Talent Broker, you will quickly gain the understanding and experience needed in order to succeed in the fast paced recruitment industry.

From the start you will be working closely with other people, communicating effectively and developing long term professional relationships. As your experience grows and you achieve success, you will gain responsibility for helping to develop the careers of other new graduates as well as your own. From here you can choose to remain in recruitment as a high earning top performer or you can opt for leadership, management or even entrepreneurial routes.

Business Support

You will be working "in the business" and "on the business".  Part of your responsibilities will be to ensure that sales people get all the support they need to out-perform their competitors.  The rest of the time you will be involved in projects, each of which is designed to improve elements of our business.

As we grow we continue to recruit graduates and top grade school leavers who want to develop their careers with us in the Agency Development and Support functions. As a member of the team you will be involved in all functions of the business. This includes implementing improvement programmes in HR, Marketing, ICT, Sales Support and General Administration as well as ensuring that day to day service is excellent.

People who are attracted to a career in our line of work tend to come from outside of our industry, sometimes straight from studying or sometimes with working experience in a different sector. These are the 3 most common routes: -

Fresh Graduates

Most of our staff join us directly from University. Sometimes though they will have gained a year or two’s experience working elsewhere either as an undergraduate, or sometimes with another career employer. The degree discipline is largely immaterial. Whilst business type degrees are more usual, successful people have completed many different degrees including Music, Physiotherapy, Environmental Sciences and Criminology.

Upon joining there is a structured development programme combining full training and on the job practice, supported by guidance from your team leader and other recent graduates. You will develop personalised career and development plans and you will control the pace of advancement of each. The company has created the framework to ensure that the individual rather than the organisation is the limiting factor governing the pace of progress in these areas.

Undergraduates

Students can gain a wide range of experience in all aspects of the business from Sales to Agency Development and Support. Whether or not you intend to join us after graduation, the experience gained in a fast moving environment will be a valuable part of your career development. You will experience responsibility, you will have to manage expectations and will see how it feels to have others rely upon you to deliver.

Experienced People

In-house developed talent is great, but from time to time the company needs people with business experience to bring in fresh ideas and new approaches. Typically with those from outside of the recruitment industry, we are always happy to explore opportunities with talented people at any level who are attracted to our industry.

For all positions the company has a published career structure and all staff have individual development programmes to help them to fulfil their potential and achieve their ambitions.

As a rule we are always interested in exploring possibilities with people wanting to develop a career in the recruitment industry. If you envisage a career change at any time in the future and would like to find out more about how you can play a key part in our success, please get in touch.

Update June 2010
We are currently recruiting internally for recruiters and recruitment consultants to join our expanding team. Click on the links below for further details.

Recruitment Consultant

Recruiter

Call +44 (0) 845 056 0816 E-mail myagent@shirleyparsons.com