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Graduate Recruitment Consultant

Job Type
Full Time
Location
Cork
Salary
Negotiable
Job Ref
VN5956_1765895819
Date Added
December 16th, 2025

Graduate Recruitment Consultant

Location: Cork (Hybrid - 3 days onsite)
Package: Competitive salary + commission

Are you ready to launch your recruitment career and make a real impact in a growing market? We're expanding our team and looking for a driven Graduate Recruitment Consultant to help us deliver exceptional talent solutions and build strong partnerships with leading STEM organisations across Ireland.

This is an exciting opportunity to learn the full 360 recruitment process, combining delivery excellence with proactive business development. You'll receive full training and support while managing the recruitment lifecycle and developing strong client relationships. If you're ambitious, commercially minded, and thrive in a fast-paced environment, this role offers the perfect platform for success.

What You'll Be Doing

  • Learn and manage end-to-end recruitment, ensuring timely and high-quality placements.
  • Proactively identify and engage new clients to expand our footprint in the Irish market.
  • Build and grow existing accounts through strategic conversations and networking.
  • Drive face-to-face meetings with clients to strengthen relationships and uncover new opportunities.
  • Provide market insights and recruitment expertise to support client hiring strategies.
  • Collaborate with internal teams to ensure seamless delivery and client satisfaction.

What We're Looking For

Essential:

  • Excellent communication, negotiation, and relationship-building skills.
  • Commercial mindset with the ability to spot and develop business opportunities.
  • Ideally degree-qualified or equivalent professional experience.
  • Ambition, resilience, and adaptability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.

Desirable:

  • Previous experience in sales, customer service, or a target-driven role.
  • Familiarity with Irish market and/or STEM sectors.
  • Knowledge of recruitment tools such as ATS, CRM, and LinkedIn Recruiter.

We may also consider experienced consultants:
If you have 2-3 years of 360 recruitment experience and are looking for your next challenge, we'd love to hear from you too.

What Can We Offer You?

  • A competitive salary package.
  • 25 days annual leave plus public holidays, and your birthday off.
  • Company pension.
  • Blended working
  • An environment where your learning and development is supported through a range of various learning tools and courses.

Impellam is a connected group providing global workforce and specialist recruitment solutions. Our 2000 people and market leading brands work across a broad spectrum of industries and job categories throughout North America, the UK and Europe and Asia Pacific.

At Impellam we believe in the power of work.​

Through the power of work, we build better businesses and help people lead more fulfilling lives.​

Our strength lies not just in our brands, and their specialist vertical markets and regional knowledge, ​but in how we are united by one purpose, one culture, one ​driving force.​

We call it Virtuosity. It's why we're different. It's our determination to do even more and to always be ambitious and brave for our customers and candidates.

None of this would be possible without a culture based on trust. That's why we have an ambitious vision to be the world's most trusted workforce and specialist recruitment solutions group, trusted by our people, our customers and our investors in equal measure.​

We trust our Virtuosos and give them the freedom and autonomy ​to do the right thing, to adapt and see the possible in the impossible. We make sure people make ​the difference. ​

Together, we can deliver ​a world where you'll always ​have exceptional people ​doing exceptional work.​

For all queries, please contact

We are an equal opportunities employer and welcome applications from all suitably qualified persons regardless of their race, sex, disability, religion/belief, sexual orientation, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnerships, pregnancy or maternity or age.

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