Executive Search Consultant - 2026 Graduate Role

Are you a 2026 Summer Graduate looking to kick-start your career and unlock your potential? Are you ambitious, money-driven, and hungry for success? We can offer you an unparalleled opportunity for growth in a true meritocracy as well as real earning potential - with our top biller from the 2025 graduate scheme intake earning over $80,000K in their first year.

This isn’t a regular recruitment role; it’s strategic hiring at senior levels. You will have the freedom to develop your market and build trusted client relationships with high-growth companies in the US.

We’re not asking for any previous recruitment or sales experience for this role, just a strong drive to learn and develop. Comprehensive ongoing training will be provided as part of our dedication to your long-term growth within our company.

As an Executive Search Consultant, you will manage the entire recruitment process from end-to-end, this will include:

• Building strong relationships with senior candidates and clients

• Researching companies, markets, and identifying potential gaps you could fill

• Sourcing candidates through networking, headhunting, and job boards

• Approaching candidates professionally by phone, email, and LinkedIn

• Screening and preparing candidates to present to key clients

• Managing the process on both candidate and client side, to ensure all expectations are aligned

• Managing negotiations and handling the offer process to make the process as smooth as possible for all parties

• Mastering business development, where you will be responsible for attracting and retaining new clients, and creating your own ‘business within a business’

From us, you can expect:

• Incredibly strong earning potential, with uncapped commission for every placement.

• Comprehensive training with our skilled L&D team

• Fast-track progression with the opportunity for promotion based solely on your performance, not length of employment

• Early Finish Fridays

• Monthly incentive trips (meals out, days at the races, sporting-events, paintballing, go-karting)

• Quarterly group trips (Ibiza, Ski trips, Dublin, Barcelona)

• Christmas shutdown period

• Discounts on local bars and restaurants

• Private healthcare plan

• 50% off gym memberships, with the option to take 1.5-hour long lunches for exercise

Who we’re looking for:

This role would be suited towards a motivated graduate who thrives in high-energy, social environments and is looking for a career, not just a grad-job.

You don’t need recruitment experience, but ideally you would be:

• Confident, articulate, and professional

• Commercially aware and business minded

• Resilient and can easily bounce back after rejection

• Thrives in a target driven environment

• Highly organised with strong attention to detail

• Motivated by career progression and earning potential

• Sporty or fitness-minded

All we ask is that you received (or are on track to receive) a 2:1 in your degree. We accept graduates from all courses!

If you’re sporty and enjoy being active, that’s also a massive plus as we often have fitness-based incentives (such as playing 5 a side at Elland Road Stadium).

This is an intense, fast-paced environment. To thrive and not just survive, you need the right mentality and a strong work-ethic.

Apply now to launch your career in executive search!

*Successful candidates must have the right to work in the UK. Please note we cannot accept candidates who require visa sponsorship.