Personnel & Recruitment

Recruitment Consultancy

The recruitment industry in the UK today is booming and is set for continued growth. As such it is a sector that will continually recruit talented and hard working graduates to join its ranks. The industry is large and diverse and can broadly be divided into three distinct types of business; executive search, contingency selection and temporary agencies. Almost every conceivable business area from IT to retail to hospitality has recruitment firms associated with it and there are countless opportunities for graduates with the right skills and aptitudes to work across a broad range of sectors.

There are many recruitment agencies across all sectors and of all types in the Yorkshire region, primarily in town and city centre locations. These range from global, multi office operations that may have several divisions all specialising in a business sector through to small niche agencies with only one or two staff.

Despite the diversity of the industry however there are common attributes that recruitment firms will look for when recruiting graduates. These include a strong sales and customer focus, pro activity, commercial awareness, team work, self motivation and time management skills.

Local newspapers are a useful source of vacancies as well as university careers service vacancy bulletins or other graduate vacancy websites. Most of the larger multi office recruitment firms will recruit year round and will happily look at speculative applications from graduates.

Useful links:

Recruitment and Employment Confederation

Industry professional association, search for consultancies by location - 180 listed for Yorkshire.

    * http://www.rec.uk.com

Professional Recruiter

Job search, sector profiles and much more.

    * http://www.professional-recruiter.co.uk

Leeds City Council

Leeds Library and Information Service has produced a directory of over 300 of the employment agencies in Leeds. You can access this following the web link below.

    * http://http:/

Graduate Recruitment Company

Registers graduates into all recruitment sectors as well as providing recruitment sales training, workshops and feedback for those looking to work as a recruitment consultant.

    * http://www.graduate-recruitment.co.uk
    * Telephone: 0870 048 9230

Careers in Recruitment

An online recruitment service for the recruitment industry where you can search for vacancies by location, salary and job title.

    * http://www.careersinrecruitment.com

Professional Recruiter

Job search, news and articles relevant to the industry

    * http://www.professional-recruiter.co.uk