Job Description:

Recruitment Consultant - Manchester | £30,000 + Uncapped Commission

Tradewind Recruitment | Manchester

Want a career where your effort directly impacts your earnings?

Are you ambitious, competitive, resilient and hungry for success?

Tradewind Recruitment is growing our Manchester team and we're looking for driven individuals to join our Impact Academy.

This isn't a slow corporate career where you wait years for your next promotion. We invest heavily in our people, providing elite training, daily coaching and structured development to help you become one of the best recruitment consultants you can be.

Starting salary: £30,000 + uncapped commission from day one.

No recruitment experience required. Your attitude, work ethic and ambition matter more than your CV.

What You'll Get

• £30,000 starting salary

• £35,000-£40,000 realistic Year 1 earnings

• Uncapped commission from day one - no thresholds

• 35 days annual leave

• Shorter working days during school holidays

• Global incentive trips - all expenses paid

• Daily free breakfast

• Friday socials and team events

• Wellbeing support

• Rapid internal progression

• Extensive training and development

• Daily coaching from experienced consultants

• Progression based on performance, not time served

Who Are We Looking For?

We're looking for people who are hungry to succeed.

You could come from:

• Hospitality - restaurants, bars, hotels and customer-facing roles

• Sales - car sales, phone sales, estate agency, retail or B2B

• Teaching - ex-teachers looking for a new challenge and greater earning potential

• Graduate backgrounds - particularly graduates who worked alongside studying and have demonstrated a strong work ethic

• Sport - competitive athletes or people who thrive in high-performance environments

• Customer service or other fast-paced, target-driven backgrounds

You don't need recruitment experience.

We want people with the mindset to succeed.

Are You the Right Person?

Recruitment is fast-paced, competitive and target-driven.

You need to be:

• Super resilient - you can handle rejection and bounce back

• Money hungry - you want your earnings to reflect your performance

• Driven - you take responsibility for your own success

• Competitive - you want to win and be the best

• Ambitious - you want progression and responsibility

• Determined - setbacks make you work harder

• Confident and personable - you enjoy building relationships

• Coachability-focused - you want to learn, improve and develop

• Success driven - you genuinely want to make something of yourself

If you're looking for an easy job where you can coast, this isn't it.

If you want to make money, progress quickly and build a successful career, we'd love to hear from you.

What You'll Do

As a Recruitment Consultant, you'll connect talented education professionals with schools across the UK.

Your role will include:

• Interviewing and qualifying candidates

• Building strong candidate relationships

• Developing relationships with schools and clients

• Matching candidates to opportunities

• Managing your own pipeline

• Working towards weekly KPIs

• Business development and sales

• Negotiating and closing deals

• Growing client accounts

• Learning advanced communication, sales and influencing skills

You won't be left to figure it out yourself.

We invest heavily in your development.

You'll receive structured training, daily coaching and ongoing support from experienced recruitment professionals. Our goal is to give you everything you need to become the best recruiter you can be.

Career Progression

Our Impact Academy gives you the foundations to build a long-term recruitment career.

You'll develop skills in:

• Recruitment

• Sales

• Business development

• Negotiation

• Margin management

• Client relationship management

• Account growth

• Communication and influencing

• Leadership and management

As you prove yourself, you'll have the opportunity to progress into more senior positions.

We promote on performance, not time served.

Why Tradewind?

Tradewind Recruitment is one of the UK's leading education recruitment agencies and is part of a wider global recruitment group.

We believe ambitious people should be given the opportunity to succeed.

We provide the training, coaching and development. You bring the resilience, ambition, work ethic and hunger to win.

Apply Now

We're actively recruiting for our Manchester office and interviewing immediately.

If you're money motivated, competitive, resilient, ambitious and determined to become successful, we want to hear from you.

No recruitment experience required. Attitude beats CV.