Internal Recruitment Specialist

About the opportunity

Halt is a specialist recruitment marketing agency working with ambitious recruitment businesses across the UK and internationally.

As we continue to grow, so does our need for experienced marketing talent.

Firstly, we want support identifying marketers who could join our own team in Bristol across areas including social media, content, digital marketing, SEO, creative, account management and broader recruitment marketing.

Secondly, and increasingly importantly, our clients regularly turn to us when they need to build or strengthen their own internal marketing teams.

We therefore see an opportunity to work with a recruitment specialist who can become our trusted talent partner for marketing appointments across the recruitment sector.

What you could be working on

The exact brief will vary depending on the engagement, but typical responsibilities will include:

• Proactively identifying experienced recruitment marketers through LinkedIn, industry networks, referrals, direct approaches, and executive search techniques

• Building and maintaining a strong network of marketing professionals working within recruitment agencies, staffing businesses, executive search firms and talent organisations

• Mapping the recruitment marketing talent market across Bristol, the wider UK and, where required, international locations

• Conducting targeted searches for specialist and difficult to find marketing talent

• Approaching passive candidates and creating compelling conversations around new career opportunities

• Screening and qualifying candidates against experience, capability, cultural fit and career aspirations

• Supporting Halt with recruitment for our own growing Bristol based team

• Working with Halt clients to understand their internal marketing requirements and translate those into effective search strategies

• Managing candidate shortlists and supporting interview and selection processes

• Advising on salary expectations, candidate availability and recruitment marketing talent trends

• Developing long term relationships with recruitment marketers who may become relevant for future opportunities

• Supporting searches from experienced individual contributors through to senior marketing leadership appointments

Who we are looking for

We are particularly interested in speaking with people who already understand proactive candidate sourcing and search.

You might currently be an experienced recruiter, executive search consultant, internal talent specialist, independent recruiter or the founder of a small recruitment business.

Ideally, you will bring:

• Strong experience of candidate sourcing, headhunting or executive search

• Confidence approaching and engaging passive candidates

• Experience using LinkedIn Recruiter and other candidate sourcing platforms

• A demonstrable ability to build specialist talent networks rather than relying purely on advertising

• Experience managing recruitment processes from initial search through to successful placement

• Excellent communication and relationship building skills

• The ability to represent Halt and our clients professionally in the candidate market

• An understanding of marketing, digital, creative or recruitment sector roles would be a significant advantage

Existing relationships with marketers working within the recruitment industry would be particularly valuable.

How we could work together

We are deliberately keeping the engagement model flexible.

For the right individual, there could be an opportunity to become more closely embedded within Halt and support our internal and client recruitment requirements on an ongoing basis.

Alternatively, we are interested in collaborating with established solo recruiters and smaller recruitment or executive search businesses.

For these partnerships, we are considering a split fee structure based payment structure, providing the recruitment partner with the majority of the placement fee while Halt provides access to opportunities generated through our relationships with some of the recruitment sector’s most ambitious businesses.

The principle is simple. Halt creates the opportunity and opens the door. You bring the search expertise, candidate network and ability to deliver the right person.

As our client relationships continue to grow, we believe there is considerable potential to develop this into a regular and mutually valuable partnership.

Interested?

If you are an experienced recruiter who knows how to find exceptional people, or you run a small search business and like the idea of partnering with an established recruitment marketing agency, we would love to hear from you.

We are particularly interested in people who understand that the best candidates are rarely sitting on job boards waiting to be found.

Get in touch with Halt to introduce yourself, tell us about your recruitment background and explain how you think we could work together.