Recruitment Assistant

Recruitment Assistant – Hybrid – £27,000–£30,000 Morgan Spencer Recruitment London – Your Career, Our Expertise
Are you looking to build your career with one of London’s leading recruitment consultancies? This is an exciting opportunity to join Morgan Spencer Recruitment London, a trusted and long-established London recruitment agency specialising in business support recruitment London and Executive & PA recruitment London. If you’re proactive, people-focused and ready to make an impact, this Recruitment Assistant role could be the perfect next step.
About the Role As a key member of our team, you will provide high-level support to a Managing Consultant and her team of three, ensuring our recruitment processes run seamlessly. Your work will help us connect exceptional talent with outstanding opportunities, delivering a consistently high-quality service to candidates, clients and colleagues.
This role is ideal for someone with at least one year’s recruitment experience who thrives in a fast-paced, relationship-driven environment.

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Key Responsibilities Candidate Support

• Write and post job adverts
• Manage advert response and proactively search job boards
• Pre-screen candidates and book registrations
• Conduct CBI-style interviews
• Track leads from CVs
• Ensure compliance by updating CVs, ID and documentation
• Maintain regular candidate communication for both permanent and contract roles
• Make weekly calls to working candidates
• Manage timesheet and payroll queries
• Prepare candidate profiles and format CVs
• Provide career advice and respond to candidate enquiries
• Issue tenancy letters, references and required candidate admin
• Contact unsuccessful candidates with vacancy updates
• Maintain an updated list of available candidates

Client Support

• Spec candidates to clients who have previously worked with us
• Pick up job roles in your Manager’s absence and take detailed job specs
• Match and shortlist candidates promptly
• Fill bookings and send confirmations
• Book client lunches and prepare maps
• Prepare and carry out “drops” to clients
• Write candidate profiles for client review
• Create industry-specific mailers
• Attend client meetings and help build trusted relationships

General Administration

• Update contract placement spreadsheets
• Participate in permanent team meetings and match candidates to open roles
• Support both permanent and temporary teams with candidate matching
• Add new companies to CRM
• Analyse recruitment figures and trends

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Skills & Experience Required

• At least 1 year’s recruitment experience – essential
• Minimum 2 years’ solid administration experience – essential
• Strong client-facing and customer service skills – essential
• Advanced Word; intermediate Excel
• Excellent spelling, grammar and written communication
• Knowledge of London geography – desirable

Competencies

• Strong problem-solving
• Excellent communication
• Ability to handle difficult situations with professionalism
• Effective multitasking

Personal Attributes

• Calm, positive and proactive
• Career-driven, organised and supportive
• Empathetic and confident

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What’s On Offer

• Competitive salary £27,000–£30,000
• Hybrid working
• Opportunity to learn from experienced consultants
• A warm, supportive and high-performing team culture
• Exposure to a wide range of clients and sectors
• Career development within a respected London recruitment agency

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Apply Today! We welcome applications from individuals with the right skills, enthusiasm and potential—regardless of background, identity or circumstance. If you’re ready to grow your career within Morgan Spencer Recruitment London, we’d love to hear from you.

Morgan Spencer – Your Career, Our Expertise
We are proud to be one of London’s leading Executive Secretarial & Business Services recruitment consultancies, connecting exceptional talent with outstanding opportunities.

Equal Opportunities: Morgan Spencer is committed to equality, diversity and inclusion. We welcome applications from all suitably qualified candidates.

Confidentiality & GDPR: All applications are handled with strict confidentiality and processed in accordance with UK GDPR. Information is used only for recruitment purposes and never shared without consent.

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