Entry-Level Recruitment Consultant

About the Role

FIFTEEN WEST is partnering with a fast-growing specialist recruitment business in Austin that's looking for an ambitious, commercially minded individual to join its growing US team. This is an opportunity to build a career where performance can influence earnings, progression, and responsibility, while working across some of the fastest-growing markets in the US.

• No previous recruitment or energy-sector experience is required.
• Joining an established team specializing across Energy Technology, CleanTech, and the wider energy transition, working with high-growth businesses across rapidly developing markets.
• Stepping onto a warm desk with existing clients, relationships, and live opportunities, offering a chance to learn the ropes and gain exposure to real recruitment processes from day one.
• The longer-term goal is to develop into a successful 360 recruiter who can build relationships, win business, and eventually take ownership of a specialist market.

Key Responsibilities

• Build relationships with candidates and clients across a specialist market.
• Source, approach, and interview high-quality candidates for live opportunities.
• Learn how to headhunt and engage professionals who aren't actively looking.
• Manage recruitment processes from initial conversation through to offer and placement.
• Develop a strong understanding of Energy Technology, CleanTech, and the businesses operating within the space.
• Work with existing clients while learning how to identify and develop new business opportunities.
• Build skills across sales, negotiation, business development, and relationship management.
• Over time, develop your own client base, network, and specialist market.

Requirements & Tech Stack

• Attitude and potential to become really good at recruitment.

• Inquisitive and switched-on; asks good questions, picks things up quickly, and wants to understand how things work.

• Proactive; comfortable taking initiative rather than waiting to be told what to do.

• Confident with people; enjoys building relationships and isn't afraid to pick up the phone.

• Resilient; can handle setbacks, learn from them, and keep moving.

• Commercially minded; interested in sales, business, and understanding what drives people and companies.

• Competitive; likes having something to work towards and being rewarded for doing well.

• Team player; wants to perform individually but also enjoys being surrounded by ambitious people.

• Previous experience in sales, hospitality, retail, customer service, sport, or another target-driven environment can be a foundation, but isn't essential.

What's On Offer

• $45,000 base salary + uncapped commission
• $75,000–$85,000+ first-year earning potential, based on performance
• Warm desk with existing clients and live opportunities
• Hands-on training and mentorship
• Clear development into full 360 recruitment
• Opportunity to build and eventually own your own specialist market
• High-growth Energy Technology and CleanTech markets
• Autonomy without an environment dominated by unnecessary activity-based KPIs
• Hybrid working
• Lunch clubs, team incentives, and international trips
• Genuine progression as the US business continues to grow