Entry-Level Recruitment Consultant

About the Role

FIFTEEN WEST is partnering with a fast-growing specialist recruitment business in Austin seeking 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 fast-growing US markets. No previous recruitment or energy-sector experience is required.

You will join an established team specializing across Energy Technology, CleanTech, and the wider energy transition, working with high-growth businesses. You will step onto a warm desk with existing clients, relationships, and live opportunities, providing a chance to learn recruitment processes from day one. The goal is to develop into a successful 360 recruiter capable of building relationships, winning business, and eventually owning 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 to headhunt and engage professionals not actively looking.
• Manage recruitment processes from initial conversation through to offer and placement.
• Develop a strong understanding of Energy Technology, CleanTech, and businesses operating within the space.
• Work with existing clients while learning 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

No specific tech stack or tools are mentioned in the provided text.

Qualifications

We are looking for individuals with the attitude and potential to become proficient in recruitment, rather than those with prior experience. Key attributes include:

• Inquisitive and switched-on: Asks good questions, picks things up quickly, and seeks to understand how things work.
• Proactive: Comfortable taking initiative.
• Confident with people: Enjoys building relationships and is comfortable making calls.
• Resilient: Can handle setbacks, learn from them, and persevere.
• Commercially minded: Interested in sales, business, and understanding motivations.
• Competitive: Motivated by goals and rewards.
• Team player: Performs individually while also enjoying collaboration with ambitious peers.

Previous experience in sales, hospitality, retail, customer service, sport, or another target-driven environment is beneficial but not essential.

What's On Offer

• Salary: $45,000 base + uncapped commission.
• First-Year Earning Potential: $75,000–$85,000+.
• Warm desk with existing clients and live opportunities.
• Hands-on training and mentorship.
• Clear development path into full 360 recruitment.
• Opportunity to build and eventually own your own specialist market.
• Exposure to high-growth Energy Technology and CleanTech markets.
• Autonomy within an environment not dominated by unnecessary activity-based KPIs.
• Hybrid working.
• Incentives including lunch clubs, team incentives, and international trips.
• Genuine progression as the US business grows.