Recruitment consultants assist employers to identify, select and recruit staff for their vacancies, and help individuals find and gain appropriate employment.Good marketing, sales and persuasion skills are critical to a job as a recruitment consultant.What does a recruitment consultant do? Typical employers | Qualifications and training | Key skillsMuch of a recruitment consultant’s work involves selling the services of their agency to potential clients, normally by ‘cold-calling’.Recruitment consultants are also responsible for:ADVERTISE HEREnegotiating contractsheadhuntinginterviewing and assessing prospective applicants and matching them with vacancies at client companiesscreening candidates and drawing up shortlists of candidates for clients to intervieworganising interviews and selection eventsmaking arrangements for the advertisement of vacancieshelping applicants to prepare for interviewsbuilding relationships with clients.