Recruitment Consultant Review
by Hays
Rating
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Skills
5.0
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Responsibilities
5.0
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Support & Guidance
5.0
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Culture
5.0
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Your Impressions
5.0
- 1. Please give an overview of your role and what this involves on a day-to-day basis.
- 2. Have you learnt any new skills, or developed your existing skills?
- How would you rate the training provided during your experience?
- How would you rate your development of industry-specific skills during the experience?
- How would you rate your development of personal / soft skills during the experience?
- Please rate how these skills have helped you in your career development
- 3. Were you given much responsibility during your placement / internship?
- Please rate how meaningful the work you were doing was
- 4. How much support and guidance did you receive during your placement / internship?
- How would you rate the support and guidance from your line manager?
- How would you rate the support and guidance from the wider team?
- 5. What was the company culture and general atmosphere like?
- How would you rate the inclusiveness of the culture?
- How would you rate the social opportunities?
- How would you rate the diversity initiatives?
- How would you rate the charity, sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives?
- 6. To what extent did you enjoy your placement / internship?
- Please rate your level of enjoyment on your placement / internship
- Please rate how your experience met your expectations
- Please rate the future employment prospects at Hays
- 7. Would you recommend Hays to a friend?
- 8. What advice would you give to others applying to Hays
Overview
Recruiting insurance professionals into the London Insurance Market specifically on the Broking desk. My role is split into two, half is the recruitment side focusing on finding candidates and the other half is admin based. My day-to-day responsibilities on the recruitment side involve checking candidate applications, reviewing CVs, registering candidates, sending CVs to clients, interview preparation and interview feedback. Daily I am on LinkedIn and Reed finding placeable candidates for our roles. On the admin side, I format CVs and write up job adverts.
Skills
By doing this, I have gained confidence on the phone talking to candidates as I get a deeper understanding of the Insurance industry. Writing the job adverts has improved my creative writing skills as they need to attract good candidates therefore need to be written well. As well as this, I have gained key transferable skills that I will be able to take into any future work place.
Responsibilities
Yes, from the very beginning we were treated as full time employees as we were given full responsibilities to run our own recruitment desk.
Support & Guidance
I received a lot of support. The training programme at the beginning with very insightful as we were given a range of online training sessions as well as in person sessions with the Directors and Senior members of the team. As well as this, we had to undergo two more in person modules of learning with specialised learning and development experts. Throughout my placement my team would offer support and guidance whenever I had any questions or needed any advice.
Culture
Overall it is a very social company culture. We would celebrate the end of a 4-week period each month by going to a local pub and socialising with the wider company. This allowed us to converse with many people we normally wouldn't on a day-to-day in the office. There were also many events throughout the year that the office managers would put on to help bring us together as a wider company which was lots of fun, this included sports day and much more!
Your Impressions
Overall, I really enjoyed my placement and would definitely recommend Hays to anyone that is considering doing a placement year!
Yes
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Details
Placement (10 Months+)
Recruitment
London
July 2025
