Recruitment Consultant

Downey Osborne

📍Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
Posted May 19, 2026

Job Overview

Position

Recruitment Consultant

Company

Downey Osborne

Location

Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK

Work Type

On-site

Job ID

li-4416630540

Job Description

We believe good recruiters perform best when they’re trusted, supported, and actually enjoy where they work.

No pointless KPIs. No micromanagement. No endless team briefing meetings. No pretending being online at 7pm means you’re productive.

We’re a specialist Accountancy, Finance & Tax recruitment business with a strong reputation across Northern Ireland and Ireland. We’re a small team, genuinely close-knit, and big believers in having a laugh while doing good work.

What’s In It For You?

  • Uncapped commission with genuinely market-leading (we’ve done our research!) earning potential with no standard requirement.

  • 35-hour working week

  • 2pm finish every Friday

  • Flexible working hours

  • (Very) generous annual leave allowance

  • Team incentives and rewards

  • Friendly, supportive small team culture

  • Opportunity to build your own desk with autonomy and support

  • Common sense approach to recruitment

About You

You might already work in recruitment, sales, business development, account management, or another people-focused environment where building relationships and confidence in conversation matters.

We’re more interested in personality, drive, and attitude than ticking boxes on a CV.

You’ll likely be someone who:

  • Enjoys building genuine relationships with people

  • Has strong communication skills and confidence speaking with people

  • Is ambitious and motivated by earning potential

  • Likes working in a collaborative team environment

  • Can work independently without needing constant direction

  • Brings energy, personality, and a positive attitude to the office

  • Wants to work somewhere relaxed, professional, and enjoyable

About Your New Role

Always

  • Building relationships with finance professionals and clients

  • Managing recruitment processes from initial brief through to offer stage

  • Speaking with candidates about career opportunities and market trends

  • Business development and growing your network

  • Working closely with the team to share ideas and opportunities

  • Delivering a high-quality, people-focused recruitment experience

Often

  • Meeting clients and candidates

  • Negotiating offers and managing recruitment processes

  • Celebrating placements, team wins, and Friday finishes

  • Contributing ideas to improve how we work and grow as a business

Occasionally

  • Team socials, lunches, and incentives

  • Networking events and client meetings

  • Competitive debates over where to order lunch from

Never

  • Sitting through pointless internal meetings

  • Microwave fish in the office and expect people to forgive you

Interview Prep

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Practice Questions

💡Technical Questions (3)
  • 1.How would you approach building and growing your own recruitment desk in the Accountancy, Finance, and Tax sector here at Downey Osborne?
  • 2.Walk me through how you manage a recruitment process from the initial client brief through to the offer stage.
  • 3.When speaking with candidates about career opportunities, how do you establish trust and keep them engaged throughout the process?
🎯Behavioral Questions (3)
  • 1.Tell me about a time you had to work independently to hit a target or achieve a goal without a manager checking in on you.
  • 2.Describe a situation where you successfully built a genuine relationship with a difficult or hesitant client or candidate.
  • 3.Give me an example of a time you collaborated with a team to share an idea or opportunity that led to a win.
🧩Situational Questions (2)
  • 1.You are negotiating an offer with a top Accountancy candidate, but the client's salary offer is slightly below the candidate's expectations. How do you handle this to ensure a successful placement?
  • 2.It's Thursday afternoon, you haven't made a placement this week, and your pipeline is looking quiet. You have no manager forcing you to make calls. What do you do?

Resume Keywords

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RecruitmentBusiness DevelopmentAccountancy and FinanceRelationship BuildingAutonomousNegotiationSalesCandidate ManagementClient BriefPipeline GenerationCollaborativeMarket Mapping

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