Build more than a recruitment desk
At Crucial People you will get both the support of an established specialist recruitment business and the freedom to build a market, career and team of your own.
Don't just build another billing desk. Build a career.
Experience
With over 20 years experience in the sector, we have an established presence and a solid base for you to build from.
Growth
Multiple career paths for you to choose from depending on goals.
Choose from Resourcing, 180 delivery, 360 consultancy or pure BD.
Rewards
Uncapped commissions to accelerate your earnings.
Freedom
Grow our core market or build your own. The freedom, and support to make it happen
Established enough to support you. Early enough to create something.
You should not have to choose between the support of an established recruitment business and the freedom to build something of your own.
Here, you can have both.
Established specialist market
Start with around 20 years of Smart Buildings and Energy Management knowledge, relationships and credibility behind you.
Uncapped earning potential
A transparent commission structure linked to the value and results you deliver, without an artificial ceiling.
A career shaped around you
Develop through candidate delivery, 360 consultancy or client development, with room to change direction.
Freedom to build a niche
Create a complementary specialism without arbitrary geographical restrictions or protected client territories.
A route into leadership
Build a successful market and earn the opportunity to recruit and lead a team around you.
Support without micromanagement
Structured onboarding, practical coaching and clear expectations while you retain ownership of your work.
Your opportunity
A strong place to start. No fixed place to finish.
Learn within an established network, support experienced consultants and build technical knowledge. Then take greater ownership, develop client relationships or establish a niche of your own.
“Your first role here does not have to define your entire career.”
Build a market. Develop a service. Create a team. Earn your place in the structure that follows.
Your opportunity
Choose where your career takes you.
4 career paths provide clarity without boxing you in. Your strengths, results and ambitions determine how your role can develop.
Candidate Resourcer
Become a trusted specialist in your candidate market. Take ownership for identifying and engaging the best talent in the marketplace. Deliver consistently and develop responsibility for managing the candidate side of successful recruitment service delivery.
Recruitment Consultant
Own the complete process across business development, account management, client care, vacancy qualfiication, candidate sourcing & screening, recruitment lifecycle management and the commercial development of your specialist market.
Business Development Manager
Open doors, build client relationships and develop permanent, subcontract, retained and managed recruitment opportunities for our delivery team.
How it feels to work here
Supported, but not carried.
You’ll get structured onboarding, training, regular coaching and experienced support when you need it. But you’ll also be expected to think for yourself, solve problems and take ownership of your work. We’ll help you develop and succeed, but we won’t spoon-feed you.
We expect you to be proactive, act on feedback and create your own success. Help is always available, but initiative starts with you.
Explore our culture
Your Workplace
Room to think in the Surrey Hills.
Located within a peaceful business courtyard on a working farm, our office sits in the heart of the Surrey Hills National Landscape.
Instead of battling through urban traffic each morning, you'll travel through picturesque countryside and arrive somewhere that offers space to think, breathe and focus.
The countryside setting provides a refreshing alternative to the traditional office environment. With rural footpaths on the doorstep, stunning views and access to one of England's most treasured landscapes, it's a place that supports both productivity and wellbeing.
Don't mistake rural for rustic. Our office is equipped with high-speed fibre broadband and a modern VoIP phone system, providing seamless connectivity for video meetings, customer calls and collaboration. Integrated CRM and call management technology helps automate administrative tasks and improve accuracy, allowing our team to spend more time delivering value and less time on paperwork.
It's the best of both worlds: the tranquillity of the Surrey Hills combined with the technology and connectivity of a modern professional workplace.
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Useful Answers
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Do I need recruitment experience?
At the moment, yes. We are busy and are looking for experienced recruitment Resourcers, Delivery Consultants and Recruitment Consultants who will be able to hit the ground running and make an impact straight away.
In the future, as our team grows, we will be looking to train and develop people with strong transferable sales, research, relationship-building or service delivery skills.
We are also interested in speaking with people looking to support marketing and social media.
Feel free to introduce yourself to us for a future conversation.
Will I have to do sales?
Not necessarily.
We offer a variety of pathways for recruitment professionals, from pure candidate-side delivery to pure business development.
In the immediate term, if you do not want to be responsible for sales and business development, we have a broad existing client base keeping us on our toes, and a lot of candidate-side delivery that needs support without you needing to bring in any new business.
If you later decide you want to move towards developing your own client base, you will receive sales training and the relevant support to enable you to do this.
Can I build my own market
Yes, definitely.
Whilst we have an established presence in our core niche market, there are plenty of other opportunities out there.
Unlike some larger agencies that strictly pigeonhole you into a sector, type of role, or place geographic restrictions on your client base, we can offer you the flexibility and freedom to carve out your own space.
So whether you want to take responsibility for building out a client base in our core market, or develop a brand new niche within the Smart Buildings sector, you will have every opportunity to make this happen.
Can I work remotely?
Sometimes.
We are looking to build our team in the office and create a positive and collaborative in-person working environment. So roles would be based predominantly in our office.
That said, we understand that sometimes you will have events in your life like medical or dental appointments, trades coming to your home, or childcare hiccups that mean it would be easier and ultimately actually more productive for you to work from home that day, so there will be flexibility for occasional home working once established in your role.
Will my enquiry be confidential?
Absolutely.
We promise to handle your application discreetly.
Whilst all offers of employment will be subject to satisfactory references, this will not be done until an offer has been made and accepted in principle.
It's your move
What would you like to achieve next?
You will have a genuine opportunity to earn greater responsibility, influence, commission and progression through what you build and deliver.
Whatever you are looking to achieve next in your recruitment career, we'd love to talk to you about it.
