What are the responsibilities and job description for the Entry Level Recruitment Sales position at Oliver James?
Accelerate your sales career with Oliver James!
If you’re motivated by building relationships, driven by results, and want a role where your effort directly impacts your earnings and career trajectory: Oliver James offers a high-performance environment where you can do exactly that.
We’re hiring ambitious, commercially minded individuals to join our New York team as Analysts, supporting our continued growth across specialist markets.
The Opportunity
As an Analyst, you will join one of our established specialist teams, aligned to a specific market where you’ll build deep expertise from day one. Your desk will be determined prior to joining, based on a combination of your strengths, interests, and business needs, setting you up to develop into a true market specialist.
You’ll begin with our 12-week Accelerator program, designed to equip you with the core skills needed to succeed in a 360 recruitment role, before transitioning into your aligned team with ongoing coaching and support.
What You’ll Be Doing
This is a high-performance, sales-driven role centered on building and managing relationships with both candidates and clients within your specialist market.
You will:
- Headhunt and engage high-quality candidates through calls, LinkedIn, and referrals
- Build and develop client relationships through proactive business development
- Qualify roles and manage the full recruitment lifecycle from brief to placement
- Advise clients and candidates as a consultative partner within your market
- Negotiate offers, fees, and contracts
- Generate leads and commercial insights to grow your desk
Success in this role comes from operating with pace, resilience, and a phone-first, high-activity mindset.
What We’re Looking For
You’re commercially driven, with a genuine interest in sales and building relationships, and you’re motivated by performance, progression, and results. You bring a competitive edge and resilience, allowing you to stay focused and proactive in a high-pressure, target-driven environment. At the same time, you’re coachable and open to feedback, with a strong desire to continuously learn, develop, and refine your approach as you grow into a high-performing consultant.
What’s In It For You
At Oliver James, we pride ourselves on creating the perfect environment for our people to thrive, and believe in giving them the authority and accountability to be responsible for the speed and success of their own career progression and development.
As an OJ employee, you will benefit from:
- Clear, transparent progression – over 60% of our NYC team promoted in 2025
- Uncapped commission paid monthly and quarterly
- Structured training and development at every stage of your career
- A high-energy, social culture that celebrates success
- Incentives including lunch clubs, socials, and team events
- 1.5 hour lunch breaks
- Competitive benefits including commuter support
Why Oliver James
You’re not starting from scratch, you’re joining a business with momentum, strong leadership, and real market credibility.
You’ll be placed into a specialist desk from day one, giving you a clear path to becoming a top performer faster than in a generalist environment, and our 12-week Accelerator program offers a hands-on, high-impact runway designed to get you productive quickly.
Interested?
We want to hear from you! We have ambitious and intentional growth plans across the US, with Accelerator cohorts beginning every 6 weeks. We have limited spots available each quarter, so don’t delay in sending your application today!