What are the responsibilities and job description for the Trainee Recruitment Consultant position at Spencer Ogden?
🚀 Entry-Level Recruitment Consultant
📍 Houston, Heights Area | 💰 $40,000 base uncapped commission
📅 Start date: October 13th, 2026 | 🎓 Six-week paid training ongoing one-to-one support
Join Our Final Entry-Level Academy of the Year!
Ambitious, competitive and ready for a career where your hard work can open doors?
Join Spencer Ogden’s final Entry-Level Academy of 2026 and launch your recruitment career in Houston. You don’t need recruitment experience, bring the drive to succeed, and we’ll help you develop the skills.
You’ll join one of our fastest-growing offices in Houston’s vibrant Height's area, recruiting across energy, infrastructure and power generation.
🌎 Your Academy group is coming to Houston! Train alongside fellow new starters from across our North American offices, build connections and learn together through our six-week paid training program. With ongoing one-to-one support, your development continues long after the Academy.
💼 What Is Delivery Recruitment?
Put simply, you’ll help people find their next job and help our clients find the talent they need.
Our Business Development team builds client relationships and brings in vacancies. As a Delivery Consultant, you’ll focus on finding the right candidates for those opportunities and guiding them through the recruitment process.
One day you could be speaking with an engineer about their next career move; the next, you could be negotiating an offer and helping them secure a role on a major energy project.
When you successfully place a candidate, you earn commission on top of your base salary, with no cap on your commission earnings.
It’s a people-focused sales career. Expect plenty of phone conversations, clear targets and the satisfaction of turning your hard work into results.
🎯 What You’ll Be Doing
- Finding and approaching skilled contract professionals through LinkedIn, job boards and our database
- Making regular, high-volume candidate calls and building relationships
- Understanding candidates’ experience, goals and availability
- Matching candidates with live vacancies and presenting them to our Business Development team and clients
- Preparing candidates for interviews and keeping the process moving
- Negotiating rates, offers and start dates
- Closing placements and working toward performance targets
- Building a network within your specialist energy market
🔥 Who Will Thrive Here?
You don’t need previous recruitment experience. We’re looking for people who:
- Enjoy talking to new people and building relationships
- Are motivated by earning potential and career progression
- Have a competitive streak and like working toward goals
- Stay consistent, even when faced with rejection or setbacks
- Welcome feedback and put it into practice
- Communicate clearly and follow through on commitments
Starting your first professional role or moving from hospitality, retail, customer service or sales?
Your transferable skills could make you a great fit.
📈 Build Skills. Earn Commission. Grow Your Career.
You’ll learn a specialist industry while developing skills in sales, negotiation and relationship building.
As you build your candidate network and start making placements, you’ll have the opportunity to increase your earnings and work toward senior, account management or leadership roles.
Potential total earnings of $60,000–$80,000 within 12–18 months, depending on performance, with the opportunity for top performers to exceed this through uncapped commission.
🎁 The Perks
- $40,000 base salary uncapped commission
- Six-week paid Academy training with your fellow new starters
- Ongoing one-to-one coaching and support
- Medical, dental and vision coverage
- 401(k) with company match
- Life insurance and short-term disability coverage
- Up to 20 days paid PTO plus 8 standard Holidays
- Your birthday off
- Office closure between Christmas and New Year
- Clear progression opportunities into senior and leadership roles
- Incentives, team events and high-performer rewards
Ready to Get Started?
Join an ambitious team, build valuable skills and help people take the next step in their careers while building your own.
We’re interviewing now for a limited number of places in our final Entry-Level Academy of 2026, starting October 13th.
Apply today and launch your recruitment career with Spencer Ogden Houston! 🚀
Salary : $40,000