Recruitment Executive - US Markets

Start Date:

October 2026

Working:
Office-based with hybrid working available

Are you driven by results? Do you want a career where your effort is rewarded, your earning potential is uncapped, and you're not competing with hundreds of established consultants for the same accounts?

At X4 Group, our US Markets desk is one of the biggest opportunities in the business right now. It's a less saturated market than our European desks, which means more open ground, more untapped clients, and more room for a driven trainee to build a name and a client base fast, with average fees per placement of £26,000-£30,000. If you want a career where output speaks louder than experience, and where getting in early actually matters, this is it.

No previous recruitment experience needed. We hire for drive, attitude and results-focus, and we'll give you the training to turn that into a genuinely lucrative career on a desk with real headroom to grow.

Founded in 2008, X4 Group is an award-winning specialist recruitment consultancy with over 150 people across London, New York, Berlin and Devon. We partner with ambitious businesses across four specialist brands:
Technology, Engineering, Life Sciences and Alpha, helping them secure exceptional talent across the US market.

As a Graduate / Trainee Recruitment Consultant on our US Markets desk, you'll get structured training from day one and quickly start taking on real ownership across the full recruitment process, in a market where the client relationships and candidate networks are still there to be won.

You'll build expertise across:

• Building and managing relationships with US clients and candidates.
• Sourcing top talent through Linked In Recruiter, networking, referrals and market research.
• Interviewing candidates and getting under the skin of what drives their careers.
• Owning the recruitment process end-to-end, from brief to successful placement.
• Developing new business and building your own client portfolio in a market with significantly less competition for accounts.
• Negotiating salaries and offers with confidence, on deals that carry some of the highest average fees in the business.
• Delivering sharp market insight, salary benchmarking and competitor analysis.
• Becoming the go-to expert in your specialist market before it gets crowded.
• Delivering a first-class experience for every client and candidate.

As you prove yourself, you'll take on more of your own clients, candidates and market. Because the US desk is still developing, the accounts and relationships you build early become yours to own and grow.

No recruitment experience required. We want people who perform under pressure, thrive on a challenge, and are driven to deliver results in a fast-paced, target-driven environment, and who like the idea of getting to a market before everyone else does.

• A recent graduate or finishing university.
• Looking to make your first move into a professional career.
• Coming from sales, retail, hospitality, customer service, or another performance-driven environment.
• Someone who's motivated by building relationships and hitting clear targets.
• Driven by progression and serious earning potential, with an eye for a market that hasn't been fully worked yet.

We're looking for people who are:

• Ambitious and relentless in going after their goals.
• Resilient, you take a setback, learn from it, and come back stronger.
• Confident communicators who thrive working with people.
• Organised, self-motivated and hard-working.
• Naturally competitive, with a real appetite to deliver results.
• Coachable, hungry for feedback and always looking to improve.

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