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Consultant - Graduate Role

1 month ago


London, Greater London, United Kingdom Arkesden Partners Full time
OpportunitynArkesden are one of the leading Alternative Investment search firms based in London and founded over fifteen years ago. We operate in four key verticals, Private Equity, Energy & Infrastructure, Real Estate and Private Credit.

Over the last 16 years we have built up a strong reputation in our specialist markets and a long track record of success to date.

Arkesden works with some of the most well known and interesting funds in the market building deep relationships with our clients.

Hiring OverviewnArkesden Partners is looking to develop new talent across the firm in order to meet our strategic plans.


We aim to hire only one or possibly two graduates per year with a view to bringing people in that would wish to aim for Partner track status with us.

All of the Partners within Arkesden joined the firms as graduates and have worked their way up to the management team.

Therefore we are looking to hire an extremely bright and hard working graduate to join the firm for the medium term.


Role SpecificationnThis is a role for an ambitious Graduate to initially train as a Consultant with the aim of developing into a Senior Consultant within the business in the future.

There are many facets to Executive Search, all of which are learnt through hands on training. Arkesden Partners offers a tailor-made Consultant Development Framework designed by an industry leading Management Consultancy for Consultants that join.


Why a career at Arkesden?n· A highly successful track record of delivery for over one and half decades – leading global and sector specialist clients in our practice areas.

Consequentially Arkesden Partners has achieved great success in building long term relationships with our clients.n· A business that offers huge responsibility at a relatively early stage in your career – working with clients within a year of joining us.n.

Working with all Partners in the firm in the first two years of your in-role training.n· In-House Training is key – twenty-two separate internal and external courses to undertake in the first 24 months of being with the business for examplen· Meritocracy – Hard work, success and dedication supersede time-based promotionn· Compensation – We constantly ensure that remuneration is in the top quartile against our competitorsn· Benefits – we offer one of the best benefits packages of any search firm that we are aware of including medium term profit share, unlimited holiday, global August policy (working anywhere in the world in August) and many others including Private Healthcare and many more for Senior Consultants and above.n· A business that has a clear five-year growth plan we are executing – an exciting time to join the firm not just to grow personally but see the business do the same.n· Entrepreneurial spirit – our Partners and Senior Managers have all personally been instrumental in build out of sector coverage.

You would be expected to do the same over the medium term.

Job RolenInitially you will learn the business from the ground up:n· Building your network and establishing relationships with candidates through headhunting and regular meetingsn· Attending client meetings with Partners in order to write job specifications and confidently sell roles to candidatesn· Generating market intel (teams, compensation trends etc.)n· Assisting from day one in the research and execution of live mandates


Key SkillsnWhat kind of person are we looking for?n· Someone bright, a graduate with a degree from a top universityn· You must be enthusiastic and ready to learn in a hard-working and rewarding environmentn· Demonstrable interest in one or all of our sectorsn· Someone that can work both autonomously but always as part of the wider team.

n· If you have previous phone based or client facing experience that would be an advantagen· This role demands a committed, confident and hardworking individual

Trainingn​You will be expected to attend no less than twenty-three training courses in your first 24 months with us including:

  • In depth overview of the investment markets across all our sectors – individual courses for each sub sectorn
  • Telephone skills - speaking to candidates and clients aliken
  • Networking (recommendation, referral and headhunting)n
  • Client and candidate face to face meetingsn
  • Mandate briefing skillsn
  • Business development techniquesn
  • Working structure efficiencyn
  • Negotiation and mandate planningn
  • End to end account management


These are some of the key areas of becoming a successful Executive Search Consultant and ongoing training and development plays a major part of your work at Arkesden Partners.

Culturen.

We have an adult environment in the firm with the focus on the individual working for themselves and the firm.n.

The Arkesden team has a lot of fun together whilst also spending most of our focus on our lives outside the office.n.

We work to deadlines with highly demanding clients.

However we think about working very efficiently to get our work completed to a high standard and keeping evenings and weekends to ourselves.n.

We spend a lot of our time cross-selling in the business, working collaboratively and thinking about the medium term relationships we have and wish to build.


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