Fair Recruitment Limited
Graduate Research Associate (Executive Search) – European Languages
Requirements
Candidates must be fluent or native in French, German, Spanish, Italian, or Arabic and possess a strong academic background, ideally a 2:1 degree or above. The firm seeks resilient, proactive, and commercially aware graduates with strong communication skills.
Job Description
Graduate Associate (Executive Search) – European Languages
If you're a recent graduate looking for a career that combines commercial thinking, research and relationship building, executive search offers an exceptional place to start.
This is an opportunity to join a high-performing executive search firm that partners with leading investment management businesses across financial services, technology and data.
Working on international search assignments, you'll use your language skills to engage with senior professionals across European markets while developing specialist knowledge of the industries and businesses you support.
From the outset, you'll be involved in live projects, speaking with senior professionals and building genuine market insight from day one.
What You'll Be Doing
- Researching industries, companies and senior professionals across international markets
- Mapping talent and identifying the key individuals within specialist sectors
- Speaking directly with senior professionals and building long-term relationships
- Supporting live executive search assignments and delivering high-quality client work
- Conducting market research and competitor analysis to provide valuable client insight
- Learning how executive search supports strategic hiring decisions for global organisations
This is a career built around understanding people, markets and how successful businesses grow. Every assignment is different, giving you the opportunity to continually develop your commercial knowledge and professional network.
Who They're Looking For
- Fluent or native in French, German, Spanish, Italian or Arabic
- Strong academic background, ideally a 2:1 degree or above
- Evidence of resilience, determination and a strong work ethic
- A confident communicator who enjoys building relationships
- Naturally curious, commercially aware and interested in business and international markets
- Organised, proactive and eager to learn
Previous executive search or recruitment experience isn't required. The firm is looking for graduates with the ambition, professionalism and potential to build a successful long-term career.
What You'll Gain
- Early responsibility and meaningful project involvement from day one
- The opportunity to use your language skills in an international commercial environment
- Exposure to senior professionals and global investment markets
- Structured training and mentoring from experienced executive search consultants
- Clear career progression based on performance and development
- Competitive base salary with strong bonus potential
- Visa sponsorship available
If you're looking for a career that offers intellectual challenge, international exposure and the opportunity to build relationships with senior decision-makers across global markets, executive search provides an exceptional platform to develop your career.
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About Fair Recruitment Limited
We provide top graduates and junior recruiters to London's best recruitment businesses. We are extremely good at what we do and have an excellent reputation for providing quality staff to quality agencies. We work with the UK’s leading recruitment consultancies and search businesses that are number one in terms of reputation, career progression, training, and earning potential. Our extensive industry knowledge and strong client relationships make us experts at matching our candidates with the right business and role. Although I have a small team of resourcers, I personally oversee every process, and unusually in the industry, we meet with every single candidate that we put forward for a role. It's important to us to get to know our candidates and ensure the very best fit for our clients. Our quality over quantity approach is one of the reasons our clients come back to us again and again. We know that you have high expectations, and so do we! “Alex and her team at Fair Recruitment have delivered for us on numerous occasions bringing great people to our business. She has taken the time to understand the cultural nuances of our firm and learn, through feedback, what we look for. I can thoroughly recommend Fair Recruitment as a great partner to build your business with.” Adam Cairns, Managing Partner, Arkesden Partners “Alex is a straight-talker, an efficient communicator and not interested in sales waffle – her output both in terms of quality and volume speaks for itself. I look forward to working with Alex as our business continues to grow and feel confident, we have found a good, long-term ally in Fair Recruitment.” Brian Sheehy, Director, Hatton Search “Fair Recruitment has placed 21 people in our graduate scheme over the past 5 years. Alex takes time out to get to know you and the business, making sure the candidates she puts forward are a perfect match. The candidates are always well-screened and well-prepped. It’s a delight working with Fair Recruitment