Career Consultant - Job Search & Placement

Work Type: First preference: Ahmedabad-based

Market: United States/ Europe

Employment Type: Full time

Experience: 2+ years in recruiting, bench sales, reverse recruiting, career consulting, or US job search services

About the Role

We are looking for a highly proactive Career Consultant / Job Search Specialist to take ownership of our clients' job searches and help move them from job search → applications → interviews → offers → placement.

This is not a traditional career coaching role.

You will be directly involved in the execution of the client's job search. You will identify the right opportunities, tailor resumes, submit applications, identify hiring managers and recruiters, conduct LinkedIn and email outreach, follow up consistently, and manage the pipeline until the client gets placed.

If you are someone who enjoys finding opportunities, selling a candidate's profile, building relationships, and getting results, this role is for you.

What You Will Do

1. Find the Right Job Opportunities

- Conduct daily searches for relevant US job opportunities
- Identify roles that match the client's experience, skills, target compensation, location, and career goals
- Search across LinkedIn, company career pages, job boards, and other relevant sources
- Identify both advertised and potential hidden opportunities
- Build and maintain a strong pipeline of target companies and roles
- Prioritize quality opportunities instead of mass applying

2. Resume Tailoring & Application Strategy

- Review job descriptions and identify the key requirements
- Tailor client resumes for specific positions
- Align keywords, accomplishments, skills, and positioning with each role
- Ensure resumes are ATS-friendly while remaining compelling to recruiters
- Prepare customized application materials when required
- Submit applications accurately and consistently
- Track every application and its status

3. Hiring Manager & Recruiter Research

You will be expected to go beyond the job posting.

For relevant opportunities, you will:

- Identify the hiring manager
- Identify relevant recruiters and talent acquisition professionals
- Find professional contact information, including business email addresses where publicly available
- Research the company and hiring team
- Determine the best person to contact
- Build a targeted outreach list for each client

4. LinkedIn & Email Outreach

You will actively market our clients to the people who can hire them.

Responsibilities include:

- Send personalized LinkedIn connection requests
- Write personalized LinkedIn messages
- Reach out to recruiters, hiring managers, executives, and relevant decision-makers
- Conduct email outreach when appropriate
- Follow up systematically
- Start conversations rather than simply sending generic messages




- Track responses and convert conversations into interviews

5. Candidate Positioning

You need to understand how to sell a candidate's background.

You will:

- Identify the candidate's strongest selling points
- Match their experience to employer needs
- Develop positioning for different target roles
- Help communicate career transitions, gaps, seniority, industry changes, or other potential concerns
- Make sure the candidate is presented as a solution to the employer's problem

6. Interview Pipeline Management

You will own the candidate's pipeline.

Track:

Target roles → Applications → Outreach → Responses → Recruiter conversations → Interviews → Final rounds → Offers

You will monitor conversion rates and identify where the search is getting stuck.

If applications aren't generating interviews, you are expected to change the strategy, not simply continue doing more of the same thing.

7. Client Management

- Maintain regular communication with assigned clients
- Provide job search updates
- Explain the strategy behind the work
- Prepare clients for recruiter screens and interviews when required
- Identify opportunities for improvement in the candidate's positioning
- Keep clients accountable for actions that require their participation
- Make sure no promising opportunity falls through the cracks

What We Are Looking For

We are looking for someone who is execution-focused and commercially minded.

You should have experience in one or more of the following:

- Reverse recruiting
- Bench sales recruiting
- US IT recruiting
- Agency recruiting
- Career consulting
- Executive recruiting
- Job search management
- Talent sourcing
- Business development / candidate marketing

You MUST Have

- Strong understanding of the US job market
- Experience sourcing jobs and candidates through LinkedIn
- Strong LinkedIn research and outreach skills
- Excellent written English
- Ability to tailor resumes to job descriptions
- Experience identifying recruiters and hiring managers
- Strong research and lead-generation skills
- Ability to work independently
- Strong follow-up discipline
- Excellent organization and pipeline management

Big Plus

- Experience working with senior-level professionals
- Experience with finance, technology, healthcare, engineering, supply chain, or other specialized roles
- Experience with US staffing or bench sales
- Experience using LinkedIn Sales Navigator
- Experience using recruiter databases or email-finding tools
- Experience working with ATS platforms




- Experience managing multiple candidates simultaneously
- Existing understanding of US recruiting workflows

The Mindset We Want

We are not looking for someone who says:

"I submitted 100 applications this week."

We want someone who says:

"The candidate wasn't getting responses from applications, so I changed the positioning, identified 35 target companies, found the decision-makers, started outreach, and generated 4 recruiter conversations."

You should think like a recruiter, salesperson, researcher, and career strategist at the same time.

You should be comfortable being measured by outcomes, not just activity.

Key Performance Indicators

Your performance will be measured by:

- Quality of roles identified
- Number of targeted applications submitted
- Resume/application conversion
- Recruiter response rate
- LinkedIn outreach response rate
- Hiring manager conversations
- Interviews generated
- Final-round interviews
- Offers generated
- Successful placements
- Client satisfaction

The Ultimate KPI:

Clients getting placed.

Applications are an activity.

Interviews are progress.

Offers and placements are the outcome.

What We Offer

- Work with US-based professionals and international talent
- Opportunity to work on senior and specialized profiles
- Performance-driven environment
- Opportunity to grow into a senior career consultant / job search strategist role
- Training, systems, templates, and processes provided
- Work with a team that is focused on changing the way professionals approach the modern job search

Who Should Apply?

Apply if you are someone who:

- Loves recruiting and sourcing
- Knows how to find opportunities others miss
- Enjoys cold outreach
- Is comfortable researching hiring managers
- Can write messages that actually get replies
- Understands that every candidate needs to be marketed differently
- Gets frustrated when a candidate isn't getting interviews and immediately starts looking for the reason
- Takes ownership of results
- Wants to build a career in career search management / reverse recruiting

If your idea of job search is simply submitting applications on job boards, this isn't the role for you.

If you know how to find the prospect, position the candidate, reach the decision-maker, create the conversation, and move the candidate toward an offer, we'd love to hear from you.

How to Apply

Please send your resume along with a brief answer to these three questions:

1. How many candidates have you personally helped place in the US job market?
2. What is your approach when a candidate is applying but not getting interviews?
3. Give us one example of how you found a hiring manager or recruiter and turned that contact into an interview opportunity.

We are looking for people who can deliver results, not people who simply know the terminology.

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