Location: Santa Monica, Los Angeles, California
Company: Lawrence Harvey | Part of LHi Group
Industry: Emerging Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Data, Cybersecurity & Business Transformation
Position: Entry-Level Recruitment Consultant / Technology Recruiter
Base Salary: $50,000 + $10,000 Guaranteed Commission + Uncapped Commission
Average First-Year Earnings (OTE): $70,000–$80,000+
Experience: Entry-Level | No Previous Recruitment Experience Required
Training: 12-Week Structured Sales & Recruitment Training Program
Launch Your Recruitment Career in Los Angeles
Looking for an entry-level recruitment consultant job in Los Angeles where your ambition, communication skills, and performance can directly influence your earnings and career progression?
Lawrence Harvey, part of LHi Group, is hiring an Entry-Level Recruitment Consultant to join our team in Santa Monica, Los Angeles.
This opportunity is ideal for recent college graduates, aspiring recruitment professionals, career changers, and individuals with experience in sales, customer service, hospitality, retail, or other customer-facing roles who want to build a career in specialist recruitment.
You'll develop valuable skills in technology recruitment, talent acquisition, B2B sales, business development, candidate sourcing, client relationship management, and negotiation, while working with companies and professionals across emerging technology and business transformation markets.
As a Recruitment Consultant, you'll learn how to manage the full recruitment process, from identifying new business opportunities and building client relationships to sourcing candidates, coordinating interviews, negotiating offers, and completing successful placements.
This is a commercial, sales-driven recruitment position with uncapped commission potential, rather than an internal HR or administrative recruiting role.
No previous recruitment, sales, or technology industry experience is required.
We provide comprehensive training, ongoing mentorship, and a clear pathway for career progression.
If you're ambitious, enjoy connecting with people, motivated by financial rewards, and want to develop into a specialist technology recruiter, we'd love to hear from you.
What Does an Entry-Level Recruitment Consultant Do?
Recruitment consulting is a fast-paced, people-focused career that combines sales, business development, talent acquisition, and relationship management.
As an Entry-Level Recruitment Consultant at Lawrence Harvey, you'll connect organizations looking to hire specialist technology professionals with candidates exploring their next career opportunities.
You'll learn how to identify prospective clients, generate new business opportunities, source and screen candidates, manage interviews, negotiate offers, and build long-term professional relationships.
Your role will involve working with both clients and candidates, developing the commercial and interpersonal skills needed to become a successful recruitment consultant.
From day one, you'll receive structured training and hands-on coaching from experienced consultants, gradually taking ownership of your own clients, candidates, and recruitment processes.
As your confidence and experience develop, you'll have the opportunity to build your own specialist network, increase your earning potential, and progress into senior recruitment or leadership positions.
Why Lawrence Harvey? Technology Recruitment Careers
Lawrence Harvey specializes in recruitment across Emerging Technology, Technology and Business Transformation, connecting organizations with professionals who help them innovate, grow, and navigate change.
We work with businesses seeking specialist talent across some of the most commercially important and evolving areas of technology.
Our specialist recruitment markets include:
• Artificial Intelligence (AI): AI technologies, machine learning, and intelligent automation.
• Data & Analytics: Data engineering, data science, business intelligence, and data-driven transformation.
• Cybersecurity: Information security, cloud security, and cyber risk.
• Cloud Computing: Cloud infrastructure, cloud engineering, and digital modernization.
• Technology & Engineering: Specialist engineering, software, and technical transformation.
• Business Transformation: Technology-enabled change, digital transformation, and business improvement.
As a Technology Recruitment Consultant, you'll develop specialist industry knowledge while building relationships with organizations investing in technology, innovation, and business transformation.
You'll learn how businesses identify and hire specialist professionals, understand emerging industry trends, and develop a network of clients and candidates across your chosen market.
This is an opportunity to combine a career in recruitment and business development with exposure to technology markets that are shaping how businesses operate.
You don't need a technology background to succeed. We'll provide the specialist market training and support you need to develop your industry knowledge and recruitment skills.
Why Join LHi Group?
Lawrence Harvey is part of LHi Group, a global, 100% employee-owned specialist talent solutions business.
Joining our Los Angeles team means becoming part of an ambitious, collaborative environment where performance, professional development, and long-term career progression are encouraged.
Here's what makes LHi Group different:
• Employee Ownership: Join a 100% employee-owned business where employees have a stake in the company's long-term success.
• Recruitment Training & Development: Benefit from structured sales and recruitment training, ongoing mentorship, and practical coaching.
• Merit-Based Career Progression: Build your career through performance, professional development, and ambition.
• International Opportunities: With offices across the US, UK, and Europe, international career development opportunities may be available.
• Specialist Industry Expertise: Develop valuable commercial knowledge and professional networks within emerging technology and business transformation.
• Collaborative Culture: Work alongside motivated colleagues in an environment that recognizes achievement, encourages teamwork, and celebrates success.
Salary, Commission & Benefits – Los Angeles Recruitment Jobs
We offer a competitive compensation package designed to reward ambition, performance, and professional growth.
Competitive Compensation & Uncapped Commission
• $50,000 annual base salary
• $10,000 guaranteed commission during training, paid biweekly
• Uncapped performance-based commission
• Average first-year total earnings of $70,000–$80,000+, including base salary and commission
• Opportunities to increase earnings as your recruitment performance and experience develop
Generous Paid Time Off
• 20+ days of paid time off
• 13 company holidays, including your birthday off
• 5 sick days
• 2 Mind & Body Days
• 1 volunteering day
• Summer Fridays
Comprehensive Employee Benefits
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• 401(k) retirement plan with company match
• Commuter benefits
• Employee Assistance Program
• Employee ownership opportunities, including eligibility for shareholder equity after 12 months
Recruitment Training & Career Development
• Structured 12-week sales and recruitment training program
• Ongoing one-on-one coaching from your manager
• Hands-on recruitment, sales, and business development training
• Candidate sourcing, interviewing, and relationship management development
• Cold calling, prospecting, and lead generation training
• Negotiation and closing training
• Specialist technology market training
• Clear career progression opportunities
Recruitment Incentives & Company Culture
• Weekly sales incentives and performance recognition
• Summer and holiday parties
• Monthly promotion lunches
• Breakfast clubs and quarterly lunch clubs
• Opportunities to earn up to two international incentive trips per year
• Employee-led equity, diversity, and inclusion initiatives
• Long-service rewards, including additional paid time off, international office trips, sabbatical opportunities, and luxury rewards
Key Responsibilities – Entry-Level Technology Recruitment Consultant
As an Entry-Level Recruitment Consultant at Lawrence Harvey, you'll learn how to connect businesses with specialist technology professionals while developing the commercial skills needed to manage a successful recruitment desk.
Your responsibilities will include:
Candidate Sourcing & Talent Acquisition
• Identify, source, screen, and engage specialist professionals across AI, Data, Cybersecurity, Cloud, Engineering, and Business Transformation.
• Conduct candidate interviews to understand professional experience, technical skills, and career ambitions.
• Build relationships with active and passive candidates through LinkedIn, job boards, referrals, and direct outreach.
• Develop a professional network of technology specialists within your recruitment market.
• Match qualified candidates with relevant client opportunities.
Business Development & Client Acquisition
• Identify prospective clients and generate new business opportunities within emerging technology and business transformation markets.
• Conduct outbound prospecting through cold calls, emails, LinkedIn, networking, and other outreach strategies.
• Develop relationships with prospective clients and understand their specialist hiring requirements.
• Introduce Lawrence Harvey's recruitment services to new businesses.
• Learn consultative selling techniques to identify client challenges and provide tailored recruitment solutions.
Full-Cycle Recruitment & Relationship Management
• Manage recruitment processes from initial client requirements through to successful candidate placements.
• Coordinate client and candidate interviews.
• Provide feedback and manage expectations throughout the hiring process.
• Support salary and contract negotiations.
• Develop skills in objection handling, negotiation, and closing.
• Build long-term client and candidate relationships that support repeat business.
Sales Performance & Market Development
• Work toward daily, weekly, and monthly recruitment activity targets and KPIs.
• Track candidate pipelines, business development activity, and recruitment performance.
• Research emerging technology trends, specialist hiring needs, and industry developments.
• Develop market knowledge through competitor mapping, networking, and talent research.
• Build your professional reputation as a specialist technology recruitment consultant.
You'll receive ongoing support as you learn, with increasing responsibility as your confidence, skills, and recruitment performance develop.
Who We're Looking For
We're looking for ambitious, motivated, and commercially minded individuals who want to build a successful career in technology recruitment, sales, and business development.
You don't need previous recruitment, sales, or technology industry experience to apply.
You could be a great fit if you're:
• Sales-Driven: Motivated by goals, financial incentives, competition, and measurable results.
• Ambitious: Looking for a long-term career with uncapped earning potential and opportunities for professional progression.
• Confident Communicator: Comfortable speaking with new people, building relationships, and developing your communication skills.
• Resilient: Able to handle rejection, learn from setbacks, and maintain motivation in a target-driven environment.
• Proactive: Willing to take initiative, develop new skills, and step outside your comfort zone.
• Relationship-Focused: Enjoy connecting with people and building long-term professional relationships.
• Coachable: Open to feedback, ongoing training, and continuous improvement.
• Goal-Oriented: Energized by targets and motivated to achieve individual and team-based objectives.
• Team-Oriented: Embody LHi Group's Good Human ethos by contributing to a positive, supportive, and collaborative environment.
• Interested in Technology: Excited by the opportunity to develop knowledge of AI, Data, Cybersecurity, Cloud Computing, and emerging technologies.
Previous Experience That Could Be Relevant
Experience in any of the following areas may be beneficial, but is not required:
• Sales or business development
• Customer service
• Hospitality or retail
• Account management
• Marketing or lead generation
• Recruiting or talent acquisition
• Other customer-facing or target-driven positions
Recent graduates, career changers, and candidates without a university degree are encouraged to apply.
We hire for attitude, ambition, communication skills, and willingness to learn.
Recruitment Training & Career Progression
We don't expect you to know everything about recruitment, sales, or technology when you join Lawrence Harvey.
Our 12-week structured sales and recruitment training program is designed to help you develop the skills needed to become a successful recruitment consultant.
Your training will cover:
• Recruitment fundamentals and the end-to-end recruitment process
• Candidate sourcing, screening, and interviewing
• B2B sales fundamentals
• Outbound prospecting and cold calling
• Lead generation and pipeline development
• Business development and client acquisition
• Consultative selling and relationship building
• Client relationship and account management
• Objection handling and negotiation
• Salary negotiations and closing techniques
• Market mapping and industry research
• Professional networking and personal branding
• Emerging technology and business transformation market knowledge
You'll receive hands-on coaching, regular feedback, and ongoing support from experienced recruitment consultants and managers.
Recruitment Consultant Career Path
As you develop your skills and deliver results, you'll have opportunities to take on additional responsibilities and progress your career.
A potential career path includes:
Entry-Level Recruitment Consultant → Recruitment Consultant → Senior Recruitment Consultant → Principal Consultant or Team Leader
Further progression opportunities may include senior individual contributor positions, team management, and leadership roles, depending on your performance, development, and ambitions.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do I Need Previous Recruitment Experience?
No. This is an entry-level recruitment opportunity.
You'll receive structured training and ongoing coaching to develop your recruitment, sales, and business development skills.
Is Technology Recruitment a Sales Job?
Yes. Technology recruitment consulting is a commercially focused career involving B2B sales, business development, relationship management, and revenue generation.
You'll work with clients and candidates, build your professional network, and earn commission through successful recruitment placements.
Do I Need a College Degree?
No. A university degree is not required.
We welcome recent graduates, career changers, and individuals who have developed relevant skills through previous employment or other experiences.
How Much Can an Entry-Level Recruitment Consultant Earn in Los Angeles?
This position offers a $50,000 annual base salary plus $10,000 in guaranteed commission during training, paid biweekly.
You'll also have the opportunity to earn uncapped performance-based commission.
Average first-year total earnings are $70,000–$80,000+, including base salary and commission. Actual earnings depend on individual performance.
Do I Need a Technology Background?
No. Previous experience in artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, data, cloud computing, or technology recruitment is not required.
You'll receive specialist market training to help you understand the industry, develop professional relationships, and identify recruitment opportunities.
What Is the Difference Between an Internal Recruiter and a Recruitment Consultant?
An internal recruiter typically works within one organization to support its hiring needs.
A recruitment consultant works with multiple client businesses, develops new business opportunities, sources specialist candidates, and earns commission through successful placements.
This position combines recruitment, B2B sales, and business development.
Where Is This Recruitment Consultant Position Located?
This position is based in Santa Monica, Los Angeles, California, within Lawrence Harvey's Los Angeles team.
Apply Today – Entry-Level Recruitment Consultant Jobs in Los Angeles
Ready to launch your career in specialist recruitment?
Join Lawrence Harvey, part of LHi Group, and develop valuable commercial skills while building relationships with organizations and professionals across emerging technology and business transformation.
Whether you're a recent college graduate, transitioning from a customer-facing role, or exploring a new career in recruitment, this opportunity offers structured training, uncapped commission potential, and long-term career progression.
Apply today for our Entry-Level Recruitment Consultant – Technology position in Santa Monica, Los Angeles, CA.
LHi Group is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to creating an inclusive workplace and welcome applications from qualified candidates of all backgrounds.