Hughes Collective is pleased to present an exciting opportunity on behalf of our client.
Title: Technical Recruitment Consultant
Location: Saskatoon, SK (Primarily Remote – Regular Client Visits, Site Tours & Industry Events)
Schedule: Full Time, Monday to Friday
About Us
We're not your average recruitment firm.
Hughes Collective is a bold, people-first consultancy helping organizations grow through strategic recruitment, talent advisory, workforce solutions, HR consulting, employer branding, marketing, and business strategy. We partner with organizations across Saskatchewan and beyond to solve complex people challenges and build stronger workplaces.
Our recruitment team works deeply within the industries that keep our communities and economy moving, including construction, manufacturing, mining, industrial operations, engineering, transportation, and technical services.
We build relationships, not databases. We learn our clients’ businesses, understand their industries, challenge thinking when needed, and bring insight to every search.
We’re growing, and we’re looking for an experienced recruiter who is ready to own the work, lead the relationship, and become a trusted advisor to clients and candidates.
The Opportunity
We’re looking for a relationship-driven, highly organized, confident Technical Recruitment Consultant to join our growing team.
This is not a recruitment support role.
As a Consultant, you will own full-cycle searches, lead client conversations, build and execute search strategies, advise clients on the realities of the talent market, guide candidates through career decisions, and take responsibility for moving your files forward.
You will work across trades, technical, industrial, engineering, operations, and professional positions, developing deep knowledge of the industries, organizations, and talent markets you serve.
You do not need to have every answer immediately. You do need the confidence and judgment to find the answer, make a recommendation, communicate clearly, and know when something needs to be escalated.
At Hughes, Consultants are trusted with ownership. You will have experienced leaders around you, but you will not wait for someone else to drive your search.
You are the driver.
What You’ll Own
Full-Cycle Recruitment & Search Leadership
You will independently lead recruitment assignments from intake through successful placement.
You’ll:
- Lead intake and discovery conversations with clients, asking thoughtful questions that uncover the real hiring need, business context, team dynamics, market realities, and ideal candidate profile.
- Translate client needs into a clear and intentional search strategy.
- Build and execute creative sourcing strategies across technical, industrial, trades, engineering, operations, and professional talent markets.
- Personally source, shoulder tap, engage, screen, and assess candidates.
- Build targeted talent maps and pipelines rather than relying solely on applicants.
- Evaluate candidate alignment using experience, motivation, career trajectory, compensation expectations, culture, and long-term fit.
- Build thoughtful shortlists and confidently explain why each candidate should, or should not, move forward.
- Guide interview strategy and support clients in making strong hiring decisions.
- Lead reference checks, offer conversations, negotiations, closing, and acceptance.
- Maintain post-placement relationships with clients and candidates to support long-term success.
- Own the pace, momentum, organization, and outcome of your assigned searches.
Client Partnership & Advisory
At Hughes Collective, clients do not hire us simply to process recruitment activity. They hire us for judgment, insight, partnership, and results.
You’ll:
- Own the day-to-day client relationship for your assigned searches.
- Build trust through preparation, responsiveness, curiosity, and honest communication.
- Establish clear communication rhythms and provide meaningful weekly search updates without needing to be chased.
- Bring clients market intelligence on candidate availability, compensation, competitor activity, geography, skill shortages, and other factors influencing the search.
- Make recommendations when the market tells us something needs to change.
- Challenge assumptions respectfully when a search strategy, compensation level, job profile, or candidate expectation is limiting success.
- Anticipate client needs and solve problems before they become larger issues.
- Recognize when circumstances require deeper strategic input and involve your Portfolio Lead early and with clear context.
- Identify opportunities where Hughes may be able to provide broader support and bring those opportunities forward internally.
Our best Consultants do not simply report what is happening.
They interpret what is happening and help the client decide what to do next.
Trades, Technical & Industrial Talent Expertise
We want you to become someone clients call because you know the market.
You’ll:
- Develop deep knowledge of Saskatchewan’s trades, industrial, manufacturing, mining, engineering, transportation, and construction sectors.
- Understand the roles, terminology, credentials, certifications, compensation realities, and career pathways within the markets you recruit.
- Build genuine, long-term relationships with technical professionals, tradespeople, supervisors, managers, engineers, operational leaders, and industry executives.
- Stay connected to labour-market trends, workforce pressures, major projects, industry movement, compensation trends, and talent availability.
- Attend client sites, industry events, career fairs, networking opportunities, and community events.
- Build talent communities that exist long before a search begins.
- Turn market knowledge into useful insight for clients and the broader Hughes team.
Candidate Relationships & Experience
Candidates are not inventory.
Every interaction represents Hughes Collective, and every person we meet may become a future candidate, client, referral source, or long-term relationship.
You’ll:
- Create warm, thoughtful, relationship-centred candidate experiences.
- Communicate openly and consistently throughout the recruitment process.
- Ask meaningful questions that uncover what someone actually wants from their next career move.
- Give honest feedback and realistic guidance.
- Navigate sensitive career conversations with professionalism, discretion, and emotional intelligence.
- Build relationships that extend beyond the immediate search.
- Close the loop, follow through, and make sure people know where they stand.
Collaboration & Growth
At Hughes Collective, mindset is a non-negotiable.
A positive, solutions-focused, team-first approach is the foundation of everything we do.
You'll:
- Work closely with recruiters, consultants, and specialists across the organization
- Collaborate across multiple service lines and portfolios
- Contribute ideas, challenge assumptions, and help improve how we work
- Receive ongoing coaching, mentorship, and development opportunities
- Take ownership of your growth while being supported by an experienced team
- Gain exposure to recruitment, workforce planning, HR consulting, talent management, and business strategy
The successful candidate will also support projects, initiatives, and client work across the broader Hughes Collective team, including collaboration with other Portfolio Leaders and service areas.
Who You Are
As a Technical Recruitment Consultant, you are someone who genuinely enjoys working with people and takes pride in building relationships that create value.
You bring professionalism, curiosity, and strong execution to everything you do.
- You likely have: 5-10+ years of recruitment, staffing, talent acquisition, or related experience, ideally involving technical, industrial, trades, engineering, or operational talent.
- Experience independently managing full-cycle recruitment assignments.
- Confidence leading client meetings and intake conversations.
- Strong sourcing and direct outreach capabilities.
- The ability to assess talent beyond what appears on a resume.
- Strong written and verbal communication.
- Natural relationship-building ability with candidates, clients, and industry professionals.
- Sound judgment and the ability to make recommendations with incomplete or evolving information.
- Strong organization, follow-through, and attention to detail.
- Comfort managing several searches and competing priorities simultaneously.
- Confidence navigating offers, candidate concerns, difficult conversations, and changing search conditions.
- A proactive, resourceful, solutions-focused mindset.
- Comfort with recruitment technology, ATS/CRM platforms, sourcing tools, AI, and emerging technology.
- Positive energy, emotional intelligence, humility, and professionalism.
- A collaborative, team-first approach.
- A valid driver’s licence and reliable transportation for client visits, site tours, and industry events.
Bonus Points If You Have
- Direct recruitment experience within trades, industrial, manufacturing, construction, engineering, transportation, mining, or technical environments.
- An established Saskatchewan technical or industrial network.
- Experience advising clients on compensation, labour-market conditions, workforce availability, or recruitment strategy.
- Sales, account management, or business development experience.
- Experience working within an agency, search firm, or consulting environment.
- Exposure to workforce planning, talent management, employer branding, or broader people consulting.
What We Offer
- A flexible, primarily remote role with regular in-person collaboration
- Meaningful work with organizations that are building stronger teams and communities
- Direct mentorship from experienced recruitment and consulting leaders
- Exposure to multiple areas of business, talent, and workforce consulting
- A collaborative team that values trust, initiative, learning, and humour
- Real opportunities for career growth and advancement
- Competitive compensation and benefits
- Mileage reimbursement for client visits, networking events, and industry meetings
A Note on Mindset
At Hughes Collective, we care just as much about mindset as skillset.
We're looking for someone who is curious, dependable, humble, ambitious, and excited to grow. Someone who takes ownership, builds strong relationships, follows through on commitments, and genuinely cares about helping people succeed.
If that sounds like you, we'd love to meet you.
Ready to Join?
Apply by sending your resume and a short note telling us what excites you about this opportunity.
