I am what we call a 'Full Life-Cycle' consultant at ARM. This means that I am responsible for building relationships with businesses and winning their trust and permission to supply staff to them and also finding the engineering staff to fill their roles.

I have previously worked in pure Sales roles in other companies and I found them hard after a time as I was doing the same thing day in and day out. Working at ARM I can honestly say that I jump out of bed most mornings (perhaps with the exception of some Mondays) and look forward to being in the office. I will often be one of the first people from my team at work and I will wait for my colleagues to arrive before I start hassling them to make cups of coffee for me.

I will generally split my day into two halves. In the morning I will make new sales calls and catch up with my existing clients, find out what job vacancies they have and ensure that their needs are being met. In the afternoon I will focus on candidates and getting applications and CVs sent into my clients. I aim to send out around 25 CV's per week. It doesn't sound like that many but the skills I recruit for are quite niche and there is not an abundance of candidates available in the market.

I am often required to go out on the road and visit my clients. I really enjoy doing this and after my first few times became quite confident in doing it. I have met Managers and Directors of some really interesting technology companies and I have developed a genuine interest in the Engineering Industry.

I would recommend working in Recruitment for highly motivated people that would like to earn a lot of money, but are definitely prepared to put in a lot of work for it.

The training ARM has given me is fantastic and they have slowly built up my capabilities over time. I have never felt out of my depth in my job - even though I am doing things now that I wouldn't have been comfortable with 18 months ago.