NLP for Recruitment

What is NLP?

NLP has been defined as “the study of excellence” and is a set of principles, approaches, skills and techniques that helps us to understand how we experience and make sense of the world around us.

As well as offering a set of powerful techniques that have been proven to result in significant increases in sales performance, NLP provides insights that can radically transform your approach to sales and working with people. The approaches, strategies and techniques that you’ll learn when you train with us will enable you to glimpse the seldom-seen internal world of others through the language and gestures they use.

NLP will change the way you operate in, and think about, the world around you. You will radically improve your ability to create long-lasting relationships based on trust and integrity.

Imagine what that would do for your sales performance?

How to Book

As this course is only available on an in-house, at your own premises, call us on 01565 759893 for more details to schedule and secure your booking.

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NLP Training for the Recruitment Industry

In recent years, technology has radically transformed the recruitment industry – dramatically increasing competition, reducing the barriers to entry and squeezing margins. These days, anyone with a laptop and a phone can call themselves a recruitment agency. Making yourself stand out from the crowd and ensuring that you can be heard above the noise is now more important than ever. What better way to differentiate yourself from your competition than by building long-term, mutually-rewarding relationships with your clients and candidates?

Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) – defined as ‘the study of excellence’ – has long been recognised as providing a range of powerful strategies and techniques to radically improve sales performance.

Watt Works Consulting Ltd are pleased to offer this 3-day course for recruitment agencies, headhunters and recruitment consultants entitled ‘Turbo-Charged Selling with NLP fro Recruitment”.

The course has been entirely tailored for the recruitment industry and, as such, all of the techniques and strategies you will learn are directly focussed on enhancing your sales effectiveness with both prospects, clients and candidates at key stages of the process. As well as achieving real performance improvements in the short-term, you’ll find that both clients and candidates will keep coming back to you.
Stand out from the crowd and give yourself every chance of success by investing in your future with some high-quality NLP sales training now.

Recruitment Today …

The recruitment industry is unlike any other. As well as selling their service to clients at the beginning of the sales cycle, recruitment consultants need to sell the skills of the potential candidates to the client. At the same time, the consultant has to sell the various aspects of the job opportunity to candidates.

The recruitment consultant therefore has two clients – each with a differing set of wants and needs to be satisfied at different times. With the recruitment consultant being required to manage so many different factors leading up to closure, recruitment has to be one of the most complex and challenging sales roles in industry today.

And, in case you hadn’t noticed … today’s market is saturated. Potential recruiter details are freely available across the internet, and these days even a free account on LinkedIn can get you access to millions of potential candidates at the click of a button. Both potential clients and candidates are bombarded with LinkedIn invites, emails and phone calls at every turn. What makes you or your business different? How do you stand out from the crowd?

Success in the recruitment industry today requires being able to create and maintain high-quality, long-lasting relationships based on trust, respect and integrity. Recruitment consultants who want to ensure their long-term success need a new set of skills and a new set of strategies.

The 3-Day Turbo-Charged Selling Through NLP Course

The 3-day “Turbo-Charged Selling Through NLP” course opens the door to being able to create long-term relationships with your clients and candidates that will keep them coming back for more.
Learn a range of approaches, skills, strategies and techniques that will help you manage your state more effectively throughout the sales cycle, create and maintain rapport, find out what the client is really looking for through asking the right questions, deal with objections and much, much more.

The course may be delivered via our public programme or alternatively, we can deliver the course at your own offices. We can also deliver the course over several mornings or evening sessions to ensure your consultants continue to sell whilst they are on the course.

A variety of strategies, approaches and techniques will be provided, including the following:

  • Establishing and Maintaining Rapport
  • Communicating Effectively
  • Fact Finding and Asking the Right Questions
  • Language Patterns for Influence and Persuasion
  • Using NLP Anchoring
  • Buying Patterns
  • Handling Objections

This is a proven and cost-effective way to stand out from your competition, and radically improve your sales performance.

Note: We also provide a 2-day NLP course for candidates entitled “Getting The Edge At Interviews’. See the link on the left hand side of this page for more information.

Cost and Location

Attendance on this 3-day course is available at a cost of £1,050 + Vat (inc. all materials, lunch and refreshments).

The course is available at one of our luxurious training premises across the UK …

Booths Hall, Knutsford, Cheshire – An 18th Century manor house set in 220 acres in the heart of the Cheshire countryside – within easy reach of Manchester, Liverpool, Warrington, Preston, Stoke-on-Trent, Stafford, Birmingham, Wrexham and Chester and the counties of Cheshire, Greater Manchester, Lancashire, Merseyside Staffordshire, Shropshire, West Midlands and Flintshire. Delegates will be able to enjoy the beautiful parkland, woodland walks along with the extensive sporting facilities available.

Carlton House, Westminster, London – This stylish and comfortable venue has been extensively modernised whilst retaining its period character and boasts high quality, comprehensively equipped training rooms ideally suited for the delivery of the company’s growing range of business and personal development focused training courses. Although situated in a desirable, easily accessed location close to Pall Mall, traffic noise is minimal and delegates can experience a sense of comparative tranquility whilst engaging in their learning.

WANT TO KNOW MORE?

For more information on any of our training services call us on +44 (0) 1565 759 893

All of our training services are designed to provide world-class experiences in learning and development.


We place extra emphasis on ensuring that participants on our courses have a superior learning experience that they are able to fully integrate in their personal and professional lives. We provide pre-course preparation material, as well as a series of weekly and monthly follow ups and quizzes to ensure you make the most of your time with us.


All our courses are available via our open programme, or can be tailored extensivley to suit the needs of your organisation via in-house delivery.


Want to stand out from the crowd? Call us to find out more
““One thing's for sure. If we keep doing what we're doing, we're going to keep getting what we're getting. One definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing and expect different results.””
Stephen CoveyBest-selling Author of 'Seven Habits of Highly Effective People'

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Watt Works Consulting Ltd Booths Hall, Chelford Road, Knutsford, Cheshire, WA16 8GS, England, United Kingdom T +44 (0)1565 759 893