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About the Role
Willis Global Ltd is expanding and now seeking a motivated Apprentice Recruitment Consultant to join our growing team. This is an excellent opportunity for someone eager to build a career in recruitment, develop commercial skills, and work with clients and candidates across international markets. Full training and support will be ongoing.
As a Trainee Recruitment Consultant, you will learn how to manage the full recruitment cycle — from sourcing candidates and speaking with clients to supporting placements and developing new business opportunities. This role is ideal for someone ambitious, sales driven, confident, and eager to learn.
Key Responsibilities
- Proactively prospect and identify new hiring companies through targeted research, outbound calls, email outreach, and networking, generating fresh business opportunities for the agency
- Assist in building relationships with clients and understanding their hiring needs
- Learn and understand the recruitment process from start to finish
- Source candidates using job boards, social media, networking, and internal tools
- Screen CVs and conduct initial candidate telephone interviews
- Support consultants with arranging interviews and managing candidate communication
- Write and post job adverts across multiple platforms
- Maintain accurate records and update internal systems
- Provide professional communication to candidates and clients via phone and email
- Shadow senior consultants to learn business development techniques
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Course Contents
- Identify, progress, and convert leads into new candidates, placements, or clients.
- Source vacancies in line with stakeholder requirements and organisational policies and procedures.
- Manage and maintain stakeholder relationships and their role within the recruitment process.
- Interpret and apply regulation and legislation, share best practice, and advise stakeholders on their application.
- Plan and manage recruitment campaigns to attract candidates, including agreeing objectives with stakeholders and monitoring performance.
- Research, identify, and attract candidates using methods to satisfy job requirements, including those with transferrable skills to move from the legacy carbon economy to green economy jobs.
- Process, review, and progress candidate applications.
- Create and present diverse short lists of candidates to stakeholders.
- Inform and advise candidates on the outcome of their application at the individual stages of the recruitment process, including those that have been unsuccessful.
- Manage the recruitment and selection process for candidates, including those who require reasonable adjustments.
- Communicate information through different media, for example face-to-face or online meetings, emails, reports, and presentations.
- Engage with stakeholders to review recruitment processes and identify opportunities for continuous improvement and improving own performance.
- Review services provided and implemented improvements based on stakeholder feedback.
- Place candidates into roles that match their skills and stakeholder requirements.
- Use technology and software tools to manage information, ensuring compliance with organisation and legislation requirements.
- Challenge poor practice and non-compliance with the recruitment process and escalate where appropriate.
- Identify future changes in the sector that may impact the organisation, for example technology advances.
- Interpret policies to support and promote the delivery of equity, diversity, and inclusion in the workplace, and monitor their impact on recruitment activities.
- Identify and apply sustainable and greener methods of working, for example reducing energy and paper consumption, managing diaries to reduce carbon emissions (hold virtual meetings or attend multiple external meetings on the same day), considering greener options when booking venues for assessment centres or planning recruitment campaigns.
- Identify and maximise opportunities to support the organisation’s business strategy, for example growing client or candidate pipelines.
- Manage resources within budget requirements.
- Respond to stakeholder complaints and escalate where appropriate.
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Training Schedule
You will achieve the Level 3 Recruiter Apprenticeship Standard
- There will be workshops to attend via Teams
- You will have a mentor for one-to-one teaching and learning
- In-house training will be given to support the specifics of the role
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