Recruiter Apprenticeship

Kick-start your career with an exciting apprenticeship in recruitment. Joining our growing recruitment team, you will gain hands-on experience across candidate management, business administration, client support, and compliance processes while working towards a Level 3 Recruiter qualification.

Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.

What you'll do at work

As an Apprentice Administrator / Sales / Compliance Assistant, you will support the day-to-day operations of a busy recruitment business while developing valuable skills across administration, compliance, and candidate management. Your responsibilities will include:

• Registering candidates.
• Maintaining accurate records.
• Arranging interviews.
• Supporting recruitment campaigns.
• Sourcing leads.
• Communicating with clients and candidates via phone and email.
• Assist with compliance processes, audits, and general business administration.

This role offers exposure to all areas of the business, providing excellent opportunities to learn, develop professional skills, and build a successful career within the recruitment industry.

Full training and ongoing support will be provided, allowing you to develop valuable workplace skills in a professional and fast-paced environment. This role is ideal for someone who is organised, motivated, and eager to learn. Successful completion of the apprenticeship could lead to further development and long-term career opportunities within the business.

Where you'll work

Chancery Lane
EC4A 1JQ

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

Training provider
THE NVQ TRAINING CENTRE LIMITED

Training course
Recruiter (level 3)

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What you'll learn

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.