Join Bluestones' Team and Develop Your Recruitment Skills

Bluestones are offering the opportunity to join their team and develop a skillset within the world of recruitment. If you are keen to develop a skillset to aid your progression within a career, confident, outgoing, and not scared of picking up the phone to speak with customers and businesses, then this may be the apprenticeship for you.

What you'll do at work

• Using a variety of online tools and technology, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint
• Use of online platforms to source applicants for vacancies
• Telephone screening candidates to establish if they are either suited to a role or looking for opportunities
• Developing job and personal specifications, preparing job advertisements
• Shortlist candidates on the telephone initially to determine suitability
• Completing competency tests and assisting new starters with registration documentation, also arranging induction and training
• Liaising with different departments, including payroll, to ensure payroll accuracy
• Maintaining a customer-focussed attitude on duties and responsibilities to ensure the needs of clients are identified and met
• Answering incoming calls and inputting information onto the company database
• Booking in candidates for interviews at different companies
• Learn to independently recruit candidates, check IDs, and ensure compliance measures are adhered to
• Meet recruitment targets and deliver exceptional results
• On call rota in as well for phone calls

Where you'll work

Office W 1 Cardinal Square

10 Nottingham Road

Derby

DE1 3QT

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

Training provider

JUNIPER TRAINING 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.