Recruitment Apprentice

Job Description: Recruiter Apprentice

Find My Staff, Rainham, is looking for a recruiter apprentice to join their growing company. The job involves supporting a team of experienced recruitment consultants with all aspects of finding and placing workers, via job posting, CV searching, and social media advertising.

Wage

• £14,560 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
• National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
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Training Course

• Recruiter (level 3)

Hours

• Monday - Friday, 9.00am - 5.00pm (1 hour lunch unpaid). 35 hours a week

Start Date

• Monday 3 August 2026

Duration

• 1 year 2 months

Positions Available

• 1

What You'll Do at Work

• Support the end-to-end recruitment process, from sourcing candidates to managing placements
• Screen CVs and conduct initial telephone interviews with potential candidates
• Build and maintain strong relationships with candidates
• Learn company procedures and policies, including using our recruitment software
• Develop a deep understanding of the industry and the roles you recruit for
• Build and maintain a client database
• Gaining knowledge of the companies’ hierarchy to enable consultants to place and replace candidates through a proactive approach
• Taking detailed job specifications
• Preparing a prequalified short list of candidates for the consultant to present to the client
• Preparing candidates' CVs to submit to clients

Where You'll Work

• C E M E INNOVATION CENTRE
• MARSH WAY
• RAINHAM
• RM13 8EU

Training Provider

• RM TRAINING (UK) 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.