Recruitment Apprentice

As a Recruitment Apprentice, you'll gain hands-on experience supporting the end-to-end hiring process, working closely with candidates, hiring managers, and HR teams. This is a fantastic opportunity to develop valuable recruitment and business skills while learning in a fast-paced, supportive environment.

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

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 a Recruitment Apprentice, you will support the full recruitment lifecycle, helping to attract and hire great talent across the business. You'll work closely with recruiters, hiring managers, and candidates, gaining exposure to a variety of recruitment activities while developing your skills and knowledge.

Key responsibilities include:

• Screening applications and assisting with candidate shortlisting.
• Scheduling interviews and coordinating recruitment activities.
• Communicating with candidates throughout the hiring process.
• Posting vacancies across internal and external job boards.
• Supporting recruitment campaigns, careers events, and employer branding initiatives.
• Maintaining accurate candidate records and recruitment data.
• Providing a positive candidate experience and assisting with onboarding activities.

This is an excellent opportunity to gain hands-on experience in a fast-paced HR and recruitment environment while building a strong foundation for a career in talent acquisition.

Where you'll work

Henkel Limited
Wood Lane End
Hemel Hempstead
HP2 4RQ

Training provider
DERBY BUSINESS COLLEGE LIMITED

Training course
Recruiter (level 3)

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.