Recruitment Consultant Apprenticeship - (Sales and Resourcing)

Start your long-term career in recruitment with a fast-paced recruitment agency! Perfect for ambitious, sales-driven candidates who love hitting targets, earning commission and making high-volume calls. You’ll gain hands-on experience, build essential skills, and thrive in a supportive, energetic team while shaping your future career.

Duties

• Source and pre-screen candidates using platforms like CV Library and Reed to identify the best talent for client vacancies
• Conduct high-volume cold calls (up to 70/80 call per day) to potential candidates and clients, promoting opportunities and building relationships
• Support recruitment consultants with shortlisting, arranging interviews, and providing updates to both candidates and clients
• Create, post, and monitor engaging job adverts across multiple platforms
• Maintain and update CRM and ATS systems, keeping candidate and client records accurate and up to date
• Provide guidance and feedback to candidates throughout the recruitment process, managing correspondence professionally via phone and email
• Assist with admin compliance, reference requests, processing agency worker timesheets
• Work towards personal and team targets, contributing to the consultancy’s growth while developing your own career

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

THE NVQ TRAINING CENTRE LIMITED

Recruiter (level 3)

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.