Trainee Recruitment Consultant Apprentice

Join our team as a Trainee Recruitment Consultant Apprentice!

Gain hands-on experience posting jobs, interviewing candidates, managing social media, and supporting sales. This apprenticeship includes full training and is ideal for someone organised, driven, and looking for a long-term career in recruitment with us.

Duties will include:

• Speaking on the phone regularly with candidates, building relationships and providing support throughout the recruitment process
• Interviewing and registering candidates for temporary assignments
• Making outbound calls to source and engage potential candidates
• Carrying out Right to Work (RTW) compliance checks
• Writing and publishing job adverts on job boards and the company website
• Managing and updating social media platforms to attract candidates and promote job opportunities
• Creating and posting engaging content on social media to increase candidate interest and applications
• Uploading blogs and marketing content to the company website
• Searching CV databases and social media platforms to identify suitable candidates
• Communicating with candidates via phone, email, and messages
• Creating candidate profiles for submission to clients
• Supporting email marketing and social media campaigns
• Assisting with weekly payroll and invoicing tasks
• Answering and managing inbound calls professionally
• Keeping accurate records and updating recruitment workflows within internal systems
• Taking part in training covering telesales, account management, and presentations

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

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)

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.