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Trainee Recruitment Consultant - Construction Recruitment Apprentice
Employer: RILEY PERSONNEL LTD
Location: Bishop Stortford, Takeley (CM22 6PU)
Closing Date: 17 days from now (Friday 16 October 2026 at 11:59pm)
Posted on: 28 September 2026
Summary
We are seeking an ambitious individual to join our construction recruitment desk as a Trainee Recruitment Consultant. You will source and screen candidates, build relationships with candidates and clients, and develop recruitment and sales skills. The role involves targets, calls, business development, and managing candidates.
- Wage: £16,224 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
- National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices: Minimum wage rates (opens in new tab)
- Training course: Recruiter (level 3)
- Hours: Monday - Thursday 08.00 to 17.00 and Fridays 08.00 to 16.00. 1 hour unpaid lunch break. 39 hours a week
- Start date: Monday 19 October 2026
- Duration: 1 year 1 month
- Positions available: 1
Work
Most of your apprenticeship is spent working. You’ll learn on the job by getting hands-on experience.
What you'll do at work
We are seeking someone with energy, ambition, and a positive attitude who is confident speaking to people and motivated to develop a career in recruitment. Working on our construction recruitment desk, you will receive full training and support as you develop towards becoming a Recruitment Consultant.
- Source and contact candidates for construction vacancies
- Screen and qualify candidates against client requirements
- Build and maintain a strong candidate pipeline
- Speak with candidates and clients by telephone and email
- Build professional relationships with candidates and clients
- Maintain accurate candidate records on our CRM and ATS
- Support the onboarding process in line with safer recruitment practices
- Advertise construction vacancies across relevant platforms
- Develop an understanding of the construction recruitment market
- Make outbound calls to candidates and prospective clients
- Identify new business opportunities and support business development
- Maintain existing client relationships and support recruitment placements
- Work towards agreed recruitment and sales targets
- Develop your confidence, communication, and negotiation skills
- Work alongside experienced Recruitment Consultants and learn the full recruitment process
As your knowledge and confidence develop, you will be given greater responsibility for managing vacancies, candidates, and client relationships, with the opportunity to progress into a Recruitment Consultant role.
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Where you'll work
Weston Business Centre
The Stansted Centre
Parsonage Road
Bishop Stortford
Takeley CM22 6PU
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
DAVIDSON TRAINING UK LIMITED
Training course
Recruiter (level 3)
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What you'll learn
- 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.
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Training schedule
- Full training will be given leading to a recognised Level 3 Recruiter Apprenticeship Standard qualification
- Full on-the-job training will be delivered
- Off-the-job training will be supported by our Training Provider, Davidson Training UK Ltd
- All training is carried out within the workplace during working hours
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
- GCSE in: English (grade 1-9 (A* - G))
- Maths (grade 1-9 (A* - G))
- Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience.
- The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Administrative skills
- Team working
- Initiative
Other requirements
If you are career minded and have bundles of energy, passion, and pride in what you do, then please apply now and someone will be in contact.
About this employer
We are a leading education recruitment agency in London, specialising exclusively in permanent and long-term employment. With a motto of quality and continuity in education, we are dedicated to setting the standard for excellence in the educational sector. Unlike other agencies, we focus solely on delivering high-quality, long-term, and permanent placements to schools, ensuring stability and consistency in the classroom environment.
https://www.rileypersonnel.com/ (opens in new tab)
After this apprenticeship
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).
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The contact for this apprenticeship is:
DAVIDSON TRAINING UK LIMITED
GEMMA BARR
gemmabarr@davidsontraining.com
07399 586723
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000055542.
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