Recruiter Apprenticeship

Summary

Join a fast-growing recruitment agency based in London with nationwide reach. A great opportunity to build a long-term career in recruitment. Support consultants with candidate sourcing, registration, admin tasks, and daily operations while learning from an experienced, supportive team.

Wage

£18,000 a year

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Training course

Recruiter (level 3)

Hours

Mon - Fri 8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m.

40 hours a week

Start date

Monday 19 May 2025

Duration

1 year 3 months

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

Duties will include:

Source and pre-screen candidates using platforms like CV Library and Reed to identify suitable talent for active vacancies.
Register candidates and complete compliance checks, ensuring all documentation is accurate and meets internal and client requirements.
Support consultants with recruitment and selection by shortlisting candidates, arranging interviews, and providing updates.
Create, post, and monitor job adverts across multiple platforms, ensuring adverts are engaging, accurate, and up to date.
Maintain and update CRM and ATS systems, inputting detailed notes, uploading documents, and keeping candidate records current.
Build and manage relationships with candidates, offering regular communication, updates, and support throughout the recruitment process.
Provide interview feedback to candidates, manage correspondence professionally, and respond to queries via email and phone.
Process and record agency worker timesheets, ensuring accurate data entry and chasing missing or unapproved submissions.
Obtain and follow up on references, contacting referees promptly and passing relevant information to consultants for review.
Answer incoming telephone queries and provide information on vacancies, timesheets, and processes while delivering excellent customer service.

Where you’ll work

The Lansdowne Building,
2 Lansdowne Road,
CR0 2BX

Training

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

College or training organisation

THE NVQ TRAINING CENTRE LIMITED

Your training course

Recruiter (level 3)

Equal to A level

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.
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.

Your training plan

Teaching and developing the skills, knowledge, and behaviours required to become a competent Recruiter will take place entirely in the workplace, with no need for day release. One-to-one tutoring sessions will be provided by a dedicated tutor, who will design a bespoke curriculum plan tailored to your strengths and areas for development.

Requirements

Essential qualifications

GCSE or equivalent in:

Maths (grade 4)
English (grade 4)

Let the company know about other relevant qualifications and industry experience you have. They can adjust the apprenticeship to reflect what you already know.

Skills

Administrative skills
Attention to detail
Communication skills
Creative
Customer care skills
Flexible
Initiative
IT skills
Logical
Non judgemental
Organisation skills
Patience
Problem solving skills
Sales Skills
Team working

Other requirements

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About this company

Tempting Recruitment first opened our doors in 2018 and since then we have gone about rapidly growing our business and market space. We have offices based in Croydon, London and Dartford, Kent, but our reach stretches throughout the whole of the United Kingdom. We are a vastly experienced and friendly team who strive to be successful at what we do.

After this apprenticeship

Upon successful completion of the apprenticeship, there is the potential to progress into a permanent Recruitment Consultant role within the business. Continued development and career progression are encouraged, with opportunities to grow into senior recruitment or management positions over time.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

THE NVQ TRAINING CENTRE LIMITED

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000315997.

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Closes in 15 days (Monday 12 May 2025)

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