Recruitment Resourcer Apprentice

Summary

Vivid Optical are looking for a new apprentice to join their recruitment team. This is a great opportunity to gain excellent experience and become a successful recruitment consultant. Duties will include formatting candidate CV’s, assisting with gaining compliance documentation for candidates, plus more.

Wage

£15,704 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age

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Training course

Recruiter (level 3)

Hours

Monday - Friday, 9.00am - 6.00pm (one hour unpaid lunch).

40 hours a week

Start date

Monday 2 June 2025

Duration

1 year 2 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

Sourcing candidates through existing database, job boards, advertising, social media and referrals
Formatting candidate CV’s
Assisting with gaining compliance documentation for candidates
Sourcing suitable temporary and permanent vacancies from a range of clients and VMS’s
Working towards daily/weekly/monthly target, responsible for delivering on set targets
Mapping of new clients' names, job roles, contact details
Headhunting suitable candidates for specific roles
Selling current roles, we have to candidates
Creating a key contacts list who will use you on an ongoing basis - building up a list of contacts who you have a rapport with and use Networking staff within your technical market
Using relevant social media tools such as LinkedIn to generate candidates and business

Where you’ll work

11th Floor, Beaufort House
15 St Botolph Street
London
EC3A 7BB

Training

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

College or training organisation

RM TRAINING (UK) 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

Recruiter Level 3 Apprenticeship Standard qualification
14 months office-based training at the employer's location
Functional skills maths and English (if required)

Requirements

Desirable qualifications

GCSE or equivalent in:

English (grade 4/C)
Maths (grade 4/C)

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

Communication skills
Attention to detail
Organisation skills
Administrative skills
Initiative
Patience

About this company

Vivid Optical is part of Vivid Careers; a group designed to help candidates connect with the right employer and vice versa. Working in a select number of specialist markets, we are committed in having the very best consultants and our experience in the industry is second to none. Our ethos is to consistently exceed expectations and we continue to do so. Our ever growing team has now taken occupancy in one of the most iconic buildings in the heart of the City and we show no sign of slowing down.

https://www.vivid-optical.co.uk/ (opens in new tab)

After this apprenticeship

Progression into recruitment consultant after successful completion of apprenticeship.

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

RM TRAINING (UK) LIMITED

Chris Greenfield

chris@rmtraining.co.uk

01702 782001

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000316968.

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Closes on Saturday 31 May 2025

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