Recruitment Resourcer Apprentice
TOTAL SUPPORT RECRUITMENT LTD
Stafford Staffordshire (ST16 3RS)
Closes on Friday 29 August 2025
Posted on 18 July 2025
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Summary
This is a fantastic opportunity to join a friendly and professional team, where you’ll learn the recruitment industry from the ground up. You'll work closely with our Director, who brings over 30 years of experience, giving you the chance to develop real skills and carve out a long-term career in a fast-growing company.
- Wage
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£15,704 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
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The wages reflect working a 40-hour week; however, hours are flexible, and if you do fewer hours, the salary will decrease. There is the opportunity to earn commission
- Training course
- Recruiter (level 3)
- Hours
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Working hours are flexible for the right person.
Monday to Friday each week and the hours are 8.30am to 5.30pm
Total hours per week: 30-40
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 1 September 2025
- Duration
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1 year 2 months
- Positions available
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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
This is an entry-level role with huge potential for growth, perfect for someone who is motivated, enthusiastic, and serious about building a long-term career in recruitment. We’re looking for someone with an excellent work ethic, a strong desire to learn, and the ambition to reach the top.
You will be working closely with the Director, receiving hands-on training and learning the business from the ground up. This is a rare opportunity to be mentored directly by experienced leadership while gaining real-world experience and developing your skills every day.
If you're someone who truly wants to work hard, grow professionally, and carve out a successful future, we want to hear from you!
Responsibilities:
- You will be using job boards to identify suitable candidates, registering candidates, ensuring they are eligible, compliant and available to be put forward for vacant positions
- Screening/qualifying potential candidates to ensure they are suitable to undertake work for our clients
- Arranging interviews
- Maintaining the client and candidate database
- Collecting candidates’ compliance documents and formatting their CV’s
- Create, post and manage job adverts
- Building and maintaining candidate and client relationships
- Ability to identify/win/grow/retain business
Where you'll work
East 5 Oakridge Business Centre
Weston Road
Stafford Staffordshire
ST16 3RS
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
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.
Training schedule
- Full training will be given leading to a recognised Apprenticeship Standard as a Recruitment Level 3
- On-the-job training will be delivered by the employer with the training provider support
- Off-the-job training will be delivered by the training provider in partnership with the employer
- You will also complete the Functional Skills in maths and English up to and including Level 2 (if you already do not hold the equivalent)
The apprenticeship is delivered entirely on the job, meaning there is no college release time required. All training and development will take place within the workplace during your working hours.
Requirements
Desirable qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4-9 (A* - C))
- Maths (grade 4-9 (A* - C))
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
- Problem solving skills
- Initiative
- Excellent work ethic
- Communicating face to face
- Communicate on telephone
- Online meeting platforms
- Charismatic
- Personable
- Confident
- Competitive and resilient
- Ambitious
- Hard working
Other requirements
GCSE Maths and English qualifications are an advantage, but we understand some candidates may have stronger written and verbal communication skills than their grades suggest. Must be outgoing, motivated, and demonstrate an excellent work ethic. Candidates from all backgrounds are welcome, as long as they are committed to working hard and succeeding. Must be confident communicating over the phone, face-to-face, and via online meeting platforms. Apprentices will initially learn admin, resourcing, and candidate filling, and will gradually move into sales as they develop. Looking for someone who wants to grow with the business, with the potential (not guaranteed) to reach Directorship. Full guidance and support will be provided by Nick, the Director, who has over 30 years of experience. This is a fantastic long-term opportunity to join and grow within a successful recruitment business built by Nick, who aims to hand over the company to the right person one day.
About this employer
Total Support Recruitment is a multi-sector recruitment agency with opportunities across the UK. We recruit for permanent, contract, and temporary roles across multiple sectors, including commercial, driving, and industrial jobs.
After this apprenticeship
We’re looking for someone who is committed to building a long-term career with us. There is huge potential for growth, with opportunities to progress through the business; possibly even reaching Directorship in the future. We want someone who’s ambitious, driven, and ready to grow with the company for the long term!
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
DAVIDSON TRAINING UK LIMITED
Gemma Louise Barr
gemmabarr@davidsontraining.com
07399586723
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000332629.
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Closes on Friday 29 August 2025
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