Recruitment Resourcer & Admin Support Apprentice
THORNE & WAIT LTD
Bicester (OX26 6AJ)
Closes on Thursday 25 September 2025
Posted on 19 August 2025
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Summary
We’re looking for a Recruitment Resourcer and Administrative Support Apprentice to join our small, friendly team. You’ll gain hands-on experience and learn the full 360 recruitment process from the ground up. It’s a great opportunity to start a career in recruitment, build admin skills, and learn from an experienced team.
- Wage
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£14,918.80 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
- Training course
- Recruiter (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday each week and the hours are 9.00am to 5.00pm.
37 hours 30 minutes a week
- Start date
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Monday 29 September 2025
- Duration
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1 year 2 months
- Positions available
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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
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 and a strong desire to learn.
You will be working closely with our Unique Team, 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:
- Resourcing candidates for live vacancies.
- Managing and updating the candidate database.
- Ensuring compliance and accurate documentation is on file.
- Supporting candidate attraction strategies.
- Writing and posting job advertisements.
- Arranging interviews.
- Providing general administrative support to the team.
You will have the opportunity to progress in a direction that suits your strengths, whether you wish to develop in sales or resourcing, we will support your growth and career development.
We’re always open to fresh ideas and love hearing new perspectives on how we can grow and improve the business.
Where you'll work
50 Market Square
Bicester
OX26 6AJ
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 do not already 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 or A*-C)
- Maths (grade 4-9 or A*-C)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Charismatic
- Confident
- Personable
- Competitive
- Resilient
- Strong communicator
- Ambitious
- Hard-working
Other requirements
Things to consider - Our nearest train station is Bicester North - just a 16-minute walk.
About this employer
Oxford Recruitment Agency Thorne and Wait provide quality transport and warehouse workforce solutions to the Industrial and Driving Industry. From our offices in Bicester, Oxfordshire, we tailor our business specifically to the recruitment needs of you, our clients and support our candidates on their recruitment journey.
After this apprenticeship
We’re looking for someone who is committed to building a long-term career with us. There is potential for growth, with clear opportunities to progress within the business. We're seeking an individual who is ambitious, driven, and eager to grow alongside the company over the long term. Providing successful completion of the Apprenticeship.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
DAVIDSON TRAINING UK LIMITED
GEMMA BARR
gemmabarr@davidsontraining.com
07399586723
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000337916.
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Closes on Thursday 25 September 2025
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