Recruitment Consultant Apprentice - Transport & Logistics Sector
Driver Hire - Southampton
40 Chamberlayne Rd, (SO50 5JH)
Closes in 16 days (Monday 22 September 2025)
Posted on 4 September 2025
Contents
Summary
We’re looking for a motivated and enthusiastic individual to join our team as an Apprentice Recruitment Consultant in the transport and logistics sector. You’ll support with sourcing candidates, posting job ads, screening CVs, arranging interviews, and building relationships, while gaining a recognised qualification. Apply now to start your career!
- Wage
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£16,640 a year
- Training course
- Recruiter (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday, 08:15 - 17:15
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 29 September 2025
- Duration
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1 year 3 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
As an apprentice, you’ll learn the ropes of recruitment while supporting our busy transport & logistics desk. Daily responsibilities will include:
- Assisting with the recruitment and onboarding of drivers and logistics staff
- Posting job adverts and screening candidate applications
- Conducting telephone interviews and arranging face-to-face assessments
- Supporting compliance checks and right-to-work documentation
- Liaising with clients to confirm bookings and worker availability
- Updating systems and maintaining accurate records
- Learning about legislation, driver regulations, and industry best practice
Where you'll work
40 Chamberlayne Rd,
SO50 5JH
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
THE NVQ TRAINING CENTRE 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
Recruiter Level 3.
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:
- English (grade 4)
- Maths (grade 4)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Administrative skills
- Communication skills
- Creative
- Customer care skills
- Driving License
- Flexible
- Initiative
- IT skills
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Sales Skills
- Team working
Other requirements
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About this employer
Welcome to Driver Hire Southampton. We are part of a nationwide network of over 100 offices providing recruitment and training services across a variety of different sectors. We specialise in Logistics, Construction & Commercial recruitment & with a combined experience totalling to more than 40 years within our team, you are definitely in safe hands!
After this apprenticeship
Upon successful completion of the apprenticeship, you may be offered a permanent role as a Recruitment Consultant with clear opportunities to progress into Senior Consultant within the business.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
THE NVQ TRAINING CENTRE LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000340491.
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Closes in 16 days (Monday 22 September 2025)
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