Recruitment Consultant Apprentice
APPLEBOUGH RECRUITMENT LTD
New Rd, (B63 3HY)
Closes on Monday 13 October 2025
Posted on 9 September 2025
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Summary
Join us as a Recruitment Consultant Apprentice! Source and engage candidates, manage job postings, and build strong client relationships while hitting targets and contributing to business growth. Gain hands-on experience in a fast-paced, dynamic, and results-driven environment with a supportive, high-performing team and excellent training.
- Wage
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£15,704 a year
- Training course
- Recruiter (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday, 7.30am - 4.30pm (During school holidays 9 a.m. - 3 p.m.) - 1 hour lunch
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 20 October 2025
- Duration
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1 year 3 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
- Source candidates through job boards, social media, networking, and cold calling
- Build and maintain a strong candidate pipeline for current and future roles
- Screen CVs to identify suitable candidates for educational positions
- Conduct initial interviews to assess candidates’ skills and suitability
- Develop and manage relationships with new and existing clients, attending meetings, sending mailers, and maintaining social media presence
- Manage and update the candidate database with accurate information
- Write and post job adverts to attract the right talent
- Communicate with candidates to schedule interviews and provide feedback
- Support the recruitment team with administrative tasks, including compliance checks and documentation
- Meet and exceed sales targets by actively promoting candidates and roles
***Driving Licence and your own car is a requirement***
Where you'll work
Trinity Point,
New Rd,
B63 3HY
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 Apprenticeship Standard:
- 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
- Attention to detail
- Communication skills
- Customer care skills
- Initiative
- IT skills
- Organisation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Sales Skills
- Team working
Other requirements
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About this employer
There are many educational recruitment companies across The Midlands. So, what makes us different? We think that it’s the quality of service, the attention to detail that we provide, and the relationships that we build. Many continually say that they offer outstanding service – we simply get on and do it. We place skilled, appropriate educational professionals into roles that are suitable to them, and that precisely match our clients’ needs. To do this, we use our deep understanding of education in the UK and ally this with our expertise in recruitment and a very thorough yet personable service. This means that we are can, and will, advise and support candidates and clients with the utmost confidence and success.
After this apprenticeship
- As a Recruiter Apprentice at Applebough Recruitment, you will have the opportunity to progress into a full-time Recruitment Consultant role
- As you develop your expertise, you'll gain the autonomy to lead your own client portfolio, negotiate contracts, and drive recruitment strategies, with the potential for further career advancement in the recruitment field
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
THE NVQ TRAINING CENTRE LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC1000341171.
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Closes on Monday 13 October 2025
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