Recruitment Operations Apprentice
DAVIDSON TRAINING U.K LTD
LONDON (N1 9AL)
Closes in 31 days (Friday 16 January 2026 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 16 December 2025
Contents
Summary
We’re looking for a motivated team player with energy, passion, and a strong customer-first mindset. No prior target-based experience is required, but a proactive attitude is essential. The role includes registering and sourcing candidates, supporting business development, and assisting with day-to-day administrative tasks.
- Wage
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£15,704 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
9:00am– 5:00pm
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 19 January 2026
- Duration
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1 year
- 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
You will support the team across all areas of administration and recruitment, including:
Candidate Resourcing & Recruitment Support
- Sourcing, contacting and registering high-quality candidates
- Screening and qualifying candidates to assess their suitability for various roles
- Reviewing CVs and applications, shortlisting against job requirements
- Amending and formatting CVs to highlight strengths and suitability
- Arranging interviews and coordinating communication between candidates and the recruitment team
- Building and maintaining strong relationships with candidates throughout the process
- Supporting safer recruitment processes and assisting with onboarding successful candidates
Admin & Business Support
- Maintaining and updating our CRM systems with accurate notes and records
- Creating and posting job adverts across key platforms
- Assisting with interview scheduling, offer letters and onboarding documentation
- Providing general administrative support to ensure smooth business operations
- Learning core business functions such as invoicing, accounting basics, and new business development
Business Development Exposure
- Sourcing new client leads and passing these to the Sales Consultant
- Making new connections, emailing and calling to help generate business opportunities
- Supporting existing client relationships and helping fulfil new and ongoing recruitment needs
This role provides a well-rounded experience, offering valuable insights into recruitment from both an operational and a resourcing perspective.
Where you'll work
King S Cross St Pancras
Euston Road
LONDON
N1 9AL
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
You will benefit from a comprehensive onboarding programme and ongoing mentorship throughout your apprenticeship. You’ll receive formal training from experienced recruitment specialists, gaining expert guidance and hands-on experience. You will also work towards a Recruiter Level 3 Apprenticeship, building the skills needed for long-term career growth. Training is delivered on the job during working hours, with no college day release, and you’ll have access to your online portfolio throughout.
More training information
This is not just an apprenticeship; it’s an opportunity to gain mentorship from successful colleagues with expert knowledge in the industry. You’ll be supported every step of the way as you learn, grow, and build a solid foundation for a long-term career. We value your strengths and will help you develop your skills as you progress.
During your apprenticeship, you’ll learn the core fundamentals of how a recruitment company operates, including invoicing, accounting, formatting CVs, and new business development. You’ll play a key role in supporting our highly successful team by taking on important administrative tasks that help the whole business run smoothly from the ground up.
We’re looking for someone with great energy, genuine interest in the industry, and the drive to succeed. This is more than an apprenticeship- it’s the first step toward a rewarding career for the right person.
Requirements
Essential 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
- Team working
- Strong communication
- Relationship-building skills
- Highly motivated
- Desire to earn and grow
- Resilient and confident
- Excellent time management
- Ability to prioritise tasks
- Organised and detail-oriented
- Ability to work independently
- Open to training and feedback
Other requirements
Essential Non-Negotiables (Apprentice/ Entry-Level Recruiter)
To succeed in recruitment, you must be:
- Confident communicating with people by phone, email, and in person
- Resilient and positive, able to handle knockbacks and stay motivated
- Proactive and self-driven, taking initiative and following tasks through
- Well organised, with strong attention to detail
- Commercially aware, understanding recruitment is a fast-paced, target-driven environment
- Professional and honest, building trust with candidates and clients
- Eager to learn, open to feedback, and keen to develop your skills
About this employer
This fast-growing construction recruitment consultancy specialises in connecting top-tier talent with leading contractors and developers across the Construction Industry. Working in a high-performance, sales-driven environment, the business places candidates across residential, commercial, fit-out, refurbishment, and public sector projects. With a strong focus on relationships, results, and long-term career progression, the team takes a consultative approach to delivering the right people to the right projects, every time.
After this apprenticeship
- Career Progression– Begin your journey as an Apprentice and develop your skills with a clear path to becoming a valued member of our team
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
DAVIDSON TRAINING UK LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000005300.
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Closes in 31 days (Friday 16 January 2026 at 11:59pm)
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