Apprentice Recruitment Consultant
W Talent
Sheffield (S9 1XZ)
Closes in 27 days (Tuesday 13 January 2026 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 17 December 2025
Contents
Summary
Kickstart your career in recruitment with W Talent in Sheffield! Learn full 360 recruitment- winning clients, sourcing top talent, and building your own desk. Perfect for ambitious, driven individuals ready for high-energy, team-focused environments. Mentorship, rapid progression, and huge earning potential await!
- 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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- High earning potential with an industry-leading commission structure.
- Regular incentives, rewards, and performance trips.
- Training course
- Recruiter (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday, 9.00am - 5.00pm
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Friday 16 January 2026
- Duration
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1 year 1 month
- 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
Core Responsibilities:
- Full 360 Recruitment - Own the process end-to-end: winning new business, sourcing top talent, and delivering outstanding client and candidate experiences
- Grow Your Practice - Build and scale a portfolio within one of our core disciplines
- Talent Mapping - Proactively develop pipelines of skilled professionals across the UK and internationally
- Trusted Advisor - Provide clients with insight, benchmarking, and strategic hiring advice
- Shape the Team - Play a pivotal role in scaling W Talent, with clear progression opportunities as the business grows
Why Now?
- We’re experiencing hyper-growth across our offices in Birmingham and Sheffield
- You’ll work directly with leadership and benefit from a transparent progression route
What’s In It for You:
- High earning potential with an industry-leading commission structure
- Clear, rapid progression to Director and beyond
- Ongoing training and mentorship from experienced leaders
- Regular incentives, rewards, and performance trips
If you thrive in an ambitious, high-performance environment with real autonomy and real upside, we want to hear from you.
Where you'll work
Suite K 1 Sheffield Business
Centre Europa Link
Sheffield
S9 1XZ
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 Level 3 Recruiter Apprenticeship Standard qualification
- Learning and developing the skills, knowledge, and behaviours required to become a competent Recruiter through a Level 3 apprenticeship
- This will take place entirely in the workplace, with no need for day release
- You will be assigned a dedicated Trainer from Davidson Training UK Ltd, who run the Apprenticeship programme
- They will conduct one-on-one tutoring sessions and create a customised training plan based on your areas of strength and growth
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
- Confident
- Relationship Building
- Engaging
- A Natural communicator
- Network building
- Goal orientated
- Thrives in a high-performance
- Naturally competitive
Other requirements
Key Skills
- Business Development – Confident in winning new clients and building long-term partnerships with leading brands.
- Candidate Sourcing & Assessment – Skilled at finding and engaging exceptional talent using advanced search techniques.
- Relationship Builder – A natural communicator who earns trust and builds strong networks across clients and candidates.
- Market Curiosity – Genuine interest in your specialist market and enthusiasm for emerging trends shaping the industry.
- Resilience & Ambition – Thrives in a high-performance, high-growth environment where success is rewarded and opportunity is huge.
- Passion to succeed with others – naturally competitive and driven to be high performing, who finds energy from working in a team centric environment.
About this employer
W Talent is a recruitment business built differently.
We combine the speed, ambition, and autonomy of a startup with the backing of W-Group, the world’s fastest-growing staffing firm.
For consultants, it means the best of both worlds:
- Freedom to build your own desk and shape your career
- The pace and influence of a fast-growing startup
- The stability and resources of a billion-euro organisation
After this apprenticeship
- 0 - 12 months - Apprentice Recruitment Consultant
- 1 - 2 years - Step into Recruitment Consultant roles
- Beyond - Senior recruitment opportunities
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
DAVIDSON TRAINING UK LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000005584.
Apply now
Closes in 27 days (Tuesday 13 January 2026 at 11:59pm)
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