Trainee Recruitment Consultant Apprenticeship
JAMES GRACE ASSOCIATES LTD
Stenson Road, (LE67 4JP)
Closes in 30 days (Monday 16 February 2026)
Posted on 16 January 2026
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Summary
Join us as a Trainee Recruitment Consultant in a thriving, supportive office with a brilliant team. You’ll make phone calls, interview talent, source candidates, build client relationships and grow your own specialist market. With strong training, real progression and a vibrant work culture, we want someone ready to grow and succeed with us.
- Wage
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£20,878 a year
- Training course
- Recruiter (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday - Thursday 8 am - 4:30 pm, Friday 8 am - 3:30 pm (lunch - 12:30pm - 1:30pm)
37 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 23 February 2026
- Duration
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1 year 3 months
- Positions available
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2
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
Responsibilities:
- Make outbound calls to potential clients and candidates
- Interview and assess candidates to match the right talent to roles
- Source and attract candidates for specialist markets
- Build and maintain strong relationships with clients
- Manage your own client and candidate database
- Work towards and achieve revenue and placement targets
- Collaborate with the team to support recruitment campaigns
- Attend training sessions to develop skills and industry knowledge
- Represent the company professionally at all times
The company is happy to provide full training to support you in succeeding throughout this apprenticeship. You will start by learning everything related to the candidate side of recruitment and will then gradually be introduced to the sales side, allowing you to understand and experience the full recruitment cycle.
Where you'll work
Whitwick Business Centre,
Stenson Road,
LE67 4JP
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
- Initiative
- IT skills
- Organisation skills
- Presentation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Sales Skills
- Team working
Other requirements
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About this employer
At James Grace Associates we know that there’s nothing more important than the way we go about business. With the recruitment industry growing faster than ever before we’ve made a commitment to provide people just like you with the honest, transparent, and expert advice that you deserve. Our management team provides the foundation on which we build our entire operation. With a combined experience of more than 50 years in the recruitment industry we know what works and what doesn’t when it comes to finding the perfect match. From senior management to the customer-facing people that make things happen, we can put you in touch with the right person, at the right time. With the ability to cover all four corners of the UK and every position from senior management to general warehouse operatives, we pride ourselves on being your go-to contact when you want to provide your customers with nothing but the best.
After this apprenticeship
Completing this apprenticeship provides a strong foundation in recruitment and sales, opening the door to career progression into roles such as consultant, team lead, or talent acquisition specialist.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
THE NVQ TRAINING CENTRE LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000009103.
Apply now
Closes in 30 days (Monday 16 February 2026)
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