Early Careers Recruitment Apprentice
SAGE (UK) LTD
Newcastle Upon Tyne (NE28 9EJ)
Closes in 7 days (Friday 30 January 2026)
Posted on 23 January 2026
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Summary
Start your career with Sage as an Early Careers Recruitment Apprentice, gaining hands‑on experience across engagement, attraction, recruitment and onboarding while working toward a Level 5 CIPD. Join a supportive, innovative team and help shape the future of talent at a global tech leader.
- Wage
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Competitive
Competitive wage offered
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10% annual bonus potential
- Training course
- People professional (level 5)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday 9am to 5am
35 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 30 March 2026
- Duration
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1 year 10 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
- Organise and support events with schools, colleges and universities.
- Manage on‑campus event logistics and ensure strong Sage brand representation.
- Track key dates for school and university engagement to maintain proactive outreach.
- Create and prepare regional content with the Employer Branding team for social media and partner organisations.
- Contribute to communications plans that showcase Sage’s culture and opportunities.
- Respond to enquiries from candidates and stakeholders on social media and email.
- Support the candidate screening process and arrange interviews with hiring managers.
- Maintain a positive, professional candidate experience throughout assessment stages.
- Provide thoughtful candidate feedback to help guide applicants.
- Support onboarding activities to ensure new starters feel welcomed and prepared.
- Coordinate with the Global Early Careers team on onboarding processes and communications.
- Assist with planning and administration across all Early Careers cycle phases.
- Dedicate time to completing Level 5 CIPD apprenticeship learning and assessments.
- Collaborate with colleagues globally, with occasional opportunities to support international recruitment events.
Where you'll work
C23 - 5 & 6 Cobalt Park Way Cobalt Park
Newcastle Upon Tyne
NE28 9EJ
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
REALISE LEARNING AND EMPLOYMENT LIMITED
Training course
People professional (level 5)
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What you'll learn
Course contents
- Communicate information through appropriate channels to enable key stakeholders to understand what is required.
- Build and manage multiple and diverse stakeholder's relationships.
- Advise on application of policy, regulation, and law for HR issues.
- Use data and metrics to mitigate areas of risk and highlight opportunities.
- Negotiate with and influence stakeholders to support achievement of business and organisation objectives.
- Present insight and conclusions on workforce issues or people process failures.
- Enable stakeholders to deliver people solutions. e.g., through negotiation, providing guidance.
- Lead and improve people capability within the business.
- Manage and deliver people related business and change projects.
- Handle and process people data according to legislative requirements.
- Embed organisational people policy to promote a diverse and inclusive culture with stakeholders.
- Analyse financial implications of people solutions ensuring value for money.
- Support the delivery of people strategies using technology and innovation in accordance with regulations and policies.
- Make decisions on people policy and issues raised, escalating concerns outside own area of responsibility.
- Use prioritisation tools e.g., priority matrix to manage workload, and deliver against business objectives.
- Challenge matters which conflict with ethical values or legislation.
- Contribute to the development of people policies and procedures or people initiatives.
- Interpret people and management data, from both internal and external sources to identify trends.
- Educate and support stakeholders to deal with wellbeing issues.
- Benchmark to improve people policies and procedures, or people initiatives.
- Communicate information through appropriate channels to enable key stakeholders to understand what is required.
- Build and manage multiple and diverse stakeholder's relationships.
- Advise on application of policy, regulation, and law for HR issues.
- Use data and metrics to mitigate areas of risk and highlight opportunities.
- Negotiate with and influence stakeholders to support achievement of business and organisation objectives.
- Present insight and conclusions on workforce issues or people process failures.
- Enable stakeholders to deliver people solutions. e.g., through negotiation, providing guidance.
- Lead and improve people capability within the business.
- Manage and deliver people related business and change projects.
- Handle and process people data according to legislative requirements.
- Embed organisational people policy to promote a diverse and inclusive culture with stakeholders.
- Analyse financial implications of people solutions ensuring value for money.
- Support the delivery of people strategies using technology and innovation in accordance with regulations and policies.
- Make decisions on people policy and issues raised, escalating concerns outside own area of responsibility.
- Use prioritisation tools e.g., priority matrix to manage workload, and deliver against business objectives.
- Challenge matters which conflict with ethical values or legislation.
- Contribute to the development of people policies and procedures or people initiatives.
- Interpret people and management data, from both internal and external sources to identify trends.
- Educate and support stakeholders to deal with wellbeing issues.
- Benchmark to improve people policies and procedures, or people initiatives.
Training schedule
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Communication skills
- IT skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Problem solving skills
- Presentation skills
- Administrative skills
- Team working
Other requirements
Due to funding regulations, to be eligible to apply for the apprenticeship, you must have the right to work in the UK and have been resident in the UK for at least the past 3 years.
All successful candidates will undergo background checks including a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check
About this employer
Sage is a global company with a local heart. The market leader for cloud-based accounting, financials, enterprise management, people, and payroll software, we empower the world’s business heroes—from single-person start-ups to large enterprises. Our people are passionate and positive. We inspire our colleagues to serve business builders everywhere and champion their success.
Company benefits
- 5 paid volunteer days
- Hybrid working
- Health cash plans
- Opt in to various benefits including health and dental benefits, gym flex, tech schemes etc
After this apprenticeship
After completing the Early Careers Recruitment Apprentice programme, you’ll be well‑placed to move into an Early Careers Talent Acquisition role, where you can take on more responsibility across attraction, assessment, and onboarding.
Beyond Early Careers, the apprenticeship also opens doors across the wider People function. Sage values internal mobility, so you’ll be supported to explore different pathways and shape a career that suits your ambitions, whether that’s progressing upwards or developing across the People team.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
REALISE LEARNING AND EMPLOYMENT LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000010366.
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Closes in 7 days (Friday 30 January 2026)
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