Recruitment Consultant Apprenticeship - Level 3 (Sales)
KENECT RECRUITMENT LTD
Newborough Rd, Needwood St, Burton on Trent (DE13 9PD)
Closes in 24 days (Saturday 25 April 2026 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 31 March 2026
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Summary
Kenect Recruitment are on the search for the future stars of the Recruitment sector. If you are looking for a role that offers real career progression, if you are a confident, outgoing and driven individual who has no concerns making calls, building relationships with customers and promoting the business, then this is the perfect role for you.
- Wage
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£16,640 a year
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£16,640 - £20,000
- Training course
- Recruiter (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday, 8.00am to 5.00pm. 4.00pm finishes on Fridays, target dependant.
Breaks to be confirmed.
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Sunday 26 April 2026
- Duration
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1 year 2 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
Full 360 Trainee Recruitment Consultant role supplying temporary or permanent workers into the transport and logistincs industry.
Key Duties:
- Business development via marketing techniques, sales/cold calls and networking to gain new business
- Building relationships with clients through an understanding of recruitment needs
- Account management
- Ensuring clients are well-served and maintained
- Arranging meetings with new and existing clients
- Attracting candidates by drafting and placing adverts via online job boards
- Source, screen, interview, evaluate candidates and complete reference checks
- Matching workers to vacancies
- Supporting to ensure payroll compliance is metAdvertise new job positions and market via on-line job boards and social media platforms
Resourcing via on-line CV searches
Screening CVs - Booking in suitable candidates to attend interview who have responded to adverts
- Resource candidates in line with company targets
- Managing the interview diary including confirming the daily interviews are attending
- Be able to give innovative ideas for candidate attraction
- Face to face and telephone interviews with candidates
- Ensure candidates are commited to the planned job
- Renewing and Refreshing existing adverts / General upkeep of job boards
- Networking
- Administrator / Payroll Support
Where you'll work
Office 7 & 8, Lancaster Park
Newborough Rd, Needwood St, Burton on Trent
DE13 9PD
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
JUNIPER TRAINING 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
- NVQ & Certificate
- End Point Assessment
- English and maths functional skills if required, which will be delivered via online training sessions for 1 hour per week
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
- Analytical skills
- Logical
- Team working
- Creative
- Non judgemental
- Patience
- Confident Telephone Manner
- Self-Motivated
- Self-starter
Other requirements
Applicants for this vacancy need to be aware that a strong personality and tenacity to achieve results is needed to be successful within the recruitment sector. If you are not confident speaking with new people or do not feel this is a skill that can quickly be developed this may not be the best role for you.
Behavioural competencies: Drive, resilience and enthusiasm Focused upon results; remains positive and retains forward momentum, times; hard working and committed.
Customer Focus: Committed to understanding and exceeding the expectations of customers, both internal and external.
Communicating and influencing: A good two way communicator; first class verbal and written presentation skills; personable with a sense of humour; able to use a range of influencing techniques.
Problem solving and decision making: Analyses issues and breaks them down into their component parts; identifies potential solutions and systematically evaluates them; excellent numerical skills.
Time & Task Management: Plans effective use of resources; able to manage multiple projects and prioritise effectively encourages collaborative working across internal and external boundaries; can manage upwards.
Building Effective Relationships: Uses interpersonal skills to build and maintain effective relationships inside and outside the business. Understands team dynamics; encourages collaborative working across internal and external boundaries; can manage upwards.
About this employer
Kenect Recruitment Ltd supports and provides local SME’s and corporate entities with temporary & permanent staffing solutions in a wide range of sectors. Kenect Recruitment's mission is to be the first choice in meeting the needs of our clients through quality, caring, and professional service. At Kenect Recruitment we believe that a set of values are meaningless unless they underpin how we operate each time we deal with each other and with external parties. As such we have created “The Kenect Recruitment Promise” - a set of service standards, for each of our key stakeholder groups - employees, candidates and clients.
After this apprenticeship
- Progression onto a Level 3 Recruitment Consultant Apprenticeship or a full-time position may be offered to the right candidate upon successful completion of the apprenticeship
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
JUNIPER TRAINING LIMITED
Paul Nightingale
paul.nightingale@junipertraining.co.uk
07395789959
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000024270.
Apply now
Closes in 24 days (Saturday 25 April 2026 at 11:59pm)