Recruiter Apprentice
SELECT ENGINEERING LIMITED
CHELMSFORD (CM3 8DQ)
Closes in 30 days (Friday 26 June 2026 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 27 May 2026
Contents
Summary
Select Engineering is the UK's number one automotive engineering recruitment agency based in Rettendon, Essex. They currently have an exciting opportunity for a trainee recruitment consultant based on-site at their office.
- Wage
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£14,560 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 - Friday, 8.30am - 4.30pm,
1 hour lunch unpaid.
Friday will be a study day at home.
35 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 29 June 2026
- Duration
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1 year 3 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
Your day-to-day responsibilities will include:
- Sourcing, qualifying and referencing candidates, liaising confidently with them
- Maintain an accurate pipeline of candidates
- Develop a good knowledge of your sector
- Develop and have a growing base of contacts
- Fulfilling client vacancies
- Create a smooth and memorable candidate and client relationship
- Negotiate salaries between parties
- Prepare and present CVs in order to
- Make them attractive to the client
- Marketing CVs to potential clients
- Preparing analysis on the number of vacancies in the sector as advertised on job boards and LinkedIn
- Update the database with new vacancies and post them to the website
- Convert using reference taking into sales opportunities
- Chasing marketed CVs
- Preparing and sending out emails and/or letters to promote our services
- Accurately using IT and Ai systems to ensure good organisational and efficient processes
What are we looking for?
- A self-starter, who enjoys working in a dynamic environment
- Someone who is highly competitive and enjoys working in a fast-paced environment
- Excellent people and relationship building
- Is highly detail conscious, with analytical skills
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work well with a broad range of personalities
- Takes ownership of delegated tasks
- Be a team player that can ‘think outside the box’
- Have strong communication and organisational skills, and a “can-do attitude”
- Be able to bring energy to the office every day
Candidates must have a driving licence and have access to a vehicle due to office location.
Where you'll work
OFFICE 19 RUNWELL HALL FARM
HOE LANE
RETTENDEN COMMON
CHELMSFORD
CM3 8DQ
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
RM 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
Level 3 Recruiter Apprenticeship Standard, which includes:
- Recruitment (Level 3)
- 13-month in workplace training
- End-Point Assessment (EPA)
- Functional Skills (if needed)
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE 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
- Communication skills
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Tenacity and Resilience
- Target driven
- Competitive
- Own transport
- UK driving licence
- Self starter
- Team player
- Can do attitude
- Competitive nature
Other requirements
Candidates must have a driving licence and have access to a vehicle due to office location.
About this employer
Select Automotive is the UK's number one automotive engineering recruitment agency. We have over thirty years experience in placing both contract and permanent staff in both worldwide OEMs as well as Tier 1 suppliers to the automotive industry.
WHAT MAKES US DIFFERENT
Our consultants are just part of the reason why we are different and so successful.
They are passionate, ambitious and talented and have developed recruitment solutions that meet and exceed the expectations of the automotive professionals we serve. Because we operate only in defined market areas, our experience, knowledge and reputation in the automotive sector is second to none. The awards we have won support our statement of being the best and caring the most.
After this apprenticeship
- The possibility of a full-time position may be available once the apprenticeship has been completed. However, this is not guaranteed
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
RM TRAINING (UK) LIMITED
Katie
katie@rmtraining.co.uk
01702 782001
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000033748.
Apply now
Closes in 30 days (Friday 26 June 2026 at 11:59pm)