Apprentice Recruitment Consultant
Crossley Scott
Halifax (HX3 5AX)
Closes in 29 days (Sunday 1 November 2026 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 30 September 2026
Contents
Summary
Ready to start a career where your ambition can directly shape your success? Whether you’re starting your career or looking to take your first step into recruitment, sales or business development, Crossley Scott is looking for ambitious Trainee Recruitment Consultants to join our growing team in Halifax.
- Wage
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£16,640 a year
Minimum wage rates (opens in new tab)
- Salary reviews every 6 months
- Opportunity to earn monthly commission
- Training course
- Recruiter (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday to Friday- 08:30am- 17:30pm with 1 hour lunch break
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 2 November 2026
- Duration
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1 year 6 months
- Positions available
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3
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
As a Trainee Recruitment Consultant, you’ll learn:
How to manage the full recruitment process and build your own successful career
You’ll develop skills in:
- Building relationships with businesses and candidates
- Business development and winning new clients
- Sourcing and interviewing candidates
- Managing vacancies from initial brief through to placement
- Negotiating and closing deals
- Developing your own network within the Clean Tech and Renewable Energy sectors
- Recruiting across UK and international markets
You’ll receive structured training and ongoing coaching, with the opportunity to progress as quickly as your performance allows.
What are we looking for?
You don’t need years of recruitment experience. We’re looking for attitude, ambition and potential
You’ll ideally have:
- Some experience in Retail, sales, customer service, recruitment or a B2B environment
- Strong communication and relationship-building skills
- A competitive mindset and the ambition to become a top performer
- Confidence speaking to people and building professional relationships
- A proactive, positive and resilient approach
- The ability to work as part of a team while taking ownership of your own success
- A genuine interest in building a long-term career
- A full UK driving licence
- Most importantly, you’ll be someone who sees an opportunity and wants to make the most of it
Where you'll work
E Mill
Dean Clough Mills
Halifax
HX3 5AX
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
DERBY BUSINESS COLLEGE 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
- In addition to gaining practical experience in the role, you will also attain an NVQ Level 3 Recruiter qualification which will help start your career and give you an insight into the businesses processes and procedures
- Our training is all completed remotely via teams with a development coach who will be available for support 24/7 and will arrange weekly/fortnightly meetings with you
- You receive 20% off-the-job training during this apprenticeship which is included in your weekly working hours
More training information
- DBC Training are a multi award-winning employment and skills training provider
- We offer high-quality employer solutions to improve productivity and learner solutions to support individuals to fulfil their potential
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
- Attention to detail
- Organisation skills
- Customer care skills
- Presentation skills
- Team working
- Initiative
About this employer
A specialist international recruitment agency focused entirely on clean technology — connecting leading talent with opportunity in the global clean energy market, covering data centers, solar, energy storage, EV charging, electric vehicles, and lighting.
https://crossleyscott.com/ (opens in new tab)
Company benefits
- Monthly Commission
- 6 month on target bonus
- 25 days holiday + national bank holidays
- Private healthcare
After this apprenticeship
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).
- Structured career development
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
DERBY BUSINESS COLLEGE LIMITED
Catherine
cat@dbc-training.co.uk
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000056400.
Apply now
Closes in 29 days (Sunday 1 November 2026 at 11:59pm)