Recruitment Apprentice - Education Sector

PEARSON WHIFFIN RECRUITMENT LTD

MAIDSTONE (ME14 5NZ)

Closes in 17 days (Friday 5 December 2025 at 11:59pm)

Posted on 12 November 2025

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Summary

Pearson Whiffin Recruitment are currently looking for a positive, switched on and dedicated person to join their team in Maidstone, The role will include sourcing candidates for clients in the education division. An interest in this sector would be desirable.

Wage

£15,704 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age

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Training course
Recruiter (level 3)
Hours
Monday - Friday, 8.30am - 5.30pm.

40 hours a week

Start date

Monday 8 December 2025

Duration

1 year 2 months

Positions available

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

  • Resourcing candidates through various means including our database, job boards and social media platforms
  • You will be responsible for sourcing and then contacting quality candidates to qualify their suitability for the roles through various means including our database, job boards and social media platforms
  • Call candidates to build a rapport and sell the job whilst ascertaining suitability
  • You will build up a pipeline of candidates who you have submitted to the roles and regularly checking their status
  • Screening/qualifying potential candidates to ensure they are suitable to undertake work for our clients
  • Collecting candidates’ compliance documents and formatting their CV’s
  • Submit candidate CVs to clients
  • Ensure candidate and client information is kept up to date on our system
  • Create, post and manage job adverts/person specifications
  • Building and maintaining candidate and client relationships

This role would be perfect for a bright graduate/A Level school leaver with the ability to assimilate information with ease, as well as an outgoing personality and a strong work ethic. 

Where you'll work

MAIDSTONE STUDIOS
VINTERS BUSINESS PARK
NEW CUT ROAD
MAIDSTONE
ME14 5NZ

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

  • Recruitment Level 3 Apprenticeship Standard
  • 13 months office-based training at the employer's location
  • Functional Skills in maths and English (if required)

Requirements

Desirable qualifications

GCSE in:

  • English (grade 5)
  • Maths (grade 5)

Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.

Skills

  • Communication skills
  • Organisation skills
  • Problem solving skills
  • Presentation skills
  • Administrative skills
  • Team working
  • Proficiency

About this employer

Since the consultancy was founded in 2004 we have developed a reputation for providing an outstanding level of customer service. It’s a reputation we are proud of and committed to maintain. We continue to build relationships based on trust, honesty and recruitment expertise that meet the staffing needs of our existing and future clients. Primarily, we are Kent and South East specialists, but have developed the capacity to support our clients’ requirements nationally over the years, particularly now that remote meetings and working has become more mainstream; we believe in adapting our approach and consistently improving our offering.

http://www.pearsonwhiffin.co.uk (opens in new tab)

After this apprenticeship

There may be the opportunity of a full-time position at the end of the apprenticeship.

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The contact for this apprenticeship is:

RM TRAINING (UK) LIMITED

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000000287.

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Closes in 17 days (Friday 5 December 2025 at 11:59pm)

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