Apprentice Recruitment Consultant (180 Resourcing Focus)
W Talent
Birmingham (B1 2JB)
Closes in 22 days (Friday 6 February 2026 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 14 January 2026
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Summary
Kickstart your career in recruitment with W Talent in our Birmingham Office! This role is a 180 recruitment resourcing position, focused mainly on candidate sourcing, screening, and CV formatting, while supporting consultants with administration and learning how a recruitment business operates from the bottom up.
- Wage
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£15,704 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age
National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices
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- High earning potential with an industry-leading commission structure.
- Regular incentives, rewards, and performance trips.
- Training course
- Recruiter (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday, 9.00am - 5.00pm.
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 9 February 2026
- Duration
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1 year 1 month
- Positions available
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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
You’ll be trained to become an expert resourcer, building strong candidate relationships and supporting senior consultants, with a clear pathway to progress to Senior Consultant within 3 years for the right person.
This employer values apprentices and has had exceptional apprentices in the past. You will be valued from day one and supported throughout your development.
What You’ll Be Doing
- Sourcing and screening candidates
- Formatting and improving CVs
- Supporting consultants with admin and recruitment processes
- Learning how a recruitment business runs from the ground up
This is a Level 3 Recruitment Apprenticeship, with full on-the-job training. Reality check: recruitment isn’t easy, you need to be a grafter, but if you put the work in, the rewards and progression are real.
If you’re serious about building a long-term career in recruitment, this is an outstanding opportunity!
Why Now?
- We’re experiencing hyper-growth across our offices in the UK.
- You’ll work directly with leadership and benefit from a transparent progression route.
What’s In It for You
- High earning potential with an industry-leading commission structure
- Clear, rapid progression to Director and beyond
- Ongoing training and mentorship from experienced leaders
- Regular incentives, rewards, and performance trips
If you thrive in an ambitious, high-performance environment with real autonomy and real upside, we want to hear from you:
- Ambitious, high-performance environment- A workplace where people are driven, results matter, and success is rewarded
- Real autonomy -You’re trusted to manage your own workload and make decisions, not micromanaged
- Real upside -Genuine opportunities for progression, higher earnings (e.g. commission), and career growth if you perform well
Where you'll work
10 Brindley Place
Birmingham
B1 2JB
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
DAVIDSON 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
- Full training will be given, leading to a recognised Level 3 Recruiter Apprenticeship Standard qualification
- Learning and developing the skills, knowledge, and behaviours required to become a competent Recruiter through a Level 3 apprenticeship
- This will take place entirely in the workplace, with no need for day release
- You will be assigned a dedicated Trainer from Davidson Training UK Ltd, who runs the apprenticeship programme
- They will conduct one-on-one tutoring sessions and create a customised training plan based on your areas of strength and growth
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
- English (grade 4-9 or A*-C)
- Maths (grade 4-9 or A*-C)
Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.
Skills
- Confident
- Relationship Building
- Engaging
- A Natural communicator
- Network building
- Goal orientated
- Naturally competitive
- Thrives with fast pace
Other requirements
The Ideal Person:
- A hard worker with resilience who can graft day in, day out
Well-spoken and professional on the phone (you’ll eventually speak with CEOs and senior leaders) - Someone with the right attitude- just hungry, focused, and coachable
- No experience needed- but you must have grit, work ethic, and determination
Other things to consider:
- Our office is located in Birmingham’s best-loved waterside destination for business, leisure and culture. Brindleyplace is bustling with bars, restaurants and shops, an iconic art gallery and a historic theatre. Just a 2 minutes’ walk from Brindleyplace (Metro), and 15 minutes’ walk from Birmingham Snow Hill / Birmingham New Street (Train). There is also parking widely available in NCP car parks located close to our office.
About this employer
W Talent is a recruitment business built differently.
We combine the speed, ambition, and autonomy of a startup with the backing of W-Group, the world’s fastest-growing staffing firm.
For consultants, it means the best of both worlds:
- Freedom to build your own desk and shape your career
- The pace and influence of a fast-growing startup
- The stability and resources of a billion-euro organisation
After this apprenticeship
- 0-12 months - Apprentice Recruitment Consultant
- 1-2 years - Step into Recruitment Consultant roles
- Beyond- Senior recruitment opportunities
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
DAVIDSON TRAINING UK LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000008652.
Apply now
Closes in 22 days (Friday 6 February 2026 at 11:59pm)