Recruitment Apprentice
GVR SOLUTIONS LIMITED
Southend-On-Sea (SS1 2JY)
Closes in 20 days (Friday 20 February 2026 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 28 January 2026
Contents
Summary
GVR Solutions in Southend are looking to hire a recruitment apprentice for their white collar construction recruitment busines. This is an excellent opportunity for a smart, ambitious, and self-motivated individual to join a friendly environment.
- Wage
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£18,000 a year
- Training course
- Recruiter (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday, 08:00 - 17:30.
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 23 February 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
- Sourcing candidates using available media such as job boards, social media, internal and external databases, advertising and referrals
- Match and select suitable candidates from applications received and screen candidates over the telephone and face-to-face
- Qualifying and requalifying new and existing candidates on internal database
- Gaining industry knowledge / research
- Work with the Consultants and the management team to fully understand the requirements of the hiring managers
- Updating/advertising vacancies on company website, social media and other necessary platforms
- Headhunting/specified searches (at advanced stage)
- Candidate meetings, both on and off site (at advanced stage)
- Site visits
Where you'll work
Maitland House
Warrior Square
Southend-On-Sea
SS1 2JY
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)
Understanding apprenticeship levels (opens in new tab)
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
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
- IT skills
- Organisation skills
- Administrative skills
- Team working
- Initiative
- Strong communication skills
- Can do approach
- Willingness to learn
- Target driven
- Strong telephone manner
About this employer
GVR Solutions is a privately owned specialist White Collar Construction Recruitment Specialist providing staffing solutions to the some of the best construction companies across the UK.
The GVR way is simple… provide an honest and transparent white collar construction recruitment service to it’s valued partners.
The business is armed with one of the broadest white collar construction networks within the South East of the UK; with the vast majority of candidate placements coming via referrals, whether that be clients or candidates.
GVR supply both freelance and permanent personnel within all construction departments and has an unrivalled track record of placement retention.
After this apprenticeship
- There may be the opportunity of a full-time position at the end of the apprenticeship
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
RM TRAINING (UK) LIMITED
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000010576.
Apply now
Closes in 20 days (Friday 20 February 2026 at 11:59pm)