Recruitment Apprenticeship Level 3 (Sales and Candidate Resourcing)
APPLEBOUGH RECRUITMENT LTD
New Rd, (B63 3HY)
Closes in 18 days (Monday 6 July 2026)
Posted on 16 June 2026
Contents
Summary
Join Applebough Recruitment as a Recruiter Apprentice and kick-start your career in recruitment. You’ll source and interview candidates, manage job adverts, and match education professionals to suitable roles. Gain hands-on experience in a supportive, client-focused team while working towards your apprenticeship.
- Wage
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£16,640 a year
Minimum wage rates (opens in new tab)
The employer is happy to review your salary based on your performance and progression within the role. In addition to your salary, there is an opportunity to earn commission, with potential earnings of up to £10,000 per year.
- Training course
- Recruiter (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday, 7:30am - 4:30pm (During school holidays 9.00am - 3.00pm), 1 hour lunch.
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Monday 13 July 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
- Searching for potential candidates using job boards, social media, and other online platforms
- Making phone calls to potential candidates to discuss career opportunities and build relationships
- Reviewing CVs and helping to match candidates with suitable education-based roles
- Speaking with candidates to learn about their skills, experience, and career goals
- Keeping candidate records up to date using the company database
- Creating and posting exciting job adverts to attract new talent
- Arranging interviews and keeping candidates updated throughout the recruitment process
- Supporting the team with compliance checks, paperwork, and general administration
- Building relationships with schools and clients through calls, emails, meetings, and marketing activities
- Assisting with social media content and promotional campaigns
- Learning how to place candidates into rewarding roles within primary schools and specialist education settings
- Supporting the recruitment team with business development and helping to grow the company's client base
Where you'll work
Trinity Point,
New Rd,
B63 3HY
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
THE NVQ TRAINING CENTRE 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
Teaching and developing the skills, knowledge, and behaviours required to become a competent Recruiter will take place entirely in the workplace, with no need for day release. One-to-one tutoring sessions will be provided by a dedicated tutor, who will design a bespoke curriculum plan tailored to your strengths and areas for development.
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
- Administrative skills
- Attention to detail
- Communication skills
- Customer care skills
- Initiative
- IT skills
- Organisation skills
- Patience
- Presentation skills
- Problem solving skills
- Sales Skills
Other requirements
The employer is happy to review your salary based on your performance and progression within the role. In addition to your salary, there is an opportunity to earn commission, with potential earnings of up to £10,000 per year. Have you considered hours / location / wage?
About this employer
Applebough Recruitment specialises in providing expert recruitment solutions solely for the Education sector across The Midlands
– And because we have extensive experience and a wide network in educational recruitment, we offer tailored solutions for clients and outstanding career opportunities for candidates. Read more about us.
After this apprenticeship
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).
As a Recruiter Apprentice at Applebough Recruitment, you will have the opportunity to progress into a full-time Recruitment Consultant role. As you develop your expertise, you'll gain the autonomy to lead your own client portfolio, negotiate contracts, and drive recruitment strategies, with the potential for further career advancement in the recruitment field.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
THE NVQ TRAINING CENTRE LIMITED
Krystyna Nalomenko
info@justapply.co.uk
0845-223 5020
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000037517.
Apply now
Closes in 18 days (Monday 6 July 2026)
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