Recruiter Apprentice

EQ GROUP LIMITED

Manchester (M4 6LZ)

Closes in 22 days (Friday 21 August 2026 at 11:59pm)

Posted on 28 July 2026

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Summary

EQ Group is a specialist recruitment business based in Manchester. They are looking for an ambitious individual who wants to build a career in business, technology and recruitment. Live projects from week one. Coached by founders. A guaranteed pathway to Consultant across the group.

Wage

£14,560 for your first year, then could increase depending on your age

National Minimum Wage rate for apprentices

Minimum wage rates (opens in new tab)

£8ph (flexible) with bonuses/commission.

Reviewed in 6 months and then on completion of course, moved to full-time salary.

Annual salary reviewal Y2

Training course
Recruiter (level 3)
Hours
Monday-Friday 9am - 5pm (built in time for apprentice work). 4 days on-site with Thursdays work from home.

35 hours a week

Start date

Monday 24 August 2026

Duration

1 year 3 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

  • Complete the six month EQ Academy curriculum: smart tooling and automation, LinkedIn and personal brand, market intelligence, sales and BD, recruitment craft, CRM and technology.
  • Run live projects from week one, supporting growing brands across the US and UK.
  • Own daily activity targets: outreach, market mapping, candidate calls, client research.
  • Sit inside a brand pod, coached by a Senior or Principal consultant and a group founder.
  • Build a personal brand on LinkedIn under group guidance.
  • Present monthly progress reviews to the founder team.

Where you'll work

1 Silk Street
Manchester
M4 6LZ

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

Level 3 Recruiter Apprenticeship Standard, which includes:

  • Recruiter NVQ Level 3
  • Recruitment Resourcing Principles NVQ Level 2
  • 14-month in workplace training
  • End-Point Assessment (EPA)
  • Functional Skills if needed

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

  • IT skills
  • Attention to detail
  • Organisation skills
  • Administrative skills
  • Number skills
  • Ambitious
  • High Energy
  • Comfortable working from home
  • You want a career not a job
  • Interested in AI

About this employer

EQ Group is an investor in high-end niche recruitment start-ups built by operators for ambitious founders across the US and UK. We back the people running the desks, invest in the intelligence behind them, and hold every brand to the same standard. What follows is what we agree to before we agree to anything else.

https://eq-group.co.uk/ (opens in new tab)

Company benefits

25 days holiday plus bank holidays 

After this apprenticeship

Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).

Promotion pathway available on successful completion of the apprenticeship. 

Ask a question

The contact for this apprenticeship is:

RM TRAINING (UK) LIMITED

Katie

katie@rmtraining.co.uk

01702 782001

The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000045186.

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Closes in 22 days (Friday 21 August 2026 at 11:59pm)