Recruitment Consultant Apprentice
UPWARD RECRUITMENT LTD
Chudleigh Devon (TQ13 0GT)
Closes in 24 days (Monday 30 November 2026 at 11:59pm)
Posted on 6 November 2026
Contents
Summary
This is an exciting opportunity to join our vibrant team as an apprentice recruitment consultant. You’ll be finding, chatting to, & interviewing candidates for driver and logistics jobs.
If you’re a people person, full of energy, & ready for a clear path to promotion, we need to talk!
- Wage
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£18,491.20 a year
Minimum wage rates (opens in new tab)
A salary review and increase is offered upon successful completion of your first 12 months.
- Training course
- Recruiter (level 3)
- Hours
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Monday - Friday, 9:00am - 5:30pm.
40 hours a week
- Start date
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Tuesday 1 December 2026
- Duration
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1 year 6 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
Ditch the Classroom, Start the career!
Are you ready to earn, learn, and grow?
Driver Hire, a huge name in transport and logistics, is looking for a motivated and ambitious Apprentice Recruitment Consultant to join our vibrant team. Forget boring entry-level roles—this is a fully funded Level 3 Apprenticeship that actually leads to a proper career. If you’re a people person, full of energy, and ready for a clear path to promotion, we need to talk!
The Role: Get Paid to Learn the Business
You'll get hands-on training from day one, learning exactly how a successful business runs:
Key Responsibilities
As an Apprentice Recruitment Administrator, your day-to-day duties will include:
- Providing support to senior team members throughout the end-to-end recruitment process
- Handling a high volume of inbound and outbound calls with candidates and clients
- Conducting candidate interviews and assessing suitability for available roles
- Explaining registration procedures and application processes clearly and professionally
- Maintaining accurate and compliant records using in-house IT systems in line with GDPR requirements
- Assisting with driving licence verification, reference requests, and candidate database management
- Advertising job vacancies across job boards and social media channels
- Attending job fairs, career events, and community recruitment activities
- Identifying new leads through candidate conversations and CV screening
- Re-engaging with previously registered candidates and nurturing ongoing relationships
- Coordinating interview schedules and managing candidate availability
- Contributing ideas and suggestions to support candidate attraction strategies
- Carrying out general administrative tasks as required across the business
- Joining the out-of-hours on-call rota once sufficient training has been completed (not required immediately)
Essential:
- Confident and professional communication skills, both over the telephone and in person
- Strong organisational ability and effective time management
- A proactive approach and comfort with making regular outbound calls
- Excellent written and spoken English, particularly for drafting and reviewing CVs
- A genuine enthusiasm for helping people and solving problems
Desirable:
- Experience or confidence using social media platforms in a creative capacity
- A desire to build a long-term career within recruitment, logistics, or business administration
- Previous experience in an administrative, customer service, or telephony role (not essential)
Where you'll work
Unit 18 Rocklands Business Park
Oxencombe Road
Chudleigh Devon
TQ13 0GT
Training
Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.
Training provider
DERBY BUSINESS COLLEGE 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
- In addition to gaining practical experience in the role, you will also attain an NVQ Level 3 Recruiter qualification which will help start your career and give you an insight into the businesses processes and procedures.
- Our training is all completed remotely via teams with a development coach who will be available for support 24/7 and will arrange weekly/fortnightly meetings with you.
- Off-the-job training will follow the time allocations outlined in the Occupational Standard during this apprenticeship which is included in your weekly working hours.
More training information
- DBC Training are a multi award-winning employment and skills training provider.
- We offer high-quality employer solutions to improve productivity and learner solutions to support individuals to fulfil their potential
https://dbc-training.co.uk/
Requirements
Essential qualifications
GCSE in:
Level 3 Qualification (BTEC, A Level, T Level) in:
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
- Attention to detail
- Customer care skills
- Team working
- Initiative
- Professional
- Outgoing and chatty
- Good attitude
- Friendly
About this employer
Driver Hire is a leading recruitment agency specialising in the transport and logistics sector. We are seeking an organised and customer-focused individual to support daily branch operations, working closely with drivers and client companies.
https://www.driverhire.co.uk/office/torbay/ (opens in new tab)
Company benefits
- Weekly pay
- A structured five-day working week within a seven-day operation
- A welcoming, team-oriented working environment
- Practical, industry-recognised experience with the UK's largest specialist logistics recruiter
- A clear pathway to long-term employment within a reputable and well-established local business
- Full training and ongoing support throughout your apprenticeship
After this apprenticeship
Your earnings can increase over time with an apprenticeship. Find out about potential future pay (opens in new tab).
Full-time role within the business.
Ask a question
The contact for this apprenticeship is:
DERBY BUSINESS COLLEGE LIMITED
Heather Duffield
heather@dbc-training.co.uk
07375919487
The reference code for this apprenticeship is VAC2000063026.
Apply now
Closes in 24 days (Monday 30 November 2026 at 11:59pm)