Recruitment Consultants Apprenticeship - Level 3

Summary

The purpose of this role is to represent Advance Staff in the recruitment market. Supporting clients with the recruitment of candidates into temporary and permanent vacancies. Advance Staff will look to develop the skillset of the apprentice to become a well-rounded recruitment consultant.

Wage

£16,640 a year

Training course

Recruiter (level 3)

Hours

Monday - Friday, between 8.00am and 5.00pm.

40 hours a week

Start date

Tuesday 1 December 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

• To develop candidate relationships
• Support candidates with their CVs, cover letters and applications for new roles
• To drive sales and increase business with both new and existing clients
• Full 360 Apprentice Recruitment Consultant role supplying temporary or permanent workers into Industrial and logistics positions
• Pre-screen candidate profiles, using CRM as well as available CV databases
• Meet with candidates, interview them for suitability of vacant positions
• Ascertain reference points and references, conducting due diligence on all represented candidates
• Collate “right to live and work in the UK” data to ensure candidate compliance and eligibility for vacant positions
• Negotiate salary with candidates, managing their expectations on market conditions
• Conducting aftercare meetings with candidates upon successful placements (contract and permanent)
• Business development, largely on the phone and email
• Winning new client accounts and managing client relationships
• Sourcing suitable candidates for client vacancies
• Negotiating fee and/or margin structure for services
• Pre-screening candidate suitability for interview
• CV presentations to clients, giving a detailed description of why candidates are suited to vacant positions
• Negotiate salary with clients, ensuring candidate and client reach an agreement to offer
• Maintaining client relationships throughout the recruitment process and beyond
• Advertise roles on job boards

Where you'll work

First Floor
Regent House
Bath Avenue
WV1 4EG

Training

Apprenticeships include time away from working for specialist training. You’ll study to gain professional knowledge and skills.

Training provider

JUNIPER TRAINING LIMITED

Training course

Recruiter (level 3)

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 Consultant Level 3 Apprenticeship Standard NVQ & Certificate
• End Point Assessment
• Maths and English functional skills if required, which will be delivered via online training sessions for 1 hour per week

Requirements

Desirable qualifications

GCSE in:

English & maths (grade 4-9)

Share if you have other relevant qualifications and industry experience. The apprenticeship can be adjusted to reflect what you already know.

Skills

• Communication skills
• Attention to detail
• Customer care skills
• Administrative skills
• Logical
• Team working
• Creative
• Initiative
• Engaging Personality
• Knowledge of Microsoft Office
• Adaptable
• Intuitive
• Flexible attitude to work
• Ability to communicate at all

Other requirements

This vacancy required an applicant to have a good level of confidence, the ability to build relationships with customers and would entail a heavy use of the telephone. If you are not confident in speaking on the phone, this is not the role for you.