Recruitment apprenticeship Level 3- Croydon

Summary

An exciting opportunity has arisen to join the Tempting recruitment team in Croydon as they move forward into a year of growth in 2026. If you are confident and driven. This is an excellent opportunity for someone looking to start or develop a career in recruitment.

Wage

£16,700 a year

Training course

Recruiter (level 3)

Hours

Monday - Thursday, 9.00am - 6.30pm and Friday, 10.00am - 5.00pm.

40 hours a week

Start date

Wednesday 21 October 2026

Duration

1 year 2 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

Key responsibilities:

• Deliver excellent service to candidates at all times
• Source candidates using job boards, social media, headhunting, referrals, and our internal database
• Write and post engaging job adverts online
• Pre-screen and interview candidates to qualify their suitability for work
• Arrange and conduct candidate registrations, ensuring all compliance requirements are met
• Prepare and format CVs to company standard
• Manage candidate communication - keeping them informed about applications, interviews, and job offers
• Carry out referencing checks and ensure right-to-work documentation is valid
• Maintain accurate and up-to-date records on ATS/CRM, ensuring GDPR compliance
• Work collaboratively with consultants to ensure timely candidate submissions to clients
• Contribute to achieving team KPIs such as candidate registrations, CV submissions, and interviews arranged
• Support consultants with ad-hoc administrative tasks as required

Minimum requirements:

• Previous experience in a customer service, sales, or administration role desirable but not essential
• Confident and comfortable speaking on the phone, with the ability to build rapport quickly
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal
• Excellent organisational and time management skills
• A positive and proactive attitude with a willingness to learn
• Ability to work well as part of a team
• IT proficiency (MS Office, CRM/ATS systems preferred)

Where you'll work

The Lansdowne Building
2 LANSDOWNE ROAD
CROYDON
CR0 2BX

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

• 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

• Recruiter Level 3 Apprenticeship
• End Point Assessment

Requirements

Essential 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
• IT skills
• Attention to detail
• Organisation skills
• Customer care skills
• Problem solving skills
• Presentation skills
• Administrative skills
• Analytical skills
• Team working
• Creative
• Non judgemental
• Patience
• Confident Telephone Manner
• Target Driven