Recruitment Resourcer

The Recruitment Resourcer course explores the skills required to be able to identify and secure job opportunities within client organisations. The successful apprentice will have the ability to research, identify, attract, and shortlist suitable candidates for job vacancies in return for commission.

A recruitment resourcer may focus on the supply of flexible workers, permanent placements, or a combination of both.

All apprenticeship standards cover three overall sections, these being Knowledge, Skills and Behaviours. Each of these areas is associated with the specific standard and covers topics that are relevant to that industry and profession. The core topics covered for the Recruitment Resourcer Level 2 apprenticeship are below.

Knowledge

The Candidate Attraction and Selection Processes
The Legal, Regulatory and Ethical Requirements and Appropriate Codes of Practice
Agreed KPIs and How They will be Assessed During the Apprenticeship
Recruitment Sales Techniques
Market Rates and Conditions
How to Initiate, Build and Maintain Relationships with Candidates
The Principles and Importance of using Research for Resourcing
The Recruitment Industry and the Principles of the Recruitment Models

Skills

Recruitment Market
Recruitment and Selection Process
Preselecting Candidates
Sales and Processes used by Recruiters
Legal, Regulation and Ethical Requirements
Building and Maintaining Relationships with Candidates
Research and Recruitment using Social Media
Creating a Recruitment Resourcing Plan
Teamworking and Relationships with Colleagues
Recording and Storing Information

Behaviours

Self-Motivation, Tenacity and Resilience
Enterprise and Entrepreneurship
Ambition, Drive and Determination
Confident, Assertive and Persuasive Communicator
Attention to Detail
· Good Questioning and Listening
· Innovative

The training is a blended learning delivery model, which occurs on the job during working hours. A structured learning and assessment plan is put in place to test core components of the course along the way.

This consists of:

1-to-1 monthly meeting: Approx. two hours with a GLP Trainer (face-to-face or telephone)
Online learning courses and/or group sessions
Building an electronic portfolio of work-related evidence
Maths and English Level 2 (if not previously achieved)
6 hours a week spent working towards your apprenticeship.
End Point Assessment by an external examiner to complete the qualification, consisting of a resourcing project assignment and a professional discussion

To achieve the qualification, within which you can either get a result of Pass, Distinction or Fail, you will be assessed both throughout the period of your apprenticeships, as well as in the final stages with an End Point Assessment (EPA).

End Point Assessment

The EPA period will only start once the employer is satisfied that the apprentice is consistently working at or above the level set out in the occupational standard.

In addition, the apprentice must have completed the following gateway requirements prior to beginning EPA:

Achieved Functional Skills Qualification (if required to do so).

The End Point Assessment process which typically takes 3 months and is carried out by Highfields, consists of two components:

Resourcing Project Assignment:

This assignment is remote, and the learner will be required to submit their work online, in the form of a written assignment. The assignment will include the composition of a job advert from information provided by the AO. There will be three supplementary questions to answer following on from this job advert.

Professional Discussion:

The professional discussion will be a structured interview between the assessor and learner, where the knowledge skills and behaviours in Business Development, Candidate Management and Compliance are assessed.

The combined score of these two methods will provide the final grade for the apprenticeship.

The role of Recruitment Resourcer is one of the roles at the beginning of a career in recruitment and this apprenticeship can provide a progression into a number of other roles within the industry. One such route of progression is to a Level 3 Apprenticeship in Recruitment Consultancy. Apprentices who complete this qualification will also be eligible for professional registration at the Institute of Recruitment Professionals or Institute of Recruiters.