Apprentice Recruiter Review

My role as an apprentice on a day to day basis is managing to create requisitions, doing offer forms, calling candidates for interview bookings, Sourcing candidates to see if their experiences/qualifications are suitable for the job role and sending them to my line manager. Having weekly team meetings to see how far i have progressed as an apprentice. I really enjoy talking to my colleagues through having catch up calls in the morning or just being in the office and getting lunch together. I feel like as an apprentice i am able to learn so much from different colleagues and pick up different methods on how to do my day to day tasks, I've also done some site visits and gone to HR conference as well.

The new skills, that I have learnt so far is developing my communication skills through talking to candidates or being in the office and interacting with different people that you meet everyday. My current skill is that i'm working on in how to improve my confidence when doing my day to day tasks.

The apprenticeship course, is theory based and it is information heavy, so when it does come to doing the EPA, i'll be able to look back through my notes I've made while going through each topic. It is really enjoyable the apprenticeship course and i'm really happy in terms of my needs being met to have face to face tutoring and how the tutor is able to explain the concepts in an easy informed way.

The apprenticeship program is structured really well by knowing how outcomes there are for each topic.

My employer and me always to do weekly 1 to 1's where can i questions if i don;t understand certain aspects of my role or we book in time for me to shadow my employer when i need a demonstration on how to do a task that i'm confused on.

My training provider is always supporting in me completing my assignments and taking time to repeat anything that i'm not understanding or send links and information through on understanding a more specific topic section of what i learn't from a session that I've done with my provider.

I feel like it builds my knowledge to be able to do my day to day tasks and helps me understand how the recruitment process works, while being able to observe different ways people interact with the clients/customers of internal recruitment.

last summer, we did a rounders activity as a team exercising building and it was really enjoyable and also in October time, i went to a HR conference where I've met different people from different departments.

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Every day is a different day and no day is always the same. You'll have a good support network around you who are like family and they'll always would want you to feel at ease and comfortable and you'll always be learning something new and you will be a valuable member of the team. Whenever your struggling you can ask any one of your colleagues to help or to check if the work that you are is correct.

The Advice i would give is, look at what kind of apprenticeship you want to do at kier and base it on your experience and see if you have transferable or similar skills to mirror the job description and always do your research about the company (knowing their values that they stand by and how it was founded etc) and practicing interview questions and ask family and friends to help you to feel prepared for when actually doing the interview. When going for an interview go with confidence and know that while they are interviewing you and asking you questions to see if you match their criteria as the right candidate but know at the same time you should ask questions after the interviewer has asked you questions because it shows a sign of curiosity and also that you are invested in the role that you applied for and you are also assessing if the company is a right fit for you as well.