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- The centre assesses, and Recruitment & Employment Confederation awards. A qualified assessor at the centre judges your evidence, and the certificate comes from Recruitment & Employment Confederation.
The REC Level 3 NVQ Diploma in Recruitment is a vocationally-related qualification for those in the marketing and sales sector. It develops skills in administering recruitment processes, understanding buyer behaviour, and advising clients on recruitment planning. Learners also gain expertise in developing and delivering sales proposals.
These are the units Recruitment & Employment Confederation registers against this qualification. It is a catalogue, not a syllabus. Which of them you take depends on the combination the qualification requires, and that is set by the awarding body rather than by us. Every unit here is regulated. Zavmo teaches towards them on your own work, and work done here is recognised as prior learning under the agreements we hold.
Zavmo is not an awarding body, is not an approved centre, and is not affiliated with Recruitment & Employment Confederation. It does the teaching and the mapping. Recruitment & Employment Confederation sets this qualification and awards it, and a qualified human assessor makes the assessment decision.
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What each unit actually teaches you to do
Administer recruitment processes Real unit · Recruitment & Employment Confederation
What you'll be able to do
- Administer the recruitment process in line with organisational policies and legal requirements
- Administer the selection process to identify suitable candidates for vacant positions
- Administer the appointment process, ensuring all necessary documentation and procedures are completed
Advise clients on operational recruitment planning Real unit · Recruitment & Employment Confederation
What you'll be able to do
- Understand human resource planning principles and their application to recruitment strategies
- Define clients’ operational recruitment needs by gathering information on their specific requirements and objectives
- Understand the basis for choosing recruitment methods and media, considering factors such as cost, reach and target audience
- Analyse the effectiveness of the recruitment solutions implemented, using relevant metrics and feedback to identify areas for improvement
Analyse competitor activity Real unit · Recruitment & Employment Confederation
What you'll be able to do
- Identify competitor activity within a defined market
- Determine the nature and extent of the threat posed by competitor activity to an organisation
Assess candidates Real unit · Recruitment & Employment Confederation
What you'll be able to do
- Plan candidate assessments effectively, taking into account relevant factors and regulations
- Carry out candidate assessments using appropriate methods and techniques
- Understand the basis for choosing selection methods and media in the assessment process
Attract potential candidates Real unit · Recruitment & Employment Confederation
What you'll be able to do
- Plan candidate attraction activities to target suitable individuals
- Implement candidate attraction activities effectively, using appropriate methods
- Build and maintain relationships with potential candidates
Brief and support candidates Real unit · Recruitment & Employment Confederation
What you'll be able to do
- Identify candidates’ needs through effective communication and assessment techniques
- Brief candidates on employer requirements, ensuring they are fully informed and prepared
- Support candidates throughout the recruitment process, providing guidance and assistance
Buyer behaviour in sales situations Real unit · Recruitment & Employment Confederation
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the impact of different models of buyer behaviour on the sales cycle, including their psychological and social influences
- Respond to the buyer at each stage of the decision making process, adapting communication and sales techniques accordingly
Carry out candidate debriefing Real unit · Recruitment & Employment Confederation
What you'll be able to do
- Review candidates’ progress following an interview or placement, assessing their performance and suitability
- Exchange feedback with candidates, providing constructive criticism and guidance for future development
Co-ordinate flexible workers Real unit · Recruitment & Employment Confederation
What you'll be able to do
- Place flexible workers with clients, ensuring a suitable match between skills and requirements
- Manage clients’ bookings for flexible staff, addressing any changes or issues that may arise
- Co-ordinate the needs of flexible workers, providing support and addressing any concerns
Conduct market research Real unit · Recruitment & Employment Confederation
What you'll be able to do
- Identify the need for market research in a given context
- Design market research projects to meet specific objectives
- Manage the collection of market research data effectively
Develop resourcing plan for recruitment services Real unit · Recruitment & Employment Confederation
What you'll be able to do
- Agree with clients on the specific methods and resources that will be used to meet their recruitment needs
- Develop a comprehensive recruitment resourcing plan that outlines the steps, resources, and timelines required to fulfil the client's staffing requirements
Develop working relationships with colleagues Real unit · Recruitment & Employment Confederation
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the benefits of effective working relationships with colleagues in a professional environment
- Establish positive and productive working relationships with colleagues
- Act in a professional and respectful manner when interacting with colleagues
- Communicate clearly and effectively with colleagues
- Identify potential work-related difficulties that may arise with colleagues and explore appropriate solutions
Develop, maintain and review personal networks Real unit · Recruitment & Employment Confederation
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the benefits of networking for professional development and business opportunities.
- Understand the importance of data privacy and ethical considerations when building and maintaining a personal network.
- Develop a personal network of contacts through various channels, such as online platforms and industry events.
- Maintain regular contact with network members.
- Review networking relationships to assess their value and identify areas for improvement.
Developing sales proposals Real unit · Recruitment & Employment Confederation
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the key principles of writing effective sales proposals.
- Understand the requirements for sales proposals in different contexts.
- Develop sales proposals that meet client needs and organisational objectives.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of a sales proposal against pre-defined criteria.
Identify client recruitment requirements Real unit · Recruitment & Employment Confederation
What you'll be able to do
- Confirm clients’ staffing requirements, including the number of staff, skills, experience, and qualifications required
- Analyse the role requirements of staff sought, including the key responsibilities, duties, and performance expectations
- Confirm recruitment arrangements with clients, including the recruitment process, timelines, and fees
Match and present candidates to employers Real unit · Recruitment & Employment Confederation
What you'll be able to do
- Develop and maintain a candidate database, ensuring accuracy and compliance with data protection regulations
- Match candidates to suitable job opportunities based on their skills, experience, and preferences
- Present candidates to clients in a professional and effective manner, highlighting their key strengths
Negotiating, handling objections and closing sales Real unit · Recruitment & Employment Confederation
What you'll be able to do
- Understand common objections raised by customers during the sales process and effective strategies for handling them.
- Understand different negotiation techniques and how to apply them to achieve mutually beneficial outcomes.
- Prepare for potential objections and negotiation scenarios by anticipating customer concerns and developing appropriate responses.
- Handle objections professionally and persuasively, addressing customer concerns and building trust.
- Negotiate effectively with customers to reach agreements that meet their needs and the organisation's objectives.
- Close the sale confidently and efficiently following negotiation, securing the customer's commitment.
Pre-select candidates Real unit · Recruitment & Employment Confederation
What you'll be able to do
- Shortlist candidates according to pre-defined criteria
- Present pre-selected candidates to clients in a professional manner
Preparing and delivering a sales presentation Real unit · Recruitment & Employment Confederation
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the factors to consider when preparing a sales presentation, including audience, objectives and key messages.
- Prepare a structured and engaging sales presentation, incorporating relevant information and visual aids.
- Understand effective techniques for delivering sales presentations, including communication skills and handling questions.
- Deliver a sales presentation confidently and persuasively, adapting to audience feedback.
Sustain customer-focused relationships with clients Real unit · Recruitment & Employment Confederation
What you'll be able to do
- Understand the range of networking tools and techniques available for creating and maintaining relationships with clients in recruitment.
- Understand how to use networking tools to create relationships with clients in recruitment.
- Build and sustain customer-focused relationships with clients in recruitment through effective communication and relationship management techniques.
- Maintain regular contact with clients to ensure their needs are met and to identify new opportunities.
The national standards these units are built against
What the job actually needs, in the words employers and awarding bodies already use for the work itself.
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Assess Job-Seekers
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Attract and maintain relationships with job-seekers
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Contact hirers and establish recruitment requirements
- Standard
Develop a resourcing strategy
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Match Job-seekers with Suitable Vacancies
The jobs these credits are mapped to
A qualification is never a dead end here. Each of these is a job record this qualification is a mapped route into.
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Showing 6 roles, drawn from 27 job records mapped to this qualification. Near-identical records are folded together, and each row says how many it stands for.
Where this can lead
Strategic Market Research Director
This role can lead to wider leadership positions, shaping strategy across marketing, research, and the business as a whole.
See the whole journeyThe credits, and who awards them
Level 3 credits are regulated, and they are awarded by Recruitment & Employment Confederation rather than by Zavmo. They don’t vanish when a subscription ends or a website closes. They travel to any employer, and Zavmo keeps the map of what you have covered and what is next.
What you would be collecting
Administer recruitment processesAdvise clients on operational recruitment planningAnalyse competitor activityAssess candidatesAttract potential candidatesBrief and support candidatesBuyer behaviour in sales situationsCarry out candidate debriefing
Each one is a real unit registered against this qualification.
How you’d practise it
You don’t watch this. You do it.
You are not assessed on remembering this. You are assessed on applying it, analysing it, evaluating it and producing something. So that is what the practice is: projects, role play and your own live cases, with a tutor in the room.
The Coach · your practice partner Illustration - Rehearse the conversation Apply
“Negotiating, handling objections and closing sales” is a conversation before it is a document. You have it with Zavmo playing the other person, badly at first, then again once you know what you actually want to say.
- Pitch it Evaluate
“Buyer behaviour in sales situations” gets practised as a pitch. You make the case out loud, Zavmo asks the question the room would ask, and you make it again.
- Bring your own plan Create
For “Advise clients on operational recruitment planning” you bring the plan you are actually working on, not a case study. Zavmo pulls on the assumptions in it until the weak one shows.
- Map a live decision Analyse
“Analyse competitor activity” runs on a decision you are facing now. Zavmo maps it with you and shows what the second-order effect looks like before you find out the slow way.
What you leave holding
The standards this credential builds, in the shape the product keeps them
Nothing here is marked learned. There is no learner on a public page, so the map shows what the qualification covers rather than what anybody has done.
- Assess Job-Seekers
- Attract and maintain relationships with job-seekers
- Contact hirers and establish recruitment requirements
- Develop a resourcing strategy
- Match Job-seekers with Suitable Vacancies
How you would learn this
One to one, on the work you already do
A tutor sets the task against your own job and marks the reasoning, at your pace. There is no cohort to fall behind.
A lesson from Administer recruitment processes, one of this qualification's own units.
Applied to your work in any of these jobs
Learners will develop skills to administer recruitment processes in line with organisational policies and legal requirements. The unit covers managing selection and appointment procedures, ensuring accurate documentation and compliance throughout.
- 1 Remember
- 2 Understand
- 3 Apply
- 4 Analyse
- 5 Evaluate
- 6 Create
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Built for REC Level 3 NVQ Diploma in Recruitment (RQF)
20 units in this credential, in the order it lists them, awarded by Recruitment & Employment Confederation.
- Administer recruitment processes
- Advise clients on operational recruitment planning
- Analyse competitor activity
- Assess candidates
- Attract potential candidates
- Brief and support candidates
and 14 more in the full unit list below.
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