Recruiter Training: Talent Acquisition from Beginner to Advanced
Build a practical end-to-end hiring system to define roles, attract applicants, source passive talent, assess candidates and secure accepted offers faster.
Created by Chukwuemeka Ajoku
What you'll learn
- Design a talent acquisition system with clear stages, ownership and service levels that can move suitable roles from intake to accepted offer within 30 days when market conditions allow.
- Define the role, success criteria and an appropriate hiring process for each role.
- Write compelling job descriptions and job adverts, and choose where to advertise them for the target talent market.
- Build an ethical pipeline of candidates for continuous sourcing.
- Construct and refine Boolean search strings to proactively headhunt relevant candidates.
- Conduct efficient interviews and assessments that generate comparable evidence for hiring decisions.
- Create a job offer, negotiate salary within a defined range and complete accurate reference checks.
- Evaluate recruiting funnel metrics and improve hiring speed, quality and candidate experience over time.
This course includes
- 4h 3m of learning
- 24 lessons
- 7 quizzes
- Access on mobile and desktop
- Full lifetime access
- Certificate of completion
Course content
7 sections • 25 lectures • 4h 3m total length
- Role intake and the hiring brief 12m
- Designing the 30-day hiring workflow 10m
- Building a talent ecosystem for continuous sourcing 10m
- Quiz: Building the Talent Acquisition System 6 questions
- Analysing the role and creating a success profile 10m
- Writing accurate job descriptions 10m
- Turning the role into a compelling job advert 10m
- Quiz: Defining Roles and Writing Job Information 6 questions
- Selecting advertising channels and budgets 11m
- Publishing and optimising job campaigns 9m
- Screening and shortlisting inbound applicants 11m
- Quiz: Advertising Roles and Managing Inbound Candidates 6 questions
- Mapping target talent pools 9m
- Writing Boolean search strings 11m
- Outreach, follow-up and pipeline hygiene 11m
- Quiz: Proactive Sourcing and Boolean Search 6 questions
- Recruiter screens and interview calibration 11m
- Structured interviews and note-taking 10m
- Practical assessments and hiring decisions 11m
- Quiz: Interviews and Assessment 6 questions
- Building the offer and negotiating salary 11m
- Reference checks and final due diligence 11m
- Candidate closing, handover and recruiting metrics 11m
- Quiz: Offers, Negotiation and Process Improvement 6 questions
- Final assessment: Recruiter Training: Talent Acquisition from Beginner to Advanced 12 questions
Requirements
- No prior recruiting experience is required; the course starts with foundations.
- Comfort with written business communication and basic spreadsheet use.
- Access to job boards, professional networks or a live role to practise the methods.
Description
This course gives you a complete, practical recruiting system from first hiring brief to accepted offer. You will learn how to define roles properly, write stronger job descriptions and adverts, choose the right channels, source proactively, run structured interviews, and close hires with better offers and reference checks.
It is designed for learners who want both foundations and advanced techniques. You will start with a clear, repeatable process, then progress into Boolean search, pipeline building, interview design, assessment, negotiation and process improvement.
The focus is practical rather than theoretical. By the end, you will be able to run a more disciplined talent acquisition process that aims to improve hiring speed and quality, including a 30-day workflow for suitable roles and markets.
Instructor
Chukwuemeka Ajoku
- 14 courses
A Skilled Programmer