Talent Acquisition Certificate

Talent Acquisition Certificate

Overview:

Talent acquisition as a unique function and department. Talent acquisition is quickly becoming a unique profession, perhaps even distinct from the practice of general recruitment. Talent acquisition professionals are usually skilled not only in sourcing tactics, candidate assessment, and compliance and hiring standards, but also in employment branding practices and corporate hiring initiatives. Talent acquisition as a function has become closely aligned with marketing and PR as well as Human Resources.

Program Content:

Strategic HR planning:

• Introduction to strategic HR Planning.
• Types of Strategic planning.
• Talent acquisition planning.
• Connecting talent acquisition to the Big Picture.

Workforce planning: 

• Why You Need Workforce Planning.
• Difficulties in workforce planning.
• components of workforce planning and needs analysis.
• The Workforce Planning Process and developing a workforce plan.

Recruitment and selection:

• What is Recruitment
• Review the components of Job Analysis, description and specification
• Job Enrichment/ Job Enlargement
• Recruitment: Internal and External sourcing
• Recruitment process
• Selection Tools: Psychometric test, Assessment Center
• Interviews types
• Recruitment Analytics: How to measure the recruitment effectiveness
• Recruitment cost
• What causes bad hiring
• Orientation and onboarding

Employer branding:

• What is employer branding?
• Why Employer Branding?
• Employer Branding Advocacy Program
• Importance of Employer Value Proposition (EVP)
• Develop your Employer Value Proposition (EVP)
• Components of your Employer Branding Strategy
• Build your employer branding strategy
• Aligning the employer brand with the corporate objectives
• Content versus target audience
• Measuring performance

Succession planning

• What is succession planning?
• What is succession planning?
• Relate the HR strategic plan to succession planning
• Implementation of The Succession Plan and Career Development Plan.
• Develop a talent acquisition strategy that efficiently leads to the “best-fitting” candidates.
• Leverage social media to attract a diverse candidate pool and manage a passive candidate pool.
• Design hiring process for high-volume hiring and high-skills, high stakes hiring.
• Gain awareness of the predictors of job success and hiring tools available in the marketplace.

Key Benefits:

• Develop a talent acquisition strategy that efficiently leads to the “best-fitting” candidates.
• Leverage social media to attract a diverse candidate pool and manage a passive candidate pool.
• Design hiring process for high-volume hiring and high-skills, high stakes hiring.
• Gain awareness of the predictors of job success and hiring tools available in the marketplace.

Audience:

• Mid to senior-level HR professionals.
• Talent Acquisition Professionals