Professional Certificate in Recruitment
Looking to progress your career in recruitment? In this program, you’ll learn the practical skills to instantly improve your performance and become a recruiting expert.

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Learn where you want, when you want.
Globally Recognized Certification.
Over 200,000 professionals trained in 100+ countries.
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Practical content created to boost ability and performance.
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Courses designed and delivered by industry leaders.
Who is this for?
Our certification in recruitment is designed for talent acquisition professionals looking to learn recruiting best practices and get new ideas to make themselves more efficient and effective.
This comprehensive course is filled with content to cover the A-Z of recruitment. It will provide you with the skills and knowledge to stand out as a trusted advisor to your organization, hiring managers, and candidates.
Certificate Information
Courses
22
Time
20 Hours
Skills
Candidate Management
Candidate Experience
Job Advertising
Talent Advising
Interviewing
Engaging Talent
Training Recruiters in:

What will you learn?
1
How to Write Amazing Job Posts That Really Work
This highly practical mission will give you the tools and practice to write any job post that comes your way.
2
Essential Copywriting Principles of Job Advertising
Learn to use techniques from marketing and psychology to create engaging job advertisements tha will attract top talent.
3
Promoting Your Jobs: Job Advertising SEO
Learn how to optimize your job ads to ensure that your post gains visibility on search engines and job boards
4
Talent Attraction on Social Media
Learn how to use social media to market your jobs and your company effectively to build social engagement with your candidates.
5
How To Create Truly Engaging Recruiter Content
Learn what type of content works when it comes to your online recruiter brand, as well as your employer brand.
6
Search Basics
Learn how to build perfect Boolean strings using the Universal Search Method and apply them to any database.
7
LinkedIn Sourcing
Learn how to use every aspect of search including best practices for applying our Universal Search, tactics for using different search fields within LinkedIn, and how to unearth the best candidates.
8
Shortlist with Success
Learn how to gauge proficiency levels against a candidate profile and build a holistic picture of a candidate’s skills and experience
9
Assessments 101
This mission by Nick Johnston, provides an overview of assessment, the tools you can use and advice on how to design and operate effective assessment processes.
10
Decoding Psychometric Assessments.
The science behind psychometrics, and how to use them practically when assessing candidates.
11
Why The Human Approach Wins At Candidate Experience
Learn why you should take the human approach to candidate experience.
12
Candidate Experience: What Candidates Really Want
Gain a competitive edge in the talent market by understanding how candidates make career decisions and how they view the recruitment process.
13
Candidate Experience: How Candidates Decide Their Next Move
Learn how to leverage the personal brands of your leadership team and use reverse engineering to attract better matched and more diverse talent.
14
Designing Great Candidate and New Employee Onboarding Experiences
Learn how to create incredible candidate experiences and design pre-boarding for new hires that leave nothing to chance.
15
Understanding Candidate Motivation
Learn different assessment techniques to understand candidate motivation through the recruitment process.
16
How to Give Great Feedback to Candidates
Learn how to gather, write, prepare, and deliver feedback effectively.
17
Large Project or Ramp-Up Hiring
Learn how to prepare yourself for a big hiring launch.
18
Recruiting Internationally
In this mission, Nick Johnston will share his integrated model for recruiting across cultures, how to assess and inform through the recruitment lifecycle and real-life case scenarios
19
Recruiting and Working Across Cultures
Learn how to crack the culture code and apply it to how you work day to day.
20
The Job Offer: Closing & Making the Offer
Learn how to present a compelling job offer to your candidate and secure a “yes”.
21
The Job Offer: Preparing and Selling
Master the art of navigating the final hurdle of the recruitment process. Learn how to close strong and never lose a candidate at the final stage.
22
Reference Checking Essentials
Learn how to make the reference checking process worthwhile.
Content delivered by

John Vlastelica
With over 20 years of recruiting experience, John is a world-leading expert on interviewing, selection. His content will help you become a trusted talent advisor to your hiring managers through helping you to define a solid hiring criteria, and establish effective screening and interviewing techniques.

Johnny Campbell
Johnny Campbell is a world-renowned expert and speaker on talent. As Founder and CEO of SocialTalent, Johnny works with the world’s leading organisations to shape how they hire. Johnny has trained tens of thousands of recruiters and helped shape modern recruitment.

Nick Johnston
With over 20 years experience working in HR, Nick has a deep expertise in talent. He has worked in different sectors, business models, geographies, cultures and economic climates. He uses his experience enable people and leverage technology to help business recruit better.

Andrew MaCaskill
Andrew MacAskill is the CCO of the talent consultancy, Fraser Dove, and Founder of Executive Career Jump – a coaching service for job searching. Andrew also authored ‘The Job Search Playbook’, was named a LinkedIn Changemaker in 2021, and is SocialTalent’s candidate experience expert.

The SocialTalent Academy Recruitment Library
As well as your chosen certification, you also gain unlimited access to the SocialTalent Academy recruitment library for 12 months. This library consists of over 100 hours of dedicated content delivered by world-leading experts.
You can choose to deep dive on subjects like sourcing, employer branding, candidate attraction, interviewing, diversity, talent advisory, and many more.
With unlimited access to all of our content and our platform’s ‘Explore’ feature. You can easily find the content you need when you need it.
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Pick your Course
Access for 1 user
$495 USD
per course
- Select your prefered certification
- Access to the SocialTalent platform for 12 months
- Industry recognized professional certifications.
- Dedicated support from our online team.
- Globally recognized professional certifications.
- On-demand learning at your own pace.
- Exclusive access to live webinars with leading experts.
Full Academy Library
Access for 1 user
$895 USD
Become a Recruitment Expert
- Full access to over 60+ hours of the SocialTalent Academy
- Access to the SocialTalent platform for 12 months
- Industry recognized professional certifications.
- Dedicated support from our online team.
- Complete all x10 certifications.
- Access to the SocialTalent platform for 12 months.
- On-demand learning at your own pace
- Exclusive access to live webinars with leading experts.
Teams Library
Access for multiple users
From  $795 /license
Scale your recruitment team
- Full access to over 60+ hours of the SocialTalent Academy
- Access to the SocialTalent platform for 12 months
- Industry recognized professional certifications.
- Dedicated support from our online team.
- Choose different starting certifications for each member of your team.
- Access to all certifications.
- On-demand learning.
- Exclusive access to live webinars with leading experts.
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