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The Recruiter's Storytelling Playbook
Storytelling isn’t just a soft skill - it’s how great recruiters influence decisions and stand out. In this learning path, you’ll learn how to turn the moments that matter most - outreach, interviews, updates, and offers - into stories that build trust, spark emotion, and move people to...
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Presenters Presented By
Salma El-Wardany
SocialTalent Expert
Salma El-Wardany is a business owner, 2x TEDx speaker, and writer. Her work centers around diversity and inclusion and she fights to change the narrative of marginalized groups. She is the founder of Digitally Human, a marketing business that works with companies to attract diverse talent and build inclusive employer brands.
Learning Outcomes
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By the end of the Learning Path you will be able to:
Explain why storytelling shapes how candidates and hiring managers make decisions, and use that insight to plan more impactful conversations.
Craft clear, memorable stories for outreach, interviews, and offer discussions that differentiate you and your opportunities in a crowded market.
Translate recruiting updates and challenges into narratives that build alignment with hiring managers and other stakeholders.
Turn talent data and dashboards into simple, story-led messages that motivate action and influence hiring decisions.
Missions in this Learning Path
Storytelling isn’t just for marketers or movie directors—it’s a recruiter’s secret weapon. In this mission, you’ll learn how to turn everyday interactions—outreach messages, interviews, feedback conversations, and offers—into stories that candidates and hiring managers care about. You’ll explore practical techniques to bring roles, teams, and opportunities to life so you can build trust faster and stand out as a recruiter people remember.
Data alone rarely changes minds—stories do. In this mission, you’ll learn how to turn your recruiting metrics into narratives that leaders and hiring managers actually listen to. You’ll practice finding the story hidden in your dashboards, explaining what’s really happening in your pipeline, and framing insights so they lead to decisions and action.
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