Certified Talent Acquisition Professional

Talent acquisition is becoming more and more like marketing nowadays. Acquisition teams need to have a strategy for everything: for creating attractive employer brands, facilitating a smooth onboarding and achieving successful integration.

This course is designed to build on the capacity of talent acquisition teams and individuals to reach talents, skillfully assess competence, and smoothly integrate them within company culture. The course will also enable participants to derive talent acquisition strategies from organizational strategies and design means to monitor and assess progress and impact.

The first part of this course is reflective in nature and aims at assisting participants realize the changes happening around them and the need to act to maintain the effectiveness of their units. The second part of the course focuses on the “how”. Participants will learn how to develop strategies, tools, and techniques to overcome challenges and successfully embark on the current and new ways of acquiring talents. The pace of this course is fast and the activities demand concrete outputs that participants can use at a later stage.

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

• Explain the impact of current trends on talent acquisition strategies and practices
• Develop an employer branding strategy to boost organizational ability to attract talent
• Design an efficient and effective acquisition process
• Improve and customize talent assessment approach in accordance with position requirements
• Accelerate the integration process of new hires through a holistic and integrated onboarding approach
• Build talent acquisition strategies and measure impact in compliance with organizational strategic directives

This course is designed specifically for HR and talent acquisition professionals who want to explore new approaches to attract and employ talents.

• Employer branding
• Strategic thinking and planning
• Candidate assessment
• Onboarding
• Impact assessment