A Consultative Approach to Working with Recruiters (Coursera)

A Consultative Approach to Working with Recruiters (Coursera)

This course is for Hiring Managers looking to improve their approach to working with recruiters to help to meet their long-term goals. Recruiters and hiring managers must implement well thought out strategies to find and attract the talent needed to make the organization successful. This course focuses on the ability of the recruiter and hiring manager to work together as business partners to successfully meet these long-term goals. Today, we will look to understand recruitment and hiring so that we can serve as consultants to our business partners.

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By the end of this course, you will be able to employ best practices to create a consistent approach to working with your recruiter/business partner, explain the recruitment and hiring process, the people involved and their responsibilities, create a thorough checklist of ways to be a consultant to your designated recruiter, and invest your time wisely to ensure a productive outcome and successful hire.
To be successful in this course, you should have at least 2 years of work experience.
This course is part of the A Manager's Guide to Modern Hiring by AIRS® Specialization.

Syllabus

Recruiting as a Process
Module 1
As hiring managers, we have the opportunity to ensure that recruiters (whether internal/direct or external/ agency) are prepared to conduct a more systematic, structured and effective process so that the ideal outcome is met in a quick, efficient and effective manner.

A Hiring Manager's Checklist
Module 2
To be an effective consultant, consistency is key. There are many best practices and tools to include in your checklist as you partner with your recruiter or HR business partner. In the following lessons we will continue through this checklist.

Consultative Follow Through
Module 3
Now that the hiring decision has been made, it's important to focus on the follow-through portion of the hiring process.

Wrap Up
Module 4
Congratulations, you have completed the AIRS® A Consultative Approach to Working with Recruiters self-guided learning course. In conclusion, please take the following Final Assessment graded quiz.

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