A 9 month programme for those with both HR and Recruitment / Talent Acquisition responsibilities
Programme Overview
Our Certificate in HR and Talent is a 9 month programme focused on building your practical, tactical HR and recruitment skills and experience.
Over the course you complete online learning modules with on the job assignments and discuss your learnings with your our marking team.
The programme also involves assessing your achievement level from the start to the finish.
Who should attend?
You’ll benefit most from the Certificate in HR and Talent if you are in the following roles:
- Working as an HR Advisor with recruitment responsibilities
- Working as a Recruiter but also with HR responsibilities
- In an Office/Admin/Management role with HR and recruitment responsibilities.
What will you finish with?
The Certificate in HR and Talent is different from tertiary study as you need to be working in a role where you can apply what you’re learning, rather than covering theory. You’ll work through case studies and run simulations so that you get as much experience as you can during the course, before you have to do it in real life. Once you’ve completed your final assessment you will be awarded your certificate.
Elephant Certificates are now recognised globally, in New Zealand, Australia, the Pacific Islands, Singapore, Malaysia, Canada, the US and United Kingdom.
Core Modules
These are compulsory to complete. Where you have significant training or experience in one of the core modules, you can choose an optional module instead.
Clever Communications and building skills
In this introductory session, we’ll cover the different skills needed in HR and recruitment. You’ll also learn different comms styles, and how to adapt and engage managers and employees, as well as how to build credibility.
Essential Employment Law
Working in HR and Talent you need to understand the key points of the employment legislation. Work through the different parts of the module, then you’ll need to pass the online employment law test and get 70%.
Job Scoping and Competencies
Understanding what the role involves may be required sounds easy, but there are things that can trip you up! You’ll cover different ways you can scope a job, and what and how to discuss this with hiring managers. You’ll also learn how this ties in with using competencies to analyse skills.
Search Plans and Sourcing
Putting an advert on SEEK might get you some candidates, but not always the best ones. In this module you’ll learn how to develop a search plan, think outside the box, use different techniques to define your market and then sourcing solutions to reach the right candidates. You’ll also hear some innovative ideas!
Candidate Management
Many great candidates can be lost if you don’t have good processes in place to manage their applications and engage them with your company. This module takes you through different candidate management tools and techniques, looks at what you do well and where you could make changes and what areas can catch organisations out.
Offering Employment
In an HR and recruitment role, you may be responsible for sending out employment offers and liaising with candidates. Learn what the legal issues are around different clauses and provisions and how to deal with these. You’ll also cover the issues that can derail an offer, as well as counter offers and negotiations.
HR and Recruitment Policies
Making your policies more effective may not be exciting, but is important. Learn how to engage and adapt your policies for different styles, fishhooks to watch out for and how to build your managers engagement and ownership so they’ve not an ‘HR’ thing.
HR and Recruitment Metrics
One area you may be involved in is sending out HR and recruitment reporting and metrics. This module will give you an understanding of the different levels of metrics and analytics, ideas on what you should be measuring and how to make your reporting effective and useful.
Optional Modules
Where you have significant training or experience in a core module area, you can choose an optional module instead.
Talent Management and Succession
You may be involved in your company talent management or succession planning. This module takes you through models to use, tools and templates and case study analysis.
Wonderful Wellness
Learn how to identify the key drivers for your wellness programme, develop and deliver a wellness strategy and measure the results and create engagement for the programme.
Transforming your processes
This module focuses on the principles of Design Thinking, and how you can use these out to transform how you recruit and your HR processes. You’ll hear some awesome examples of thinking out side of the box to spark what you could do differently.
Leading Change
HR is often involved in building culture. Learn different ways to define and measure culture (including ones that don’t cost much!), and analyses some real case studies of culture change and what companies did from all levels to achieve the outcome planned.
Inspired Interviewing
If you are required to do first interviews with candidates or to be part of an interview panel, this module helps you learn how. You’ll cover interviewing psychology, how to interview effectively and overcome interviewing pitfalls.
What our graduates say:
During my various HR roles, I have been across a lot of areas, sometimes just as a spectator and other times as the person handling the situation. That said I’ve still learnt new things in every single module I’ve completed. Thinking about what I’ve learned in this course, I feel excited about the ways I’ve helped my team and improved my work. This course has reinforced me that learning new things is good for me and helps me make positive changes on a personal and professional level, there is always room for me to keep learning in the HR space. During the certificate I’ve been reminded how important is to have a mindset that is open to growing and how feedback is an important part of that process. Working with different colleagues in the different modules highlighted how feedback can come in many ways and how important is to listen to it and understand what it means (different people have different ways of communicating). Now, I don’t see feedback at work as something that shows I’m not good enough. Instead, I see it as a way to get better at my job in the HR space.
Marta, P&C Advisor, Govt Sector
The feedback was really helpful. It was really in depth and you could tell that the markers had put a lot of time into reading each assignment and going through every answer when marking. I appreciated that even when you had gotten an answer correct, feedback would still be provided so you could reflect on your answer and then also think about other possible answers. This made reading through the marked assignments a lesson in itself as the markers would provide further guidance and knowledge on each subject through their feedback. An example of this was in the communications assignment when I was asked in question 7 to provide a communication plan. Even though my plan was correct, the Elephant team included another plan with some additional commentary so I could see (and learn from) a different approach. This was really great!
Sophie, People & Culture Advisor, Engineering Company
The information provided was just so informative and then being able to actually apply that knowledge through the case studies is just fantastic and really helped to bed in the information. In addition, I have gone back to the information many times already to make sure I am on the right track.
The webinars, the printable slides from the webinars, the case studies, the feedback, the workshop – gosh these have been so thoroughly helpful for each and every topic!
Melissa, HR Advisor, University sector
“I just want to pass on feedback that your material is easy to understand and the training you offer in my opinion is by the far the most relevant I’ve seen in a very long time”.
Rebecca, HR Advisor, Dairy Company
Details
The programme investment is NZ$1,550. The Certificate is scheduled over 9 months, however you can defer completion by a further 6 months due to work or other circumstances.
Please let us know if you have any questions. Once you start your study, we are not able to issue refunds.
Registration Form
FAQ’s
How do the modules work?
The Certificate is hosted on the online learning platform podia.com. Once you’ve registered, you’ll be able to access the programme. The welcome module is available immediately, and then each month a new module will open up. You’ll then be able to access the video’s, articles, learning resources and your assignment. This is due back at the end of each month.
And the assignments?
The assignments consist of case studies with different questions to answer or asking you to review of your own processes. The pass mark is 70%. Our team will assess whether you have passed and have demonstrated good thinking around each answer. If not, they will come back to you with some coaching and feedback. You can then resubmit. The aim is to help you develop your skills in each area so you can deliver excellence to your business.
How long does each module take?
You have a month to complete each module and it will take you 2 – 5 hours to complete depending on if you have any experience or knowledge in the area already. Along with watching the webinar and reading any articles, you should be able to complete each module by putting aside an hour a week, or four hours a month.
What if I need more time?
While we schedule your Certificate over a 9 month period, you can ask for an extension on assignments if you have a busy workload, or are travelling or have any other issue that means you need more time. In total you can extend your Certificate up to 6 months, in total after the initial timetable.
Can I fail the Certificate?
Yes if you don’t complete your assignments, then you cannot pass the Certificate! If you complete an assignment but haven’t demonstrated the knowledge to pass the topic, our team will provide you with feedback and coaching and give you a chance to review and resubmit your assignment.
What if I’m stuck?
If you do get stuck on an answer, then you can email our team and get some further suggestions or coaching to help you gain the knowledge needed to answer.
Still not sure if this Certificate is right for you? Why not take our quick skills assessment to see what might suit your experience and skills level. Our team can also help advise you once you’ve completed this.
About our team
During your study, the team at Elephant will present the webinars and learning material as well as mark your assignments and provide you with personalised feedback and coaching.
About Elephant Group
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