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Programme Overview
Our Certificate in Recruitment Fundamentals is an 8 month programme focused on building your practical, tactical skills and experience in all the fundamental areas of recruiting, sourcing, selection and working with hiring managers.
Over the Certificate you will complete online learning modules with on the job assignments, case studies, quizzes and assessments. The programme also involves rating your achievement level from the start to the finish and mapping your skills and experience.
Who should register?
You’ll benefit most from the Certificate in Recruitment Fundamentals if you are:
- At university and want to prepare for your first recruitment role
- New to recruitment and want to make sure you know everything you should
- In an HR or admin role where you have recruitment responsibilities and want to learn the fundamentals
What will you finish with?
The Certificate in Recruitment Fundamentals is different from tertiary study as you need to be working in a role where you can apply what you’re learning, rather than just covering theory. If you aren’t currently working, we have business cases for you to review instead.
You’ll work through case studies and review your own workplace practices so that you get as much experience as you can, to deliver effectively 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.
The Modules
Introduction to your Recruitment Career and the recruitment process
The first module covers the different types of roles within recruitment and the knowledge and skills you’ll need. We then cover the different steps in a recruitment and selection process, with research and case studies on what works best and why. You might be surprised at some of the examples! And you’ll get to assess where you’re at with your skills and knowledge.
Getting clever with your communications
To deliver effectively in recruitment, you need to understand the different communication styles – both yours and others, and how to adapt and engage with both candidates and hiring managers (and your team!). You’ll also uncover some the challenges you might encounter from hiring managers and how to overcome these.
Job Scoping & Competencies
Understanding what the role involves and what skills and experience may be required sounds easy, but there are some things that can trip you up! You’ll cover different ways you can scope a job from a full analysis, to a quick and fast method, 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 they might be not the one you really need! 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 use sourcing solutions to reach the right candidates. You’ll hear some innovative ideas and case studies and have access to templates and resources.
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.
Complying with Recruitment Laws
When you are gathering information about candidates, working through the recruitment process and offering employment – you need to make sure you are complying with legislation around human rights/discrimination and not putting your company at risk. You also need to know how to store information correctly and not breach privacy laws!
Handling the Offer
Sometime hiring managers will make the offer, but sometimes it falls to the Talent team or recruiter. This module covers the legal aspects of offering employment to someone, the issues that can derail an offer, as well as counter offers and negotiations.
Inspired Interviewing
Just because a candidate is great in the interview, it doesn’t mean they’ll be great on the job – yet many hiring managers get caught out by this! In this session you’ll cover how to design effective questions, run interviewing processes and deal with interviewing challenges. You’ll also find out how to get around a confident candidate to find out if they will actually be the best person for the job!
Feedback from recent graduates
I am proud that I’ve been able to get through it while working full time. My knowledge has increased, and I have been able to apply this to my work. The feedback was great. I found it useful that it wasn’t generic to the whole assignment but was given after each question and if I had achieved what was required, there was still suggestions or ideas on how I could potentially expand on my answer. This helped me consider other ways to look at an idea or solve a problem. I already had an understanding of the basic end to end process from the start, but this course has been great in boosting my understanding of the ways I can level up. It’s given me confidence to back myself – that I have the skills and experience to take my career forward.
Amy, Recruitment Consultant at an external agency
I have found all the modules extremely helpful, they have given me so many great ideas on how I could look at improving our processes, and where we can streamline certain areas. We are working on candidate management as a team. I have greatly valued the feedback given to me on my modules, as this shows me where I need to improve or where I need to push my learnings/thinking more. Also, I found the way that the feedback was given was perfect, even when I had answered the questions correctly, the feedback given also gave other ways I could of laid out the information, or re-worded it differently.
Claire, Talent Advisor, Not for Profit Organisation
There are a lot more elements to recruitment than I’d initially thought! It has been really interesting learning about these elements of recruitment and identifying where my weaknesses are. At the start, I set a calendar block for each work to work on the assignments and have tried to keep that time clear as much as possible. I’ve been flexible where it’s been needed, but have found that having that block helped to keep things ticking over nicely and has enabled me to complete these assignments without feeling like it’s too much. I think the thing I’ve probably learnt most is that collaboration helps to make you a better recruiter. Someone else will always have a slightly different perspective to you, and that can be really helpful in getting a deeper, more thoughtful outcome to an issue or question.
Teigan, Recruitment Advisor, Government Agency
I would rate this 5/5 it really got me thinking! In most areas I think I have grown my skills and knowledge significantly. The certificate was broken down into distinct subject areas that allowed me to focus on deepening my understanding, but still linked to previous assignments, forming a coherent learning process. I was able to reflect on real life recruitment scenarios that I have been involved with, and see what I would do differently now. I could also apply my new learning while working e.g. create a candidate persona, to cement and grow on any theoretical scenarios. It has also been great to start conversations with others by saying that meeting with them would be really useful for my certificate. It gave to a useful framework to grow and I based my Performance Plan on the structure of the certificate. Overall I really enjoyed the certificate and found the structure of one assignment a month worked well alongside full time work.
Kate, Recruitment Advisor, Consulting company
FAQ’s
How do the modules work?
The Certificate is hosted on our online learning platform. 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 an 8 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.
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.
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