Recruitment Master Classes

There are lots of challenges being in a recruitment or talent acquisition role but not much training out there specifically targeted on what you can do!

The Recruitment Master Classes focus on building your skills so that you can be a talent super hero in your business! Our presenters share practical tools and techniques with you and you can then choose to either complete an assignment and get personal feedback, or send through a Q&A to our team to answer any specific issues you have.

As always with Elephant we run outcome based learning so you will leave with ideas to use back at work.


Master Class workshops

Recruitment Master Class 1: Engaging and influencing your hiring managers

We know hiring managers don’t always follow the process or read what you’ve sent them. So if you want to grab their attention, engage and influence them in your talent processes, get them to read your emails, and do what you’ve asked – this session is for you! We focus on clever tools and techniques to use to influence and really get your message across and adapt your communications for the right audience. You’ll also get access to the Management Bites module on Birds of a Feather – to really understand how communication styles work!

Recruitment Master Class 2: Rewriting your Recruitment policies

Wouldn’t it be wonderful if hiring managers found your recruitment policies and processes so engaging to read, that they want to take them to bed and read them just for the joy of it?? Okay perhaps not, but in this module you’ll learn some brilliant methods to make your policies more readable, and different ways to structure and distribute so that managers want to read them (even if not as a bedtime story).

Recruitment Master Class 3: Using Design Thinking & transforming how you recruit

Our third Master Class focuses on understanding the principles of Design Thinking work, and how you can use these out to transform how you recruit. You’ll hear some awesome examples of thinking out side of the box to spark what you could do differently, as well as some design thinking tools to get you thinking in a whole different way!

Recruitment Master Class 4: Dealing with Difficult Managers

Our fourth Master Class focuses on dealing with difficult hiring managers (it may not happen often, but when it does, it can be really challenging!). How do you bring a rogue manager in line? How do you advise when you know they will object? What can do you do to stop them derailing the process or giving candidates or your talent team the run around? Find out why it happens and different methods of what you can do.

Recruitment Master Class 5: Building your Employment Brand

Our fifth master class looks at how you can build your Employment Brand and how this links to your EVP (Employee Value Proposition). You’ll hear about different examples of employment branding done well, understand the challenges in employment branding in an age of online transparency, and what you could do differently to engage candidates with your organisation.

Recruitment Master Class 6: Developing a Recruitment Strategy

Our last master class looks at the different techniques for developing a recruitment strategy for your organisation. If you are in charge of the approach you’ll take, the measures and the outcomes, this module is for you. You’ll find out specific areas that a Recruitment Strategy should include and examples of what works well, and where the challenges are.


Want a sneak peek?

Why not check out our free session on recruitment career paths, roles and skills – to help you find your path to a brilliant future.

Free of charge – this is hosted on our online learning platform podia.com.


Our Facilitators

We have a team of awesome facilitators, who are HR and recruitment experts. For the Recruitment Master Class and Talent Certificates we also have guest presenters who are talent specialists.


What people say about our training:

The session had great content and how it was presented was just right for the time given. Thanks.

I loved this workshop.. very enlightening and practical ideas. Thank you!

A fantastic course overall. The fact that I came away with some essential knowledge meant I could come into work and confidently make changes

It gave me a really good amount of knowledge and information around things that I wasn’t aware of.


Skills Sessions: For larger talent teams

A skills session is great teambuilding, as well as a chance to discuss challenges and learn new skills.

If you have a large talent team, we can run any of the Master Classes just for your team.

For $495 you’ll get access to the module so your team can watch the videos, read the articles and do the team activities. But you’ll also get a 45 minute virtual session with one of our team to take you through some case studies, and discuss any specific challenges your team has! Up to 8 attendees can come along.

Some of the organisations we have run in house sessions for:


Wanting something a little more formal? Our Certificate in Recruitment and Talent Acquisition is a 12 month programme that covers all areas of recruitment and TA.

For those newer to recruitment or talent acquisition, our Recruitment Fundamentals are a great idea!

The Management Bites programme has online short sessions, half day workshops and a Certificate. If your career is taking you to people management, check it out!


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