Certified Talent Acquisition Professional Course

The Certified Talent Acquisition Professional Course is a 24-hour online program delivered across three intensive weekend days. It develops strategic talent acquisition capability across the full hiring lifecycle, covering workforce planning, job analysis, sourcing, employer branding, compensation, retention, employee experience, and recruitment analytics.

The program includes 10 modules covering the Vskills Certified Talent Acquisition Professional framework. Learning combines concepts with hands-on exercises, case studies, and simulations, followed by certification preparation. The program also includes a 50-question timed mock exam to help participants prepare for the Vskills certification examination.

The course is designed for HR and recruitment professionals who already have a basic awareness of HR or recruitment processes and want to develop stronger strategic talent acquisition capability. The brochure specifically identifies the following professionals as suitable participants:

• Talent Acquisition Executives looking to strengthen strategic hiring capability
• Recruiters who want to improve sourcing, job documentation, and recruitment analytics
• HR Business Partners seeking to connect talent decisions with business and workforce requirements
• Sourcing Specialists looking to develop multi-channel and LinkedIn sourcing skills

The program is particularly relevant for professionals who want to move from reactive hiring towards structured workforce planning, proactive talent pipelines, and data-informed recruitment decisions.

The program includes video interviewing, covering both asynchronous and live formats, as part of its Talent Acquisition Trends, AI and Certification Readiness module. It also develops structured recruitment practices through job analysis, job specifications, sourcing, candidate matching, and recruitment process design.

Fairness is addressed particularly in the context of technology-enabled recruitment. Participants evaluate AI recruitment tools and outputs for bias risks, fairness, transparency, and compliance, while applying human oversight to automated screening and matching workflows. This helps participants understand that recruitment technology should support hiring decisions without removing appropriate human judgement.

AI is integrated throughout the program rather than treated as a standalone topic. Participants use AI-powered workforce intelligence and predictive tools for talent gap analysis, examine job descriptions for bias and clarity, use generative AI for LinkedIn InMail and social recruitment messages, and explore AI-assisted sourcing and candidate matching.

The Automation Sandbox provides further practice with ATS triggers, chatbot-assisted candidate communication, AI-powered resume parsing and matching, generative AI, and recruitment analytics. Participants apply human oversight checklists to automated outputs and review them for algorithmic bias, compliance risk, and candidate experience quality.

Yes. The course covers multi-channel sourcing, LinkedIn Boolean search, InMail outreach, and social media recruitment. Participants build LinkedIn search strings and work through a case involving sourcing for a hard-to-fill niche role.

The program also covers internal and external sourcing approaches and includes a simulation where participants create a multi-channel sourcing plan for a technology hire. AI-powered sourcing and matching tools are also explored for improving pipeline efficiency.

The program covers 10 modules across the Vskills talent acquisition framework. The curriculum includes Talent Acquisition Strategy, Talent Acquisition Planning, Recruitment of the Right Resources, Recruitment Process and Multi-Channel Sourcing, Employer Branding and EVP Design, Compensation Management, Employee Churn, Retention and Engagement, Employee Experience Design, Recruitment Analytics and Metrics, and Talent Acquisition Trends, AI and Certification Readiness.

Across these modules, participants work on workforce forecasting, job analysis, LinkedIn sourcing, employer branding, compensation benchmarking, retention, employee experience, recruitment KPIs, AI-enabled recruitment and automation.

Yes. Responsible use of AI is addressed throughout the program. Participants examine AI-powered sourcing, candidate matching, resume parsing, recruitment automation, and video interviewing, while considering the risks associated with automated hiring decisions.

The course includes a role-play evaluating an AI screening tool for bias risks and requires participants to assess AI recruitment outputs for fairness, transparency, and compliance. In the Automation Sandbox, human oversight checklists are applied to automated workflows so participants can review algorithmic bias, compliance risks, and candidate experience before relying on automated outputs.

Yes. Practical application is built into the program. Participants complete hands-on exercises, case studies, and simulations throughout the modules rather than only studying concepts.

Examples include building a talent demand forecast, drafting a job description, creating a LinkedIn Boolean search string, designing an EVP, structuring a compensation offer, calculating turnover costs, mapping an employee experience journey, and building a recruitment dashboard. The Industry Simulation then brings these capabilities together in a strategic talent acquisition challenge.

The program includes a dedicated Recruitment Analytics and Metrics module. Participants learn to calculate and interpret core measures such as time-to-fill, cost-per-hire, and quality-of-hire, as well as source-of-hire effectiveness, ROI, and hiring funnel conversion.

Participants also work with a simulated hiring dataset, analyse sourcing channel ROI, and build a recruitment dashboard for HR leadership. AI-powered HR analytics and visualisation tools are introduced to help identify funnel bottlenecks and present recruitment KPIs clearly to business stakeholders.

Yes. The program is designed around the Vskills Certified Talent Acquisition Professional framework and includes certification preparation across the knowledge domains covered in the training.

The brochure states that the Vskills examination consists of 50 multiple-choice questions, has a 60-minute duration, requires a 50% passing threshold, and has no negative marking. The course includes exam review and a 50-question timed mock exam as part of its certification readiness component.

Participants work on practical recruitment tasks that reflect the program's different knowledge domains. These include a talent demand forecast model, job descriptions and specifications, LinkedIn Boolean search strings, sourcing plans, EVP statements, employer branding plans, compensation structures, retention programs, employee experience maps and recruitment dashboards.

The Automation Sandbox adds practical exposure to ATS workflow triggers, chatbot-assisted candidate communication, AI-powered resume parsing and matching, generative AI for recruitment messaging, EVP content, and recruitment analytics.

The program combines strategic concepts with practical application across the talent acquisition lifecycle. Rather than focusing only on individual recruitment activities, participants work through workforce planning, job documentation, sourcing, employer branding, compensation, retention, employee experience, and analytics before bringing these capabilities together in an Industry Simulation.

Participants can expect practical exposure to:

• Workforce planning: Build talent demand forecasts, analyse supply and identify workforce gaps
• Job analysis: Draft job descriptions and specifications using analysis data
• LinkedIn sourcing: Build Boolean search strings and develop multi-channel sourcing plans
• Employer branding: Create EVPs, map candidate personas, and plan employer brand campaigns
• Compensation: Build total compensation structures and benchmark salaries across role levels
• Retention: Calculate turnover costs and design retention programs for identified risk segments
• Employee experience: Map new-hire journeys and identify experience gaps
• Recruitment analytics: Calculate hiring KPIs, analyse funnel performance, and build stakeholder dashboards
• Industry Simulation: Present an end-to-end talent acquisition strategy to a simulated HR leadership panel
• Automation Sandbox: Design and test AI-supported recruitment workflows while applying human oversight