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Closing Candidates: Offers, Negotiation, and Acceptance

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This course will help you build fair, well-positioned offers, communicate compensation with clarity, navigate approvals and global offer logistics, handle negotiations ethically, and run a closing process that improves acceptance rates while reducing delays, drop-offs, and reneges. You will also learn how to think beyond salary alone by packaging total rewards around candidate motivations, setting expectations early, and using practical negotiation levers without creating internal equity risk. What makes this course unique is that it treats closing as a disciplined business process rather than a last-minute conversation. Instead of focusing only on offers or negotiation in isolation, it shows how offer strategy, pay transparency, approvals, compliance, verbal and written communication, global workflows, contingency planning, and offer funnel metrics all work together. The approach is practical, ethical, and built for real hiring environments where speed, fairness, and candidate trust all matter. Whether you are a hiring manager, recruiter, HR partner, or talent leader, this course will help you close stronger candidates more consistently and with less last-minute chaos.

Syllabus

  • Offer Strategy: Packaging, Positioning, and Pay Transparency
  • Approvals, Compliance, and Offer Mechanics (Including Global/Remote)
  • Negotiation: Preparation, Levers, and Ethics
  • Closing, Contingencies, and Offer Funnel Improvement

Taught by

Evan Kimbrell

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