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This Specialization gives learners a practical, end-to-end playbook for hiring and onboarding in today’s workforce. Across five courses, learners will define roles clearly, write stronger job posts, choose better recruiting channels, run thoughtful outreach, make evidence-based selection decisions, close candidates with ethical negotiation, and build onboarding experiences that help new hires ramp faster. By the end, learners will be able to design more consistent, inclusive, and effective recruiting and onboarding systems that improve candidate quality, decision-making, acceptance rates, and early employee success.
Syllabus
- Course 1: Hire faster, hire smarter
- Course 2: Modern Recruiting: Channels, Outreach, Nurture
- Course 3: Picking the Right Candidate: Evidence-Based Selection
- Course 4: Closing Candidates: Offers, Negotiation, and Acceptance
- Course 5: From Offer to Impact: Modern Onboarding
Courses
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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.
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Learn how to turn onboarding into a repeatable system that helps new hires ramp faster, feel supported, and start contributing with confidence. In this course, you will learn how to design strong pre-boarding touchpoints, personalize onboarding using hiring insights, build practical 30-60-90 day plans, create early wins, and establish feedback and belonging systems that improve retention and performance. You will also learn how to build scalable onboarding playbooks, support remote and diverse hires more effectively, and measure what is actually working so you can improve over time. What makes this course unique is that it treats onboarding as a full operating system, not just a first-day checklist. Rather than focusing only on paperwork, orientation, or culture in isolation, the course shows how pre-boarding, role clarity, relationship mapping, inclusive practices, feedback rhythms, documentation, async design, and continuous improvement all work together. The approach is practical, manager-friendly, and built for modern teams operating across functions, locations, and levels of experience.
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Learn how to define roles more clearly, create practical success profiles, write inclusive high-performing job posts, choose better channels, design smarter application funnels, and use simple metrics to improve results over time. Throughout the course, you will build a practical approach to attracting more qualified candidates without relying on guesswork, outdated job descriptions, or bloated hiring processes. What makes this course unique is its focus on the full inbound hiring system, not just one piece of it. Instead of treating hiring as a series of disconnected tasks, this course shows how role clarity, stakeholder alignment, job post writing, promotion strategy, screening design, and funnel analysis all work together. The approach is practical, manager-friendly, and built for real workplace constraints. Whether you are hiring for your own team or supporting hiring as a recruiter or HR partner, this course will help you reduce noise in the applicant pool, improve candidate quality, create a better candidate experience, and build a repeatable hiring process you can use again and again.
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This course will help you build a clear talent thesis, map the talent market, choose the right sourcing channels, run smarter candidate searches, write outreach that earns replies, and design lightweight nurture systems that keep strong candidates warm over time. You will also learn how to create a more respectful candidate experience, plan recruiting capacity realistically, and follow up in ways that build long-term trust. What makes this course unique is that it treats recruiting as a strategic, end-to-end system rather than a set of disconnected tasks. Instead of focusing only on job posts or one-off outreach, it shows how talent strategy, market mapping, sourcing, messaging, campaign tracking, candidate experience, and follow-through all work together. The approach is practical, modern, and designed for real workplace constraints. Whether you are a hiring manager, recruiter, or HR partner, this course will help you build stronger pipelines, engage better-fit candidates, and create recruiting processes that are more organized, inclusive, and effective.
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In this course, you will learn how to define a clear hiring bar, turn success profiles into weighted competencies, run structured interviews, capture evidence instead of impressions, and make stronger hiring decisions with more fairness and consistency. You will also learn how to compare close candidates, manage hiring risks, shape roles thoughtfully, and document decisions in a way that supports onboarding and long-term success. What makes this course unique is its focus on the full selection system, not just interview tactics in isolation. Instead of treating hiring as a series of gut calls, it shows how hiring bar setting, competency design, structured questions, scorecards, bias checks, decision models, reference checks, and decision memos all work together. The approach is practical, modern, and designed for real workplace constraints. Whether you are a hiring manager, recruiter, or HR partner, this course will help you make more evidence-based decisions, improve consistency across interviewers, and choose candidates with greater confidence.
Taught by
Evan Kimbrell