HR Strategies for Recruiting High-Quality and Diverse Talent

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HR Strategies for Recruiting High-Quality and Diverse Talent

This course is part of Human Resources and People Operations Specialization

Instructor: Madecraft

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5 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

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No prior experience required

4 hours to complete

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5 modules

Gain insight into a topic and learn the fundamentals.

Beginner level

No prior experience required

4 hours to complete

Flexible schedule

Learn at your own pace

What you'll learn

How to build inclusive, equitable recruitment practices that attract and fairly evaluate diverse, high-quality talent.
How to define competencies and candidate profiles, then strip out artificial barriers that exclude great candidates.
How to mitigate unconscious bias with diverse panels, behavior-based interviews, and objective evaluation tools.
How to source, brand, and post inclusively, then evaluate and pivot your process to improve every HR recruiting strategy.

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There are 5 modules in this course

Hiring the best talent and building a genuinely diverse workforce are the same job, and this course shows you how to do both. You'll leverage inclusive and equitable practices across the full recruitment cycle, define the competencies that identify extraordinary candidates, and mitigate the unconscious bias that quietly narrows your pipeline.

Led by a certified HR professional and inclusive-hiring consultant, these practical lessons move you from theory to action: you'll build candidate profiles, remove artificial barriers, craft inclusive job postings and employer branding, run behavior-based interviews, and evaluate your process so you can pivot and improve. What makes this course different is its focus on doing, not just knowing. Every module hands you tools, real-world examples, and strategies you can apply to your very next hire, whether you're a recruiter, a manager, a leader, or an individual contributor, because inclusive hiring is part of everyone's job. If you've ever wished your applicant pool were stronger and more diverse, this course is your step-by-step guide to making it happen, one intentional action at a time.

Diverse talent is drawn to organizations that build fairness into how they hire, and that starts long before the first interview. In this module, you'll apply inclusive and equitable practices, recognize the biases that quietly shape decisions, and build the business case that turns you into an advocate for diverse hiring.

What's included

4 videos1 reading1 assignment

You can't hire exceptional, diverse talent until you've clearly defined what "exceptional" actually means for the role. In this module, you'll define role competencies, build a measurable candidate profile, strip out artificial barriers, and set diversity goals that keep your hiring focused and fair.

What's included

3 videos2 assignments

Even the strongest hiring process falls flat if diverse candidates never enter your pipeline in the first place. In this module, you'll design inclusive sourcing strategies, shape an employer brand and diversity statement that resonate, and write job postings that invite great candidates in rather than screen them out.

What's included

4 videos1 reading3 assignments

4 videosTotal 10 minutes

Creating Inclusive Sourcing Strategies3 minutes
Impactful Branding2 minutes
Inclusive Job Descriptions3 minutes
Showcase Your Commitment to Diversity2 minutes

1 readingTotal 10 minutes

Building a Brand Diverse Talent Wants to Join10 minutes

3 assignmentsTotal 55 minutes

Attracting Talent That Reflects the World15 minutes
Build Your Own Inclusive Sourcing Strategy20 minutes
The Inclusive Posting Audit20 minutes

Bias doesn't fade on its own, so an equitable hiring process has to be built on purpose. In this module, you'll apply strategies to check your own bias, build diverse selection panels, write behavior-based questions, choose objective evaluation tools, and add a diversity advocate so your decisions stay fair.

What's included

5 videos1 reading1 assignment

Great recruiting isn't a one-and-done effort; it's a cycle you refine every time you hire. In this module, you'll use key recruitment metrics to evaluate your process and pivot your strategy so each cycle attracts stronger, more diverse talent than the last.

What's included

3 videos1 assignment

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