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.

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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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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September 2026
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