Advanced Selection, Interviewing & Recruitment Skills: Certified Strategical Recruitment

An Interactive 5-Day Training Course

Advanced Selection, Interviewing & Recruitment Skills: Certified Strategical Recruitment

NASBA
Classroom Schedule
Date Venue Fees
15 - 19 Dec 2025 Amsterdam $ 5,950

Introduction

This GLOMACS Strategic Talent Acquisition & Advanced Selection Masterclass training course provides HR and recruitment professionals with powerful, modern tools to attract, assess, and onboard top talent in an increasingly competitive global marketplace. It offers a complete, end-to-end approach to recruitment—combining strategic workforce planning, employer branding, sourcing strategies, behavioural interviewing, and evidence-based selection. Participants will gain practical skills and insights that immediately enhance the quality, speed, and fairness of hiring decisions across their organisation.

This GLOMACS training course elevates recruitment from an operational activity to a strategic, value-generating function. Through hands-on exercises, case studies, templates, role plays, and real-world scenarios, participants will master the essential components of a professional Talent Acquisition framework. They will learn how to forecast talent needs, evaluate candidate competencies, use structured scoring systems, reduce hiring bias, and design onboarding experiences that support retention and long-term performance. The programme empowers HR teams and hiring managers to build a consistent, effective, and business-aligned recruitment process.

This training course will highlight:

  •  Developing a strategic Talent Acquisition plan aligned with workforce needs
  • Mastering behavioural and competency-based interviewing techniques
  • Designing effective job descriptions, advertisements, and sourcing strategies
  • Applying structured screening, assessment, and selection tools
  • Building onboarding programmes that enhance engagement and retention

Objectives

At the end of this training course, you will learn to: 

  • Understand strategic workforce planning principles
  • Develop effective talent sourcing strategies
  • Analyse candidate competencies objectively
  • Apply structured behavioural interviewing methods
  • Design onboarding processes that improve retention

Training Methodology

This GLOMACS training course uses a highly interactive and practical approach. It combines facilitated discussions, case studies, practical exercises, role-playing of interviews, self-assessment activities, group work, and application of tools and templates. Participants will work on real-life scenarios to improve their recruitment processes and practice interviews in a safe and supportive learning environment.

Organisational Impact

By attending this training course, organisations will benefit through: 

  • Improving the accuracy and consistency of recruitment and selection decisions
  • Reducing staff turnover through stronger hiring quality and onboarding effectiveness
  • Enhancing the organisation’s ability to attract top talent through better branding
  • Strengthening recruitment planning and forecasting capability
  • Ensuring fairness, compliance, and objectivity in interviews and assessments
  • Improving candidate experience and employer reputation
  • Building a more professional and strategic HR and Talent Acquisition function

Personal Impact

At the end of this training course, the participants will:

  • Strengthen their interviewing confidence and selection decision-making
  • Enhance their professional credibility as HR or recruitment specialists
  • Develop practical skills in workforce planning and talent sourcing
  • Improve their ability to assess competencies, behaviours, and role fit
  • Gain proficiency in designing structured interviews and selection tools
  • Understand how to use data and technology to support recruitment
  • Apply best-practice onboarding processes to support new hires

Who should Attend?

This training course is suitable to a wide range of professionals but will greatly benefit:

  • HR Managers and HR Officers
  • Recruitment & Talent Acquisition Professionals
  • HR Business Partners
  • Line Managers and Department Heads involved in hiring
  • Workforce Planners or HR Analysts
  • Anyone responsible for improving the hiring process in their organisation
Course Outline
Day 1

Strategic Foundations & Workforce Planning

  • Role of recruitment in organisational strategy — why strategic hiring matters, its impact on business success.
  • Overview of the full recruitment lifecycle and its components (workforce planning, sourcing, selection, onboarding, retention) — setting a holistic view.
  • Forecasting & workforce needs analysis: identifying skill gaps, critical roles, succession planning.
  • Internal vs. external recruitment strategies; proactive vs reactive hiring.
  • Building a long-term recruitment plan aligned with business growth and strategy.
  • Self-assessment of your current interviewing skills.
Day 2

Employer Branding, Talent Attraction & Job Definition

  • What is an Employer Value Proposition (EVP) and why it matters.
  • How to use EVP and employer brand to attract the right talent; manage candidate perceptions and expectations.
  • Writing effective job ads: combining brand messaging with role clarity, appealing to target candidates.
  • Defining job descriptions and role criteria: competencies, key criteria, job requirements — foundation for fair selection.
  • Diversity, equity, inclusion considerations in sourcing and employer branding. 
Day 3

Sourcing, Screening & Assessment Techniques

  • Sourcing strategies: active vs passive sourcing, leveraging networks, online platforms, databases, social media.
  • Initial screening methods: resume/application review, screening tools and assessments, short-listing to save time and reduce bias.
  • Competency-based and behavioural interviewing techniques; preparing structured interview questions based on role criteria.
  • Use of psychometric/personality profiling, ability testing, assessment centers (when applicable), and reference checks.
  • Legal, ethical, and fairness considerations in selection, screening and assessments. 
Day 4

Interviewing, Decision Making & Candidate Evaluation

  • Preparing for interviews: interview room/ environment setup, structure: opening, probing, follow-up, scoring mechanisms.
  • Writing down final interview questions (scene-setters, competency-based, situational, behavioural), scoring criteria, and evaluation forms.
  • Understanding and interpreting candidate’s body language, detecting inconsistencies, evaluating soft-skills vs declared skills.
  • Conducting different types of interviews (face-to-face, phone/Skype / remote), adapting to context, and scoring them.
  • Making selection decisions: combining interview outcomes with test results, reference checks, cultural fit, and role competencies.
  • The growth of mental illness and the impact on recruitment.
Day 5

Onboarding, Metrics, Continuous Improvement & Recruitment Strategy Roadmap

  • Strategic onboarding: designing onboarding processes that integrate new hires into company culture and support retention.
  • Linking onboarding with performance and long-term retention strategies — building feedback loops and follow-up.
  • Recruitment metrics & dashboards: what to measure (time-to-hire, quality-of-hire, candidate experience, diversity, retention), how to track and analyse success.
  • Utilising technology and analytics (e.g., Applicant Tracking Systems, data-driven sourcing and selection, video interviews) to streamline processes and measure the cost of bad recruitment.
  • Building a long-term “talent acquisition roadmap” — aligning recruitment practices with evolving business needs, workforce trends, employer brand management.
  • Final wrap-up: practical action plan for participants to implement in their organization.
Certificates
  • On successful completion of this training course, GLOMACS Certificate will be awarded to the delegates.
  • Continuing Professional Education credits (CPE): In accordance with the standards of the National Registry of CPE Sponsors, one CPE credit is granted per 50 minutes of attendance.
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