Recruitment, Selection and Onboarding Masterclass
Practical tools and structured approaches to recruit and select effectively, reduce bias, and onboard new starters for early success.
Perfect for:
You’ll learn how to:
- Define and communicate role requirements clearly to improve recruitment outcomes.
- Conduct structured, fair and legally sound interviews with confidence.
- Assess candidates objectively using competency frameworks, scorecards and selection matrices.
- Recognise and mitigate common forms of bias in recruitment and selection decisions.
- Make well-evidenced hiring and offer decisions that stand up to scrutiny.
- Design and deliver onboarding plans that set new starters up for early success.
About this course
Course length: One day
Delivery: Face-to-face
Suitable for: Line managers, people managers and people professionals with responsibility for recruitment, selection, interviewing and onboarding decisions.
Topics covered
What to expect from this recruitment, selection and onboarding masterclass
You can expect a highly practical, interactive learning experience focused on real recruitment and onboarding challenges. The programme combines short evidence-informed inputs with structured activities, giving you the opportunity to apply tools and techniques to realistic scenarios and your own context.
You will work with peers to practise job design, interviewing and selection decisions, and to develop onboarding plans that can be used immediately in your organisation. Throughout the day, emphasis is placed on fairness, consistency and good decision-making, with space to reflect on bias, legal considerations and the manager’s role in shaping early employee experience.
You will leave with practical templates, tools and a clear action plan to support more effective recruitment, selection and onboarding in your role.
What you'll get on this absence and wellbeing masterclass
At the end of this course, you’ll receive a certificate of attendance, and you’ll have access to practical tools and resources to embed learning in your role and sustain progress with your team.
Taking part in this course gives you access to the CIPD Learning Hub for 12 months. Here, you can access your course content together with other valuable resources and tools. When you finish your course, you can enjoy an additional 12 months of access to other resources on the Learning Hub.
Learning outcomes
By the end of this ‘Recruitment, Selection and Onboarding’ Masteclass, you’ll be able to:
- define roles clearly and design outcome-focused job requirements that support fair and effective recruitment
- apply structured, evidence-informed interviewing and assessment approaches that reduce bias and improve hiring decisions
- evaluate candidates consistently using competency-based questions, scorecards and selection matrices
- make sound, defensible selection and offer decisions based on evidence rather than intuition
- plan and deliver effective onboarding that supports early performance, engagement and retention
- take confident, consistent action to improve recruitment, selection and onboarding practice in your organisation
Team bookings
Interested in booking this course for your team? We offer group bookings solutions for teams of four or more people.
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