Recruitment Skills Training

Recruitment Skills Training builds the capability of hiring managers and Talent Acquisition professionals to attract, assess, and select candidates effectively.
It focuses on practical skills such as structured interviewing, shortlisting, and evidence-based decision-making - helping organisations achieve more consistent and better hiring outcomes

Interview Skills Training focuses on the interview and builds the capability of hiring managers to plan and develop questions, agree success criteria, have a structured interview approach, know how to create and use competency-based questions and probing techniques. It should also include candidate care, and how to put the candidate at ease. Plus, the ability to sell the role and the organisation.

It focuses on practical skills for before and during the interview, such as converting the Position Description into relevant competency-based questions, applying structured interviewing approaches, and evidence-based decision-making templates and scoring. Plus know what can and can’t be asked during the interview (legal frameworks like the Discrimination Act or Privacy Act in Australia) helping hiring managers to be more consistent with better hiring outcomes.

We’d like to think that we do. Hill Consulting HRS is very highly regarded in the industry. Our google reviews are always 5-star ratings and our post course surveys consistently show 9 to 10 out of 10 scores on course content, pace and trainer capability. Other providers often have generalist HR or business trainers, who have never worked in TA or Recruitment.

• Our team brings deep, hands-on experience in Talent Acquisition, recruitment operations, and hiring capability development. We are not career trainers or HR generalists — we are experienced TA practitioners who have:
• Led internal Talent Acquisition functions
• Delivered large - scale global recruitment programs
• Advised organisations on recruitment performance and workforce strategy
• Designed and delivered multiple training programs

However, if you’d like to compare what our program covers against other providers you can find and download a comparison table here.

While many providers deliver recruitment training, our focus is on what happens after the training.

We help organisations:
• Improve hiring manager capability
• Embed structured interview and selection practices
• Strengthen recruitment decision-making
• Deliver measurable improvements in hiring outcomes
• Ensure compliance requirements such as the law and EEO are covered
• Have a strong emphasis on Diversity and Inclusion in all our recruitment training programs

We’ve done the research for you and drawn up a comparison table of providers in Australia for Recruitment Skills Training. If you’d like to compare the Hill Consulting HRS program covers against other providers, you can find and download a comparison table here.

Or download our standard one-day program, which can be tailored for your needs and organisation.

A good recruitment skills training program should cover the following topics for either Hiring Manager or Talent Acquisition specialists:

• Capability and behavioural-based interviewing
• Making hiring decisions
• EVP and brand and the need to sell the role and the organisation
• The current marketplace
• Gain an understanding of the organisations recruitment and selection framework and process
• Creating team diversity
• Understanding unconscious bias, and what to watch for in recruitment processes
• EEO and the laws affecting recruitment practices
• Using suitable evaluation and assessment tools and techniques to select the right candidate
• Competency based Interviewing, questioning, and probing
• Evidence gathering and scoring
• Reference checking
• Apply tools and techniques to achieve a transparent and accountable recruitment and selection process.
• Onboarding and orientation

A range of other HR and Recruitment topics should also be included in any Recruitment Skills Training:

Essential topics covered in our workshops can include one or more of the following six key areas:

1. Capability / Behavioural-based recruitment and selection
• How to extract criteria from Position Descriptions
• Key features of behavioural-based recruitment and selection?

2. Preparation & Planning
• An overview of the UTAS recruitment and selection process
• Importance of Job Design & Planning
• Different recruitment methods
• Planning - mapping out the entire recruitment and selection process before you embark on the recruitment and selection (from start to finish)
• Interview and question preparation
• Managing conflicts of interest before the recruitment process begins and throughout the process
• Tools available for recruiting managers

3. Recruiting for diversity and addressing biases
Understanding EEO and the Law considerations
Diversity and Inclusion practices, and unconscious Bias training
Benefits for diversity in recruitment
Risks for not addressing biases in recruitment / team diversity
The techniques and tools that recruiting managers and panel members can use to minimise and/or remove biases during recruitment

4. Job Design & Planning
• Design and develop a Position Description (PD)
• Best practice to review your PD, whether it is a new or an existing position,
• To help you attract the best pool of candidates.  
• Design and develop a set of selection criteria that are clear and inclusive

5. Structured Interviewing - Tailoring Interview Guides & Developing Questions. + Scoring, Assessments and evidence guides
• Capability / Behavioural Based Interviewing
• Good Question Structure
• Poor questions – what not to use
• Ability to probe
• Scoring questions and evidence
• Recordkeeping – documenting process, discussions, and decisions

6. Understanding EVP, Talent Branding and the current Employment Market place
 

As you can see the breadth and depth of the modules the Hill Consulting training has no real comparisons. The other benefits of our training are:
• Our Trainers - We use corporate recruitment specialists and TA leaders with a minimum of 15 years’ experience in the industry.
• Our courses have more in-depth and varied modules, skills that Recruiters and Hiring Managers actually need
• We practice real interviewing and questioning techniques
• Cover in-depth laws and legislation impacting recruitment
• Our courses can be tailored to your company, policy and procedures not just generic
• We use real-world examples, not hypothetical ones
• We are passionate about Diversity and Inclusion in all aspects of Recruitment
• We look at the current marketplace, social media and tips and tricks for better candidate attraction techniques
• We also cover reference checking, good onboarding techniques and candidate care

Typical topics include:
• EVP and the candidate Market place
• Role scoping and defining success criteria
• Attraction strategies and job advertising
• Shortlisting and candidate assessment
• Structured and competency-based interviewing
• Candidate evaluation, scoring and decision-making
• Reducing bias and improving compliance
• Candidate care and experience
• EEO and the laws impacting recruitment

All content is practical and aligned to real hiring scenarios. For a good overview download the course brochure.

We run short form programs usually half a day or a day for our Hiring Managers Recruitment Skills Training or our TA Fundamentals training. Face to face and online options are also available. We can also focus on specific areas such as Unconscious Bias in Recruitment, or Diversity and Inclusion considerations for recruitment.

• We are very flexible in our approach.
• We work alongside your team as a capability partner.
• Whether you need:
• A targeted recruitment training program
• A recruitment review
• Ongoing advisory support

We can scale our involvement to suit your organisation.

As every organisation is different. We tailor our approach to:
• Your recruitment processes
• Your policies and frameworks
• Your workforce challenges

Our team brings deep, hands-on experience in Talent Acquisition, recruitment operations, and hiring capability development. We are not TAFE or AIM career trainers or HR generalists — we are experienced TA practitioners who have:

• Led internal Talent Acquisition functions
• Delivered large - scale global recruitment programs
• Advised organisations on recruitment performance and workforce strategy
• Designed and delivered multiple training programs

Most of our team have over 20 years’ experience in TA across:
• TA in Corporate organisations
• Working with Government and regulated sectors
• Recruitment agency and in-house environments

What this means for you
• You work with experienced specialists—not junior consultants
• You get practical, real-world advice—not theory
• You gain insights that can be applied immediately

Our training is:
• Practical and applied (not theory-based)
• Focused on real hiring scenarios
• Designed to embed consistent processes
• Delivered by experienced Talent Acquisition practitioners

We focus on improving how hiring decisions are made, not just delivering content.
Never boring. Practical, hands on and fun (we call it stretch learning). People leave with skills they can apply the very next day.

Usually, our Recruitment Skills Training or TA Fundamentals Training is a one day or half day program, delivered face to face on client site. We offer flexible formats including:
• Half-day workshops
• Full-day programs
• Multi-session programs (e.g. 2 x half days)
• Customised training aligned to your organisation
• Mini modules e.g. 2 hours each x 4

Delivery can be online or face-to-face.

Organisations typically see:
• Improved hiring manager confidence
• More consistent interviews and decisions
• Better quality hires
• Reduced time-to-fill
• Reduced bias and stronger compliance

The focus is always on measurable improvements in hiring performance.

Yes. We tailor programs to your:
• Recruitment processes
• Policies and frameworks
• Industry and workforce challenges
• Most pressing needs

All our programs can be tailored. This ensures training is directly relevant and immediately applicable.

It depends. Some organisations start with a Recruitment Health Check to identify capability gaps and prioritise training.
👉  Recruitment Health Check
This ensures training is targeted and delivers the greatest impact.

The best place to start is a short discussion to understand your current challenges and objectives.
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