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Strategic Talent Acquisition: Building a Competitive Hiring Framework
Learn how to design and implement effective talent acquisition strategies that attract top candidates and support organizational growth. This path covers the full recruitment lifecycle, from workforce planning and employer branding to sourcing techniques, candidate assessment, and offer management. Ideal for HR professionals, hiring managers, and business leaders looking to build systematic, scalable approaches to finding and securing the right talent in competitive markets.
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What You'll Learn
Skills Covered
This learning path will help you develop these core competencies
Talent Acquisition
Recruiting and hiring qualified candidates
Human Resources
Managing recruitment, development, and employee relations
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Your Journey
Learning Path
Follow these sections in order to master the skills you need
Section 1
Foundations of Strategic Talent Acquisition
Establish a solid understanding of modern talent acquisition principles, frameworks, and the strategic role recruiting plays in organizational success. This section builds the conceptual foundation needed to design and implement effective hiring strategies.
Before diving into tactics, ensure you understand the strategic context of talent acquisition. These foundational concepts will inform every decision you make throughout the hiring process.
Workable Recruiting Resources Hub
Extensive library of recruiting tutorials, job description templates, interview questions, and hiring guides from leading ATS provider. Start here for a comprehensive overview of recruiting fundamentals.
Recruiting Resources: How to Recruit and Hire Better - Workable
resources.workable.comRecruiting resources from Workable include valuable blog posts and how-tos for the hiring process. Plus our template library of job descriptions, interview questions, letters and policies for every industry.
articleFree180mSHRM Talent Acquisition Guide
Comprehensive resource hub from the Society for Human Resource Management covering recruitment strategies, employer branding, and hiring best practices with templates and toolkits.
Recruiting | SHRM
shrm.orgFind the latest news, insights and labor market data driving workforce planning and recruiting.
articleMay require payment180mTalent Acquisition Strategy Fundamentals - Coursera
University-backed course covering recruitment planning, sourcing strategies, selection methods, and onboarding with peer-reviewed assignments.
coursera.orgTalent Acquisition | Coursera
courseMay require payment240mLinkedIn Talent Solutions Blog
Industry-leading insights on recruiting trends, employer branding, and talent acquisition strategies from LinkedIn's research team with data-driven recommendations.
Talent blog
linkedin.com
The Talent Blog is your source for tips, strategies, and inspiration to help you hire and develop talent
articleFree90mWorld Economic Forum - Future of Jobs Report 2023 Infographics
Comprehensive visual data representations from the WEF covering workforce trends, skills in demand, hiring projections, and talent market insights across industries globally. Highly authoritative source for strategic planning.
May require loginweforum.orggraphicFree30mTalent Acquisition Notion Templates
Ready-to-use recruiting workflow templates including candidate tracking, interview scorecards, and hiring pipeline management systems. Set up your foundational tracking systems.
notion.soprojectFree60m
Section 2
Building a Compelling Employer Brand
Learn how to develop and communicate your organization's employer value proposition to attract top talent. Master the art of recruitment marketing and positioning your company as an employer of choice in competitive markets.
Your employer brand is the foundation of all recruiting efforts. Candidates research companies extensively before applying—ensure your brand tells a compelling, authentic story.
Employer Branding Strategy: Attract Top Talent - LinkedIn Learning
Comprehensive course covering employer value proposition development, social media recruitment marketing strategies, and measuring employer brand ROI. Taught by HR industry experts with practical frameworks.
Employer Branding to Attract Talent Online Class | LinkedIn Learning, formerly Lynda.com
linkedin.com
Attract and retain the most talented employees. Learn a step-by step-plan for building an attractive employer brand.
courseMay require payment45mBuilding Your Employer Brand - Coursera (University of Minnesota)
Part of the Human Resource Management specialization, this course covers employer branding fundamentals, crafting compelling EVPs, and leveraging social media for recruitment. Taught by university faculty with industry expertise.
coursera.orgcourseMay require payment240mTextio Inclusive Job Posting Guide
Research-backed guidance on writing inclusive job descriptions, reducing bias in job postings, and improving application rates.
Resource center
textio.comAccess Textio
articleFree60mSmartRecruiters Hiring Success Resources
Collection of talent acquisition resources including guides on collaborative hiring, candidate experience, recruiting metrics, and building modern hiring processes. Offers practical frameworks and industry benchmarks.
smartrecruiters.comarticleFree90miCIMS Recruiting Resources
Talent acquisition guides covering recruitment marketing, applicant tracking best practices, and workforce planning strategies.
icims.com
Talent acquisition resource center | iCIMS
Discover how you can take your organization’s recruiting to the next level in our library of guides, ebooks, webinars, reports and more.
articleFree90mHung Lee's Recruiting Brainfood on Substack
The official Recruiting Brainfood newsletter by Hung Lee, now hosted on Substack. Weekly curated content covering recruiting trends, talent acquisition strategies, and employer branding insights from across the industry.
recruitingbrainfood.substack.com
Recruiting Brainfood | Hung Lee | Substack
articleFree30m
Section 3
Advanced Sourcing Strategies and Techniques
Master proactive candidate sourcing methods including Boolean search, social recruiting, and building talent pipelines. Learn to find passive candidates and develop relationships before positions open.
Sourcing is where competitive advantage is built. The best candidates are often not actively looking—these techniques help you find and engage them before your competitors do.
SourceCon - Sourcing Strategies and Techniques
Premier resource for talent sourcers featuring advanced Boolean search techniques, sourcing tools, and strategies from industry experts.
ERE | Recruiting News & Information
sourcecon.com
The longest running and most trusted source of information serving talent acquisition professionals.
articleFree180mBoolean Strings Search Techniques
Advanced sourcing techniques and Boolean search strategies from Irina Shamaeva, recognized expert in talent sourcing and recruitment research.
Boolean Strings
booleanstrings.comBy Irina Shamaeva
articleFree180mGem Recruiting Resources
Data-driven recruiting insights including outreach templates, pipeline analytics guides, and diversity recruiting playbooks from leading CRM platform.
Talent Acquisition and Recruiter Resources | Gem
gem.comBrowse whitepapers, webinars, reports, and more. Learn about the latest recruiting trends, sourcing best practices, and the value of sourcing diverse talent.
articleFree90mBeamery Talent Lifecycle Resources
Strategic guides on talent relationship management, skills-based hiring, and building proactive talent pipelines with industry research.
Beamery Resources
beamery.comDiscover the latest news, views and inspiration from Beamery, and learn more about how skills intelligence and ethical AI is changing the face of HR.
articleFree120mModern Recruiter YouTube Channel
Practical recruiting tutorials covering sourcing techniques, ATS optimization, and career development for talent acquisition professionals.
The Jobs
youtube.com
videoFree180mAIHR Recruitment Tracker Excel Template
Free downloadable Excel template for tracking recruitment activities, candidate pipelines, and hiring metrics. Includes instructions for customization and is from a respected HR education provider.
AIHR Demo Portal - Resource Library
aihr.com
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Section 4
Structured Interviewing and Candidate Assessment
Design fair, effective interview processes that accurately predict job performance. Learn structured interviewing techniques, assessment methods, and how to reduce bias in hiring decisions.
Unstructured interviews are poor predictors of job success. Implementing structured processes dramatically improves hiring quality and reduces legal risk.
Google re:Work Hiring Guide
Evidence-based hiring practices from Google's People Operations team including structured interviewing, reducing bias, and building effective hiring committees.
rework.withgoogle.com404
articleFree90mWho: The A Method for Hiring - Official Book Website
Official companion website for the Who book featuring key concepts, the A Method framework overview, free resources, and tools to implement the hiring methodology described in the book.
whothebook.comarticleFree300mGreenhouse Hiring Guide
Strategic hiring resources including structured hiring playbooks, diversity recruiting guides, and interview training materials from leading ATS platform.
Recruiting best practices and guidance
greenhouse.comOur resources on recruiting best practices can help you improve every aspect of hiring at your company.
articleFree120mHireVue Interview Intelligence Guide
Resources on video interviewing best practices, AI-assisted hiring, and building fair assessment processes with compliance considerations.
hirevue.comResource Library | Hirevue
View our resources including guides, ebooks, infographics, videos, webinars, research and blogs. Navigate through the resource library to find what you need.
articleFree90mTalent Acquisition GitHub - Interview Resources
Open-source collection of interview questions, assessment frameworks, and hiring process templates contributed by recruiting professionals.
Twipped/InterviewThis
github.com
An open source list of developer questions to ask prospective employers
projectFree90mRecruiting Hell Reddit Community
Community discussions revealing candidate perspectives on recruiting practices, helping recruiters understand and avoid common hiring mistakes.
reddit.comarticleFree45m
Section 5
Candidate Experience and Diversity Recruiting
Create inclusive hiring processes that provide exceptional candidate experiences while building diverse talent pipelines. Learn to measure and improve every touchpoint in the candidate journey.
Every candidate interaction shapes your employer brand. Rejected candidates become customers, referral sources, or future applicants—treat everyone with respect and professionalism.
Candidate Experience Research by Talent Board
Annual research on candidate experience best practices with benchmarking data and actionable insights for improving recruitment processes.
Candidate Experience Awards
thetalentboard.orgThe annual CandE Benchmark Research and CandE Awards Program helps you understand your overall candidate experience ratings
articleFree150mPhenom TXM Resources
Talent experience management guides covering AI in recruiting, candidate experience optimization, and internal mobility strategies.
Resources Library | Phenom
phenom.comBrowse a comprehensive collection of downloadable resources, webinars, and ebooks designed to help you hire faster and retain longer.
articleFree120mSHRM Talent Acquisition Maturity Assessment
SHRM's authoritative resource on strategic HR practices including frameworks for assessing organizational maturity in talent acquisition, with guidance on aligning hiring practices with business strategy.
shrm.orgarticleFree90mSHRM Talent Conference & Expo - On-Demand Sessions
Official SHRM Talent Conference featuring on-demand recordings from HR and talent acquisition leaders covering recruiting technology, candidate experience, DEI hiring strategies, and workforce planning. Industry-leading content from the largest HR professional organization.
conferences.shrm.orgvideoMay require payment180mDiversity Recruiting: Importance, Strategies, and Tools
Introductory guide to diversity recruiting by RecruiterFlow, discussing the whys and proven strategies.
recruiterflow.comLearn the importance of diversity recruiting, along with strategies and tools that can help you attract and retain a diverse workforce.
articleFreeAdded by ChazonaA Toolkit for Recruiting and Hiring a More Diverse Workforce
A PDF resource from Berkley on effective diversity recruiting for the benefit of the organization.
diversity.berkeley.edu
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Section 6
Technical and Specialized Recruiting
Develop expertise in recruiting for technical roles and specialized positions. Learn assessment methods, sourcing strategies, and evaluation techniques specific to engineering, product, and other high-demand functions.
Technical recruiting requires understanding the roles you're hiring for. Invest time learning the basics of the technical domains you recruit for—candidates will respect your knowledge.
The Holloway Guide to Technical Recruiting
Comprehensive guide specifically for technical recruiting covering sourcing engineers, technical assessments, and building engineering hiring processes.
The Holloway Guide to Technical Recruiting and Hiring — Holloway
holloway.comA practical, expert-reviewed guide to growing software engineering teams effectively, written by and for hiring managers, recruiters, interviewers, and candidates.
bookMay require payment300mHackerRank Technical Hiring Guide
Resources for technical recruiting including coding assessment best practices, developer hiring trends, and skills-based evaluation frameworks.
Resources - HackerRank
hackerrank.comStreamline your developer hiring process with HackerRank Resources. Gain actionable insights from our guides, datasheets, webinars, and research reports.
articleFree90mRecruiting Daily Articles and Insights
Daily news and analysis on recruiting technology, talent acquisition trends, and HR tech reviews from industry journalists and practitioners.
Homepage
recruitingdaily.comRecruiting industry leading media network for recruiting news, webinars, podcasts, events and resources to improve hiring best practices.
articleFree90mERE Media - Recruiting Intelligence
Premier recruiting industry publication with in-depth articles on strategic talent acquisition, recruiting operations, interviewer training, and building high-performing recruiting organizations from experienced practitioners.
ERE | Recruiting News & Information
ere.net
The longest running and most trusted source of information serving talent acquisition professionals.
articleFree120mHow to Automate the Recruitment Process with Make
A tutorial for leveraging no-code automation to streamline portions of the recruitment process to free time for other efforts.
May require loginmake.comarticleFreeAdded by Chazona
Section 7
Recruiting Metrics and Data-Driven Optimization
Learn to measure recruiting effectiveness, build analytics dashboards, and use data to continuously improve hiring outcomes. Master the metrics that matter for demonstrating TA value to leadership.
What gets measured gets improved. Establish baseline metrics early and track trends over time to demonstrate the impact of your talent acquisition improvements.
Recruiting Metrics: A Complete Guide to Measuring Success
Comprehensive guide from the Academy to Innovate HR covering essential recruiting metrics including time-to-fill, cost-per-hire, quality of hire, and source of hire with formulas, benchmarks, and practical implementation advice.
23 Recruiting Metrics You Should Know
Learn about impactful recruiting metrics, how to measure them and hire top talent with a data-driven recruitment process!
articleFree90mDr. John Sullivan's ERE Articles
Thought leadership articles from renowned recruiting strategist covering innovative talent acquisition approaches, metrics, and competitive hiring strategies.
Dr. John Sullivan | ERE
Dr. John Sullivan, professor, author, corporate speaker, and advisor, is an internationally known HR thought-leader from the Silicon Valley who specializes in providing bold and high-business-impact talent management solutions. He’s a prolific author with over 900 articles and 10 books covering all areas of talent management. He has written over a dozen white papers, conducted over 50 webinars, dozens of workshops, and he has been featured in over 35 videos. He is an engaging corporate speaker who has excited audiences at over 300 corporations/ organizations in 30 countries on all six continents. His ideas have appeared in every major business source including the Wall Street Journal, Fortune, BusinessWeek, Fast Company, CFO, Inc., NY Times, SmartMoney, USA Today, HBR, and the Financial Times. In addition, he writes for the WSJ Experts column. He has been interviewed on CNN and the CBS and ABC nightly news, NPR, as well many local TV and radio outlets. Fast Company called him the "Michael Jordan of Hiring," Staffing.org called him “the father of HR metrics,” and SHRM called him “One of the industry's most respected strategists." He was selected among HR’s “Top 10 Leading Thinkers” and he was ranked No. 8 among the top 25 online influencers in talent management. He served as the Chief Talent Officer of Agilent Technologies, the HP spinoff with 43,000 employees, and he was the CEO of the Business Development Center, a minority business consulting firm in Bakersfield, California. He is currently a Professor of Management at San Francisco State (1982 – present). His articles can be found all over the Internet and on his popular website www.drjohnsullivan.com and on www.ere.net. He lives in Pacifica, California.
articleFree180mHuman Resources Management: HR for People Managers Specialization - University of Minnesota (Coursera)
Comprehensive 5-course specialization covering recruiting, hiring, onboarding, and talent management. Includes practical frameworks for interviewing techniques and performance management from University of Minnesota faculty.
coursera.orgcourseMay require payment180mRecruitment Analytics Dashboard Guide - Tableau Public Gallery
Collection of free Tableau recruitment dashboard examples from the community, showcasing various approaches to visualizing hiring metrics, pipeline analytics, and recruiter performance data.
public.tableau.comprojectFree60mThe Ultimate Guide to Recruitment Metrics - Harver
Detailed guide covering recruitment metrics and KPIs, including how to measure hiring effectiveness, calculate ROI, and build analytics frameworks. Includes visual examples and calculation formulas.
harver.comarticleFree35mTomas Chamorro-Premuzic: What Science Tells Us About Leadership Potential - Harvard Business Review
Article by the same author covering key themes from The Talent Delusion including evidence-based assessment, predictive validity, and why intuition fails in talent decisions. Accessible introduction to his research.
hbr.orgarticleFree360mRecruiting Brainfood Podcast - Metrics Episodes
Industry-leading podcast featuring episodes dedicated to recruiting analytics, featuring interviews with TA leaders discussing real-world implementation of metrics programs and dashboards.
May require loginrecruitingbrainfood.comaudioFree45m
Section 8
Advanced Strategy and Professional Development
Elevate your talent acquisition practice with advanced strategic frameworks, professional certifications, and thought leadership. Position yourself and your function as strategic business partners.
This section is for those ready to move from tactical execution to strategic leadership. Consider pursuing certification after completing the foundational sections.
The Talent Acquisition Handbook by Mervyn Dinnen
Comprehensive guide covering modern recruitment strategies, employer branding, candidate experience, and building talent pipelines with practical frameworks.
koganpage.comHuman Resources, Learning & Development Books
Shop our range of books on change management, CIPD, coaching, employee experience, employment law and relations, hr analytics, human resource management (HRM), learning and development (L&D), organizational development (OD), performance management, reward management, talent management and recruitment. Free UK and US delivery.
bookMay require payment360mRecruiting Future with Matt Alder Podcast
Award-winning podcast featuring interviews with talent acquisition leaders discussing innovative recruiting strategies, technology trends, and future of work insights.
Home - The Recruiting Future Podcast
recruitingfuture.comaudioFree300mBuilding High-Performance Recruiting Teams - YouTube
Curated video content on building and scaling recruiting organizations, team structure, and performance management for TA leaders.
videoFree120mSHRM Talent Acquisition Specialty Credential
Professional credential program from SHRM covering strategic talent acquisition, workforce planning, employer branding, and modern recruiting practices. Industry-recognized certification for HR professionals seeking to advance their TA expertise.
shrm.orgTalent Acquisition Specialty Credential
courseMay require payment480mTalent Acquisition Strategy Framework - AIHR Academy
Comprehensive guide covering strategic talent acquisition frameworks, metrics for measuring TA effectiveness, and how to align recruitment with business objectives. Includes practical templates and real-world case studies from leading organizations.
Develop Your Talent Acquisition Strategy With 6 Practical Examples
Attracting, hiring, and retaining top talent is a challenging task. Find out how to develop an effective talent acquisition strategy.
articleFree35mTalent Acquisition Metrics Dashboard Project - Workable Guide
Step-by-step tutorial on identifying and tracking key recruiting KPIs, building a metrics dashboard, and demonstrating talent acquisition ROI to stakeholders with actionable frameworks.
resources.workable.comarticleFree120mTalent Acquisition Maturity Model Infographic - Deloitte
Visual framework illustrating the evolution of talent acquisition from transactional recruiting to strategic workforce planning. Maps competencies and capabilities needed at each maturity stage.
2025 Global Human Capital Trends
www2.deloitte.com
Deloitte
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