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Certified Talent Acquisition Professional

Certified Talent Acquisition Professional

Why Attend

Talent acquisition is becoming more and more like marketing nowadays. Acquisition teams need to have a strategy for everything: for creating attractive employer brands, facilitating a smooth onboarding, and achieving successful integration.

This course is designed to build on the capacity of talent acquisition teams and individuals to reach talent, skillfully assess competence, and smoothly integrate them within company culture. The course will also enable participants to derive talent acquisition strategies from organizational strategies and design means to monitor and assess progress and impact.

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Overview
Course Methodology

The first part of this course is reflective in nature and aims at assisting participants in realizing the changes happening around them and the need to act to maintain the effectiveness of their units. The second part of the course focuses on the “how.” Participants will learn how to develop strategies, tools, and techniques to overcome challenges and successfully embark on the current and new ways of acquiring talents. The pace of this course is fast, and the activities demand concrete outputs that participants can use at a later stage.

Course Objectives

By the end of the course, participants will be able to:

  • Analyze global workforce trends and evaluate their impact on the evolution of talent acquisition practices
  • Develop an employer branding strategy by articulating brand values, profiling target audiences, and crafting a compelling value proposition
  • Design an enhanced candidate experience by optimizing job briefs, application processes, and hiring manager engagement
  • Construct an effective assessment framework by selecting appropriate methods, designing interviews, and quantifying evaluation results
  • Implement a structured onboarding program that integrates compliance, clarification, cultural connection, and relationship-building strategies
  • Measure and interpret talent acquisition effectiveness using relevant KPIs, dashboards, and data-driven collaboration with other departments
Target Audience

This course is designed specifically for HR and talent acquisition professionals who want to explore new approaches to attract and employ talents.

Target Competencies
  • Employer branding
  • Strategic thinking and planning
  • Candidate assessment
  • Onboarding
  • Impact assessment
Course Outline
  • Global Trends’ Impact on Talent Acquisition
    • The rise of the social enterprise
    • The workforce ecosystem
    • Individual value proposition versus employee value proposition
    • From careers to experiences and development
    • The end of static jobs as we know them
  • Employer Branding Strategy
    • Brand equity
    • Brand values
    • Employer brand and value proposition
    • Building the value proposition
      • Profiling your target audience
      • Know your competitors
      • Know yourself
    • Communication Strategy
    • Employer branding metrics
  • The Candidate Experience
    • Candidates’ expectations
    • Attractive job briefs
    • Simplification of the online application process
    • Hurdles: How many is too many?
    • Hiring manager accountabilities
    • Organizational fit
  • The Assessment Stage
    • Defining requirements
      • Role analysis
      • Functional must-haves
      • Strategic requirements
    • Assessment methods
      • Assessment simulations
      • Occupational assessments
      • Gamification of assessment tools
    • The assessment framework
    • Becoming an interview guru
      • Interview guides
      • Managing the interview
      • Quantification of interview results
  • The Onboarding Phase
    • The four layers of onboarding for successful integration
      • Compliance
      • Clarification
      • Culture
      • Connection
    • The administrative process
    • The psychological contract
      • A linear approach
      • A holistic approach
    • Onboarding effectiveness
  • Measuring Effectiveness
    • Talent acquisition effectiveness
      • Collecting and using data
      • Working with other departments
      • Automation
    • KPIs that matter
      • Employer branding
      • Talent acquisition
      • Recruitment and selection
      •  Onboarding
    • Building dashboards
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Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM)

Meirc is recognized by the Society for Human Resources Management (SHRM) as a Recertification Provider. This recognition implies that participants who attend any of the SHRM approved programs delivered by Meirc Training & Consulting will earn a number of Professional Development Credits (PDCs) which will help them maintain their certification in SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP.

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Meirc Professional Certificate (MPC)

MPC certified courses by Meirc Training & Consulting are designed for those willing to challenge themselves and go the extra distance. Participants who fully attend an MPC course and successfully complete the test on the last day, will receive a Meirc Professional Certificate (MPC), in addition to the one they receive for full attendance. MPC certificates are regionally recognized and can be quite valuable when applying for more senior roles within the organization or outside.

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Schedule & Fees

2025 Schedule & Fees

Location & Date
29 Jun - 3 Jul, 2025
Dubai
Arabic
Venue to be assigned
7 - 11 Sep, 2025
Dubai
English
Venue to be assigned
9 - 13 Nov, 2025
Dubai
Arabic
Venue to be assigned
Fees
Per participant

USD 6100

Fees + VAT as applicable

(including coffee breaks and a buffet lunch daily)

Discount Plans & Cancellations Policy

Meirc reserves the right to alter dates, content, venue, trainer, and to offer courses in an integrated virtual learning (IVL) format whereby face to face classroom participants and virtual learners participate simultaneously in the same course in an interactive learning experience.

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