Transformative Recruitment Practices Certificate


Date and Time

Starts:10/01/2025 8:30 AM

Ends:10/03/2025 12:00 PM

Registration Closes:10/09/2025 3:00 PM

Event Type: Certificate Program

18 CPD Hour(s)

Location:
Online

Price:

HRPA Members: $1,395

Non-Members: $1,750 + taxes


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Note: The program is delivered as an intact certificate program in which registrants must attend all of the dates specified.

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In today’s challenging and rapidly evolving world, talent acquisition remains a top priority for CEOs and HR leaders across industries. In a highly competitive market and shifting workforce dynamics, traditional hiring methods are no longer enough—organizations must adopt modern, strategic, and data-driven recruitment approaches to attract and retain top talent. This certificate program goes beyond the fundamentals of recruitment and selection, equipping HR professionals with advanced skills and strategies to build a progressive, high-impact recruitment process. By the end of this course, you’ll have the expertise to lead hiring initiatives with confidence, optimize recruitment practices, and improve hiring outcomes for your organization. 


Why This Course Matters for HR Professionals

  • Stay Ahead of Talent Acquisition Trends – Learn how to integrate modern sourcing, assessment, and selection techniques.
  • Improve Hiring Efficiency & Reduce Costs – Optimize recruitment workflows to hire faster and smarter.
  • Attract High-Performing Candidates – Develop strategies to enhance employer branding and appeal to top talent.
  • Lead Recruitment Initiatives with Confidence – Strengthen your ability to design and execute effective hiring strategies.

 

Who Should Attend?

  • HR professionals responsible for recruitment and talent acquisition.
  • Hiring managers looking to strengthen their hiring expertise.
  • HR leaders aiming to refine their organization’s recruitment strategy. 

 

What You’ll Learn

  • Describe emerging trends in recruitment and how those influence talent attraction.
  • Apply project management methodologies to recruitment.
  • Build recruitment reports.
  • Communicate in meaningful ways to clients and candidates.
  • Understand the importance of IDEA (inclusion, diversity, equity and accessibility) practices in recruitment.
  • Design and manage inclusive, equitable and accessible recruitment processes.
  • Apply basic marketing and sales tactics to recruitment.
  • Prepare and present an offer of employment.
  • Negotiate terms of employment so everyone wins.
  • Understand how technology is changing recruitment for businesses and job seekers.
  • Identify uses for new technology to improve recruitment.

 

Detailed Agenda of the Program

Day 1 (7.5 hours) 

9 AM to 12:30 PM - Module 1: Introduction: Building off of the Basics, Requisitions as Projects

1 PM to 4 PM - Module 2: Inclusive, Equitable and Accessible Recruitment (part 1)

Day 2 (7.5 hours) 

9 AM to 12:30 PM - Module 3: Inclusive, Equitable and Accessible Recruitment (part 2), AI and Automation in Recruitment (part 1)

1 PM to 4 PM - Module 4: AI and Automation in Recruitment (part 2), Recruiting like a Marketer

Day 3 (3 hours)

9 AM to 12 PM - Module 5: Closing the Deal, Conclusion and Assessment


Registration Difficulties/Questions: Please reach out to the Professional Development team at Professionaldevelopment@hrpa.ca

Speaker bio(s)
Kristina Tierney, CHRP, CHRL, Chief Consultant

Kris Tierney is the Vice-President of Human Resources and Learning at the Human Resources Professionals Association (HRPA), Ontario’s regulator of the Human Resources profession. In her role, she provides strategic leadership to the Association’s professional development and learning programming for the HRPA’s more than 24,000 students and members; as well as serving as a member of the executive leadership team providing expertise in the areas of people, culture and HR strategy.

Kris is a passionate HR and business executive who believes that outstanding businesses run on outstanding workplaces where people and culture are strategic priorities. Kris spent more than 15 years’ leading HR and strategic talent programs in high growth, tech companies in automotive and financial services where she served as a trusted people and culture strategist, advisor and business partner to the C-Suite.

Known for her easy and approachable style, she thrives when helping others live their lives with purpose, belonging and value, and is a sought-after speaker and HR, culture and leadership expert. Kris holds the Certified Human Resources Professional (CHRP) and Certified Human Resources Leader (CHRL) designations as awarded by the HRPA.


Diane Biesinger, CHRP, Senior Manager, People & Culture

Diane Biesinger has more than 20 years of experience in HR and has enjoyed working in a wide range of industries from startups to Fortune 100 companies. Diane holds the Certified Human Resources Professional (CHRP) designation as awarded by the HRPA. She currently brings her passion for HR to the role of Manager, People and Culture at the HRPA, where her focus runs the range of the workplace experience for all HRPA employees, “keeping the lights on in HR” and delivering on the association’s strategic initiatives.

Diane is proud that HRPA has been certified as a Great Place to Work by GPTW Canada for the last four years and is looking forward to having that continue and improve. Passionate about IDEA (inclusivity, diversity, equity, accessibility) and supporting leaders and staff to promote organizational objectives. Diane likes to bring her whole self to work and is enthusiastic about relationships as she brings a genuine love of people, especially our differences, to her daily interactions.