Recruitment Training Course
Learn the main steps of filling a vacancy and practise them on a role you need to hire. In eight recorded lessons Mike Pritula covers the hiring brief, sourcing, assessment, interviews, motivation, offers and onboarding. He also shows how to organise the process and work with hiring managers.
- 8 recorded lessons
- Candidate search and interview practice
- Recruitment reporting guides
- Homework review
- Diploma
By Mike Pritula — No. 1 HR instructor on Udemy, 21 years in HR
The job in front of you Sound familiar?
You need to fill a vacancy but have no clear search plan or candidate profile.
You rely on one candidate source and need to understand other search channels.
Interviews produce impressions, but you need structured questions and candidate evidence.
Hiring managers ask for progress updates, and you need a clear report on the recruitment funnel.
What you will have after the course
A candidate search plan
Clarify the vacancy with the hiring manager, define the candidate profile and choose search channels.
An interview and candidate assessment structure
Prepare competency questions, an interview structure and a scorecard. Explore candidate motivation and salary expectations.
A process from search to onboarding
Organise hiring stages, reporting, offers and counteroffer discussions. Prepare the new employee's arrival and onboarding checklist.
Start today, for free
The free PapaHR recruiter page brings together a role profile, KPIs, interview questions and hiring materials. Use it to understand the recruiter's responsibilities while the course helps you practise the process from the brief to the new employee's first day.
- Hiring in PapaHR: vacancies, candidates by stage, interview scorecards and the offer — and the person you hire becomes an employee with an onboarding plan.
- Hiring requests, a candidate base, referrals, a careers page and a report on time to fill are in the same section.
- Hiring is in Pro and in the academy subscription, with no fee per recruiter.
Tools you get in the course
ATS selection checklist
Compare workflow, pipeline, scorecards, approvals, reporting, search and other features when choosing an applicant tracking system.
Lesson slidesJob description checklist
Check the role title, company description, expected results, competencies, employer offer and call to action.
Lesson slidesCandidate motivation questions
Ask what matters in a job, benefits, work organisation, management, career development and company culture.
Lesson slidesSalary expectations interview
Clarify the expected pay, minimum considered, future expectations, fixed component and whether figures are net or gross.
Lesson slidesCounteroffer discussion questions
Explore why the counteroffer appeared, what could change next and how the candidate sees the decision.
Lesson slidesVacancy progress report
Record weekly and total activity at recruitment stages, together with candidate status and comments.
Lesson slidesRecruitment metrics reference
Review hiring costs, stage conversions, source effectiveness, response rates and offer acceptance.
Lesson slidesWho this course is for
Recruiter
wants a practical process for finding, assessing and hiring candidates
HR generalist
handles recruitment alongside other HR work
Talent acquisition lead
needs consistent hiring stages, reports and manager coordination
Hiring manager
wants to prepare a clear brief and take part in candidate assessment
Program
01
01 · Lessons 1–2
Prepare the vacancy and search plan
Clarify the hiring request and candidate profile. Review the recruitment funnel and ATS options. Compare internal and external sources and select channels for the role.
- 1Preparation for the search: hiring request and candidate profile
- 2Searching for candidates from different sources
Result: A search strategy and candidate profile for a vacancy.
02
02 · Lessons 3–4
Find and assess candidates
Practise LinkedIn and social media search, search operators and X-ray search. Compare assessment methods, interview types, tests and hiring manager assessment.
- 3Searching for candidates on LinkedIn, Facebook and Telegram
- 4Ways of evaluating candidates
Result: A candidate search approach and an assessment plan.
03
03 · Lessons 5–6
Interview and explain the opportunity
Use structured interviews, STAR and CARE competency questions and candidate scorecards. Explore motivation and pay expectations. Prepare vacancy and outreach messages for the audience.
- 5Conducting interviews with candidates
- 6Identifying motivation and selling the vacancy
Result: An interview structure, candidate scorecard and clearer vacancy communication.
04
04 · Lessons 7–8
Manage hiring through the first day
Coordinate recruitment stages and hiring manager decisions. Review reports and metrics. Prepare offers, discuss counteroffers and plan the candidate's arrival and onboarding.
- 7Organisation of the entire recruiting process
- 8Job offers and candidate onboarding
Result: A recruitment process outline, reporting approach and offer and onboarding materials.
Your profile after the course
What you can add to LinkedIn and your CV — and what this work pays.
Your Name
Recruiter · Candidate search, assessment and hiring coordination
Experience
Prepared a candidate search strategy, structured interview questions, a scorecard and recruitment reporting approach, with offer and onboarding materials.
Licenses & certifications
Modern Recruiter — Mike Pritula AcademyDiploma after the course
Skills
- Candidate Sourcing
- Structured Interviews
- Competency Assessment
- Candidate Communication
- Recruitment Analytics
Medians in the U.S.; pay depends on country, company and experience. * U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, May 2025
Your diploma after the course
Complete the course assignments and get a personal diploma of Mike Pritula Academy.
- Add it to Licenses & certifications on LinkedIn
- Every diploma has its own unique code
- The QR code on the diploma opens its online version
- Issued on Accredible, the platform Google, Udacity and Rosetta Stone use for their certificates, so it cannot be forged
- Prepare the vacancy and search plan
- Find and assess candidates
- Interview and explain the opportunity
- Manage hiring through the first day
Learn from your phone
Recorded lessons fit into your day: on the way to work, at lunch or in the evening.
- Recorded video lessons — watch at any time
- A year of access, at your own pace
- Recruitment checklists, interview questions and reporting guides in the lesson slides
- Homework reviewed, Diploma after completing the assignments
Mike Pritula
Founder of Mike Pritula Academy and PapaHR
Mike Pritula founded the academy and built PapaHR, the HR system where the templates of his courses work for real companies. The playbooks are his own HR practice, step by step.
What graduates of the academy say
Graduates of this and other Mike Pritula Academy courses, from the surveys they fill in when they get the diploma.
“Thanks to the course I feel more confident: everything that once seemed out of reach has become routine in my work. The course gives you a huge number of usable cases, terms, trends and life hacks!”
Course: Modern Recruiter · Profile on LinkedIn
“It has all the step-by-step information a true modern recruiter needs — both in IT and in general.”
Course: Modern Recruiter · Profile on LinkedIn
“New, innovative approaches to recruitment and clever tricks for finding candidates on social media.”
Course: Modern Recruiter · Profile on LinkedIn
“Accessible even to a beginner who is just starting out in the profession. Plenty of practical information, presented clearly and engagingly.”
Course: Modern Recruiter · Profile on LinkedIn
Price
for one person, access for a year
- 8 recorded lessons
- Recruitment checklists, interview questions and reporting guides in the lesson slides
- Homework review
- Diploma
a year for one person
- All 150+ courses of the academy, this one included
- All playbooks, now and new ones
- Homework review and certificates
- PapaHR Pro for up to 50 employees
a year for a team of up to 10 people
- Everything in the annual subscription
- For up to 10 people of your team
- PapaHR Pro for up to 200 employees
Questions
Can I start with little recruitment experience?
The programme starts with the recruiter role, the hiring request, candidate profiles and the recruitment process. It then moves into search, assessment, interviews and offers.
Will I practise with a real vacancy?
The academy programme sets tasks such as building a search strategy, finding candidates, preparing assessment questions and conducting an interview for a role.
Does the course include work with hiring managers?
Yes. It covers gathering the brief, coordinating recruitment stages, reporting progress and discussing requirements when hiring is difficult.
Can my recruitment team use PapaHR?
Hiring and the ATS are in PapaHR Pro without paying per recruiter. You can apply the course methods using the system alongside your hiring process.
Do I get a Diploma?
Yes, after completing the course assignments. Homework is reviewed.
What does the annual subscription give?
All 150+ courses of the academy for a year, including this one. You can study the recorded classes at your own pace. The team subscription covers up to 10 people.