Professional Certificate in Recruiting

What you will be able to do

• Run a full search from intake brief to signed offer
• Source candidates and build pipelines that keep producing
• Screen and interview with structure, fairness and legal awareness
• Build and present offers, and handle counteroffers professionally
• Read the recruiting metrics that prove your desk is working

What is inside

6 modules, 30 lessons. Each module ends in a graded quiz and most carry an assignment.

1. 01

   The Recruiting Profession and the Full Hiring Cycle

   What recruiters actually do all day, how agency, corporate, and recruitment process outsourcing (RPO) recruiting differ, the full hiring cycle from intake to onboarding, the roles that surround every hire, and how to run an intake meeting that produces a real job brief. Taught through Brightline Staffing Group, a 40-person agency serving tech, healthcare, and finance clients.

   5 lessons · 15 quiz questions

2. 02

   Sourcing and Building Talent Pipelines

   Where candidates actually come from, and how to go get them on purpose. You will learn to read the channel mix for a specific search, write job posts that attract rather than filter out, build Boolean searches that find scarce people, write outreach that earns replies, and turn every finished search into a talent pool you can reuse. Taught through Brightline Staffing Group, a 40-person agency serving tech, healthcare, and finance clients.

   5 lessons · 15 quiz questions

3. 03

   Screening and Structured Interviewing

   How Brightline Staffing Group turns a stack of applications into a fair, defensible shortlist and a disciplined interview process. You will learn resume review that is fast and fair, phone screens run on a consistent scorecard, why structured interviews beat improvised ones, behavioral and situational questioning, the questions a recruiter may never ask, and the panel coordination and candidate communication that hold the whole process together.

   5 lessons · 15 quiz questions

4. 04

   Offers, Negotiation and Closing

   The stage where searches are won or lost. You will learn to speak compensation fluently, build an offer with the hiring manager before it is ever presented, deliver and negotiate it live, pre-close ethically, manage background checks and other contingencies, handle declines without burning the relationship, and carry a new hire from signed offer through day one. Taught through Brightline Staffing Group, a 40-person agency serving tech, healthcare, and finance clients.

   5 lessons · 15 quiz questions

5. 05

   Recruiting Operations: Applicant Tracking, Metrics and Candidate Experience

   How professional recruiters run the machinery behind the searches: what an applicant tracking system actually does and why clean pipeline data is a discipline, how to keep requisitions honest, how to compute and read the metrics that matter, how to treat candidate experience as something you measure and improve, and how to run your desk week to week without dropping balls.

   5 lessons · 15 quiz questions

6. 06

   Launching Your Recruiting Career

   How to turn everything this course taught into an actual job. You will compare the agency desk against the in-house seat and choose with a frame instead of a vibe, build a professional brand and a network that feeds you work, assemble a redacted portfolio that proves you can recruit before anyone has hired you, prepare for the exercises and hard questions inside a recruiter interview, and run a first ninety days that sets up the next two years. Taught through Brightline Staffing Group and the people who launched their careers there.

   5 lessons · 15 quiz questions · assignment