Online Recruitment and Onboarding: Providing Continuity for Business and Candidates

This course, created by FutureLearn in collaboration with leaders in the field of HR, will equip you with the skills to effectively recruit and onboard employees remotely, and adjust your current recruitment and onboarding process to a digital environment.

As business operations are increasingly being carried out online due to COVID-19, HR professionals and recruiters are seeing huge changes in almost every aspect of the hiring process – from interviews to onboarding.

This course is led by Catalina Schveninger, Chief People Officer at FutureLearn and Neil Carberry, CEO of the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC).

You’ll also hear from some of the world’s top recruitment experts who will share their own online onboarding and recruitment experiments and failures in almost real-time.

The course will develop your ability to gather and identify key information about a potential candidate online during the recruitment process.

You’ll also discover new ways of finding great candidates in the current COVID climate.

To ensure your organisation’s onboarding process isn’t compromised during these uncertain times, you’ll learn to identify and uphold most important elements of effective online onboarding.

You’ll also learn how to support candidates in this time of uncertainty who may have gone through job loss or are struggling with changing roles.