TA Fundamentals
Build the core skills every contemporary Talent Acquisition professional needs
alent Acquisition is changing rapidly. Today’s TA professionals need much more than the ability to fill vacancies. They need to understand the employment market, advise Hiring Managers, attract and engage talent, conduct robust selection processes and increasingly understand how AI, technology and digital tools are reshaping recruitment.
Yet many people enter Talent Acquisition without formal recruitment training, and recruitment itself is often only briefly covered within broader HR qualifications.
TA Fundamentals is a practical one-day program designed to build the essential skills and contemporary knowledge required to work effectively in an internal Talent Acquisition or recruitment function.
The program combines the foundations of good recruitment practice with the future of Talent Acquisition, giving participants practical skills they can immediately apply in their role.
Course at a Glance
Duration: 1 Day
Delivery: Live Online Public Course or In-house Corporate Program
Experience Level: Foundation to Intermediate
Designed for: Talent Acquisition, Recruitment and HR professionals
In-house Delivery: Available Australia-wide and tailored to your organisation
Is TA Fundamentals right for you?
This course is designed for people working in Talent Acquisition, Recruitment or HR who want to strengthen their core recruitment capability and stay current with contemporary TA practice.
It is particularly valuable for people who have entered Talent Acquisition without formal recruitment training, junior or developing TA practitioners, HR professionals with recruitment responsibilities, and more experienced practitioners wanting to refresh and modernise their skills.
The existing Fundamentals course is deliberately suitable for both newer and experienced TA/HR practitioners who want to formalise their knowledge and improve the structure and quality of their recruitment practices.
The program is suitable for:
- Talent Acquisition Coordinators and Specialists
- Internal Recruiters and Recruitment Advisors
- HR Coordinators, Advisors and Business Partners with recruitment responsibilities
- New and developing TA professionals
- Recruiters transitioning from agency recruitment into internal Talent Acquisition
Benefits for Individuals
Participants will build a stronger foundation across the end-to-end recruitment lifecycle while developing greater confidence in advising and partnering with Hiring Managers.
They will strengthen their skills across attraction, recruitment briefs, structured interviewing, candidate assessment, D&I and candidate care, while also developing an understanding of the AI, technology and digital recruitment tools increasingly influencing their profession.
The result is a broader and more contemporary TA skill set — combining good recruitment fundamentals with the tools and thinking required for modern Talent Acquisition.
Benefits for Organisations
Building stronger TA capability can improve recruitment quality, consistency and the service TA provides to the broader organisation.
This program can help organisations:
- build consistent recruitment capability across the TA team
- improve the quality of recruitment and selection decisions
- strengthen the relationship between TA and Hiring Managers
- improve attraction, candidate experience and employer brand
- reduce recruitment risk through better understanding of EEO, D&I and unconscious bias
- introduce more structured, evidence-based interviewing and assessment
- increase awareness of AI and digital recruitment technologies
- identify opportunities to improve efficiency and modernise TA workflows.
This combines the organisational case from the morning program — better hiring practices, stronger selection and reduced discrimination/bias risk — with the afternoon focus on smarter workflows, AI, employer brand and digital candidate engagement.
Workshop Overview
This highly practical one-day workshop explores both the foundations and future of Talent Acquisition
Morning Session — TA & Recruitment Fundamentals
The Contemporary Employment Market
Understanding the current recruitment environment, candidate expectations and the challenges facing organisations competing for talent.
Taking the Recruitment Brief & Partnering with Hiring Managers
Understanding what the organisation and Hiring Manager really need, taking an effective recruitment brief and building the confidence to guide and coach Hiring Managers through the recruitment process
EVP, Employer Brand & Candidate Attraction
Exploring attraction strategies, employer value proposition, employer brand and the role of social media in reaching and engaging candidates.
EEO, Diversity, Inclusion & Unconscious Bias
Understanding key legal considerations in recruitment and recognising how bias and barriers to hire can affect candidate attraction, assessment and selection.
Structured & Competency-Based Interviewing
Building effective behavioural and competency-based interview questions, understanding question types and developing stronger probing techniques.
Candidate Assessment & Selection
Using structured interview processes, effective note-taking, candidate evaluation and scoring, other assessment methods and good reference-checking practices.
Candidate Experience & Onboarding
Understanding how candidate care and effective onboarding contribute to recruitment outcomes, employer reputation and the longer-term employee experience.
Afternoon Session — AI, Technology & the Future of TA
AI in Recruitment
Understanding how Artificial Intelligence is changing recruitment and HR, where it can add value and where human judgement remains important.
AI Ethics, Bias & Responsible Use
Exploring the ethical, compliant and responsible use of AI in recruitment, including the risks practitioners should consider when introducing AI-supported hiring practices.
Recruitment Technology & Digital Tools
Exploring current and emerging recruitment technologies, platforms, automation opportunities and practical tools that can support TA.
Employer Branding & Storytelling
Understanding how employer brand, messaging and storytelling influence candidate attraction and engagement.
Career Websites & Candidate Conversion
Exploring what makes an effective career website and how content, design, accessibility and candidate journeys can influence application and conversion.
Candidate Experience in a Digital World
Considering how technology, language, personalisation, accessibility and human interaction combine to create a positive candidate experience.
Modernising TA Workflows
Identifying practical opportunities to use technology and AI to streamline recruitment activity, improve efficiency and create more effective TA workflows.
Learning Outcomes
Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:
- Understand the role of Talent Acquisition within a contemporary organisation.
- Take an effective recruitment brief and work more confidently with Hiring Managers.
- Apply contemporary attraction, EVP and employer-branding principles.
- Apply a structured and consistent recruitment and selection process.
- Develop effective behavioural and competency-based interview questions and use probing techniques to obtain evidence.
- Evaluate candidates more objectively using structured assessment and scoring techniques.
- Recognise key EEO, Diversity & Inclusion and unconscious-bias considerations in recruitment.
- Understand the role of AI and emerging technologies in modern Talent Acquisition.
- Identify opportunities to use AI and recruitment technology responsibly and ethically.
- Apply practical ideas to improve candidate experience and modernise recruitment workflows.
What's Included?
What’s Included?
Participants receive:
- Comprehensive TA Fundamentals participant workbook
- Practical recruitment tools and resources to use after the program
- Pre-course EEO and employment law material
- Bonus HR technology, AI and TA resource pack
- Certificate of Completion.
The two current programs already include the workbook and completion certificate, with the morning program providing pre-course EEO/law work and the afternoon program adding the HR Tech links/tools resource pack.
Delivery Options
Option 1 – Live Online Public Course
Ideal for individual TA or HR professionals, or organisations wanting to enrol a small number of team members.
Join one of our scheduled live online programs and learn alongside other Talent Acquisition and HR professionals.
1 Day | Live Facilitator-Led Training | Scheduled Dates Throughout the Year
Option 2 – In-house Training for Organisations
For organisations wanting to build capability across their Talent Acquisition team, TA Fundamentals can be delivered exclusively for your organisation.
The program can be tailored to incorporate your:
TA operating model • Recruitment processes and policies • Recruitment technology • Hiring Manager expectations • EVP and employer brand • Current capability priorities
This is where I would make the in-house proposition slightly different from the Hiring Manager course. The selling point isn’t merely “we can deliver this to 10 people”; it is TA team capability uplift.
How to Book
Organisations
Want to strengthen capability across your Talent Acquisition Team?
Talk to TAAA about an in-house TA Fundamentals program tailored to your organisation, TA environment and capability needs.