This comprehensive one-day course equips managers with the strategic, legal, and practical skills to manage the end-to-end recruitment process in the UK. Participants will learn to justify headcount through data-driven workforce planning, navigate complex legal frameworks including the Equality Act 2010 and GDPR, design bias-free job descriptions, source talent effectively, and conduct rigorous behaviour-based interviews to secure the right talent.
Are you tired of hiring the wrong person and wasting time and money?
Imagine being able to justify every recruitment decision with solid data, stay fully compliant with UK law, and attract the right talent — first time.
This one-day course gives managers the strategic, legal and practical tools to manage recruitment from start to finish, with confidence.
You’ll learn how to use workforce planning to prove the need for hire, design bias-free job descriptions that draw in diverse candidates, and run behaviour-based interviews that predict real performance.
All while staying on the right side of the Equality Act 2010, GDPR and Right to Work checks.
Walk away with skills you can apply immediately — and earn six CPD hours.
Available as an open course, closed group session or one-to-one coaching.
To find out more, contact us at lets talk at e q v dot co dot uk.
Counts towards 6 CPD Hours 1 Day 9:00 – 5:00 for Groups Open Public & Closed Group
Please reflect on one or more of the questions below and come prepared to discuss your responses during the session.
Self-Assessment: On a scale of 1–10, how would you rate your current skill level in this subject? What factors influenced your rating?
Development Focus: Identify one specific behaviour, skill, or capability you would like to improve or develop further.
Relevant Examples: If possible, bring one or two relevant examples or scenarios from your experience that you would be willing to share with the group.
What You Will Learn
Justify the business need for recruitment using workforce planning data and ROI analysis
Navigate UK legal frameworks including the Equality Act 2010, GDPR, and Right to Work checks
Design job descriptions that focus on essential criteria and actively reduce unconscious bias
Develop effective sourcing strategies to attract diverse talent pools beyond standard job boards
Apply the STAR method to conduct structured, evidence-based interviews that predict performance
Identify and mitigate unconscious bias throughout the entire hiring lifecycle
Implement a compliant recruitment process from vacancy to offer, including reference checks
Manage candidate experience and rejections professionally to protect employer brand
Your Post-Course Challenge
Within 30 days, conduct a ‘Blind CV’ audit on your next recruitment exercise.
Review your last job description and rewrite it to remove potential bias.
Apply the STAR method in your next interview and record the evidence gathered.
Counts Towards 6 CPD Hours
This course contributes 6 hours of Continuing Professional Development. Delegates can log these hours as evidence of structured learning for professional bodies and employers.
This course is designed for professionals responsible for hiring decisions who want to ensure their recruitment process is effective, fair, and compliant with UK employment law. Whether you’re new to managing recruitment or looking to refine your approach, it provides the clarity and confidence needed to hire the right talent while protecting your organisation.
This course is ideal for:
Line managers who are new to recruitment and need to build confidence in running fair and effective hiring processes
HR assistants or coordinators seeking to deepen their understanding of end-to-end recruitment within UK legal frameworks
Team leaders involved in hiring who want to reduce bias and improve the quality of their selection decisions
Small business owners managing their own recruitment who need to ensure compliance and professionalism
Operations managers responsible for workforce planning who want to align hiring with business needs
Anyone preparing for a managerial role that includes recruitment responsibilities and wants to get ahead of the curve
No prior experience needed
No prior recruitment or HR experience is required to benefit from this course. It is designed to be accessible to those new to hiring as well as those looking to update their knowledge with current UK legislation and best practices.
What you will take away
You will leave with a clear, practical understanding of how to run a recruitment process that is legally sound, unbiased, and aligned with your organisation’s goals — from defining the need for a role to making a confident, well-supported job offer.
For Groups & Teams
We can deliver this training session in several ways to suit your organisation’s needs:
Open Public Course
Join delegates from other organisations on a scheduled date
Closed Group
Exclusively for your team, using your real scenarios
In Person
Face-to-face at your premises or a venue of your choice
Virtual
Live, interactive online delivery via Teams or Zoom
One-to-One Coaching
Personalised sessions tailored entirely to you
Have two or more people to train?
You may want to consider a closed group course. Benefits include:
Cost effective for teams
Choose a date to suit you
Customise content and timings
No minimum delegate numbers
Uses your real-world scenarios
Builds shared language in your team
Contact us on [email protected] to discuss specific dates and delivery requirements.
How Our Tutor-Led Courses Are Delivered
Before the day
Delegates are given pre-work to complete before attending. This ensures everyone arrives with relevant context and real scenarios from their own experience, so learning is immediately relevant and actionable from the first minute.
On the day
Our sessions are participative and highly interactive. We don’t do “death by PowerPoint” — instead, the day includes a variety of engaging activities throughout:
Real-world casework using your scenarios
Practical hands-on exercises
Real Play (not role play) simulations
Peer learning and group discussion
Case studies and scenario work
Facilitated discussion and structured reflection
What you leave with
Participants leave with:
Practical tools — frameworks and models you can use straight away
Clear action plans — specific next steps tailored to your role
Greater confidence — built through intensive, realistic practice
Skills you can apply immediately — not theory, but techniques tested during the day
After the day
Post-session measurements and a 30-day challenge ensure that learning is embedded and behaviour change is sustained.
Key Features
Course Duration is 1 Day
Engaging tutor led event
Comprehensive course materials
Certificates of attendance
Access to Customer Portal (course bookers)
Course Guarantee
Priced per person for open public course
£449.00 Plus VAT
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Payment available via all major credit cards or Invoice. All options available during the online booking process.
