Online Recruitment and Onboarding: Providing Continuity for Business and Candidates

Learn how to attract, assess, and onboard employees remotely

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.

Maintain a strong employer brand in lockdown

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.

Discover virtual onboarding best practices

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.

Enhance your online recruitment processes

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.

Support new employees with thorough online onboarding

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.

This course is designed for recruitment and HR professionals as well as anyone involved in the recruitment process who wants to learn how to onboard employees remotely and transition company recruitment online.

• Building a strong employer brand during a crisis
• Welcome to the course
• Employer brand
• Exploring best practices
• Embedding your culture and purpose
• Review of the week
• Conducting an unbiased and effective candidate assessment online
• Recruiting online
• Inclusive sourcing and selection practices
• Assessing candidate skills
• Inclusive hiring and unconscious bias
• The importance of feedback
• Recap Week 2
• How to build belonging with new hires online
• Planning the onboarding process
• A perfect day one
• Building culture remotely