Complete Tech Recruiter Certificate Course

Eight hours of bite-sized video lessons. The essential IT terminology explained in human language for account managers, HR specialists, talent acquisition experts, recruiters and headhunters who engage with IT managers or IT candidates.

• Detailed mind maps
• The IT world explained
• How software is developed and maintained
• Common IT roles and typical software development team setup
• Programming languages vs. software frameworks
• Job families: software engineering, analysts, designers, project & product managers, testing, data & BI, administrators, DevOps & cloud
• How to use programming languages & frameworks to find candidates
• Must-know IT terminology and common IT acronyms
• Software development deep-dive
• Exit quiz and eBook PDF

Learn exactly who the hiring manager is looking for, and how to make the job more appealing to candidates.

• How to analyse technical job requirements
• Qualification and screening questions explained
• TEMPLATE: job requirement analysis
• MIND MAP: analysing different aspects of IT jobs
• How to identify the closest IT role, and deviations from common requirements
• How to identify interesting selling points for candidates
• How to write self-assessment qualification questions
• Several case studies, a practical challenge and an eBook

The full menu of strategies a modern recruiter chooses from, when each one works, and how to build a hiring plan around the role in front of you.

• Inbound vs. outbound recruitment — and when to run both
• Direct sourcing and headhunting passive candidates
• Referral and employee-advocacy strategies
• Talent pooling and building a pipeline before the role opens
• Recruitment marketing and employer branding
• Niche community and event-based recruiting
• Agency, RPO and contract-staffing models
• Volume and high-growth hiring strategies
• Diversity-focused sourcing strategies
• Rehiring alumni and silver-medallist candidates
• How to pick the right strategy for the role, the market and the budget
• TEMPLATE: a one-page hiring strategy you can send to a hiring manager

Three hours of bite-sized video lessons. Start finding IT candidates like a pro using LinkedIn Recruiter, GitHub, Google X-Ray and ContactOut.

• Detailed mind maps with Boolean search queries
• Boolean search basics and four common mistakes to avoid
• Sourcing on LinkedIn Free and LinkedIn Recruiter (Lite)
• How to prepare your sourcing strategy and slice the pie
• How to expand and find alternative sourcing keywords
• Sourcing on GitHub, Google X-Ray and ContactOut
• Multiple sourcing webinar replays
• A practical sourcing project and an eBook

Getting the right candidates to come to you — writing job adverts that convert and putting them where your candidates actually are.

• How to write a job advert that candidates finish reading
• Titles, salary transparency and the first three lines that decide everything
• Nigerian and African job boards: which ones work for which roles
• International and remote-first boards for dollar-paying roles
• Niche and community boards for developers, data and cyber roles
• How to post on LinkedIn so the algorithm actually distributes it
• X, Facebook groups, WhatsApp communities and Telegram channels
• Repurposing one job advert into a week of social content
• Paid promotion: when it is worth it and what it costs
• Tracking which channel produced which hire
• TEMPLATE: job advert framework and a social post pack

Interact with prospective candidates so they get excited about your opportunities. Use candidate psychology to sell the role well.

• Detailed mind maps with pitching examples
• IT candidate psychology — what do they desire?
• Common software developer personas
• How to paint the future for candidates
• How to make boring features sound exciting
• How to pitch your vacancy — Node.js and iOS examples
• How to promote on social media and write copy that excites candidates
• Using the Facebook Ads Library to see vacancies from other agencies
• How to message candidates on LinkedIn — CTO and C++ case studies
• Screen share: how to find iOS developers
• Three practical projects and an eBook

Interview candidates quickly and precisely. Ask the right questions and feel confident asking the technical ones.

• Detailed mind maps with screening questions for different roles
• Screening call structure and how to discuss salary expectations
• Workshop replay: a group call focused on screening candidates
• How to prepare self-assessment and interview questions
• 20 examples of self-assessment and interview questions
• How to create a good candidate report for a hiring manager
• Five example screening question sets and five example candidate reports
• A practical challenge and an eBook

The stack a working recruiter actually uses every day, and how to run a real requisition inside an applicant tracking system.

• What an ATS is and why every serious recruiter works inside one
• Hands-on walkthrough: setting up a job, pipeline stages and scorecards
• Parsing CVs, tagging candidates and keeping a database that stays useful
• Free and low-cost ATS options for solo recruiters and small agencies
• CRM vs. ATS — and why you probably need both
• Sourcing extensions: ContactOut, SignalHire, Lusha and the alternatives
• LinkedIn Recruiter vs. Sales Navigator vs. LinkedIn Free
• Scheduling, video interviewing and assessment tools
• Spreadsheets that still beat software, and when to use them
• Data hygiene, GDPR/NDPR basics and candidate consent
• A real guided project inside an ATS for your portfolio

Stop guessing. Learn the numbers that tell you whether your pipeline is healthy, and how to report them to a client or hiring manager.

• The metrics that matter: time-to-fill, time-to-hire, source of hire, offer-acceptance rate
• Funnel conversion: applied → screened → interviewed → offered → hired
• Submission-to-interview and interview-to-offer ratios, and what good looks like
• Sourcing channel effectiveness — where your hires genuinely come from
• Quality of hire and early attrition
• Cost per hire for agency and in-house settings
• Diversity metrics and how to read them honestly
• Building a simple recruitment dashboard in Google Sheets
• How to present numbers to a hiring manager who does not want a spreadsheet
• Using data to renegotiate an unrealistic brief
• TEMPLATE: weekly pipeline report and a monthly client report

Recruitment is a volume and resilience game. This module is about not burning out, and about the habits that separate recruiters who last from those who quit in year one.

• Handling rejection — from candidates, from clients, from the market
• Building a daily and weekly recruiting rhythm that actually holds
• Time-blocking sourcing, calls and admin so none of them eat the others
• Managing hiring-manager expectations without becoming a doormat
• Working across time zones with international clients
• Setting targets you can control (activity) vs. targets you cannot (offers)
• Beating the mid-search slump on a hard-to-fill role
• Saying no to bad briefs and bad clients
• Building a personal brand that brings inbound candidates and clients
• Protecting your energy: boundaries for a job that never technically stops

How recruiters get paid: finding companies that need your help, pitching your service, and agreeing terms you can live with.

• Choosing a niche and a market you can credibly serve
• Where to find companies that are actively hiring
• Building a target client list and a simple outreach cadence
• The cold email, the LinkedIn message and the warm introduction
• How to run a discovery call with a hiring manager
• Pricing your service: contingency, retained and flat-fee models
• Recruitment fee percentages and what is standard in Nigeria and abroad
• Terms of business, rebate periods and getting agreements signed
• Handling the “we already have agencies” objection
• Delivering the first role so well that you get the second one
• TEMPLATE: outreach sequence, discovery-call script and a terms-of-business checklist