profile updated Aug 1, 2008, 1:15 PM
The homepage of the Recruiter Academy states the case clearly, if indelicately: "Did you go to college to be a recruiter."
The answer of course is "No," which begets the next question one: "How did you learn?" And that's where the Recruiter Academy comes in. It's a high intensity, in-person training program in the art of recruiting.
Every profession has its training program. There are any number of programs for truck drivers, blackjack dealers, sales staff, medical transcriptionists, court reporters and others. Few, if any of them, learn their trade on the job. Recruiters, alas, almost always do. The few training programs tend to be e-learning or correspondence. Nothing wrong there, but only a very few offer basic recruiter training in a classroom environment.
That's the approach Recruiter
Academy has taken since its founding in 1997. It was one of the first structured and comprehensive education program for corporate
recruiters.
In the last decade the academy says it has worked with over 1400 companies in 42 states and 9
countries, including some of the largest companies in the
world.
From the first basic training workshops has come the Recruitment Operating System a metrics-based, continuous training program, including a nebie-focused boot camp. It also offers a Certified Recruiter Program, that is independent of other certification programs, including those offered by SHRM.
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Recruiter Boot Camp
Training for new recruiters and those with limited experience in the field. This is nuts and bolts training covering the spectrum of recruiting issues covering everything from job req creation to sourcing, candidate screening, processing, selection and negotiation. Training is done either at Recruiter Academy offices in Michigan at a corporate onsite. Costs can be as low as $795 per person for a two-day program. -
Recruitment Operating System
A long term corporate training program that includes the Recruiter Boot Camp, but extends the mentoring and coaching to the post-workshop period. Besides follow-up availability, the boot camp includes a Deployment Plan of Action with advice to recruitment managers on how to ensure compliance and assess performance pursuant to the plan.